One of the most prominent young conservative journalists on the scene today, Jonah Goldberg is Generation X's answer to P.J. O'Rourke. Jonah Goldberg's columns and articles, laced with keen wit and pithy insights, have rapidly generated a large readership. Whether Jonah Goldberg is issuing a sharply-worded cultural critique or laying out a lucid analysis of a hot political issue, Jonah Goldberg is guaranteed to make you laugh, and learn. Jonah Goldberg's work is proof that reading and thinking about political, media, and cultural issues can be enlightening and entertaining at the same time--even if you don't agree with Jonah Goldberg's particular point of view. A nationally syndicated columnist and the editor of National Review Online, Jonah Goldberg also is a contributing editor to the print version of National Review. In addition, Jonah Goldberg writes the popular "Goldberg File" column for National Review Online. Jonah Goldberg is also the media columnist for The American Enterprise Magazine, and a media critic for Brill's Content. Jonah Goldberg has also written on politics and culture for the New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, The New York Post, National Review, The Women's Quarterly, and Slate. While working at New River Media in Washington, DC, (1993-98), Jonah Goldberg wrote, produced, and edited two internationally filmed, historical documentaries: Gargoyles: Guardians of the Gate, and Notre Dame: Witness to History, and earned credits in several other television productions, including PBS television essays, specials, and programs. Jonah Goldberg also produced national live satellite video conferences on business and educational issues. From 1996-98, Jonah Goldberg was the producer of Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, an award-winning PBS television series covering ideas and public policy issues. Prior to Jonah Goldberg's television work, Goldberg was a research analyst in social and political studies at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. A 1991 graduate of Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, Jonah Goldberg served on the college's Board of Trustees from 1991-94. After graduating from college, Jonah Goldberg spent a year working as an English teacher in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Jonah Goldberg has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Good Morning America, Larry King Live, Crossfire, Today, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Politically Incorrect, and the NBC Nightly News. Jonah Goldberg has also been profiled in several national publications. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2009 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ It's all so terribly sad. To listen to liberals and the White House spin election results, you'd think all was well with the world. Barack Obama is still personally popular! The evil right-wing extremists lost in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/11/06/the_end_of_an_era_that_never_began e78d48e8-6abd-46bd-8b7e-6ecb821a43f1 Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:01:00 GMT It seems Rocco Landesman, the head of the National Endowment for the Arts, didn't get the memo, literally. On Sept. 22, stung by controversy over the administration's effort to turn the arts community into... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/31/he_came,_he_saw,_he_kowtowed 5388178c-b09c-4737-ad24-94b6a030da8f Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The government cannot have my dog. Don't tell that to the authors of the new book "Time to Eat the Dog?: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living." They calculate that dog owning is much worse than SUV driving for... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/28/fideo,_aka_the_climate_criminal 38e93b3b-2fa6-4a04-abed-0d86fbc080a9 Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT There is much gnashing of teeth and rending of cloth these days about the death of civility. Apparently, like Cupid with his arrow or a pixie with fairy dust, some magical sprite used to enchant America's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/23/what_civility_is_lost_if_it_was_never_found a67d9f3c-446d-4960-95d6-277295842cde Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT One of the most macabre images I've ever heard described came in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami in 2004. Before the tidal wave crashed on shore, beachgoers stood around and idly gaped as the water drastically... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/21/perotistas_on_the_march 747b78ca-69c7-4b3a-940c-569756ae9014 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Nobel Peace Prize has renewed prestige in my book. No, not because Barack Obama won it for accomplishments to be determined later. It's got new luster because Shirin Ebadi has, at great personal risk, effectively... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/16/regime_is_irans_disease;_nukes_are_just_a_symptom 56d22f35-c1fe-4bc7-a71a-cdffea327467 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling," Oscar Wilde once remarked. Irving Kristol took Wilde's observation and ran with it. "The amateur's feelings are sincere enough -- why else should he be writing poetry?... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/14/reading_between_the_lines_of_obamas_poetry c33f9343-21d1-471a-b06e-c13c29ebfda7 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT For a self-described rodeo clown who frequently admits he isn't that bright, Glenn Beck must be doing something right. A de facto leader of the populist backlash against President Obama, he made the cover of Time... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/10/in_defense_of_glenn_beck 8a1c11df-088e-49d8-a1fe-fd2d73817774 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "After reviewing hundreds of hours of 'Shark Week' footage and consulting with leading ichthyologists, CBS News can now confirm that the so-called 'Land Shark' made famous on 'Saturday Night Live' is a hoax," Katie... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/09/the_dawn_of_a_new_era_in_infotainment f0a92695-002c-42e7-9b97-bbaa9a5a66fc Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT Watching the House of Representatives on late-night C-SPAN, you might have any number of reactions, including seppuku-inducing boredom. Depending on who's talking, you might also feel disgust, rage, contempt or, in rare... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/07/we_need_a_bigger_house 3bef057c-d207-49a1-9288-b5ee7419ce57 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT I am delighted by the Roman Polanski controversy. Don't get me wrong: I am horrified and disgusted by what the acclaimed director did -- and admitted to -- but there is an upside. Just to recap, Polanski... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/10/02/polanski_controversy_shouldnt_be_controversial 74063324-6c16-41c6-b1ff-3671c91934a4 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:01:00 GMT "When John McCain said we could just 'muddle through' in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/30/a_pragmatic_look_at_obamas_pragmatism 95b686de-85ee-4ff0-9847-a493d366563b Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT It was the most Obamaesque address to date. "For those who question the character and cause of my nation," the president pronounced Wednesday, "I ask you to look at the concrete actions we have taken in just nine... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/25/afterthoughts_from_the_un_address 028ba313-435a-4042-80a7-42a4de8df235 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT "I am so nostalgic." That's the phrase I associate most with Irving Kristol, who died last week at the age of 89. What piqued Irving's nostalgia, at an American Enterprise Institute conference I worked on in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/23/irving_kristols_clear_thinking 8cdacd7f-68aa-4fae-8957-7a92f4672091 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Of all the poisonous, ugly and intellectually vapid controversies ginned up in my lifetime, the current breakout of St. Vitus' Dance over the "racist" opposition to Barack Obama may be the most egregious. Al... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/18/a_tackle_box_full_of_race_bait 2f8b2d7b-140a-4e90-81a3-9f55a62dfbc2 Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Herewith, two scenarios. Scenario A: The supposedly inept president of the United States carefully planned and orchestrated the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history. Though "only" 3,000 people... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/11/ring_of_truthers 04961371-d043-4655-9e95-e95886af3853 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT Brandi Scheiner believes she is a political prisoner. Held against her will in what is euphemistically dubbed a "rubber room," Scheiner, 56, likens her two-year captivity to being imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Alas,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/09/teacher_tenure_must_go cfebd240-9fff-48d9-a0e0-a26b30d13345 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT ABC News reports that Barack Obama has returned to Washington, only to step off the plane and "into his next domestic crisis." He "planned to leave the details of health care reform to Congress, but today the White... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/04/more_cowbell_er,_obama d166fb1c-3d95-48fb-859e-7e5f2772b7cb Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT On the last day of August, scientists spotted a teeny-weeny sunspot, breaking a 51-day streak of blemish-free days for the sun. If it had gone just a bit longer, it would have broken a 96-year record of 53 days without... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/09/02/global_warming_and_the_sun b38a213a-090e-4ea2-82b1-7e2d220afc5b Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:01:00 GMT If you read the newspapers or watch the news, you will encounter a long list of accomplishments by the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. One thing you're less likely to hear, however, is that in his death, Kennedy proved... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/28/a_test_of_kennedy_currency 53da5db6-edb7-4248-8bd4-4367d65f66d8 Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT The fight over health care took the most interesting turn last week. President Obama briefly switched from wonkish frippery about bending cost curves to speaking of faith. Reaching out to progressive faith leaders in... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/26/obama_and_faith 44c4075f-9bb3-43b4-b317-d1413e8eca33 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT What if America transcended race, and Barack Obama wasn't invited? The question comes to mind as cries of racism grow ever louder from Obama's supporters. No one should be surprised. Fish gotta swim, birds... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/21/a_deck_stacked_with_race_cards 18426702-bcee-4592-bc0e-1f7525779859 Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT To listen to the White House and its supporters in and out of the media, you would think that opposition to "ObamaCare" is the hobgoblin of a few small minds on the right. Racists, fascists, Neanderthals, the whole... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/19/why_obamacare_is_failing a7759a33-3c71-4278-85aa-b5c699f190e4 Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT My wife and I took our dog to the neurologist the other day. Yes, the neurologist. For a dog. I'm sure it sounds extravagant, but Cosmo had been having unexplained seizures, so we took him in for an MRI and a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/12/dogs_dont_care_about_dogma d206e4ac-c9d1-4fb0-bf0f-5b143fa229b2 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT The Democratic Party is panicking, lashing out like a cornered animal, all because its effort to take over the health care industry is coming apart like so much wet toilet paper. Nancy Pelosi, who will get her... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/07/democrats_fear_is_showing_on_health_care f84a7934-69bb-4041-86c5-9775518bde70 Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Joining Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cambridge cop Sgt. James Crowley and President Obama was a fourth "surprise guest" at last week's "beer summit": Vice President Biden. Given that the scheduled... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/06/still_a_good_question_why_biden 2c10c99f-6e01-454f-aa3b-abea7bb4190f Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT Ce qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas. That may exhaust my French phrase quota for the year, but it's worth it. The saying is the title of an essay by 19th century French economist Frederic Bastiat and means "that... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/08/05/how_much_is_that_clunker_in_the_window fdf01339-1b26-4c23-b4e8-7388e0b86a00 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 04:01:00 GMT In one of my favorite episodes of "Star Trek," Captain Kirk is mistaken for a god by inhabitants of a planet of Native Americans (it's a long story). The illusion works for Kirk until a jealous shaman cuts Kirk's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/31/the_god_who_bleeds 709353c3-212d-465e-ba15-98c7a4cfffa6 Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT The year is 2109. Celebrations continue as mankind's heroic, century-long, quintillion-dollar effort to lower the global mean temperature by 1 degree has paid off: July 2109 is just as hot as July 2009. Few can... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/29/planet_bulls_eye 08a3e908-c02e-4851-a9c8-388bc473cf94 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Where's the outrage? If this country had its head on straight, there would be nothing but white-hot popular fury over the latest Bush-era CIA scandal broken by the New York Times. CIA director Leon Panetta... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/17/anger_over_cia_flap_is_misplaced 5bfe2550-43be-4bda-8030-23196a8aa6c3 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Here's what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in Sunday's New York Times Magazine: "Frankly I had thought that at the time (Roe v. Wade) was decided," Ginsburg told her interviewer, Emily Bazelon, "there... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/15/ruth_bader_ginsburg_and_a_question_of_eugenics 7747757a-1f6b-4c88-b8e1-b8002b1e5aa7 Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:21:59 GMT The Obama Doctrine is finally coming into focus. It's been hard to glean its form because for so long it seemed the president's most obvious guiding principle was "not Bush," particularly when it came to the Iraq... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/08/spread_freedom_not_so_much 61e5e7a1-0361-4f4f-ae0a-6b98430b442c Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:17:43 GMT Before Sarah Palin stepped on the story, the talk of the Beltway was Salongate at the Washington Post. The venerable newspaper hatched a scheme whereby it would hold a series of "salons" at the home of publisher... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/08/posts_salon_mess_brazen,_not_shocking 4ea65e9e-affa-46e5-837c-2cdbb4a3cf44 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Dear Governor Palin, You're blowing it. We haven't met, but you might remember I was one of the first columnists to tout you for John McCain's running mate. I cheered you mightily when Senator McCain selected... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/03/a_letter_to_sarah 5bfb9a74-73fe-441a-9f58-9ffcca1fde2a Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT There's an old joke about a fantastic three-legged pig and a farmer. It comes in many versions. In some tellings, the pig saves the farmer's life. In another, it can talk. The punch line always comes after a visitor... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/07/01/pork_--_its_for_everyone,_including_obama 4c187e68-166c-4b0e-8846-574db03b0fd2 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:01:00 GMT Huzzah! Thanks to a few pointed questions from the press corps at a White House news conference, the long Obama captivity of the media is at an end. The Hotline, an inside-the-Beltway tip sheet, proclaimed June 23 "The... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/26/endless_love 976a5c12-e944-4836-8dcf-73b6d48b7fed Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Here is the one immutable fact of Barack Obama's foreign policy agenda as it relates to Iran: It's over. The rule book he came in with is as irrelevant as a tourist guide to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/24/obamas_iran_policy_is_a_bomb 537ababe-6926-42e2-a5ff-a05aa6ac56a9 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT What did you do when capitalism died, Daddy? I won't be surprised to hear that question from my daughter by the time she gets out of college, or should I say the State Mandatory Voluntarism Training... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/19/et_tu,_big_business 7bbc5341-d698-4568-88c8-70159d9f1379 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Do it, President Obama, please. Take the side of democracy. Declare yourself and your nation on the side of hope and change where it is more than a slogan and better than a rationalization for ever-bigger... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/17/obamas_choice_is_not_to_choose_on_iran 56627aa3-0df6-4941-a2af-5281e20e32df Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT When an abortion provider in Wichita, Kan., was murdered, the predictable chorus pointed fingers at Fox News' Bill O'Reilly. After all, O'Reilly had said that George Tiller was a "baby killer" and had railed against... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/12/a_silly_game_of_connect-the-dots 9646b86f-f2c9-4c3f-b6ed-6c4be2076d5d Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, "If we can put a man on the moon ... ," grab your wallet. For years, Democrats, enthralled by the cargo cult of the Kennedy presidency, have used the moon... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/10/plan_to_combat_global_warming_pie_in_the_sky bbf576cd-bf04-4c2a-afbd-a6d17ad8a41f Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT There is one thing about Barack Obama's speech in Cairo that critics and supporters can agree on: It was vintage Obama. As an Obama critic, let me say from the outset that there was much that was good and... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/05/the_prism_of_obama 2540f0a6-1c79-46f6-9d5a-0d35cc41879b Fri, 05 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT The government effectively owns General Motors and controls Chrysler, and the president is deciding what kind of cars they can make. Uncle Sam owns majority stakes in American International Group, Fannie Mae, Freddie... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/04/dont_call_it_socialism! 7b58cca5-2504-4720-8ab4-451d113ba490 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT For decades, America's liberal establishment has been saying that what we need more than anything is a frank conversation about race. Well, here's another chance. Ever since the Kerner Commission in 1967, we've... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/06/03/the_sotomayor_debate_is_a_chance_to_talk_it_out_on_race 48b4e0d9-dbf1-4c59-a5cc-1676d42c22cc Wed, 03 Jun 2009 04:01:00 GMT Why make this complicated? President Obama prefers Supreme Court justices who will violate their oath of office. And he hopes Sonia Sotomayor is the right Hispanic woman for the job. Here's the oath Supreme Court... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/05/27/empathy_v_impartiality dc0591df-d044-431a-889e-ab25d8f81775 Wed, 27 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT Forget about where you come down on "torture" or "enhanced interrogations." The simple fact is that, as a political matter, the drive for a "truth commission" -- never mind a war crimes tribunal -- is dead as long as... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/05/20/pelosi_the_political_logjam cd7ad817-70e1-463f-ae39-a29d262c8ea9 Wed, 20 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT If President Obama is sincere in his expressed desire to block the release of photos of alleged prisoner abuse in U.S. detention facilities in Iraq and Afghanistan, congratulations are in order. But I'm... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/05/15/photos_or_no_photos,_its_hard_to_picture_obama_winning_over_us_enemies 61e0e478-4b3e-415d-8b55-1e78d7029d69 Fri, 15 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT Harry Truman famously said of D.C.: "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." It turns out that Truman was wrong, at least if you go by the experts. I'm not talking about Washington, but of dogs. And I'm... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/05/13/katz_and_dogs 4b9ab0aa-f8bf-46e4-b1da-46683d13e3d6 Wed, 13 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT Compare and contrast two men: former congressmen Jack Kemp, one of the architects of the Reagan Revolution, who passed away last weekend at the age of 73; and Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania senator who switched... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JonahGoldberg/2009/05/09/what_does_the_future_hold_for_gop ef0296e4-0d49-4965-a3d3-c8ab1b33a4e7 Sat, 09 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT