Jonah Goldberg Books

An absolutely magnificent book! Jonah Goldberg is brilliant in both intellect and writing. Amusing, terrifying, informative, and thought-provoking, this work serves as an intellectual oasis of hope amidst self-destructive ignorance. Goldberg demonstrates how the ideas that have animated free societies for the past 250 years are humanity's greatest creations and how we jeopardize our future by mishandling them. This is a very important book. When future archeologists ask what we were thinking, I hope they find a copy of this work, only slightly charred from the ideological bonfire of our time. Populism and identity politics pose an existential threat to American life. With characteristic wit, Goldberg argues that valuing democracy and a free society requires standing against ideological tribalism, regardless of political beliefs. This book raises an urgent alarm and clarifies the necessary path forward. Goldberg's compelling thesis, supported by massive evidence, leads to a deeper understanding of our predicament while remaining engaging and enjoyable. Deeply researched and beautifully written, it explains how liberal democracy and capitalism created conditions for Western thriving, warning that complacency could hasten their collapse. This exploration of why we’re abandoning the philosophy that built the modern West is vital, and it encourages essential conversations across the political spectrum.

Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who thought of themselves as being terribly nice and progressive - the liberals? Jonah Goldberg's excoriating, opinion-driving, US bestseller explains why. Here he destroys long-held myths to reveal why the most insidious attemps to control our lives originate from the left, whether it's smoking bans or security cameras. Journeying through history and across culture, he uses surprising examples ranging from Woodrow Wilson's police state to the Clinton personality cult, the military chic of 60s' student radicals to Hollywood's totalitarian aesthetics, to show that it is modern progressivism - and not conservatism - that shares the same intellectual roots as fascism. This angry, funny, smart and contentious book looks behind the friendly face of the well-meaning liberal, and turns our preconceptions inside out.

Draws parallels between the fascism of the 1930s and the liberalism of the present, arguing that liberal politicians from Woodrow Wilson to Hillary Clinton have espoused policies and principles similar to those of Hitler's National Socialism.