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The Great Unmooring

The Great Unmooring

FromThe Remnant with Jonah Goldberg


The Great Unmooring

FromThe Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

ratings:
Length:
72 minutes
Released:
Jan 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The Remnant’s British invasion continues as Economist deputy editor Edward Carr joins to provide a perspective on how the pandemic has affected nations beyond the United States. Together, he and Jonah examine how issues such as vaccine skepticism, excess deaths, and pandemic-related insanity vary between countries, all while kvetching vigorously about teachers’ unions and the politics of marmite. Can we trust China’s COVID statistics? Are things as weird in Russia and the U.K. as they are in America? And are we in the early stages of a new Roaring ‘20s? Show Notes:- England prepares to drop COVID restrictions- Boris Johnson’s latest scandal- “There’s no such thing as learning loss”- Steven Brill: “The Rubber Room”- The Remnant with Paul Bloom- Jonah: “Fear and Loathing in the Time of COVID”- Apollo’s Arrow, Nicholas Christakis’ book on pandemic madness- The Remnant with Matt Ridley- The Remnant with Michael Shellenberger
Released:
Jan 20, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

In “The Remnant," Jonah Goldberg, the founder and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch, syndicated columnist, best-selling author, and AEI/NRI Fellow enlists a “Cannonball Run”-style cast of stars, has-beens, and never-weres to address the most pressing issues of the day and of all-time. Is Western Civilization doomed? Is nationalism the wave of the future? Is the Pope Catholic? Will they ever find a new place to put cheese on a pizza? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie? Who is hotter: Ginger or Mary-Ann? Was Plato really endorsing the Republic as the ideal state? Mixing history, pop culture, rank-punditry, political philosophy, and, at times, shameless book-plugging, Goldberg and guests will have the kinds of conversations we wish they had on cable-TV shout shows. And the nudity will (almost) always be tasteful.