👤 Jonah Goldberg

2026-09-25 · The Dispatch · Politics

President Trump’s Influence Continues to Wane

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2026-09-11 · The Dispatch · Politics

Did We Win the War on Terror?

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2026-10-07 · The Dispatch · Crime & Law

How Death Penalty Opponents Share the Blame for Botched Executions

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2026-09-09 · The Dispatch · Politics

Don’t Call It a Convention

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2026-09-09 · The Dispatch · Politics

Telephone Killed the Convention | Interview: Chris Stirewalt

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2026-09-15 · The Dispatch · Technology

Will Artificial Intelligence ‘Kill Us All?’

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2026-08-24 · The Dispatch

🔮 After basically pirating Jesse Walker’s ideas for several months now, Jonah Goldberg has decided it would be only fair to have Jesse aboard HMS Remnant to talk shop and swap yarns. assertive

2026-08-25 · The Dispatch

🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss the U.S. crossing the $40 trillion debt threshold and the prospect of “growing our way out of it.” assertive

2026-08-26 · The Dispatch

🔮 Ladies and gentlemen, could I please have your attention? assertive

2026-08-28 · The Dispatch

🔮 We have seen over the past several weeks, but in particular over the past week, a spate of articles in virtually every publication, New York Times, Washington Post, Politico, elsewhere, noting the sort of heightened battles, not even battles, heightened concern about data centers and how it's driving political debates and campaigns in some areas and states and districts that we would expect, and probably some areas and states and campaigns that we wouldn't expect. assertive

2026-08-31 · The Dispatch

🔮 Nevertheless, being a fair-minded man, Jonah is willing to give the French a hearing. assertive

2026-09-04 · The Dispatch

🔮 There are a couple dozen competitive House races, depending on how you count them, probably 6, 7, 8 competitive Senate races, maybe a couple more. assertive

2026-09-05 · The Dispatch

🔮 Ladies and gentlemen, could I please have your attention? assertive

2026-09-07 · The Dispatch

🔮 We could not have more serendipitous convenient timing for today's guest. assertive

2026-09-08 · The Dispatch

🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Michael Reneau to discuss our latest editorial on a post-Trump reality, comments by White House special envoy Steve Witkoff to Vladimir Putin as the U.S. pursues negotiations for an end to the Ukraine war, and finally, a Labor Day edition of Not Worth Your Time. assertive

2026-09-09 · The Dispatch

🔮 Some of this is a bit of a cliche and, you know, nostalgia as we're talking, but we-- we're gonna honor it, and so we figured we would need to do some serious punditry, particularly given the really shocking results in Saxony-Anhalt for the AFD in Germany- [laughs] assertive

2026-09-09 · The Dispatch

🔮 Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters says the GOP midterm election “convention” will be a “Trumpapalooza.” assertive

2026-09-11 · The Dispatch

🔮 I will remember, I came out of my office, and I saw a couple of secretaries. assertive

2026-09-12 · The Dispatch

🔮 [groans] Ladies and gentlemen, uh, could I please have your attention? assertive

2026-09-14 · The Dispatch

🔮 That's not exactly the exact wording I would necessarily use to capture my mood. assertive

2026-09-15 · The Dispatch

🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Mike Warren, and Klon Kitchen to discuss the resignation of an Anthropic researcher over concerns that AI may “kill us all,” yet another flip-flop by the Trump administration on Ukraine, and President Trump’s $5,000 bribe to voters during the midterm convention. assertive

2026-09-18 · The Dispatch

🔮 Mike Warren is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Megan McArdle, and Kevin Williamson to discuss why GOP midterm candidates aren’t heeding President Donald Trump’s electoral advice, as well as Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French’s racist tweet about a University of Texas football game. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Dispatch

🔮 Ladies and gentlemen, uh, could I please have your attention? assertive

2026-09-21 · The Dispatch

🔮 He's been public service and, and, and public office for a very long time, held all sorts of commission-- uh, positions, city council member, mayor, county commissioner. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Dispatch

🔮 Like, it got really annoying, and if I didn't like Stephanie so much and if I didn't like the book so much, I would have just, out of pure ornery contrariness, refused to have her on. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Dispatch

🔮 Maybe it says something about my excessively bourgeois, disproportionately right-of-center, gay-friendly but mostly not gay social and professional circles, but I haven’t met anybody who didn’t love the Boston Globe piece on the Last Ditch Bar. assertive

2026-09-26 · The Dispatch

🔮 It’s not what Jonah Goldberg expected to find himself in the middle of after walking in the door the day the Stephanie Slade Remnant Ruminant, wherein Jonah not only recounts his domestic dust-up over drag queen story hour but dives deep into Trump Derangement Syndrome, Xi Jinping at the White House, the autopen incident, Nikole Hannah-Jones, progressives, teachers unions, Nick Kristof and the rape dogs, Macklemore and Israel, Jonah going woke, rationalism vs reason, family, fusionism, the Western Massachusetts lesbian bar, and how we’re all both conservatives and liberals. assertive

2026-09-28 · The Dispatch

🔮 This October will mark three years since Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza, igniting a complicated web of wars and regional conflicts across the Middle East. assertive

2026-09-29 · The Dispatch

🔮 Steve Hayes is joined by Jonah Goldberg, Kevin Williamson, and Mike Warren to discuss the possibility of Democrats flipping a seat in Kansas and the Trump administration’s “public service announcements.” assertive

2026-09-30 · The Dispatch

🔮 While Tony is sadly unwilling to drop Mentos into a 2-liter bottle of soda and stand over it with his mouth open (yes, we did ask), he is absolutely willing to bring the heat on science, AI, and the doom of humanity. assertive

2026-09-30 · The Dispatch

🔮 That’s what it says beneath several ridiculous ads celebrating Donald Trump as a man of strength and will. assertive

2026-10-02 · The Dispatch

🔮 Mike Warren is joined by Jonah Goldberg and Kevin Williamson to discuss Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt’s failed attempt at setting a perjury trap and the Trump administration’s AI luncheon. assertive

2026-10-03 · The Dispatch

🔮 Got to the office extra early this morning so I could get this done and get to work on the G file and get back on the book and do all sorts of other things and make... get home to make the meatballs and do the sauce and pick up the guns from Robert De Niro, but the helicopter keeps following me. assertive

2026-10-05 · The Dispatch

🔮 Ladies and gentlemen. Could I please have your attention? assertive

2026-10-09 · The Dispatch

🔮 Will the redistricting efforts save some Republican seats, or will that backfire? assertive

2026-10-09 · The Dispatch

🔮 Dear Reader (even you Cornhuskers willing to shuck out three grand for one of them used urinal troughs), In 2023 there was that whole thing about how all men—or a lot of men—spend a shocking amount of time thinking about ancient Rome. assertive

2026-10-10 · The Dispatch

🔮 And I figure if it's really important, Steve or Declan or somebody will send it to me, or I'll hear about it or whatever. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Dispatch

🔮 For reasons that will baffle my many detractors, I am often asked for advice about being an opinion journalist. assertive

2026-10-14 · The Dispatch

🔮 Ladies and gentlemen, could I please have your attention? assertive

2026-10-16 · The Dispatch

🔮 On today's roundtable, we'll discuss a large number of Americans who say they want substantial change or complete and total upheaval in these midterm elections, and whether the prevailing anti-incumbent and anti-Trump sentiment will lead to a blue wave, a rogue wave, or something else entirely. assertive