The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg Rights, Obligations, and Nostalgia | Interview: Megan McArdle
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Dec 22, 2025 
Megan McArdle, a renowned opinion journalist from The Washington Post, returns to discuss crucial societal issues. They delve into how economic anxiety shapes perceptions of generational inequity and the complexities of housing markets. McArdle explores the impact of media on parental fears and the misperceptions of safety in children's lives. A poignant moment arises as they discuss the legal rights of the deceased and how nostalgia often skews our view of the present.
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Affordability Masks Deeper Economic Anxiety
- Affordability is a label for broader economic anxiety, not the whole problem.
- People conflate short-term price pain with deeper uncertainty about the future.
Novel Uncertainty Feels Worse Than Known Crises
- Megan McArdle says the world feels more uncertain now than during the financial crisis.
- Novel, hard-to-predict threats create persistent unease beyond measurable economic metrics.
Low Inflation Can Smooth Economic Frictions
- Small inflation can ease debt and employment frictions by eroding real wages slowly.
- But wage stickiness and unequal indexing make inflation painful for many households.