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The Cheeseman Cometh
Episode 201
Representative Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin makes a return appearance on this, the 200th episode of The Remnant. To celebrate, Jonah and Mike bring back the ever-popular theme of half-baked ideas, mix…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The Veil of Ruminance
Episode 200
Jonah returns to ruminate on a smorgasbord of things this week: injecting bleach to cure COVID-19 (big if true!), an extended meditation on John Rawls’ "veil of ignorance," how the veil is nonsensica…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Ridley Me This
Episode 199
How does technological innovation actually happen? We were able to speak to Matt Ridley, who has literally written the (upcoming) book on this subject, How Innovation Works. Matt brings up fascinatin…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Cannato’s Way
Episode 198
This episode goes in The Remnant Hall of Fame for a few reasons: it’s both one of the longest episodes we’ve ever done, with one of the New Yorkiest guests we’ve ever had. Vincent Cannato, professor …
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
A Return to Smoke-Filled Cars
Episode 197
Another weekend, another Ruminant - this time with Jonah talking about the intellectual backdrop of conservatism, and what early conservative (and progressive) ideologies might have to say about toda…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The Oklahoman Empire
Episode 196
The vox populi has been heard, so we went with a listener-suggested guest on this episode of The Remnant. Kyle Harper is an incredibly knowledgeable historian of the Roman Empire who specializes in t…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Jocular Jim, Jovial Jonah
Episode 195
On the new Remnant, Jonah talks with James Pethokoukis, a fellow at AEI, about how markets are reacting to coronavirus and what the recovery might look like. (V-shaped? U-shaped? Nike swoosh-shaped?)…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
The Ruminant
Episode 194
Welcome back to Jonah’s Fortress of Solitude on this latest solo episode of The Remnant. On the docket today are topics like subsidiarity in a crisis, Samuel Taylor Coleridge (which Jonah struggles t…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Cake or Death?
Episode 193
Steven Teles, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University, joins us on the heels of his newly released book, Never Trump. Stop sharpening your pitchforks, everyone! It’s an objective…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago
Forget it, Lyman. It's China.
Episode 192
Through the magic of the internet, AEI's Lyman Stone joins The Remnant all the way from Hong Kong to talk all things coronavirus: how we got here, the numbers, China's role in the outbreak, and where…
Published on 5 years, 8 months ago