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
smart ignorant care
Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.
medical dogma ethical
There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.
running patriotic civilization
It was in the 1960s that the left convinced itself that there is something fascistic about patriotism and something perversely "patriotic" about running down America. Anti-Americanism - a stand-in for hatred of Western civilization - became the stuff of sophisticates and intellectuals as never before. Flag burners became the truest "patriots" because dissent - not just from partisan politics, but the American project itself - became the highest virtue.
uncles bed principles
As a broad generalization, big businesses have no moral objections to being whores. Getting into bed with Uncle Sam is all a question of price, not principle.
war moral liberalism
The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.
country ill
[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.
country yearning unpatriotic
[There] is something fundamentally unpatriotic in the yearning to fundamentally transform your country.
liberty moral economic
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.
want progressive ideologues
Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
cat thinking long
[Progressives] think the Constitution is like Felix the Cat's magic bag: Look in there long enough and hard enough, and you can find anything.
taken miracle magic
[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.
writing critics ifs
If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.
pigs china toms
Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
years iraq politics
The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners - for years, partly because France holds billions in IOUs from Iraq that wouldn't be redeemable by a new regime.