Wire-Hanger Billionaires Aren’t Evil | Ruminant
From The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg by The Dispatch
May 9, 2026 · 1h 29m
About this episode
Jonah Goldberg critiques democratic economic illiteracy while discussing various political topics and figures.
After reading a mildly depressing script handed him by the suits in the Dispatch C-suite, Jonah Goldberg rallies to take a bludgeon to democratic economic illiteracy. Along the way, he ruminates on the Indiana primaries, RINOs, Trump as a caricature, Rubio vs. Vance, sycophant tryouts, AOC’s voice, California’s gubernatorial race, billionaires earning their money, Napoleon, liberalism’s definition, and Iran. Show Notes:—How to Access Your Members-Only Remnant Feed—Friday’s Dispod—Jonah’s book: Suicide of the West—AOC on billionaires—Klein and Thompson: Abundance—Last week’s Ruminant on Hegel—Remnant with Adrian Wooldridge—Wooldridge: The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism The Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a nonpartisan perspective. To access all of The Dispatch’s offerings—including audio versions of all our articles and newsletters and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—click here. If you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member by clicking here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Host: Jonah Goldberg
Topics covered
- economic illiteracy
- Indiana primaries
- Trump
- billionaires
- liberalism
- California gubernatorial race
- Iran
Keywords
- democratic economic illiteracy
- Indiana primaries
- Trump
- billionaires
- liberalism
- AOC
- California gubernatorial race
- Iran
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: The Dispatch
Books & works: Suicide of the West, The Revolutionary Center: The Lost Genius of Liberalism
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