So if you're scoring at home* we've moved from
From Hitler to Hillary Clinton
to
From Hegel to Whole Foods
to
From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning.
*In which case you definitely aren't Jonah.
What happened to From Marx to March of the Penguins?
I believe you mean Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from When I Got My
Advance Until I Finally Hand in the Manuscript in 2011.
In a few more months he'll have the subtitle done and can start on the prologue.
It's a fun structure, though: From Tojo to Tinky-Winky; From Stalin to Stretch Classes; From Frederick the Great to Fred the Furrier... you could do it all day.
Whenever I feel an urge to write a book about how much I deserve a thorough beating, I lie down until it goes away.
Its just like those libtards to politicize meaning.
Isn't the "politics of meaning" a failed meme, unlike Whole Foods and (sad to say) Hillary?
The Authoritarian Impulse from Sorel to Spielberg.
From the book description:
...and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life.
From David Brooks's latest op-ed:
This is not liberalism, which inserts itself into the crannies of life.
It's all about the liberal cranny state.
It's all about the liberal cranny state.
Bet your ass it is.
My house would be so much cleaner if I could get that damn liberalism of mine out of the crannies.
From Carl Schmitt to Mark Schmitt
Isn't it characteristic of liberalism not to espouse a nooks-and-crannies sort of view? IS IT NOT?
Ogged didn't know this, so maybe you didn't either
That's good logic. Now what's this Family Circus I keep hearing about?
What does Mussolini have to do with the American left? I'm not sure I understand.
Nooks and crannies are the basis of Anglo-Saxon conservativism, such as that espoused by Edmund Burke or Samuel Bath Thomas.
17: Like a suspiciously large number of leftists, his first name began with a "B."
I would like somebody to write Iberian Imperialism: The Interventionist Impulse from Henry the Navigator to Dora the Explorer.
Speaking of subtitles, what's the deal with the Saiselgy subtitle?
Is it HEADS IN THE SAND: How Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats.?
Or Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism?
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/08/title.php
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/bio.php
21: Hey, that's not one of the titles we proposed here.
What does Mussolini have to do with the American left? I'm not sure I understand.
It goes something like this: Mussolini made the trains run on time, and liberals would rather you take the train than drive an SUV.
Brock, how could you be expected to understand? It's a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care. You'll just have to wait to read the book (wait for Jonah to write it, that is).
What does Mussolini have to do with the American left?
He's trying to avoid a Godwin's Law situation while still being able to equate the Democrats with Fascists. Doesn't make it any less silly, of course.
17: Nobody does.
That is why we are all so feverishly anticipating Jonah's book that will explain it to us.
What does Mussolini have to do with the American left? I'm not sure I understand.
Mussolini broke his weenie, and American liberals have surrendered to castrating feminists.
What does Mussolini have to do with the American left? I'm not sure I understand.
If it were obvious, it wouldn't be a secret history, would it?
The secret history of American Lilliputianism: From Nooks and Crannies to nooky with Granny.
Mussolini broke his weenie
"Mussolini on yer weenie" was a favored taunt when I was a kid. We only had a vague idea of the purpose of weenies and an even vaguer idea of who Mussolini was, but it sounded gross. Jonah's got a lock on that demographic.
And speaking of Hitler! Hitler! Hitler! Mussolini! Mussolini! Mussolini!, Young Americans For Freedom at Michigan State University invited a MBNP member to speak during Islamofascism Awareness Week.
From the March on Rome to the March on Washington
From Blood & Soil to Blood, Sweat & Tears
From the Beer Hall Putsch to Microbreweries
From Mein Kampf to... awww, fuck it, this is like shooting fish in a barrel
Didn't we already play this game? Wherefore art thou, apostropher?
It's all about the liberal cranny state.
You sure it's not the liberal tranny state?
Mussolini! Mussolini! Mussolini!, Young Americans For Freedom at Michigan State
At the risk of a certain linked commenter dropping his pants, I thought that Roderick Spode was one of a sign Wodehouse's genius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roderick_Spode
The College Republicans at my college invited David Horowitz.
The best part was reading the backstory of Horowitz and my college, in which he refused to pay for an ad he purchased there because they chose to run an editorial distancing themselves from it.
Conservative Onanism: The Secret History of Bed-Wetting Nepotists from Cheetos to Chalabi
Wherefore art thou, apostropher?
"Wherefore" means "why."
Re: previous Goldberg title thread. Katherine's From Birkenau to Birkenstocks is wizard cocksucker.
35: And this college is located in.... (give us a hint)
You're a Princetonian, Destroyer? I thought you went somewhere with an awesome name, like Philander Smith College.
Where's the official Halloween thread? I want to boast about my pumpkin.
I should order the damn thing already.
Please don't. If enough people order, he'll actually write it and deprive us of all the fun we're having..
From Kinder, Kueche, Kirche to Godless Whole Foods Homos.
41: On that earlier occasion, Horowitz described Princeton students as "little left-wing fascists". Eternal return is for real, people!
I still like "From Birkenau to Birkenstocks".
oops, didn't see 40.
What's his problem with Michael Lerner? And why is he so bad at alliteration?
47: "Because he's an idiot" is usually the place to start on "why?" questions regarding Jonah Goldberg.
How many "Star Trek" references will there be in this book? The worl may never know.
What does Mussolini have to do with the American left? I'm not sure I understand.
American leftists are supposed to be inclined to relativism.
From Kinder, Kueche, Kirche to Godless Whole Foods Homos.
My German ex told me that the contemporary version of the "Three K's" was "Kultur, Klamotten, und Karriere" (culture, clothes, and career).
18: Nooks and crannies are the basis of Anglo-Saxon conservativism ...
That explains it ...
(Maybe.)
I can't believe the title of this thread. It should be "Jonah Goldberg: Conservatism's Gift To Parody".
From Virgil to Virginity: Why I Still Haven't Lost Mine: Oh God Won't Someone Just Touch Me Already
The link in 24 is astounding. What a pompous little snot.
More of a pompous pudgy snot, really. Not that there's anything wrong with that. The pudge, I mean.
Seriously, any of us could write this book better, and quicker, than J. Gold.
I renew my request that we establish a hack right-wing persona, write a book, make a ton of money, give it to charity, unmask ourselves and have a ball.
There was a soft-core porn stunt like this back in the 1970s, which I'm too lazy to Google, which probably involved Gore Vidal.
There was a soft-core porn stunt like this back in the 1970s
Ironic porn?
I've actually thought about doing that on an individual level, but I don't think I could pull it off for the time it would take.
60 is to 58, I renew my request that we establish a hack right-wing persona, write a book, make a ton of money, give it to charity, unmask ourselves and have a ball.
but I'm sure that won't prevent the obvious jokes.
Not to be confused with Opus the Penguin's steamy memoir, Naked Came I.
re: 58
That's a great idea. Like a Luther Blissett/Wu Ming set up.
Does anyone else get the feeling Goldberg is turning into a conservative version of Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining?
Just with titles rather than "All work and no play.." He's mother fixated enough.
Does anyone else get the feeling Goldberg is turning into a conservative version of Jack Nicholson's character in The Shining?
Just with titles rather than "All work and no play.." He's mother fixated enough.
What odds will someone give me that Goldberg changes the title again?
No odds from me - Yorkshiremen don't lay on certainties.
Okay, I'm sold: I'm pre-ordering the book from amazon.com. The link in 24 has had me laughing for a week, and now I'm convinced this book will be comic gold. Also, this:
"The modern heirs of this "friendly fascist" tradition include the New York Times, the Democratic Party, the Ivy League professoriate, and the liberals of Hollywood. The quintessential Liberal Fascist isn't an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore."
So awesome.