Jonah Goldberg is a Senior Fellow and Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the co-founder of The Dispatch and the Remnant podcast and a former senior editor at National Review magazine for 21 years. He is also a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a Fox News contributor, where he writes the “Goldberg File.” He has written three New York Times bestsellers.
About the Author
An award-winning journalist and three-time New York Times best-selling author, Jonah Goldberg has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Wilson Quarterly, goldberg’s record and The Weekly Standard. He is the co-founder and editor in chief of conservative online political commentary site The Dispatch and the host of the podcast, Remnant. He has also been a columnist for USA Today and a regular contributor to National Review. He lives in Washington, D.C.
In Liberal Fascism, Goldberg attempts to make the case that a significant segment of today’s left is operating on fascist principles and pursuing policies that are eerily similar to those of Hitler’s Nazism and Mussolini’s fascism. It’s an intriguing argument, but one whose reach is likely to be considerably less than that of the revisionist historians who have tried to recast the meaning of such historically significant events as the Holocaust or the Japanese American internment.
Before joining the Dispatch in 2015, goldberg’s record Goldberg was the director of communications for the Rio Grande Valley Vipers (NBA Gatorade League) and the Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings (Central Hockey League). He managed media relations, public relations, marketing, website management, branding and advertising for both teams. He has also offered color commentary for the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees (Central Hockey League). Goldberg was a founding producer of Ben Wattenberg’s Think Tank and worked on a wide range of television projects. He is a frequent guest on the Fox News Channel and has appeared as a CNN contributor.
About the Book
With his characteristic blend of political history, social science, and pop culture, Jonah Goldberg argues that our freedom and prosperity are in grave danger as we surrender to populism, nationalism, and other forms of tribalism. Goldberg, who holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute and is editor in chief of the online aggregator Dispatch, offers a sharp critique of our current culture wars and an impassioned call to defend the values that sustain our society.
goldberg latest has written for USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, and Commentary, among other publications, national review staff and has been a frequent guest on Fox News Channel and a regular contributor to Special Report. His nationally syndicated column appears in more than 100 newspapers. He has also been a contributor to the Weekly Standard and a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. From 1998 to 2019, he was the senior editor of National Review.
While the right screams “fascism!” at anyone who disagrees with them, Goldberg reveals that leftists drop the f-word just as often to taint their opponents, from global warming skeptics to members of the Moral Majority. And he insists that it is liberalism, not conservatism, that embraces the fascist idea of perfecting society through a powerful state run by omniscient leaders.
But what is missing from Goldberg’s alternate reality is any mention of the Silver Shirts, the Aryan Nations, or the National Alliance — groups that openly embraced fascism and were responsible for some of the most horrific events in American history. By ignoring such groups and declaring all liberal enterprises and individuals fascist, Goldberg is robbing the word of its meaning and obscuring the fact that real American fascists have been operating in our culture for decades.