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Jonah Jacob Goldberg


(1969-03-21) March 21, 1969 (historic period 53)

New York City, New York, U.S.
Education Goucher College (BA)
Occupation Journalist
Author
Employer The Dispatch
Spouse(s)

Jessica Gavora

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(chiliad. 2001)​
Children 1
Relatives Lucianne Goldberg (mother)

Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American bourgeois syndicated columnist, author, political analyst, and commentator. The founding editor of National Review Online, from 1998 until 2019 he was an editor at National Review.[1] Goldberg writes a weekly column about politics and culture for the Los Angeles Times.[two] In October 2019, Goldberg became founding editor of the online stance and news publication The Dispatch. [3] [4] [v] [6] Goldberg has authored the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism, released in Jan 2008; The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, released in 2012;[vii] and Suicide of the West, which was published in April 2018 and also became a New York Times bestseller, reaching No. 5 on the list the following month.[8] [nine]

Goldberg is also a regular contributor on news networks such as CNN and MSNBC, appearing on various television programs including Good Morning time America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry Rex Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto, the Glenn Beck Program, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Goldberg was an occasional guest on a number of Fox News shows such as The V, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and Outnumbered. He was also a frequent panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier. From 2006 to 2010, Goldberg was a frequent participant on bloggingheads.goggle box. Goldberg has been a noted critic of President Donald Trump, beau Republicans, and the conservative media complex during and afterward the Trump presidency.[10] In Nov 2021 Goldberg and his colleague Steve Hayes resigned from Fox News in protest over Tucker Carlson'southward documentary Patriot Purge. Goldberg described the documentary as "a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions."[11]

Early life and instruction [edit]

Goldberg was born on the Upper West Side of New York City's Manhattan borough to Lucianne Goldberg (nee Steinberger), a literary agent, and Sidney Goldberg, who died in 2005, an editor and media executive.[12] [13] In speaking well-nigh his upbringing, Goldberg has said that his female parent is an Episcopalian and that his father was Jewish and that he was raised Jewish.[xiv] [fifteen] Later on graduating loftier schoolhouse in 1987, Goldberg left New York City to nourish Goucher Higher in Towson, Maryland, from which he earned his available's in 1991, majoring in political science.[16] Goldberg'south class at Goucher, which was a women'south college until 1986, was the second to acknowledge men.[17] While at Goucher, Goldberg was active in pupil politics and served as the co-editor of the schoolhouse newspaper, The Quindecim, for two years. Goldberg and Andreas Benno Kollegger were the outset men to run the paper. He subsequently interned for Scripps Howard News Service, United Printing International, and other news organizations.[ when? ] He besides worked for Delilah Communications, a publishing house in New York.[ when? ]

Career [edit]

Subsequently graduating, Goldberg taught English in Prague for less than a twelvemonth before moving to Washington D.C. in 1992 to take a task at the American Enterprise Institute.[18] While at AEI he worked for Ben J. Wattenberg. He was the researcher for Wattenberg's nationally syndicated column and for Wattenberg's book, Values Matter Virtually. He too worked on several PBS public affairs documentaries, including a two-hr special hosted past David Gergen and Wattenberg.[19] Goldberg was besides invited to serve on Goucher College's Board of Trustees immediately after graduating in 1991, a position he held for three years.[20]

In 1994, Goldberg became a founding producer for Wattenberg's Retrieve Tank with Ben Wattenberg. That aforementioned year he moved to New River Media, an independent television product visitor, which produced "Recollect Tank" besides as numerous other television programs and projects. Goldberg worked on a large number of goggle box projects across the U.s., as well as in Europe and Nihon. He wrote, produced, and edited two documentaries for New River Media, Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate and Notre Dame: Witness to History.

He joined National Review as a contributing editor in 1998. Past the end of that year he was asked to launch National Review Online (NRO) every bit a sister publication to National Review. He served every bit editor of NRO for several years and later became editor-at-large.[ when? ]

Clinton–Lewinsky scandal [edit]

Goldberg'due south mother Lucianne Goldberg was involved in the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal as detailed in The New Yorker.[21] [22] Goldberg has spoken of his female parent and the Lewinsky scandal:

My female parent was the one who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and to relieve the dress. I was privy to some of that stuff, and when the administration set about to destroy Lewinsky, Tripp, and my mom, I dedicated my mom and by extension Tripp ... I have zero desire to have those arguments again. I did my bit in the trenches of Clinton's trousers.[23]

These tapes became the focal point of the Lewinsky scandal.

Current piece of work [edit]

Writing for National Review and other publications [edit]

Commencement in 1998, Goldberg was an editor and wrote a twice-weekly cavalcade at National Review, which is syndicated to numerous papers beyond the United States, and at Townhall.com. National Review consists of fellow contributors such as Ramesh Ponnuru, Richard Brookhiser, and Kevin D. Williamson.[24]

Goldberg also wrote the "Goldberg File"[25] at National Review, a column that was generally lighter and more focused on sense of humor and cultural commentary. Goldberg'south cavalcade ofttimes made popular-culture references to works including Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica, of which he has said he is a fan.[26] [27] Goldberg was also a frequent correspondent at the National Review weblog The Corner, ofttimes authoring posts with calorie-free-hearted, comedic and pop-culture references.

Goldberg left National Review in May 2019.

Aside from existence a member of the United states of america Today Lath of Contributors, he has written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Periodical, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, The New York Post, and Slate. The Los Angeles Times added Goldberg to its editorial lineup in 2005.

In 2020, Goldberg co-founded The Dispatch, an online news publication aimed at offering political, social and cultural analysis from a center-right perspective.[28]

Online media [edit]

Goldberg is the host of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg,[29] an interview podcast that covers a diverseness of topics in the spheres of politics, conservative theory, and current events. Goldberg is a frequent participant in programs produced by Ricochet,[xxx] including the podcast GLoP Culture which features Goldberg, John Podhoretz, and Ricochet co-founder Rob Long.[31] From 2006 to 2010, he was a frequent participant on Bloggingheads.tv.[32]

Books [edit]

Goldberg's first volume, Liberal Fascism: The Clandestine History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, was published in January 2008. Information technology reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller listing of hardcover nonfiction in its seventh calendar week on the list.[33] Some historians take denounced the volume as beingness "poor scholarship",[34] "propaganda",[35] and non scholarly.[36] Other reviewers described the volume as "provocative"[37] and "a wealth of challenging insights, backed up past thorough research".[38] The audiobook version of Liberal Fascism was narrated by Johnny Heller. Goldberg followed the book with The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas in 2012. The paperback edition of Tyranny of Cliches came out on April 30, 2013. Goldberg himself narrated the audiobook version. His most recent work, Suicide of the West, was released in 2018.

Pulitzer claim controversy [edit]

In May 2012, Goldberg was touted as a "ii-fourth dimension Pulitzer prize nominee" in the book jacket of his second volume, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. NBC News reporter Beak Dedman pointed this out every bit misleading because Goldberg had in fact merely been an entrant in the Pulitzer contest and had never been nominated equally a finalist, as the moniker "Pulitzer nominee" would seem to suggest. Becoming an entrant in the Pulitzer contest requires but that either the author of a written work submit an entry course along with a small fee or that someone else does so on their behalf. Following Dedman's reporting, Goldberg and his publishing company acknowledged the mistake and later removed the line from the volume jacket.[39]

Media appearances and commentary [edit]

Frequent topics [edit]

Some frequent topics of his articles include censorship, meritocracy, liberty, federalism and interpretation of the Constitution. He has attacked the ethics and morals of liberals and Democrats, and his disagreements with libertarians also appear oftentimes in his writings. In the years of the Trump presidency, his writings turned critical of the Trump movement and the moral rot inside the Republican Party.[40] He was a supporter of the Iraq War and has advocated American military machine intervention elsewhere in the globe, suggesting that "Every ten years or and so, the United States needs to pick up some modest crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."[41] He has defended historical colonialism in places such as Africa as more beneficial than information technology is generally given credit for; in i column, he suggested that U.S. imperialism on the continent could help solve its persistent problems.[42] When he wrote in Oct 2006 that invading Iraq was a error, he called it a "noble" mistake and even so maintained that liberal opponents of the war policy wanted America to neglect: "In other words, their objection isn't to state of war per se; it'southward to wars that accelerate U.S. interests. ... I must confess, one of the things that made me reluctant to conclude that the Iraq state of war was a mistake was my distaste for the shabbiness of the arguments on the antiwar side."[43]

He popularized and expanded on a commentary by the belatedly Fourth dimension author William Henry Three. Henry had written on the discipline of multiculturalism and cultural equality, stating that "it is scarcely the same thing to put a human on the moon as to put a bone in your nose". Goldberg stated that "[m]ulticulturalism—which is merely egalitarianism wrapped in rainbow-colored newspaper—has elevated the notion that all ideas are equal, all systems equivalent, all cultures of comparable worth."[42]

He has criticized the idea of "social justice" as meaning "anything its champions want it to hateful" or "'skillful things' no one needs to argue for and no 1 dare be against".[44]

Relations with other writers and public figures [edit]

Goldberg has publicly feuded with people on the political left, like Juan Cole, over U.Southward. Republic of iraq policy, and Air America Radio commentators such as Janeane Garofalo, who has accused him of being a chickenhawk on the Iraq War. On February 8, 2005, Goldberg offered Cole a wager of $1,000 "that Iraq won't take a civil state of war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years' time, hold that the war was worth it".[45] Cole refused to accept and the wager was never made.[46] Goldberg after conceded that if Cole had accepted the bet, Cole would have won.[47]

Goldberg and Peter Beinart of The New Republic hosted a bourgeois vs. liberal webtv show, What'south your Problem?, from 2007 to 2010. It originally could be found on National Review Online [48] and later moved to Bloggingheads.idiot box.[32]

The news media [edit]

Regarding Play a trick on News, Goldberg said, "Look, I recollect liberals have reasonable gripes with Pull a fast one on News. Information technology does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but besides in its story selection (which is fine past me) and elsewhere. Simply information technology's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more than a populist, tabloidy network."[49] During the Trump years and beyond, while Goldberg has defended certain news hosts and shows on Fox News, he has become more sympathetic towards critiques of Fox News, especially regarding their opinion hosts, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin.[50] [51] [28] In Nov, 2021, he resigned every bit a Play a joke on contributor in protest of what he chosen a pattern of incendiary and fabricated claims by the network's stance hosts in back up of one-time President Donald Trump.[52]

Goldberg has criticized liberals for disliking Flim-flam News, claiming they have no "problem with the editorializing of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann or Chris Matthews, they think it's just plain wrong for conservatives to play that game".[49] Goldberg has referred to Olbermann as "MSNBC's answer to a question no one asked".[53]

Donald Trump [edit]

During the years of the Trump Presidency, Goldberg remained very disquisitional of bourgeois media's encompass of President Trump. On Trump's defenders in the media, Goldberg said this:

For nearly five years at present, it has been obvious that Trump was unfit for the job and the arguments marshaled in his defense were cynical rationalizations that, for some, eventually mutated into sincerely held delusions. Sure, some deluded themselves from the beginning, but I've talked to too many Republican politicians and conservative media darlings who admitted it in individual.[54]

During the Trump Presidency, Goldberg became increasingly critical of both the Republican Party's embrace of President Trump and their abandonment of pre-Trump principles.[55] [ten]

Resignation from Trick News [edit]

On November 21, 2021, Goldberg and colleague Steve Hayes announced that they were severing their ties to Fox News in protest of its support for Tucker Carlson'south Patriot Purge, which they described as "a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions."[56]

Personal life [edit]

Goldberg is married to Jessica Gavora, chief speechwriter and former senior policy adviser to former Attorney General John Ashcroft.[57] They take one girl. He lives in the Palisades, Washington, D.C. neighborhood.[58] [59]

Goldberg'southward brother, Joshua, died in 2011 from adventitious injuries.[60] Goldberg's father, Sidney, died in 2005, and was survived by his wife, Jonah's mother, Lucianne.[61]

Bibliography [edit]

  • Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy. Crown Publishing Group. 2018. ISBN978-1-101-90494-7.
  • The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. Penguin books. 2012. ISBN978-i-101-57235-one.
  • Liberal Fascism: The Underground History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. Crown Publishing Grouping. 2008. ISBN978-0-385-51769-0.

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External links [edit]

  • Goldberg'southward syndicated column (at Tribune Content Bureau)
  • Goldberg's National Review Online biography
  • Appearances on C-SPAN

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