Disunity

Magna Carta, Holy Grail.

Published June 22, 2024

On this week’s installment of The Ruminant, Jonah talks about all the things he says he doesn’t want to talk about. Digs are thrown at tariffs, the administrative state, popular fronts, and executive orders. The definitions of unity and democracy are debated as Jonah bushwhacks the path towards productive political debate. To close it all out, Jonah revisits the Juneteenth discourse and addresses his Soviet kerfuffle with Niall Ferguson.

Show Notes:

—Kevin Williamson for The Dispatch: An Economic Policy that’s Just a Little Bit Radical
—Scott Lincicome for The Dispatch: Trump’s Latest Tariff Idea is Dangerously Foolish
—David French for Advisory Opinions on the administrative state
—Suicide of the West
—Charles Murray: By the People
—Jonah’s piece on Juneteenth: American Passover
—Niall Ferguson for The Free Press: We’re All Soviets Now
—Jonah’s Rebuttal
—Subscribe to Dispatch Faith

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Jonah Goldberg

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.

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