He doesn’t leave room for such complexities as convergences, middle grounds, or evolution over time. The reader perceives at once that Goldberg likes to put things into rigid boxes: right and left, conservative and liberal, fascist and non-fascist. It is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left” (p. So Jonah Goldberg pulls out all the stops to show that fascism “is not a phenomenon of the right at all. 392).įeeling oneself a victim is wonderfully liberating. After years of being “called a fascist and a Nazi by smug, liberal know-nothings” he decides that “responding to this slander is a point of personal privilege” (p. So Jonah Goldberg has decided it is time to turn the tables and show that “the liberal closet has its own skeletons” (p. “The left wields the term fascism like a cudgel” (p. Conservatives “sit dumbfounded by the nastiness of the slander” (p. The liberals started it by “insist that conservatism has connections with fascism” (p. Jonah Goldberg tells us he wrote this book to get even. His latest book is Anatomy of Fascism (Vintage, 2005). Robert Paxton is emeritus professor of history at Columbia University.
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