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Gentle listeners, we know you’ve had a hard week, and we want to bring you a pick-me-up. Today’s episode has a little something for everyone: a riveting cult story, nudity, sports gambling, racist-bigot bashing, fanatic Texans, AI-pocalypse, an epic history of progressivism, and, most tantalizing of all, a detailed discussion of the myth of left and right. Tune in to hear Jonah Goldberg ruminate about being a grown-up, the long-forgotten BDX Cult, originalism, AI torts and liability, the social question, Bo French, bourgeois morals, Indian Americans, racism, the AP stylebook, and the left-right spectrum. 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 [instrumental music plays] [groans] Ladies and gentlemen, uh, Music 0:16 could I please have your attention? Can you dig it? [crowd cheers] Jonah Goldberg 0:27 Greetings, dear listeners. This is Jonah Goldberg, host of The Remnant Podcast, brought to you by The Dispatch and Dispatch Media. It's been a long week, but last week was the anniversary of 9/11. I wrote a G file that kind of struck a chord with a bunch of people, and I've been hearing from people ever since about it, and so it's still, still sort of in my head. Basically, I, I didn't wanna write one of those "everything changed after 9/11" pieces. I... First of all, those pieces have been written a lot over the last 25 years. I've written a bunch of that stuff, and sometimes I think things didn't change as much as we thought they did, or at least not because of 9/11. I think my story f- r- you know, my where were you on 9/11 story is, is more interesting than Jonah Goldberg 1:07 the median, but it's certainly not in the top 1%, you know, for people. And I've told it a zillion times. So instead, what, what I kind of wanted to do, like, one of the things, and again, it's not unique to me, but just of my age and where I was in my life, 9/11 was this Jonah Goldberg 1:24 really important chapter break in my life, Interactive transcripts are available to Premium members. Join to follow along with the audio. Join Now More We Think You’d Like