Episode 50: The British American Conservatarian Florida Man

England-born newly-minted American citizen Charlie Cooke, editor of NationalReview.com, joins Jonah for the 50th episode of the Remnant. They have a merry time discussing why Charlie loves America, why he’s a conservatarian, what he thinks of Brexit, and whether it’s necessary to pledge fealty to President Trump. Jonah also forces him to read some words that Brits can’t pronounce correctly.

Show Notes:

People’s Front of Judea
Kevin Kline holding John Cleese out a window
My conversation with Paul Ryan
How Charlie Cooke fell in love with the United States
Peter Schramm on being American By Choice
The Ilya Shapiro episodes of Remnant: “Get Me Another Shapiro!” and “The Sweet Mystery of Anthony Kennedy”
Charlie’s journey to gun rights advocate
Me on the Beaconsfield position.
I wrote about Las Vegas in Vol. 54, Issue 9 of National Review: The article was titled “Living In Sin”
The Megan McArdle episode, in which drug legalization was also discussed
Theodore Dalrymple against legalizing drugs
Wickard v. Filburn
The Conservatarian Manifesto by Charles C.W. Cooke
Jack’s review
Seymour Martin Lipset’s example of the national characteristics of the U.S. versus Canada, from his book American Exceptionalism: A Double-edged Sword, page 21:

“This point may be illustrated by examining the results when the American and Canadian governments tried to change the system of measurements and weights to metric from the ancient and less logical system of miles and inches, pounds and ounces. A quarter century ago, both countries told their citizens that in fifteen years, they must use only metric measurements, but that both systems could be used until a given date. The Canadians, whose Tory-monarchical history and structures have made for much greater respect for and reliance on the state, and who have lower per capita crime, deviance, and litigiousness rates than Americans, conformed to the decision of their leaders and now follow the metric system, as anyone who has driven in Canada is aware. Americans ignored the new policy, and their highway signs still refer to miles, weights are in pounds and ounces, and temperature readings are in Fahrenheit.”