Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg | |
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Born | Jonah Jacob Goldberg March 21, 1969 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Education | Goucher College (BA) |
Occupation(s) | Journalist and author |
Employer | The Dispatch |
Spouse | |
Children | 1 |
Relatives | Lucianne Goldberg (mother) |
Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American
Goldberg is also a regular contributor on news networks such as
Early life and education
Goldberg was born on the
Career
After graduating, Goldberg taught English in
In 1994, Goldberg became a founding producer for Wattenberg's Think Tank with Ben 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 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. By the end of that year, he was asked to launch National Review Online (NRO) as a sister publication to National Review. He served as editor of NRO for several years and later became editor-at-large. [when?]
Clinton–Lewinsky scandal
Goldberg's mother
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.[23]
These tapes became the focal point of the Lewinsky scandal.
Current work
Writing for National Review and other publications
Beginning in 1998, Goldberg was an editor and wrote a twice-weekly column at National Review, which is syndicated to numerous papers across the United States, and at
Goldberg also wrote the "Goldberg File"[25] at National Review, a column that was generally lighter and more focused on humor and cultural commentary. Goldberg's column often made pop-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 contributor at the National Review blog The Corner, often authoring posts with light-hearted, comedic and pop-culture references.
Goldberg left National Review in May 2019.
Aside from being a member of the
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
Goldberg is the host of The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg,[29] an interview podcast that covers a variety of topics in the spheres of politics, conservative theory, and current events. Goldberg is a frequent participant in programs produced by Ricochet,[30] 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
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Goldberg's first book,
Pulitzer claim controversy
In May 2012, Goldberg was touted as a "two-time Pulitzer prize nominee" in the book jacket of his second book, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. NBC News reporter Bill Dedman pointed this out as misleading because Goldberg had in fact only been an entrant in the Pulitzer contest and had never been nominated as a finalist, as the moniker "Pulitzer nominee" claimed. Becoming an entrant in the Pulitzer contest requires only that either the author of a written work submit an entry form along with a small fee or that someone else do so on their behalf. Following Dedman's reporting, Goldberg and his publishing company acknowledged the false claim and subsequently removed the line from the book jacket.[39]
Media appearances and commentary
Frequent topics
Some frequent topics of his articles include censorship,
He popularized and expanded on a commentary by the late
He has criticized the idea of "social justice" as meaning "anything its champions want it to mean" or "'good things' no one needs to argue for and no one dare be against".[43]
Relations with other writers and public figures
Goldberg has publicly feuded with people on the
Goldberg and
Relations with Fox News
Regarding
During the Trump years and beyond, while Goldberg defended certain news hosts and shows on Fox News, he became more sympathetic towards critiques of Fox News, especially regarding their opinion hosts, including Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin.[49][50][28] 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's Patriot Purge, which they described as "a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions."[51][52]
Donald Trump
During the years of the Trump Presidency, Goldberg remained very critical of conservative media's embrace of President Trump. On Trump's defenders in the media, Goldberg said this:
For nearly five years now, 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 private.[53]
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.[54][10]
Personal life
Goldberg is married to
Goldberg's brother, Joshua, died in 2011 from accidental injuries.[58] Goldberg's father, Sidney, died in 2005, and was survived by his wife, Jonah's mother, Lucianne.[59] Lucianne Goldberg died on October 26, 2022.[60][61]
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-1-101-90494-7.
- The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. ISBN 978-1-101-57235-1.
- ISBN 978-0-385-51769-0.
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