The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

Thus Spoke Berkowitz

Feb 1, 2024

Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins Jonah to discuss academics' aversion to the English language, the significance of ideas, and what the nationalist right gets wrong about freedom.

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Peter Berkowitz

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Introduction

2min

American Pragmatism: Comparisons and Contrasts with Nietzsche and Heidegger

18min

Discussion of Jobs and Introducing Sponsors

2min

Intellectual History and the Influence of Ideas

31min

Dichotomies, Constitutional Reform, and Israeli Tensions

17min

The Dangers of a Second Trump Presidency and the Weaponization of Institutions

6min

Gratitude, Apologies, and Future Plans

2min

Jonah serves up a jumbo slice of rank eggheadery on today’s Remnant to compensate for yesterday’s shockingly (or perhaps mercifully) brief episode. He’s joined for the first time by Peter Berkowitz, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and prolific writer on politics and America’s liberal tradition, to wax Yiddish on topics of both broad and minimal interest. What do academics and philosophers have against the English language? Do ideas actually matter? And what does the nationalist right get wrong about freedom?

Show Notes:

-Peter’s webpage

-Jonah: “It’s Nietzsche’s World, You’re Just Living In It”

-Peter’s first book, Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist

-Samuel Moyn’s Liberalism Against Itself

-Peter’s Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and Political Moderation

-Peter responds to Robert Kagan

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