After deftly disposing of some punditry on the government shutdown and the Epstein files, Jonah Goldberg jumps head first into the topics of the week: postliberalism, groypers, and the immense challenges of political labels. Plus, dedicated listeners will be treated to a rant on Tucker Carlson and Japan.

Shownotes:
—Remnant episode with Yuval Levin
—The Editors podcast on the shutdown
—Jonah’s take on the East Wing
—Wednesday’s G-File
—Today’s Dispatch Podcast
—Tucker Carlson interviews Nick Fuentes
—Postliberal Order Substack
—Jonah's last book
—Why Liberalism Failed
—Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
—Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
—Dispatch article on Carl Schmitt in China
—Rod Dreher Substack on his visit to Washington
—George Orwell: “Politics and the English Language”
—The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
—G-File: “On the Mother of All Questions”
—The Morning Dispatch
—Advisory Opinions podcast
—Sarah Isgur: Last Branch Standing
—Tucker on Japan

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