Jonah Goldberg

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.

The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

Liberal Fascism

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. Now updated with a new preface! "Epic and debate-shifting."--David Brooks, New York Times Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind's destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: * Our rights come from God, not from the government. * The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it. * The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth. * The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past--or back to the muck we will go.

How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Nationalism, and Socialism Is Destroying American Democracy

Suicide of the West

How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

The Pulitzer Prize-nominated author of Liberal Fascism argues that today's liberal leaders, academics and journalists pursue distinctly ideological agendas in spite of claims that they oppose ideology, revealing the hidden radical sentiments behind some of today's seemingly objective political pursuits.

How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

The Tyranny of Clichés

In Proud to Be Right, Jonah Goldberg, the New York Times bestselling author of Liberal Fascism, presents voices of the next Conservative generation. A fresh and provocative collection of lively political writing from right wing writers under the age of 30, Proud to Be Right rebuts the conventional wisdom that Generation Y is a uniformly liberal demographic—and that intelligent young people today fall blindly into the Barack Obama camp.

Voices of the Next Conservative Generation

Proud to Be Right

"Running water. Electricity. Antibiotics. Dentistry. Air conditioning. Democracy. The rule of law. Such things are not only remarkably new inventions in human history, they are all alien to humanity's natural habitat. Here is what is natural: poverty, hunger, violence, tribal hatred, and an early death. If the Garden of Eden existed, it was a slum. Only once in the last 250,000 years did humans lift themselves out of their natural environment of poverty. It happened in eighteenth-century England--and it was an accident. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind's destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. Indeed, it was the miracle of human history. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the  radical ideas that made the Miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution, but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society... In the last few decades, these politcal virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privlege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. At a moment when authoritarianism, tribalism, identity politics, nationalism, and cults of personality are rotting our democracy from within, Jonah Goldberg exposes the West's suicidal tendencies on both sides of the ideological aisle. With his trademark blend of political history, social analysis, pop culture, and wit, Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past - or back to the muck we will go."--Page [2-3] of cover.

how the rebirth of tribalism, populism, nationalism, and identity politics is destroying American democracy

Suicide of the west

MARIA LUCIA DE OLIVEIRA

'Fascismo de Esquerda' oferece uma perspectiva sobre as teorias e práticas que definem o fascismo. Jonah Goldberg analisa as figuras de Hitler e Mussolini e conclui que, ao contrário do que pensamos, liberais como Hillary Clinton têm defendido políticas e princípios notavelmente semelhantes aos do nacional-socialismo. Um livro que mostra as origens do fascismo no clássico pensamento esquerdista.

Fascismo de esquerda

The Premiers of Ontario

“An indispensable and enduring field guide to the arguments the left makes—and the ones it tries to avoid.” —The Claremont Review of Books According to Jonah Goldberg, if the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, the greatest trick liberals ever pulled was convincing themselves they’re not ideological. Today, “objective” journalists, academics, and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun apho­risms. Barack Obama casts himself as a disciple of reason: He’s a pragmatist, opposed to the ideology and drama of the Right, solely concerned with “what works.” And today’s liberals follow his lead, spouting countless clichés such as: • One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter: Sure, if the other man is an idiot. Was Martin Luther King Jr. a terrorist? Was Bin Laden a freedom fighter? • Violence never solves anything: Really? It solved our problems with King George III and ended slavery. • We need complete separation of church and state: In other words, all expressions of faith should be barred from politics . . . except when they support liberal programs. With humor and passion, Goldberg dismantles these and many other Trojan horses that liberals use to cheat in the war of ideas. He shows that the Pro­gressive tradition of denying an ideological agenda while pursuing it vigorously under the false flag of reasonableness is alive and well. And he reveals how this dangerous game may lead us further down the path of self-destruction.

Christopher Caldwell

Larry Miller

P. J. O'Rourke

Christopher Buckley

Rob Long

Joe Queenan

James Lileks

Mollie Hemingway

Andrew Ferguson

Sonny Bunch

David Burge

Michael Graham

Rita Koganzon

Matt Labash

Christine Rosen

Andrew Stiles

An all-star team of eighteen conservative writers offers a hilarious, insightful, sanctimony-free remix of William Bennett’s The Book of Virtues—without parental controls. The Seven Deadly Virtues sits down next to readers at the bar, buys them a drink, and an hour or three later, ushers them into the revival tent without them even realizing it. The book’s contributors include Sonny Bunch, Christopher Buckley, David “Iowahawk” Burge, Christopher Caldwell, Andrew Ferguson, Jonah Goldberg, Michael Graham, Mollie Hemingway, Rita Koganzon, Matt Labash, James Lileks, Rob Long, Larry Miller, P. J. O’Rourke, Joe Queenan, Christine Rosen, and Andrew Stiles. Jonathan V. Last, senior writer at the Weekly Standard, editor of the collection, is also a contributor. All eighteen essays in this book are appearing for the first time anywhere. In the book’s opening essay, P. J. O’Rourke observes: “Virtue has by no means disappeared. It’s as much in public view as ever. But it’s been strung up by the heels. Virtue is upside down. Virtue is uncomfortable. Virtue looks ridiculous. All the change and the house keys are falling out of Virtue’s pants pockets.” Here are the virtues everyone (including the book’s contributors) was taught in Sunday school but have totally forgotten about until this very moment. In this sanctimony-free zone: • Joe Queenan observes: “In essence, thrift is a virtue that resembles being very good at Mahjong. You’ve heard about people who can do it, but you’ve never actually met any of them.” • P. J. O’Rourke notes: “Fortitude is quaint. We praise the greatest generation for having it, but they had aluminum siding, church on Sunday, and jobs that required them to wear neckties or nylons (but never at the same time). We don’t want those either.” • Christine Rosen writes: “A fellowship grounded in sociality means enjoying the company of those with whom you actually share physical space rather than those with whom you regularly and enthusiastically exchange cat videos.” • Rob Long offers his version of modern day justice: if you sleep late on the weekend, you are forced to wait thirty minutes in line at Costco. • Jonah Goldberg offers: “There was a time when this desire-to-do-good-in-all-things was considered the only kind of integrity: ‘Angels are better than mortals. They’re always certain about what is right because, by definition, they’re doing God’s will.’ Gabriel knew when it was okay to remove a mattress tag and Sandalphon always tipped the correct amount.” • Sonny Bunch dissects forbearance, observing that the fictional Two Minutes Hate of George Orwell’s 1984 is now actually a reality directed at living, breathing people. Thanks, in part, to the Internet, “Its targets are designated by a spontaneously created mob—one that, due to its hive-mind nature—is virtually impossible to call off.” By the time readers have completed The Seven Deadly Virtues, they won’t even realize that they’ve just been catechized into an entirely different—and better—moral universe.

18 Conservative Writers on Why the Virtuous Life is Funny as Hell

The Seven Deadly Virtues

Jami Attenberg

Az elmúlt 250 ezer év során mindössze egyszer botlottunk olyan eszmébe, mely kiemelt bennünket a történelmünk túlnyomó részét meghatározó szegénység, éhség és háborúk végeláthatatlan körforgásából - a 18. századi Angliában, amikor véletlenül felfedeztük a liberális demokratikus kapitalizmus csodáját. Az akkor igen radikálisnak számító elképzelések mára társadalmunk alapját képezik. A kormány van értünk, nem pedig mi a kormányért. Az egyén szuverén. Mindannyian a saját lelkünk urai vagyunk. A munkánk gyümölcse bennünket illet. A nyugati világ sosem látott virágzást élt át ezeknek az eszméknek köszönhetően, ám az elmúlt évtizedekben bűnökként kezdték ábrázolni ezen politikai erényeket. Egyre inkább belénk nevelik, hogy hagyományainkra úgy tekintsünk, mint az elnyomás, a kizsákmányolás és a „fehér kiváltságosok” rendszerére, a szabadság elvei és a jogállamiság a jobb- és baloldal részéről egyaránt össztűz alatt állnak. Jonah Goldberg, az Egyesült Államok egyik legnevesebb konzervatív gondolkodója a politikatörténet, a popkultúra, a közgazdaság és a társadalomtudomány rá jellemző egyedi kombinációja révén leplezi le a Nyugat öngyilkos hajlamait az ideológiai lövészárok mindkét oldalán. Ahhoz, hogy a Nyugat életben maradhasson, újból hálát kell éreznünk civilizációnk értékei iránt, és újból fel kell fedeznünk azokat az eszméket, melyek a múltban kivezettek bennünket a véres mocsárból - máskülönben ez lesz a sorsunk. Az öngyilkosság egyszerű, a szabadságért viszont meg kell dolgozni.

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