We Don’t Do Math Here | Ruminant

Dear listener, I must ask you to take a seat. I fear you are not prepared for what I’m going to tell you. Jonah Goldberg appears on the show today… with… written notes. Granted, they contain about five words. But they exist! On paper! Marvel of marvels! And so it is with this boy-scout level of preparedness that Jonah embarks on his weekend ruminations, covering Jon Ossoff, Natalie Harp, savvy political baiting, Jason Arday, Jews and liberalism, race, social justice, group performance, Jacobin tariff rhetoric, data centers, and the Dupont Circle farmers market. Show Notes: 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 the Saturday Ruminant, audio versions of all our articles and newsletters, and Jonah’s twice-weekly G-File—⁠click here⁠. Instructions on how to set up your members-only feed can be found here, and if you’d like to remove all ads from your podcast experience, consider becoming a premium Dispatch member ⁠by clicking here⁠. Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things. The podcast transcription below was generated using artificial intelligence and may include occasional errors or misspellings. Music 0:00 [drum music] [groaning] Ladies and gentlemen. Music 0:16 Could I please have your attention? Can you dig it? Jonah Goldberg 0:24 [cheering] Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of the Remnant Podcast, brought to you by the Dispatch and Dispatch Media. I'm starting very early today, or trying to. My wife's big road trip with the, um, Jonah Goldberg 0:41 van and the canines starts 1st thing tomorrow morning, and we gotta go pick up the van and do some walkthrough stuff, and I gotta explain some things to her that she forgot how to do. So I don't have, like, a big agenda this morning. I'm just... Again, I'm just trying to Jonah Goldberg 0:59 get the, uh, the engine started here. I wrote down 5 things. I wrote down Dan Senor, Besent, The People's Money, Natalie Harp, data centers, Jason Arday. That is my show prep. Let's start with Natalie Harp. All right, so those of you who haven't followed this too closely, just a refresher. My hunch is that most of you have followed this stuff close enough. If you're the kind of people who listen to this podcast, uh, you probably get enough other media that it's broken through. But Jon Ossoff, Democratic Georgia senator up for re-election, and lots of people are talking about him running for president, and he, Interactive transcripts are available to Premium members. Join to follow along with the audio. Join Now More We Think You’d Like