Jonah on the Whale

I am planning to get a copy of this new book, National Review editor Jonah Goldberg's "Liberal Fascism: the Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning". I think of Jonah as a sort of the GenX righty answer to William F. Buckley.

Bruce Thornton, an even way rightier accomplice of my man VDH, reviews the book. His final paragraph contains a lot about my increasingly visceral dislike of what passes for "liberalism": (and the bolding in JG's quote is mine.)

"Goldberg’s book ultimately is a call for correctly understanding a conservatism besmirched by liberal smears and its own partisans’ compromises: “Conservatism is neither identity politics for Christians and/or white people nor right-wing progressivism. Rather, it is opposition to all forms of political religion. It is a rejection of the idea that politics can be redemptive. It is the conviction that a properly ordered republic has a government of limited ambition.” These are the ideals of the American republic, and they are the best guarantors of our freedom. Goldberg’s important book is a good first step towards reinvigorating the conservative tradition.