Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969), is an American political commentator and writer. Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online, where he is the editor-at-large. He also frequently appears on television, on such shows as Good Morning America, Crossfire, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Larry King Live and Your World with Neil Cavuto. Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Haebler Memorial Chapel, a non-denomonational chapel in the heart of Goucher College Goucher College is a highly selective co-educational liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson, on a 287 acre (1. ... For other uses, see Journalist (disambiguation). ... Jessica Lynn Gavora is the former chief speechwriter and a senior policy adviser to Attorney General John Ashcroft[1] and author of the book Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX. ^ WEDDINGS; Jessica Gavora, Jonah Goldberg, New York Times, 2001-08-26. ... Lucianne Goldberg, born Lucianne Steinberger in 1935 in Virginia, is an American literary agent. ... is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. ... Good Morning America is a weekday morning news show that is broadcast on the ABC television network. ... December 6, 2004 edition of Crossfire. ... Nightline is a late-night hard and soft news program broadcast by ABC in the United States, and has a franchised formula to other networks and stations elsewhere in the world. ... Hardball with Chris Matthews is a talk show on MSNBC broadcast weekdays at 5 and 7 PM hosted by Chris Matthews. ... Larry King Live is a nightly CNN interview program hosted by broadcaster and writer Larry King. ... Your World with Neil Cavuto (referred to in conscreen texts as Your World w/ Cavuto or simply Your World Cavuto) is an American business television program appearing on Fox News Channel. ...

Early life and career

Goldberg graduated from Goucher College in 1991. He was active in student politics at Goucher and was the co-editor of the school newspaper, The Quindecim ^[1], for two years. He and Andreas Benno Kollegger were the first men to run the paper. Haebler Memorial Chapel, a non-denomonational chapel in the heart of Goucher College Goucher College is a highly selective co-educational liberal arts college located in the northern Baltimore suburb of Towson, on a 287 acre (1. ... Student politics is a broad term that can mean either, 1) The politics engaged in by students (also know as the Student movement or student activism), which may mean street protests, sit-ins, or a student strike. ...

Goldberg interned for Scripps Howard News Service, United Press International, and other news organizations. He also worked for Delilah Communications, a publishing house in New York, and for Morris, Bograd and Trippi, a political consulting firm. The E. W. Scripps Company is a media conglomerate founded by Edward W. Scripps on November 2, 1878 originally known as the Cleveland Penny Press. ... Front of UPI Headquarters, Washington, D.C. “UPI” redirects here. ...

After graduation, he taught English in Prague for under a year before moving to Washington to take a job at the American Enterprise Institute. 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 Most. He also worked on several PBS public affairs documentaries, including a two-hour special hosted by David Gergen and Wattenberg. Goldberg also served for three years on the Board of Trustees of Goucher College. Nickname: Motto: Praga Caput Rei publicae Location within the Czech Republic Coordinates: , Country Czech Republic Region Capital City of Prague Founded 9th century Government  - Mayor Pavel Bém Area  - City 496 km²  (191. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (AEI) is a conservative think tank, founded in 1943, whose stated mission is to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism — limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and responsibility, vigilant and effective defense and foreign policies... Ben J. Wattenberg is a prominent American neo-conservative commentator and writer. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... Public affairs is a catch-all term that includes public policy as well as public administration, both of which are closely related to and draw upon the fields of political science as well as economics. ... Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ... David Richmond Gergen (born May 9, 1942) was a political consultant and presidential advisor during the Republican administrations of Nixon, Ford, and Reagan. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Board of directors. ...

In 1994 he was a founding producer for Wattenberg's Think Tank with Wattenberg. That same year he moved to New River Media, an independent television production company, which produced "Think Tank" as well as numerous other television programs and projects. Goldberg worked on a large number of television projects across the United States, as well as in Europe and Japan. He wrote produced, and edited two documentaries, Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate ^[2], and Notre Dame: Witness to History. Gargoyles redirects here. ... Notre Dame de Paris: Western Façade For other uses, see Notre Dame. ...

Goldberg joined National Review as a contributing editor in 1998. By the end of that year he was asked to launch National Review Online as a sister publication to National Review. He served as editor of National Review Online for several years, and is now editor-at-large. A contributing editor is a magazine job title that varies in responsibilities. ...

Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal

Goldberg's career as a pundit was launched following his mother Lucianne Goldberg's role in the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.^{[3] [4]} Lucianne Goldberg, born Lucianne Steinberger in 1935 in Virginia, is an American literary agent. ... The Monica Lewinsky scandal was a political-sex scandal emerging from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a then 22-year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. ...

Goldberg has spoken of his mother and the Lewinsky scandal:

"My mother was the one who advised Linda Tripp to record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky and to save the dress. I was privy to some of that stuff, and when the administration set about to destroy Lewinsky, Tripp, and my mom, I defended 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." ^[5]

These tapes became the focal point of the Lewinsky scandal. Jonah Goldberg was privy to the tapes and the conversations Lucianne Goldberg had with Tripp because he served as a vice president of his mother's now-defunct literary agency. When the scandal broke, Goldberg defended his mother and Tripp during the ensuing media firestorm. Linda Tripp at the time of the Lewinsky scandal. ... Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially and vehemently denying) to having an inappropriate relationship[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. ...

Where his work has appeared

He has a National Review Online column, the "Goldberg File" (often called the "G-File" by fans, who are called "G-Philes"), and a second, syndicated column, available from Townhall.com, ^[6] which tends to be more uniformly serious in tone than his National Review Online column, which he has written regularly since September 11, 1998. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, the New York Post, The Women’s Quarterly, and Slate. The Los Angeles Times added Goldberg to its editorial lineup in 2005. A typical web feed logo Web syndication is a form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. ... is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... The New Yorker is an American magazine that publishes reportage, criticism, essays, cartoons, poetry and fiction. ... The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is an international daily newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company in New York City, New York, USA, with Asian and European editions, and a worldwide daily circulation of more than 2 million as of 2006, with 931,000 paying online subscribers. ... // Commentary, a monthly magazine founded by the American Jewish Committee in 1945, bills itself as Americas premier monthly magazine of opinion. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into The_Public_Interest_Magazine. ... The Weekly Standard is an American neoconservative [1] magazine published 48 times per year. ... The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ... The Los Angeles Times (also L.A. Times) is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California and distributed throughout the Western United States. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

His book Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods (ISBN 0385511841, due December 2007), a study of the ideological origins of fascism. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (August 27, 1770 - November 14, 1831) was a German philosopher born in Stuttgart, Württemberg, in present-day southwest Germany. ... Whole foods are foods that are unprocessed and unrefined, or processed and refined as little as possible before being consumed. ...

Opinions

Frequent topics

Some frequent topics of his articles include censorship, meritocracy, liberty, federalism and interpretation of the Constitution, his attacks on the ethics and morals of liberals and Democrats, and his disagreements with libertarians also appear often in his writings. For other uses, see Censor. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Liberty is generally considered a concept of political philosophy and identifies the condition in which an individual has immunity from the arbitrary exercise of authority. ... The Politics series Politics Portal This box:      Political federalism is a political philosophy in which a group of members are bound together (Latin: foedus, covenant) with a governing representative head. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      Further information: Politics of the United States#Organization of American political parties The Democratic... This article deals with the libertarianism as defined in America and several other nations. ...

Goldberg was a supporter of the Iraq War and has advocated for American military intervention elsewhere in the world. He has defended historical colonialism in places such as Africa as more beneficial than it is generally given credit for; in one column, he suggested that U.S. imperialism on the continent could help solve its persistent problems. ^[7] When he finally wrote in October 2006 that going in was a mistake, he called it a "noble" mistake and still maintained that liberal opponents to the war policy wanted America to fail: "In other words, their objection isn't to war per se; it's to wars that advance U.S. interests (or, allegedly, President Bush's or Israel's or ExxonMobil's interests). I must confess, one of the things that made me reluctant to conclude that the Iraq war was a mistake was my distaste for the shabbiness of the arguments on the antiwar side." ^[8] For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that Benign colonialism be merged into this article or section. ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ... For other uses, see Exon (disambiguation). ...

He popularized and expanded on a commentary by the late Time writer William Henry III. Henry had written on the subject of multiculturalism and cultural equality, stating that "[i]t is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the moon as to put a bone in your nose." Goldberg stated that "[m]ulticulturalism—which is simply egalitarianism wrapped in rainbow-colored paper—has elevated the notion that all ideas are equal, all systems equivalent, all cultures of comparable worth." ^[9] Time (whose trademark is capitalized TIME) is a weekly American newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. ... This biography does not cite its references or sources. ... Project Apollo was a series of human spaceflight missions undertaken by the United States of America (NASA) using the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn launch vehicle, conducted during the years 1961 – 1975. ...

He has recently published a column supporting finding an "Iraqi Augusto Pinochet" to bring stability to Iraq, stating that "Pinochet's abuses helped create a civil society." ^[10] Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was a Chilean Dictator from 1974 to 1990. ...

Humor and lighter topics

The "Goldberg File" frequently involves humor, often at the expense of liberals. Alec Baldwin, whom Goldberg insinuates cannot read, is a frequent target of such jibes. Goldberg has also been critical of the French and claims credit for popularizing the term "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" (first used on The Simpsons television program) to refer to them. Goldberg also makes occasional allusions to Star Trek and references to his anthropomorphized couch and his dog, Cosmo ("the wonderdog") ^[11]. More recently, Battlestar Galactica has become a favorite topic. ^[12] Goldberg also likes to link to "timewaster" online games in his postings at "The Corner". American liberalism—that is, liberalism in the United States of America—is a broad political and philosophical mindset, favoring individual liberty, and opposing restrictions on liberty, whether they come from established religion, from government regulation, from the existing class structure, or from multi-national corporations. ... Alec Baldwin (born Alexander Rae Baldwin III on April 3, 1958 in Amityville, New York) is an Emmy & Academy Award-nominated, and a Golden Globe Award-winning American actor. ... For general Anti-French hostility, see Francophobia. ... Cheese-eating surrender monkeys is a satirical and insulting phrase, referring to the French, which gained notoriety in the United States, particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... A television program (US), television programme (UK) or simply television show is a segment of programming in television broadcasting. ... The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series and media franchise. ... Battlestar Galactica. ...

Relations with other writers, public figures

On the left, Goldberg has publicly feuded with Juan Cole over U.S. Iraq policy and Air America Radio commentators such as Janeane Garofalo. Garofalo has accused Goldberg of being a chickenhawk on the Iraq War. On February 8th, 2005 Goldberg offered Cole a wager of $1,000 "that Iraq won't have a civil war, that it will have a viable constitution, and that a majority of Iraqis and Americans will, in two years time, agree that the war was worth it." ^[13] Cole refused to accept and the wager was never actually made; </ref>http://www.juancole.com/2005/02/playing-with-human-lives-goldbergs.html</ref> Goldberg later conceded that if Cole had accepted the bet, Goldberg would have lost it.^[14] John Juan Ricardo I. Cole (born October 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan. ... Air America Radio is a talk radio network and program syndication service in the United States. ... Janeane Garofalo (born September 28, 1964 in Newton, New Jersey), is an American stand-up comedian, actress, political activist, writer and former co-host on Air America Radios The Majority Report. ... Chickenhawk (also chicken hawk and chicken-hawk) is a political epithet used in the United States to criticize a politician, bureaucrat, or commentator who strongly supports a war or other military action, but has never personally been in a war, especially if that person actively avoided military service when of...

Goldberg and Peter Beinart host a webtv show called What's Your Problem?. ^[15] Peter Beinart (born 1971) is a journalist and editor-at-large for The New Republic, having served as editor of TNR from November 1999 until March 2006. ... MSN TV (formerly WebTV) is an Internet appliance owned by Microsoft. ...

On the right, Goldberg had a friendly but sometimes-contentious relationship with Andrew Sullivan that became increasingly acrimonious over ideological differences. In October 2006, Goldberg wrote of Dick Morris, "I do not trust Dick Morris. Period." ^[16] Andrew Michael Sullivan (born August 10, 1963) is a libertarian conservative author and political commentator, distinguished by his often personal style of political analysis, and pioneering achievements in the field of blog journalism. ... Dick Morris (born November 28, 1948 in New York City) is an American political author, newspaper columnist, and commentator who previously worked as a pollster, political campaign consultant, and general political consultant. ...

Goldberg and others at National Review Online (including Rich Lowry) broke with conservative writer Ann Coulter over statements she made about the September 11, 2001 attacks that they considered irresponsible. Coulter stopped writing for National Review Online after the publishing of her column on September 13, 2001, opining that "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. ^[17] Rich Lowry on C-SPAN Rich Lowry (born 1968 in Arlington, Virginia) is editor of the conservative monthly magazine, National Review. ... Ann Hart Coulter (born December 8, 1961)[1] is an American best-selling author, columnist and political commentator. ...

Fox News

Goldberg's overall opinion on the alleged conservative news media source Fox News was this: "Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network."^[18] Fox News Channels slogan is We Report, You Decide The Fox News Channel is a U.S. cable and satellite news channel. ...

Family

Jonah Goldberg is married to Jessica Gavora, former chief speechwriter and a senior policy adviser to Attorney General John Ashcroft^[19] They have a young daughter together. Goldberg has a brother, Joshua John Goldberg. Their late father, Sidney Goldberg (1931-2005) ^[20], was Jewish, and their mother, Lucianne Goldberg, is Episcopalian. Jessica Lynn Gavora is the former chief speechwriter and a senior policy adviser to Attorney General John Ashcroft[1] and author of the book Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX. ^ WEDDINGS; Jessica Gavora, Jonah Goldberg, New York Times, 2001-08-26. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ... John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) is an American politician who was the 79th United States Attorney General. ... Lucianne Goldberg, born Lucianne Steinberger in 1935 in Virginia, is an American literary agent. ...

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External links

• Goldberg's National Review Online archive (the G-file)
• Goldberg's syndicated column (at Townhall.com)
• Goldberg's National Review Online Bio
• Some Goldberg quotes
• Salon.com Interview
• New River Media Production company of Goldberg's documentaries
• Fukuyama at the Crossroads, a book review published in Azure magazine.
• "La Belle France, fromagerie of the world's misfortune" An example of Goldberg mocking the French

References