Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Jacob Goldbergis an American conservative syndicated columnist, author and commentator. Goldberg writes about politics and culture for National Review, where he is a Senior Editor. He is the author of Liberal Fascismand The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth21 March 1969
CountryUnited States of America
doors america government
If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
culture vines tradition
Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.
political telling-the-truth politician
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.
mean hug want
Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.
liars lying fall
The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony, the adulterer to celebrate adultery, than for someone to preach the right thing if he himself occasionally does the wrong thing. Better to let your failings define you and be happy about it, than to let your ideals define you but then fall short of them, for that opens you up to the charge of hypocrisy.
politics opponents strategy
...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.
europe america cost
In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't have a clue what they're doing.
successful example lasts
There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.
sexy character thinking
(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
guy likes next
I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot....
war nice good-friend
In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.
sex children glimpse
I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.
book perspective ideological
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
political today human-life
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.