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
country government unions
Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.
civilized-nations trials should
Those who say [Joseph] Padilla should get a civilian trial are essentially saying that if you reject the rules of civilized nations, like those inscribed in the Geneva Convention, you therefore deserve to be treated better, not worse, than those rules require.
kids people pandas
Despite what you may have been taught about Indians or Africans or ancient Celts, poor people are terrible stewards of their environment. For instance, if my kid were starving to death, I would happily feed her fresh panda.
exercise thinking should-have
Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.
children thinking race
The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.
moving mean past
When activists say we need to move past the partisan divide, what they mean is: Shut up and get with my program. Have you ever heard anyone say, "We need to get past all of this partisan squabbling and name-calling. That's why I'm going to abandon all my objections and agree with you"?
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.
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.
way needs figures
The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.
ideas revolution force
You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.
book perspective ideological
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
giving liberty cost
The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.
misery capitalism humans
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
people tides poverty
A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.