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Remnant D’être
Episode 301
The days of the 2012 GOP “autopsy” are long behind us. Listen as Jonah ruminates on the struggles of protecting serious conservatism at a time of supreme unreflectiveness among many adherents of the …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Jack Gets Back
Episode 300
Join Jonah and special guest Jack Butler, his former research assistant for the tricentennial episode. It’s the best of both worlds as the program recalls its greatest hits (conspiracies about the So…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Mo Unity, Mo Problems
Episode 299
In an exercise of “dealing with liberalism’s best arguments,” Jonah plays host to returning guest Mo Elleithee, a Democratic political strategist. They talk about the first day of the Biden administr…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Scarcity of Lacrimosity
Episode 298
On this weekend’s Ruminant, Jonah discusses how the essence of conservatism in all its variety has been distilled down to a single oversimplistic metric: The more one likes Trump, and the more libs o…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Yuval Got Some Explaining to Do
Episode 297
Today, AEI’s Yuval Levin returns, and Jonah asks him something more important than “What happens next?” Rather, they try to think about “What should we do next?” They talk about what Congress’ instit…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
The Whittington Standard
Episode 296
What is to be made of the concerns – practical or philosophical – about a second impeachment of Donald Trump? Keith Whittington of Princeton returns to The Remnant to encourage us not to take such co…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Ten-Foot Snowflakes
Episode 295
On today’s Ruminant, Jonah takes care to push through the natural inclination to simply, well, be appalled at this past Wednesday’s “events” on Capitol Hill, and manages to talk about both the lead-u…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Murray, Madison, and the Moderate Middle
Episode 294
As The Remnant kicks back into gear, we figured it would be best to let Jonah make his trek back to D.C. and instead treat you to a secret artifact from a few days after the election. This is a conve…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
Runza Of Unusual Size
Episode 293
What does Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse think about the results of the 2020 election? The answer might come as a surprise: Even though the Democrats took the White House, on balance, Ben thinks the electio…
Published on 5 years ago
Ruminating by Remote
Episode 292
As we close in on the end of the year, Jonah’s rumination proves to be a pretty sizable roundup of all the news that has been fit to print throughout the week. In addition to discussing attempts to r…
Published on 5 years ago