Jonah Goldberg
N
ational Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg is a bestselling author and columnist. His nationally syndicated column appears regularly in scores of newspapers across the United States. He is also a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a member of the board of contributors to USA Today, and a contributor to Fox News. He was the founding editor of National Review Online. The Atlantic magazine identified Goldberg as one of the top 50 political commentators in America. In 2011 he was named the Robert J. Novak Journalist of the Year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). He has written on politics, media, and culture for a wide variety of publications and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, The Tyranny of Clichés (Sentinel HC, 2012) and Liberal Fascism (Doubleday, 2008).
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In interviews and on the stump, Senator Ted Cruz likes to attack President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and “some of the more aggressive Washington neocons” for their support of regime change in the Middle East. Every time we topple a dictator, ... -
Trump and Sanders Break the Mold for Populist Politicians
Populism is typically born in places like Nebraska, Louisiana, Kansas, and the other places given short shrift in that famous Saul Steinberg New Yorker cartoon showing the view of the world from Ninth Avenue. It’s not supposed to hail ... -
The War on Christmas
In the opening sequence of Scrooged — which Sonny Bunch correctly identifies as one of the great Christmas movies of the modern age — we’re teased with the trailer for a movie called The Night the Reindeer Died. In this fictional ... -
The Growing Food Fight over the Government’s Nutrition Guidelines
Have you heard? The GOP is declaring war on science again. In February, a government-appointed nutrition advisory panel said Americans should eat less sugar and red meat. It also suggested that environmental considerations should factor into a healthy diet, which ... -
If Americans Are ‘Scared to Death’ — It’s Because Government Has Failed Them
‘We have people across this country who are scared to death,” New Jersey governor Chris Christie declared loudly at this week’s Republican presidential debate in Las Vegas. Virtually the entire debate was based upon this premise. Which is understandable. ... -
Why the War on Guns Has Failed
In the wake of the San Bernardino attack, liberals are in a total panic over guns. The New York Times broke a 95-year precedent to editorialize about gun control on its front page. But the Times seems restrained compared with ... -
Take Out Your Red Pens
The New York Times has an interesting story about how the State Department missed the bus on Tashfeen Malik’s Islamist and anti-American social-media posts during her immigration background check. Though we aren’t permitted to read directly what she ... -
Trump Doesn’t Represent the Conservative Base
There’s a tendency in politics to mistake personal animosity for ideological animosity. #ad#Consider Bill Clinton. His staggering dishonesty, tackiness, and scorn for the rule of law aroused a lot of anger from the Right. But he wasn’t ... -
Blame the Chicago Police Shooting Cover-Up on One-Party Rule
For a moment at least, the biggest political beneficiary of the shootings in San Bernardino wasn’t a presidential candidate or terrorist group. It was Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel. The killing spree in Southern California distracted the national press at ... -
Is the New York Daily News Losing Its Mind?
Today’s New York Daily News cover looks like a cry for help. Subjected to entirely appropriate criticism — including from yours truly — for its coverage of the San Bernardino shooting, its attacks on prayers and those who offer them, and ... -
What Proof Is Obama Waiting For?
In this week’s G-File. I wrote it before the FBI finally confirmed that San Bernardino was being investigated as a “terrorist attack” and before we learned that that Tashfeen Malik had pledged allegiance to ISIS. Even then, I thought ... -
Why the Rush to Politicize Atrocities Should Make Us Queasy
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Prayers for Shooting Victims Prompt a Dubious Front Page
Dear New York Daily News, You’re doing it wrong. #ad#Long before the blood was mopped up, before police issued the all-clear, before the motives of the shooters were known and the names of the dead were released, before ... -
Progressives, the Planned Parenthood Shooting, and ‘Christian Terrorism’
In the wake of the Colorado Springs shooting, I read a great deal about so-called Christian terrorism from liberals. I don’t think they’ve thought this through. We’ve spent years hearing how associating Islam with terrorism is outrageous ... -
Blame for Planned Parenthood Killings Rests with Shooter Alone
‘No more baby parts.” As of this writing, that statement by Robert Lewis Dear is the only evidence that the “Planned Parenthood shooter” in Colorado Springs, Colo., was motivated by anti-abortion rhetoric. #ad#Dear’s comment came amid a rambling ... -
The Left's Illogical Logic of Diversity
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia . . . could not by force take a drink from the ... -
On Wilson's Progressive Racism
I still haven’t decided what I think about the tumult at Princeton. I’m against caving into the mob. I’m also against airbrushing history. But I also really hate Woodrow Wilson. I’ll keep pondering. But in the ... -
Obama’s Strategic Bumbling Is Theater of the Absurd
‘You’re all suckers.” That has to be what Barack Obama is thinking as the country falls for his head-fake. Let’s recap. #ad#George W. Bush’s surge reduced the Islamic State’s precursor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, to a ... -
Obama's Cynical Game on Syria
Walter Russell Mead has an absolutely devastating essay on Obama’s cynical ploy to use Syrian refugees as a partisan pawn. An excerpt: Not even President Bush’s decision to go to war in Iraq has been as destructive for ... -
Goldberg to Liberals: Don't Prove Goldberg Right!
Over at Slate, Michelle Goldberg (no relation) wags her finger at campus liberals for behaving like idiots. She rightly worries (from a left-wing perspective) that all of the anti-free-speech buffoonery will fuel a right-wing backlash, as campus excesses have in ... -
The Left Has No One to Blame but Itself for Madness on Campus
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Netanyahu’s Framing of Middle East Situation Is Spot-on
Americans could learn a thing or two from Bibi Netanyahu. The Israeli prime minister was in Washington this week to receive the American Enterprise Institute’s Irving Kristol Award. He made some controversial remarks — at least controversial at AEI, where ... -
Fascist/Not Fascist
I don’t want to belabor a point I’ve been making for years, but I just thought this was amusing. A third year law student, writing in the Harvard Law Record rightly condemns the anti-free speech idiocy at Yale, ... -
Campus Commotions Show We’re Raising Fragile Kids
It seems like every week there’s a new horror story of political correctness run amok at some college campus. A warning not to wear culturally insensitive Halloween costumes sparked an imbroglio at Yale, which went viral over the weekend. ... -
The Obama Legacy
Bill Scher writes over at Real Clear Politics that liberal panic over the recent elections (as well as two disastrous midterm elections — and every other down-ballot election since Obama was elected) is overdone. He writes: Democrats are not in trouble ... -
Of Course the Empire Is Evil -- and So Is Sonny Bunch
Because my friend Sonny Bunch is one of the most horrible and devious trolls in the known universe, he has managed to recycle [See update] Jonathan Last’s work, and spark a huge debate over whether or not the Empire ... -
Christie's Shot
I know I have a column up on the homepage about Cruz and Rubio potentially going all the way, but let me add something else. I’ve been saying for a long time — at least once eliciting snickering from colleagues ... -
Not a Parody
This is a press release from The Nation. Caitlin Graf, The Nation, press [at] thenation.com, 212-209-5400 New York, NY – November 3, 2015 – The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine of politics and culture, today launched its first-ever advice column, “Asking ... -
To Boldly Go Where CBS Has Already Been Before
CBS is launching a new Star Trek franchise. Of course I’ll watch it, at least for a while, because I have to. But I’m pretty ambivalent about CBS’s take on “exploring the dramatic contemporary themes that have ... -
If You’re Black, Lead the Pack
Here’s something you may not know: Dr. Ben Carson is black. Of course, I’m being a little cute here. The only way you wouldn’t know he’s black is if you were blind and only listened to ... -
The Data Show, Again, That Family Matters
It’s been a good month for champions of the traditional family, but don’t expect the family wars to be ending any time soon. In recent weeks, a barrage of new evidence has come to light demonstrating what was ... -
The Benghazi Hearings Confirm Yet Again What a Brazen Liar Hillary Is
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Hillary Clinton’s Enabler-in-Chief
It’s an ancient story: An innocent idealist sets out to change the world and in the process becomes what he hates most. “He who fights monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster,” Friedrich ... -
Hillary Admits It, Finally
A few of us grind our teeth every time Hillary Clinton says “it was allowed” in reference to her stealth server. And since she’s been saying it so much, I’ve ground my teeth down to nubs. For instance, ... -
The Media Tossed Softballs at the Democratic Debate
Democrats and their supporters in the media are congratulating themselves for a job well done in the first Democratic debate. Both Martin O’Malley and Hillary Clinton included in their closing remarks canned celebrations of how civil and morally superior ... -
On the Debate Stage, Hillary Was Calm, Self-Assured, and a Master of Bluster
For all the talk about Hillary Clinton’s weakness as a candidate, Tuesday’s Democratic debate demonstrated that things could be worse. Hillary Clinton, with more than 25 presidential debates under her belt from the last cycle, was clearly the most ... -
No, It’s Not Sexist to Point Out Hillary’s Naked Ambition
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Flip-Flops Show Hillary’s Long on Ambition, Short on Principles
Hillary Clinton revealed on Wednesday that she opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, providing just the latest evidence that she is little more than political ambition wrapped in a pantsuit. Pay attention to the press coverage, because it’s fascinating: ... -
The 97 Percent ‘Statistic’ -- Is There Nothing It Can't Do?
This video clip of Ted Cruz disemboweling Aaron Mair, the head of the Sierra Club, is making the rounds. It shows Cruz at his very best, cross-examining a witness to a pulp. The most striking thing, however, is how unbelievably ... -
Hillary’s Server Is the Smoking Gun!
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Speaker Gingrich . . . Unconstitutional?
In my latest column I float the idea of bringing in Newt Gingrich as the Steward of Gondor and by Gondor I mean the House of Representatives and by Steward I mean Speaker. I totally get arguments about how it’... -
One Flu Over The Zombie's Nest
David, A few quick points. 1. Yes, you started this round, but I’ve been writing about zombies around here for a long time. 2. I guess I gotta go back and watch the first couple shows again, because that flu outbreak ... -
It’s Time to Get Rid of the VA
There is only one guaranteed way to get fired from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. Falsifying records won’t do it. Prescribing obsolete drugs won’t do it. Cutting all manner of corners on health and safety is, at worst, ... -
Why It Was a Mistake for Salon to Run Its Pedophilia Piece
Charles, I think you offer about as good and generous a defense of that article one could make. But I still have a basic problem with it. Ultimately, the piece follows exactly the strategy one would suggest to start the “... -
Obama Respects Dictators More Than Popes
Here’s a great editorial by the Washington Post. As Mona noted here earlier, the White House has no problem playing political games at the Pope’s expense. They’re inviting various activists — a gay episcopal bishop, abortion supporters, etc. — ... -
Syria: Just One of Obama’s Foreign-Policy Failures
The news that the Obama administration has spent $500 million to put “four or five” fighters on the ground in Syria adds an almost comic irony to what is ultimately a tragic farce. In the 1980s, the symbol of Republican incompetence ... -
Is Joe Biden Really the Answer to Democrats’ Problems?
The wheels haven’t come off Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bus quite yet, but they’re getting wobblier. Hence the Joe Biden boomlet. As a columnist, never mind as a conservative, I think it’s a fantastic idea. (A Biden ... -
Winner of the Week
I was on Special Report tonight and I was supposed to pick a winner and loser of the week. Alas, I didn’t have much time to discuss my winner, Bretagne. She’s the last surviving 9/11 search-and-rescue dog. The great ... -
Putting an End to the ‘Refugee Crisis’
Most of the Syrians we see on the nightly news and on newspaper front pages are not fleeing war-torn Syria. The three-year-old Aylan Kurdi (his real name is Alan Shenu) whose heartrending death was broadcast around the world was not ... -
Who Cares if Hillary Apologized?
So Hillary Clinton mumbled some kind of apology yesterday: “Even though it was allowed, I should have used two accounts. One for personal, one for work-related emails,” she told ABC News. ”That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. ...
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Star Wars and Slavery: A Quandary Awakens
If you’re opposed to slavery, is it okay to still like Star Wars? It’s a question I’ve been wrestling with ever since Jonathan Last, a friend and writer at The Weekly Standard, pointed out to me that ... -
Two Cheers for Trump v. Clinton
I think it’s smart of Trump to counter-attack against Hillary the way he is. As someone who doesn’t want Trump to get the nomination, I worry that it may be too smart in that it will encourage some ... -
The Perfect Presidential Candidate for an Imperfect Time
I don’t typically endorse candidates, but as 2015 draws to a close, I feel I must make an exception. I think it’s a safe bet that for most of us, the year-that-was was not the year we wanted it ... -
Why Jeb’s Dropping Out Would Weaken Trump
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The Last Debate of 2015
My quick take: On the one hand, tonight’s CNN debate was among the most substantive debates we’ve seen in a long time. And certainly the most substantive foreign-policy debate I can remember (even though it seemed too narrowly ... -
The Force Marco, Use the Force
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Trump’s Cult of Personality Is Corrupting Conservatism
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Trump’s Idea Is Frivolous — And Its Defenses Aren’t Holding Up Either
Andy makes some fine and illuminating points, and I agree with him on his larger policy objective: America should try to screen for ideological commitments to Islamic radicalism among would-be immigrants. But I also think there’s a bit of ... -
Trumpbait Redux
Donald Trump has everyone’s number. Whenever he’s in trouble — when he’s caught making an outrageous comment, or revealing the depth of his ignorance, or when he says something untrue, or simply when the polls aren’t to ... -
How to Grade Obama's Oval Office Address?
Tonight’s speech is hard to grade. I can see it from several angles. Measured against the president’s record, this was a solid B. He called it terrorism. He admitted the nature of the threat of domestic radicalization, more ... -
When Power Fades, Turn Up the Volume
Last night I offered a bit of a rant about the The New York Times’ front page editorial. There’s one thought worth adding, I think. Putting the editorial on the frontpage is actually a sign of weakness — not just ... -
The Most Pressing Issue in 95 Years
The Peace of Versailles, Buck v. Bell, the Great Depression, Pearl Harbor,* the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Ukrainian famine, the internment of Japanese-Americans, the Tuskegee experiments, the Holocaust, McCarthyism, the Marshall Plan, Jim Crow, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Kennedy Assassination, ... -
Yes, We Should Prohibit Those on the Terror Watch List from Purchasing Guns
It’s rare that I take Barack Obama’s side against Charlie Cooke’s, but I’m inclined to agree with the president on the narrow merits of his new talking point about the terror watch list and gun buying. ... -
Yes, Master
So Harvard is going to ban the phrase “Master” because of its “associations with slavery”: The “Masters” of Harvard’s undergraduate residential houses are senior faculty members who serve as the chief administrative officers within the houses. They are responsible ... -
8 Random Thoughts About The Walking Dead, At Halftime (Some spoilers)
So last night’s episode of The Walking Dead was the mid-season finale. I have a few thoughts. Note: there are spoilers. In order to minimize the damage to those not caught up, I won’t go into great detail ... -
Too Late for Carson to Catch up on Homework
A little over a year ago, when Ben Carson was gearing up to run for president, I questioned in this space whether he was ready for what lay ahead. We now have our answer: No. Carson had a great number ... -
Why Does the Left Continue to Insist that Islamic Terrorism Has Nothing to Do with Islam?
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Trump Won't Rule Out Religious ID
I just did a radio interview with our old friend Michael Graham. He told me that Donald Trump says we might have to start putting religious affiliations on drivers’ licenses or some such. I hadn’t heard that, so I ... -
Obama Still Convinced of His ISIS Strategy: Events? What Events?
According to legend, if not actual historians, Harold Macmillan was once asked what he most feared could derail his agenda. The British prime minister allegedly said, “Events, my dear boy, events.” Macmillan may never have actually said it, but the ... -
Loyal Opposition as Fifth Columnist
I keep thinking that Jeremy Corbyn will stop being Jeremy Corbyn once he realizes he can’t afford to be anymore. Then I read things like this: Jeremy Corbyn has said he is “not happy” with letting Britain’s security ... -
Progressives Think That Mandatory Voting Would Help Them at the Polls
My old boss, William F. Buckley Jr., often said liberals don’t care what you do so long as it’s compulsory (though he probably borrowed the line from his friend M. Stanton Evans). There’s probably no better illustration ... -
Campus Cattle
Interesting e-mail from an academic who works deep in the belly of the beast: Jonah, I saw the link to Powerline that you retweeted with the e-mail from CMC One very important point to note as this continues is that ... -
Winners & Losers
My takeaways in no particular order: Biggest loser on merits: Kasich. He’s done. He came across angry, condescending, and unprincipled. By the end of the debate he came across as the drunk, obnoxious uncle everyone wishes hadn’t accepted ... -
On Liberal Leadership
My friend Ron Fournier tackles the mess in Missouri at National Journal. He makes some fine points. He also says this of Tim Wolfe, the freshly defenestrated university president: He underestimated the anger and power ... -
Imagining a World without Polls
What if the polls just stopped working? Admittedly, this needs work as a plot device for a Stephen King novel. But for politics, it might be pretty awesome. This week, businessman Matt Bevin won a stunning upset in the Kentucky ... -
Fusionism, 60 Years Later
‘Who lost the libertarians?” It’s a question you hear a lot from conservatives of late. The reason should be obvious to anyone who has followed the conservative movement’s internecine intellectual frictions over the last decade — or decades. Self-described ... -
Rubio and Cruz: The Two Cubans Prepare to Seize Their Moment
Politics is a breeding ground for martial metaphors, starting with the word “campaign” itself. Politicians “under fire” “take flak” as their consultants sit in “war rooms” and launch ad “blitzes” in “targeted districts” and “battleground states” to put their clients “... -
Whitesplain This: A Response to My Hypocritical Accusers, Black and White
In my column last Friday, I wrote: One could argue that [Ben Carson is] even more authentically African American than Barack Obama, given that Obama’s mother was white and he was raised in part by his white grandparents. In ... -
Jeb’s Sad Performance at the Debate Confirms He’s Not the Right Choice for 2016
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About Last Night
Having been in three cities in seven days, I was too exhausted to post much on last night’s debate and now it seems that most of what can and should be said has been said. But there is one ... -
Nice Beavers Falling From the Sky
For your edification: The really good stuff starts around the 8:00 minute mark. Though it would be better if the narrator said, “As God is my witness, I thought beavers could fly!” -
Trump’s Early Campaign Success Is a Wake-Up Call
Most of the politically savvy people I know are still confident that Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee for president. Some are even dismissive. They tell me that his poll numbers are a statistical mirage because they count ... -
Trump Is Trolling Bush -- And It's Working
Rich – I’m not sure I even get why the Bush team thinks this is potentially a good fight for them.” As a matter of honor and loyalty, I think it’s right and proper — never mind correct on the ... -
For the Left, It's Always Time for a New New Deal
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The Deeper Significance of Hillary's ‘Enemies’ Gaffe
I agree entirely with Charlie below with regard to Hillary’s statement that the enemy she is most proud of is the Republican party. But I’d add a few things. 1. This should properly be considered a Kinsley gaffe in ... -
A Biden Run Would Complicate Hillary’s White House Strategy
The scuttlebutt in Washington is that Vice President Joe Biden is going to throw his hat into the presidential race, which means there is at least a 50 percent chance that he will. I mean, when is the Beltway scuttlebutt ever ... -
In Its Season Premiere, SNL Shills for Hillary
‘Lean on me, when you’re not strong, and I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on.” The Bill Withers song has been covered by countless artists, but the rendition of “Lean on Me” performed in a ... -
Adventures in English-Major Marxism
Kevin – I’ll take a crack at the mystery. Perhaps I’m wrong, but it seems to me that this is a pretty common argument on the left. For obvious and good reasons, slavery looms very large in the pantheon ... -
For Obama, Gun Control Is about the Issue Not the Solution
President Obama was right. He was right when, just a few hours after the horrible shooting in Oregon, he decried the fact that such slaughters have become “routine.” He was even right, in a sense, when he defended politicizing the ... -
Putin’s Air Strikes in Syria Are Merely the Latest Example of the Obama Doctrine’s Failure
If the humiliation of the Obama administration continues at this rate, by this time next week you should expect to see Secretary of State John Kerry on all fours at the United Nations, getting paddled by the Russian foreign minister ... -
To Replace Boehner, Why Not Newt for Speaker?
Almost exactly seven years ago, House Speaker John Boehner said of the Wall Street bailout bill, “I think this thing is a crap sandwich” — but he’d vote for it anyway. I remarked at the time, “It’s crap sandwiches ... -
Fear the Walking Dead: The Military Wouldn't Crumble
David, I see things a little differently. Here’s the problem The Walking Dead’s writers had to deal with: The military could easily put down a zombie outbreak (absent some other contributors to societal breakdown, more on that below). ... -
It’s Not Carly Fiorina Who’s Wrong in the Planned Parenthood Fight
“Anyone who has watched this videotape, I dare Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama to watch these tapes. Watch a fully formed fetus on the table, its heart beating, its legs kicking while someone says, ‘We have to keep it alive to ... -
Thoughts on a Dumb Conversation
So we are now in day four of the “Muslim” conversation started when Donald Trump didn’t respond to a trollish question about Muslims at a town hall. A few thoughts. 1. Donald Trump is probably right that he has no “... -
Our Culture Makes a Virtue Out of Victimhood
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About Last Night
I know I’m late to the party when it comes to debate reactions. I was just too exhausted to write anything last night. I’m also glad I slept on it because I finished that debate in a fairly ... -
In the Left’s Story of Government, the State Is Always the Hero
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The Great Trumpian Divide
In last Friday’s Goldberg File I offered a lament or a screed or a diatribe or a thoughtful essay — opinions vary widely — on how and why I think Donald Trump is damaging conservatism. There’s no way I could — ... -
David Brock to NYT: Hie Thee to Hell, Foul Demons!
Apparently David Brock has a new book coming out taking dead aim at the New York Times. That’s not surprising. Brock’s whole shtick at Media Matters has been to work the refs for Hillary Clinton. Sure, they’ve ... -
Brand New Image, Same Old Hillary
What if this is as good as it gets? You have to wonder if that’s what Hillary Clinton’s handlers are saying to each other right about now. #ad#Of course, that’s not what they’re saying in ...