About this episode

Jonah Goldberg discusses the impact of Trump on conservatism and various cultural and political topics.

Peacefully anchored on the Potomac, the HMS Remnant rocks gently from side to side. Captain Jonah Goldberg, peg leg and all, stands at the prow gazing at the darkening horizon. To the west, the storm clouds of AI apocalypse are gathering. In the east, a midterm squall quickly bears down. In such portentous circumstances, there’s only one thing for a man to do. Captain Jonah retires to his cabin, lights a cigar, pulls down his dusty copy of Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, and girds himself to talk about Gloria Steinem. Listen in as Jonah ruminates on Bill Buckley’s respectful listening, the freaky Hugging Face incident, Maria Bartiromo, the radicalization of the elderly, Albert Nock’s antisemitism, social Darwinism, Herbert Spencer, blood libel vs. blood guilt, Marcionism, Fox News, J.D. Vance, pretextual moral outrage, and confusing conservatives for Republicans. Show Notes: —Kevin Williamson on Gloria Steinem in The Dispatch —NYT’s The Daily on the Hugging Face hack —Michael Wreszin: The Superfluous Anarchist: Albert Jay Nock  —G-File: “The Rocks and the Orgy” —Jonah’s NR piece on Albert Nock  —John Carey: The Intellectuals and the Masses —Thomas C. Leonard: Illiberal…

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