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Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American conservative 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.[2] In October 2019, Goldberg became the founding editor of the online opinion and news publication The Dispatch.[3][4][5][6] Goldberg has authored the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism, released in January 2008; The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, released in 2012;[7] 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][9]

Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Jacob Goldberg

(1969-03-21) March 21, 1969
New York City, New York, U.S.

Journalist and author

(m. 2001)

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Goldberg is also a regular contributor on news networks such as CNN and MSNBC, appearing on various television programs including Good Morning America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King 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 Five, 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.tv. Goldberg has been a noted critic of President Donald Trump, fellow Republicans, and the conservative media complex during and after the Trump presidency.[10] In November 2021, Goldberg and his colleague Steve Hayes resigned from Fox News in protest over Tucker Carlson's 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 education[edit]

Goldberg was born on the Upper West Side of New York City's Manhattan borough to Lucianne Goldberg (née Steinberger), a literary agent who died in 2022 and advised Linda Tripp to illegally record conversations with Monica Lewinsky, and Sidney Goldberg, who died in 2005, an editor and media executive.[12][13] In speaking about his upbringing, Goldberg has said that his mother was an Episcopalian and that his father was Jewish and that he was raised Jewish.[14][15] After graduating from high school in 1987, Goldberg left New York City to attend Goucher College in Towson, Maryland, from which he earned his bachelor's in 1991, majoring in political science.[16] Goldberg's class at Goucher, which was a women's college until 1986, was the second to admit men.[17] While at Goucher, Goldberg was active in student politics and served as the co-editor of the school newspaper, The Quindecim, for two years. Goldberg and Andreas Benno Kollegger were the first men to run the paper. He later 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.

Personal life[edit]

Goldberg is married to Jessica Gavora, chief speechwriter and former senior policy adviser to former Attorney General John Ashcroft.[55] They have one daughter, and they live in the Palisades, Washington, D.C. neighborhood.[56][57]


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]

. Crown Publishing Group. 2018. ISBN 978-1-101-90494-7.

Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy

The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas. . 2012. ISBN 978-1-101-57235-1.

Penguin books

. Crown Publishing Group. 2008. ISBN 978-0-385-51769-0.

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

(at Tribune Content Agency)

Goldberg's syndicated column

Goldberg's National Review Online biography

on C-SPAN

Appearances