First mate Steve Hayes strides across the deck, grinning maniacally at the cowering crew. “Mine” he crows to himself. “Mine! The HMS Remnant is finally mine! Muahahaha!” The crew, downcast, is near despair. Then suddenly, all eyes turn to the gangplank. Haggard, sunburned, stricken, and emaciated, Jonah Goldberg stumbles onto the deck, takes Hayes by the collar, and gasps, “Sand. Nothing but sand.”

After recovering down below, Captain Goldberg is back at the helm and ready to dive into the Grand Canyon, advertising, Vegas, Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, the Christianization thesis, black Helen, DSA, voter turnout, the stupidity of abolishing the Senate, “unfettered capitalism,” Hayek v. Friedman, conservative liberal or liberal conservative, Teddy Roosevelt, and postliberal collapse. 

Show Notes:

—John Podhoretz on The Odessey

—Tom Holland on The Odyssey 

—Matt Walsh tweet about The Odessey 

—Charlie Cooke on abolishing the Senate

—Jonah in Commentary:  “Socialism is so Hot Right Now”

—Newsweek: “We Are All Socialist Now”

—Escalon Insights poll on medicare for all

—Live Sarah Isgur Remnant

—Ron Bailey Remnant

—Ask Me Anything Remnant 

—Jonah’s book Liberal Fascism 

—Live Yuval Levin Remnant

—Irving Kristol: “The American Revolution as a Successful Revolution”

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