In “The Remnant," Jonah Goldberg enlists a “Cannonball Run”-style cast of stars, has-beens, and never-weres to address the most pressing issues of the day. Is America doomed? Has liberalism failed? And will mankind ever invent something better than ‘90s-era “Simpsons?” Mixing political history, pop … read more
Kevin Williamson is a man of mystery: he’s an “Eisenhower libertarian,” he’s been accused of being a D.C. insider (he lives in Texas), and (most famously) he’s a former staff writer for The Atlantic even though they only gave him one byline before firing him. Life in Kevin’s Fortress of Solitude has stayed mostly the same - even in the midst of a pandemic. Lucky for us, that means he had time to talk to Jonah about his unique political perspective, the role of government in a crisis, and how his “libertoid” opinions help him solve those mysteries of his.
Show Notes:
-Kevin’s latest book, The Smallest Minority
-Kevin’s upcoming essay collection, Big White Ghetto
-The (massively underrated) Tyranny of Cliches
-Suicide of the West (now out in paperback!)
-Adhocracy, a favorite term of Jonah and Kevin’s
-Kevin’s claim to being an “Eisenhower libertarian”
-Douglass North’s impenetrably brilliant Violence and Social Orders
-The unfortunately-named philosophical paradox, “Buridan’s Ass”
-Cleta Mitchell, releasing works for consumption by the populist masses
-Kevin’s The Case Against Trump
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