Andrew Ferguson’s follow-up appearance on The Remnant has been a long time coming, and you can tell; he and Jonah are filled with plenty of wisdom on the state of modern journalism, what the conservative media landscape used to be like, and how to not go completely hollow while keeping up with the news cycle.

Show Notes:

-30-day free trial of The Dispatch 

-Andy’s page at The Atlantic

-Bob Dole: “I’m not bound by the platform. I probably agree with most everything in it, but I haven’t read it.”

-Jonah: The center is a lonely place to be

-“The New Journalism”

-George Stephanopoulos’ All Too Human

-Donald Rumsfeld releases transcript of Woodward interview

-“Springtime for Introverts”: Andy’s piece that was true… for a while

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Fresh off the heels of his new manifesto (not of the communist variety, though), Iain Murray, CEI senior fellow, joins Jonah on The Remnant to discuss The Socialist Temptation: what it is, who it hits hardest, why socialism isn’t really even an economic theory, and what to do about it.

Show Notes:

-Iain’s new book, The Socialist Temptation

-BBC’s generously donated show sets, to spruce up your Zoom background

-Iain refuting Thomas Piketty

-Josh Muravchik’s “Theories of the New Class”

-“Socialism is the name of our desire”

-Corporatism and Comparative Politics: The Other Great “Ism”

-Ten Thousand Commandments 2020

-North’s Violence and Social Orders

-#NationalizeMySpace

-Reagan’s speech at Hillsdale in the 70s

-Jonah at the Oxford Union

-“Socialism is so hot right now”

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Who actually believes the media anymore? Can you really call yourself a liberal if you’re also a socialist? And what dog species does Zoë hate with a burning passion? It’s the weekend, and you know what that means: These questions and many more will be answered on this edition of Jonah’s Ruminant.

Show Notes:

-“Fiery, but mostly peaceful”

-The New Guinea Singing Dog

-Iain Murray’s The Socialist Temptation

-What… is Debbie Wasserman Schultz doing with her life nowadays?

-The always-lovely NYT Op-ed page: “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police.”

-The Conspiracy of Equals

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In the words of a famed conservative activist, “When they go low, we go high.” That’s what we’re doing today on The Remnant by getting out of the muck of American domestic politics and having a conversation with veteran guest Kenneth Pollack on the intricacies of the Israel-UAE deal instead. What does this mean for the region, and what are the historical corollaries (Hint: It might be on your Remnant Bingo card)?

Show Notes:

-Ken’s piece for Foreign Policy

-Iran’s weapon facilities keep exploding

-The 1907 Anglo-Russian Convention

-Make Vienna Great Again

-1979’s mosque seizure in Mecca

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