Jonah Goldberg

LATEST STORIES BY JONAH GOLDBERG

GOLDBERG: Israel and Ukraine? Americans should remember it's same war on two fronts

In normal times, domestic political fights over foreign policy breakdown more or less along a conventional left-right divide.

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October 20, 2023 Columnists

A fireball erupts during Israeli bombardment in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.

GOLDBERG: Debate on who to blame for Hamas attack is going off the rails

Within hours of the slaughter in Israel, the question of Israel’s “massive intelligence failure” — as many have called it — came to dominate a lot of the media coverage and conversation.

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October 12, 2023 Columnists

GOLDBERG: Republicans' impeachment of Biden may be stupid enough to work

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s decision to move ahead with impeachment proceedings — and the Democrats’ response — reminded me of something Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser reportedly once said: “The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves, which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them we are missing.” Nasser was talking about foreign policy, but cleverly stupid politics doesn’t end at the water’s edge.

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September 23, 2023 Columnists

GOLDBERG: China's faltering economy a result of state-directed planning

“China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man,” scoffed then-presidential candidate Joe Biden in 2019. Two years later, now-president Biden declared: “The Chinese are eating our lunch. They’re eating our lunch, economically. They’re investing hundreds of billions of dollars in research and development. … We got to compete.”

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September 1, 2023 Columnists

A general view shows a construction site in Beijing on Aug. 30, 2023.

GOLDBERG: Nothing will stop Trump, except maybe the law

So, Ron DeSantis gets it after all.

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August 24, 2023 Columnists

Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivers remarks in Greensboro, N.C., June 9, 2023.

GOLDBERG: Small donors a destructive and divisive force in U.S. politics

There’s an approach to political questions that the conservative in me rebels against. Let’s call it the “You can’t have too much of a good thing” fallacy.

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August 18, 2023 Columnists

This combination of file pictures created on Oct. 22, 2020 shows Donald Trump and Joe Biden during the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville.

GOLDBERG: Trump's indictment reflects failures of populist passions

America blew it.

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August 11, 2023 Columnists

Former U.S. president and 2024 Presidential hopeful Donald Trump plays golf during the Official Pro-Am Tournament ahead of the LIV Golf Invitational Series event at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster in Bedminster, N.J., on Aug. 10, 2023

GOLDBERG: Can Republicans overcome the notion only Trump will save them?

“They’re not indicting me, they’re indicting you. I just happen to be standing in the way,” Donald Trump declared (again) in the wake of a new updated federal indictment connected to the classified documents case.

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August 5, 2023 Columnists

Former US President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump

GOLDBERG: Sending cluster munitions to Ukraine a necessary evil

The controversy over the Biden administration’s decision to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions reminded me of my old boss William F. Buckley’s famous rejoinder to claims the United States and the Soviet Union were morally equivalent because they possessed nuclear weapons and spent a lot on defence.

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July 12, 2023 Columnists

GOLDBERG: Blocking Biden's student loan forgiveness plan is healthy for politics

Last week, the Supreme Court scuttled the Biden administration’s attempt to forgive more than $400 billion in student loan debt.

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July 7, 2023 Columnists

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about health-care costs in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C.

Jonah Goldberg

LATEST STORIES BY JONAH GOLDBERG

GOLDBERG: Israel and Ukraine? Americans should remember it's same war on two fronts

GOLDBERG: Debate on who to blame for Hamas attack is going off the rails

GOLDBERG: Republicans' impeachment of Biden may be stupid enough to work

GOLDBERG: China's faltering economy a result of state-directed planning

GOLDBERG: Nothing will stop Trump, except maybe the law

GOLDBERG: Small donors a destructive and divisive force in U.S. politics

GOLDBERG: Trump's indictment reflects failures of populist passions

GOLDBERG: Can Republicans overcome the notion only Trump will save them?

GOLDBERG: Sending cluster munitions to Ukraine a necessary evil

GOLDBERG: Blocking Biden's student loan forgiveness plan is healthy for politics

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