We’re in the heat of summer here in North Carolina, and people of all walks of life are taking time with their friends and families. Some travel to the beach. Others can’t stand the crowds, sand, and heat, so they prefer a mountain lake. Wherever you end up parking your folding chair, you’re probably going...
I’m only half joking when I argue that a true sports fan loathes his archrival more than he loves his own team. Sure, it’s an exaggeration. But one suspects that at least some Boston Red Sox supporters enjoy feasting on New York Yankee futility more than they celebrate their own team’s fourth World Series title...
Forcibly changing social institutions and traditions without fully understanding their origins, complexities, and consequences can produce disaster.
To entertain and instruct is a tough task, but a few of the writers in The Seven Deadly Virtues manage to pull it off.
The response to legislative testimony from many liberal lawmakers and activists was more suitable to the playground than the state capitol.
Goldberg, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has compiled an enlightening and often mischievous collection of examples showing how the American Left has grown sloppy over time, leaning on trite phrases rather than logic to defend its views.
RALEIGH — The Pope Center tracked these lectures and panel discussions at North Carolina colleges and universities during the past semester. Edifying events were outnumbered by a multitude of lectures with a decidedly leftist tilt.
Ben Shapiro’s fascinating new book Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV makes us think about television as we never have before, much in the same way Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism made us think about modern liberalism.
RALEIGH — In early 2009, with President Barack Obama riding a high off a recent electoral win, would anyone have predicted that the American political scene in 2011 would look so much different? It’s a fascinating development for Jonah Goldberg, the National Review Online editor-at-large and author of The New York Times No. 1 best-seller Liberal Fascism. Goldberg discussed the issue with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
Don’t get me wrong. William Voegeli’s Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State is an excellent book, not to mention a very important book as Republicans at both the state and federal levels seek to reverse two years of Democratic policies that have brought our country to the brink of insolvency. But it’s a difficult book to review, because it tells conservatives something they’ve known for quite some time: There simply are never enough government entitlement programs to satisfy liberals, no matter the circumstances.
RALEIGH — People who object to modern-day liberal policies often hear the insult “fascist” or even “Nazi.” Jonah Goldberg, editor-at-large for National Review Online, says those insults are aimed in the wrong direction. Goldberg has spent much of his career debunking the notion that a conservative viewpoint has anything to do with fascist ideas. Goldberg discussed his book Liberal Fascism with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
