It has been widely reviewed in the US and in the UK – itself quite unusual these days for any book dealing with an historical topic – and then there is the aforementioned blog of the book, where Goldberg chronicles events related to it. I say this because Mr Goldberg does have some useful historical points to make in the book but they are probably not the ones that scream at us when we see the title ‘Liberal Fascism’. So while many academics may well stick to the prudent technique of rather understating findings and avoiding inferences to what cannot strictly be held up by empirical evidence, Mr Goldberg uses the opposite method of rather exaggerating the points he has to make. Rather Mr Goldberg is a US right of centre political commentator – who has also written for The Times in the UK – a controversialist and, as befits the modern age, a blogger. It is best then to point out straight away that Mr Goldberg is not a professional historian, and neither, despite the presence of some scholarly apparatus in the sense of endnotes, is his book a work of academic history. That is enough to make many historians, used to important articles and books receiving scant if any attention from a wider public, rather envious. He is the author of the recently-released New York Times bestseller “Suicide of the West” (Crown Forum, 2018), as well as two previous New York Times bestsellers: “The Tyranny of Clichés” (Sentinel HC, 2012) and “Liberal Fascism” (Doubleday, 2008).Goldberg’s book is a publishing phenomena not only featuring at the top of the New York Times bestseller lists as a hardback but also, as Goldberg himself has noted in the blog he runs about the book, going into a third printing in the UK. He has written on politics, media, and culture for a wide variety of leading publications and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs.

Novak Journalist of the Year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Among his awards, in 2011 he was named the Robert J. The Atlantic magazine has identified Goldberg as one of the top 50 political commentators in America. He is also a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, a Fox News contributor, and a regular member of the “Fox News All-Stars” on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” He was the founding editor of National Review Online. He was previously senior editor at National Review, where he had worked for two decades.Ī best-selling author, his nationally syndicated column appears regularly in over a hundred newspapers across the United States.

Jonah Goldberg holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty at the American Enterprise Institute and is a Fellow at the National Review Institute.

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