Jonah Goldberg
National Review senior editor Jonah Goldberg is a bestselling author and columnist and fellow of the National Review Institute. 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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Charlie Gard’s parents are doing the wrong thing — and I’d probably do it too. Charlie Gard, if you haven’t heard, is the eleven-month-old baby whose plight has become a popular cause in England and, increasingly, the United ... -
In Defense of Western Civ
Dear Reader (and all men of the West), So just to get it out of the way: Who has two thumbs and loves Western Civilization? This guy (I am pointing my thumbs me-ward, which makes typing hard). Just to be ... -
When Would You Stop Loving America?
First let me tardily congratulate Rich Lowry, Charlie Cooke, Ian Tuttle, and Michael Brendan Dougherty for a really outstanding episode of The Editors podcast. It was a joy to listen to, given how much all four really love the American ... -
Trump’s Relationship with Media Is Co-dependent
On the Saturday before the Fourth of July, Donald Trump tweeted, “My use of social media is not Presidential — it’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL. Make America Great Again!” I joked on Twitter that I thought this was a perfectly apt ... -
GE’s Attempt to Champion Progressivism Is Creepy and Condescending
Let me just say this at the outset: Mildred Dresselhaus, who died in February at the age of 86, was an amazing woman. An accomplished physicist who won just about every scientific award short of the Nobel Prize, Dresselhaus was by ... -
Nancy MacLean’s Ideologically Motivated Shortcuts
In Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid there’s that great bit about the super-posse that chases the outlaws. They’re led by a legendary law man, Joe Lefors, and an Indian Scout (Lord Baltimore), who can follow horse tracks ... -
The Left Espouses Dangerously Stupid Health-Care Rhetoric
Even by Washington standards, this is a particularly dumb political moment. Earlier this month a political zealot went to a baseball practice intending to kill as many Republican congressmen as he could. As often happens after such horrible events, various ... -
Why Argue That ‘Collusion with Russia’ Isn’t a Crime?
So far there is no evidence of “collusion” between the Russian government and the Trump campaign. And if they ever find any, I suspect the culpability will land at the feet of politically expendable characters such as Roger Stone or ... -
Are Things Getting Better?
I do not fear much correction when I say that my columns of the last few years have not been characterized by an overabundance of cheerfulness and optimism. For instance, about a year ago, I endorsed a Twitter personality for ... -
A Reality Check about What Handel’s Win Means
Karen Handel, the Republican, won. Who among us can contain his excitement? It’s also a win for Donald Trump for one simple and obvious reason: because the alternative would have been so much worse for him. If Handel had ... -
Calling Shenanigans on Jake Tapper’s Superman-Haircut Theory
Jake Tapper has a fantastic tweet thread on how Superman cuts his hair. I’m glad you asked, Jesse. 1/ https://t.co/zL1mh1X4Pw — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) June 19, 2017 Because it’s true, Superman’s hair is very strong. 2/ ... -
The Reality-TV Presidency
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Megyn Kelly’s Gift to Alex Jones
There’s been a big brouhaha about Megyn Kelly’s upcoming interview with conspiracy nutter Alex Jones. The toughest criticism has been from the Sandy Hook families who rightly take extreme offense at Jones’s claim that it was all ... -
Comey, Master of Memos
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Why Comey’s Story Still Holds Water
There was certainly a lot to digest in today’s hearing. I agree with most of the points made by my colleagues with one quibble about Kevin’s take, much to my chagrin. I really can’t stand it when ... -
London Attacks Followed by Same Old Stale Arguments
The saddest part about the recent terrorist attacks in the U.K. — aside from the actual horror for the victims and their families, of course — was that there was so little new to say about it. But that didn’t ... -
Hillary Blames America First
In one of the great scenes in American cinema, Jake Blues (John Belushi) of the Blues Brothers explains — at gunpoint — to his ex-fiancée (Carrie Fischer) why he left her at the altar. “I ran out of gas! I had ... -
Government-Provided Health Care Doesn’t Ensure Better Health
While Washington freaked out over the Congressional Budget Office’s verdict on the American Health Care Act (aka “Trumpcare”) and how cutting back health insurance would cost countless lives, the more interesting accounting came out of California. The dream of ... -
Androids and the Meaning of Life
I saw Alien: Covenant this weekend. It wasn’t very good. It was better than Prometheus but so was Paul Blart II: Die Blarter — or whatever that was called. I should say “spoiler alert,” since I will discuss some things ... -
Why Trump Was Right to Call Terrorists ‘Losers’
‘Loser” is a strange word. Literally and most plainly, it is simply someone who doesn’t win some specific contest or challenge: the loser of a race, boxing match, business deal, etc. Economists routinely talk about how this or that ... -
‘Wops’
Yesterday, I was half-listening to a 60 Minutes segment on illegal immigration when I heard some official say that the anti-Italian slur “wop” was an acronym for “without papers.” It turns out that it was James Kinney, the mayor of Philadelphia. ... -
Roger Ailes, One of a Kind
On my first visit to Roger Ailes’s office, I half expected to find him petting an enormous white tiger, perhaps feeding it from a bowl of raw meat. After all, this was at the height of Ailes’s reputation ... -
Trust But Verify
So what to make of the latest mess? I don’t know if the Washington Post story is accurate, but I do think it’s entirely plausible. Put aside whether the story is properly sourced and all that. When you ... -
The Comey Debacle
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Prime Time
The Donald Trump interview with The Economist is . . . interesting. There’s one exchange in particular I find fascinating: But beyond that it’s OK if the tax plan increases the deficit? It is OK, because it won’t increase it ... -
The Comey Firing
There’s much we don’t know. Much we need to know. Much we may never know. But my initial reactions to the news of the James Comey firings are: 1) I disagree with many of my friends who say this ... -
The Left Took the Bait on Bret Stephens
The last weekend of April delivered one of the more enjoyable spectacles of 2017. It wasn’t Donald Trump’s tent-revival rally in Pennsylvania. Nor was it the cotillion of self-congratulation known as the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It wasn’t ... -
Der Einhundert Tage
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Is Marine Le Pen a ‘Far-Right’ Candidate?
In case you’ve been confused by the last few days of punditry, let me say outright that France is not America. For example, we recently concluded a presidential election in the United States in which many argued that it ... -
What The Free Speech Debate Misses
I basically agree with everything Wesley Smith says about that tortured op-ed in today’s New York Times. But I still have misgivings with some of the pro-free speech arguments I often hear from my friends and colleagues on the ... -
Bill O'Reilly's Nostalgia Factor
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Trump Has Pivoted to Scoring Easy Wins
One of the (many) things that make the Trump presidency so hard to read is that the chapters are all out of order. Traditionally, during the transition period, presidents-elect are out of the limelight. But while Barack Obama was still ... -
Must Supporters Let Trump Be Trump?
Like a passenger on a sinking ship, the president has been throwing one longstanding position after another overboard like so much dead weight. His closest advisers, biggest boosters, and some members of his family are at war with one another, ... -
New Sheriff Fires a Warning Shot in Syria
Last week on Fox News’ Special Report, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer suggested that the message behind President Trump’s military retaliation for Syria’s use of chemical weapons is twofold. It’s not that “there’s a new sheriff in ... -
Trump Enforces Obama’s Red Line
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Bannon Fodder
So Steve Bannon is out at the National Security Council. I’m sure there will be plenty to say around here about it. Breitbart, naturally, is hailing this as a Mission Accomplished moment for Bannon. The headline: “Steve Bannon Leaves ... -
F. H. Buckley, Socialized Medicine, and the ‘Trump Voter’
F. H. Buckley, the law professor who helped organize “Scholars and Writers for Trump” during the election, has written an interesting column for the New York Post this weekend. The headline: “Why Trump should embrace single-payer health care.” I know, ... -
Pence and Prudence
I’ve heard numerous versions of this story, but I’ll go with the one reportedly told by Dr. Abraham Twerski, a renowned psychiatrist and Orthodox rabbi. (I’ve trimmed and paraphrased it a bit.) The bearded Twerski goes to ... -
On Trump Appealing to Democrats
I agree with all of Rich’s points below about the hard time Trump will have peeling off Democrats for some new bipartisan coalition. I will admit, one of my greatest fears of the Trump presidency is that he would ... -
The Budget-Proposal Unveiling Is a Game Disconnected from Reality
Every society has its rituals. Indeed, while the details vary from place to place and time to time, ritual itself is a human universal, according to anthropologist Donald Brown. I’m a big believer in the importance of rituals. They ... -
Ends, Means & Zombies
Note: Spoilers ahead. It’s been a while since there’s been any zombie blogging around here. I think the last time we talked about The Walking Dead, David French and others were complaining that the show had become too ... -
Hard Situations Mean Hard Choices
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Given a Choice between Fear and Apathy, I’ll Take Fear
Dystopia is in the air these days. George Orwell’s 1984 is selling like hotcakes — if hotcakes still sold well in this low-carb world. Is the president to blame? I think historians, no doubt working from their subterranean monasteries, bunkered from ... -
A Stupid Time to Be Alive, Part 1,098,678
From the Washington Post: The “Day Without a Woman” strike on Wednesday may mean a day with fewer smiles. While not every one plans to skip work, many who want to show solidarity with the growing feminist movement said they ... -
The False Prophecy of the Presidential Pivot
It was just last week that Donald Trump had the finest moment of his short presidency — his address to a joint session of Congress. Even many of his harshest critics praised his speech or reluctantly conceded that it was “presidential.” ... -
Just the Facts?
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Jeff Sessions: Minsk Bound and Down
Jeff Sessions looked at the morning newspapers. Both the Times and the Post had the story. He turned on Morning Joe just in time to hear Mika Brzezinski speculate that his career as attorney general may be over. “Ну, дерьмо,” ... -
Yeah, Siri Was Asking for It
Most informed people understand that this is a remarkably stupid time to be alive. But even if one has become inured to the reality of the unceasing vapidity of life clawing out a numb blob at the center of our ... -
The Press Is Not the Enemy
Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, had an unfortunate turn of phrase the other day. She said it’s the mission of the press to “control exactly what people think.” My suspicion is that this was less a ... -
The President Isn’t the Hero of the American Story
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Trust Nothing, Defend Nothing
I don’t write or even tweet about the Russia investigation much. I think the most I’ve written is that I think it probably won’t pan out and if it does, it’ll be Paul Manafort or Roger ... -
The Dangers of Arrogant Ignorance
During President Trump’s speech in Warsaw, Poland, on Thursday, he memorialized Pope John Paul II’s momentous 1979 visit to the city. For many historians, the Polish-born pope’s Mass in Victory Square, more than anything else, set in motion ... -
Is Our Political Moment ‘Newtonian’ or ‘Darwinian’?
Yesterday on NPR’s Morning Edition, the historian Jon Meacham was on to talk about the political moment. Meacham had some interesting things to say. But in the course of the conversation he said this: You know, Woodrow Wilson once ... -
Put Down the Phone, Mr. President
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The AP Fact-Checks Senator Roberts over Porcupine Lovemaking
The Associated Press is doing some vital fact-checking here: WASHINGTON (AP) — The struggle over the proposed Republican health care overhaul in the Senate has covered a lot of territory, even veering into the mating habits of porcupines. It’s a ... -
Reagan on Abortion
Yesterday I was on a panel at AEI to discuss Henry Olsen’s new book The Working Class Republican: Ronald Reagan and the Return of Blue-Collar Conservatism (we ran an excerpt here). I’ll have more thoughts about it later (... -
How the Logic of Tribalism Is Driving the Health-Care Debate
I’m just thinking out loud here. But it seems to me this is one of those moments in American politics where no one can simply say what they really think or want. As Yuval noted yesterday, big chunks of ... -
Politics Enters the Fast Lane
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Free Speech Isn’t Always a Tool of Virtue
There’s a tension so deep in how we think about free expression, it should rightly be called a paradox. On the one hand, regardless of ideology, artists and writers almost unanimously insist that they do what they do to ... -
One-and-a-Half-Cheers for the New York Times
In the wake of the unanimous decision by the Supreme Court holding up First Amendment protections for offensive speech, the New York Times has changed its position. The decision is likely to help the Washington Redskins, who lost their trademark ... -
A Father’s Day Remembrance
It’s been twelve years now since my Dad died. Re-posting my eulogy to my Dad remains something of a tradition for me and at least for some readers. I’m grateful to those readers because it helps remind me ... -
Big Government and the Epidemic of Violence
What’s the worst part about horrific, murderous violence in America? Well, except for the death, the ruined lives, the pain, and the fear and the rush to pass laws that wouldn’t have prevented it, I think it has ... -
Trump Will Probably Be Impeached if Republicans Lose the House
The 1998 midterm election was a debacle for Republicans, particularly then-speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Since Reconstruction, no president had seen his party gain seats in the House in a midterm election six years into his presidency. Gingrich, who made ... -
Comey Testimony Confirms Trump Is Still His Own Worst Enemy
For those who hoped that former FBI director James Comey was going to provide some bombshell evidence — or any evidence at all — that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the 2016 election, Thursday’s Senate testimony had to be ... -
Yes, We Should Be More Upset about Terrorism Than Bathtub Accidents
Count me in the Michael Brendan Dougherty camp. In his essay today, Michael touches on some of the same points I do in my column about the tired, rote nature of the post-terror debate. In particular he laments how it ... -
The ‘Lifestylization’ of Politics
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L’affaire Covfefe
By now everyone knows that President Trump tweeted something weird last night: “Despite the constant negative press covfefe.” All reasonable people assumed it was a typo. A lot of people had fun with it. Some people made a big deal ... -
Why Dennis Prager’s Analysis of ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives Falls Short
I have long been, and remain, a big fan of Dennis Prager. I can’t say the same of his most recent column. Since he admires so many Trump critics, he says his aim is to persuade them (us) that ... -
Anything Goes in Our New Bro Age
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Trump’s Warm Welcome in the Middle East Is No Surprise
‘We just got back from the Middle East,” President Trump said to the president of Israel after his flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Tel Aviv, which is also in the Middle East. As Trumpisms go, this one is easy ... -
Can Trump Be Contained?
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Mr. Vice President: Please Help the President Get His Act Together
Dear Vice President Pence, I hope you’re holding up under the strain. I hope you don’t mind me writing to you like this, but as one of those conservatives who were somewhat reassured by Donald Trump’s decision ... -
Why Don't Germans Laugh?
Over at The Weekly Standard, Joshua Gelernter has an interesting and light hearted piece on why Germans have trouble laughing. It’s an intriguing topic. As I’ve written before, Germany was a special breeding ground for envy and resentment, ... -
Why the Trump White House Is So Leaky
Historians will tell you that Adolf Hitler was not plagued by leakers and anonymous sources within his government. Joseph Goebbels did not routinely race to the Frankfurter Zeitung to plant embarrassing or inconvenient information about the boss. Stalin, likewise, didn’... -
Courts, Colbert Enabling Trump’s Violations of Democratic Norms
A great deal has been said about Donald Trump’s violations of “democratic norms.” I agree with much of it. But the big problem with violating democratic norms — the unwritten customs and practices even political opponents traditionally abide by — is ... -
The Dangers of Empathy
Just over 14 years ago, my daughter almost died minutes before entering the world. My wife had to have an emergency C-section. The whole thing was harrowing. Someday I’ll tell the whole story. But because of that experience, and simply ... -
The Times’ Postcard for Communism
The New York Times has a lengthy, melancholy essay celebrating the role of Communism in American life by Vivian Gornick. It’s getting all of the predictable — and mostly deserved — blowback from conservatives. As someone raised in anti-Communism, I expected ... -
Berkeley Didn’t Birth ‘Free Speech,’ but It Seems Intent to Bury It
Demosthenes, the Athenian rhetorician and champion of liberty, pointed out around 355 B.C. that residents of Athens were free to praise Sparta’s regime, but Spartans were banned from praising Athens. In 1689, the British passed a law guaranteeing freedom of ... -
Washington Post: More Young Republicans Know a Millionaire Than a Muslim
The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake tweets: More young Republicans know a millionaire than a Muslim https://t.co/WSe5T5L199 — Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) April 25, 2017 I’m not sure why this is all that interesting a stat (or why ... -
Farewell, Kate
When I came to National Review in 1998, Kate O’Beirne welcomed me like that friendly mom who looks out for the nervous new kid on the block. I rarely went into the DC office back in those days, in large ... -
Death-Penalty Opponents Are Being Dishonest in Their Arguments
The debate over the death penalty can be infuriatingly dishonest. Consider the April 17 broadcast of Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Bret Baier (a show on which I am an occasional commentator). Casey Stegall reported on the legal battle ... -
The Post-Trumpism Presidency Begins
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Democrats Aren’t the Party of Science
As fate would have it, Hillary Clinton spoke at last month’s Hillary Rodham Clinton Awards for Advancing Women in Peace and Security, where she emphasized the importance of peace, of women, and of women in peace. “When women participate ... -
What Rick Perlstein’s Embarrassing New York Times Essay Gets Wrong
If you’ll forgive the self-indulgence, let me start by sharing a few things about my professional life since Donald Trump won the Republican presidential nomination, in no particular order. Every day, on social media, I am attacked, dismissed, or ... -
Meet the New Realism, Same as the Old Realism
In the aftermath of the Assad regime’s barbaric gassing of men, women, and children, President Trump declared from the Rose Garden, “When you kill innocent children, innocent babies — babies, little babies — with a chemical gas that is so lethal . . . ... -
The President Is This Presidency’s Worst Enemy
The conservative commentariat is full of suggestions these days for how Donald Trump can salvage his first 100 days. F. H. Buckley, the organizer of “Scholars and Writers for Trump,” writes in the New York Post that the president should “split” ... -
Throw Away the New Playbook
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Paul Ryan Is a Convenient Scapegoat
Paul Ryan did it. That’s the argument many of the louder voices on the right are shouting. In the story they tell, the speaker of the House is fully responsible for the GOP’s failure to pass an Obamacare ... -
Close Encounters with a ‘Living Constitution’
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Republicans Are Finding It Hard to Play Defense
Monday’s House Intelligence Committee hearing, billed as the first public inquiry into Russia’s election meddling, was a spectacle with an obvious lesson: Offense is easier than defense. House Republicans had a good time investigating the Obama administration. How ... -
Donna Gavora R.I.P.
As G-File readers — or followers of my twitter feed know — I’ve been up in Alaska for the last week to attend my mother-in-law’s funeral. I wrote something about her in the G-File, but as it comes after the ... -
Obamacare Was the Wrong Road to Go Down, but Backtracking Is Hard
‘We all want progress,” C.S. Lewis wrote, “but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most ... -
Today’s Political Polarization Isn’t as Striking as We Think
‘Polarize” is a funny word. I hear it all the time, including from my own mouth. The country is polarized. The parties are polarized. President Trump is polarizing. I think that’s true, but I don’t think the word ... -
Why Trump’s ‘Wiretapping’ Tweets Were a Mistake
In my latest column, I write that Trump’s tweets are hurting his presidency, the latest and greatest example being his “wiretapping” tweets. Predictably, this has elicted any number of responses. Here are the four most common: “Trump won by ... -
Against Empathy & Einfühlung
This morning while perambulating the canines, I listened to the recent Econtalk podcast in which Russ Roberts interviews Paul Bloom. It was a great discussion, as you might expect. Econtalk is my favorite podcast and Bloom, despite our ideological differences, ... -
‘Halfway Decent,’ They Raved
Low expectations are a hell of a drug. Donald Trump gave a good speech the other night before a joint session of Congress. It was not, as some commentators have suggested, one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in the ... -
Can a Scientific Law Explain the Oscar-Night Debacle?
I went to sleep before Jordan Horowitz, a producer for La La Land, had to announce, “There’s been a mistake” — that Moonlight had in fact won the Oscar for best picture. Reading Twitter the next morning, it took a ... -
Down with the Administrative State
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CPAC’s Odd Tango with Milo Yiannopoulos
On Saturday, Matt Schlapp, the head of the American Conservative Union, which sponsors the premier conservative confab the Conservative Political Action Conference, wrote on Twitter: “We think free speech includes hearing Milo’s important perspective.” On Monday, Schlapp announced that ... -
How the Center Does Not Hold
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best ...