Jonah Goldberg

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

— Jonah Goldberg

The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.

— Jonah Goldberg

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

— Jonah Goldberg

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

— Jonah Goldberg

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

— Jonah Goldberg

Governing involves choosing and making choices between competing goods.

— Jonah Goldberg

“Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.”

— Jonah Goldberg

Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in…

— Jonah Goldberg

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Life is too short, and cigars are too expensive, to smoke them for any reason other than enjoyment.”

— Jonah Goldberg

Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys…

— Jonah Goldberg

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

— Jonah Goldberg

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.”

— Jonah Goldberg

Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

— Jonah Goldberg

Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending…

— Jonah Goldberg

And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit…

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You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either…

— Jonah Goldberg

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to…

— Jonah Goldberg

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . .…

— Jonah Goldberg

I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better,…

— Jonah Goldberg

“People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the…

— Jonah Goldberg

Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years…

— Jonah Goldberg

The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma…

— Jonah Goldberg

On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage.…

— Jonah Goldberg

By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with…

— Jonah Goldberg

Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them…

— Jonah Goldberg

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the…

— Jonah Goldberg

“When God “died” in the 19th century, “social-ism” took the form of materialist scientism (hence the philosopher Eric Voegelin’s observation that under…

— Jonah Goldberg

But there's a fourth interpretation: Obama can't leave his comfort zone. No president since Woodrow Wilson has been as enamored of abstract…

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The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when…

— Jonah Goldberg

“Hitler deserves to be placed firmly on the left because first first and foremost he was a revolutionary. Broadly speaking, the left…

— Jonah Goldberg

“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler,…

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“As a broad generalization, liberals see income as a public good that is distributed, like crayons in a kindergarten class. If so-and-so…

— Jonah Goldberg

“In Mein Kampf, Hitler declares that he is a nationalist but not a patriot, a distinction with profound implications. Patriots revere the…

— Jonah Goldberg

“As with Webb’s Fabian socialism, one will never be able to say of Obama’s developing doctrine, “now socialism has arrived.” On the…

— Jonah Goldberg

“The young activist who recycles Robert F. Kennedy’s line “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask…

— Jonah Goldberg

“It is my argument that American liberalism is a totalitarian political religion, but not necessarily an Orwellian one. It is nice, not…

— Jonah Goldberg

“The notion that communism and Nazism are polar opposites stems from the deeper truth that they are in fact kindred spirits. Or,…

— Jonah Goldberg