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Podcast: The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg
Episode: Keynesian Kayfabe
Description: Jonah Goldberg is joined by author and research analyst Ross Benes to discuss his new book, 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. Jonah and Ross discuss beanie babies as a precursor to crypto, the political triumph of the WWE, and the age of media deregulation. Plus: the phenomenology of moral panics and the bourgeois-ification of transgressive culture.Show Notes:—1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre TimesThe Remnant is a production of The Dispatch, a digital media company covering politics, policy, and culture from a non...