![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This angry, funny, smart and contentious book looks behind the friendly face of the well-meaning liberal, and turns our preconceptions inside out. Journeying through history and across culture, he uses surprising examples ranging from Woodrow Wilson's police state to the Clinton personality cult, the military chic of 60s' student radicals to Hollywood's totalitarian aesthetics, to show that it is modern progressivism - and not conservatism - that shares the same intellectual roots as fascism. Here he destroys long-held myths to reveal why the most insidious attemps to control our lives originate from the left, whether it's smoking bans or security cameras. Jonah Goldberg's excoriating, opinion-driving, US bestseller explains why. But what does it really mean? What if the true heirs to fascism were actually those who thought of themselves as being terribly nice and progressive - the liberals? Jonah Goldberg once made one of the more interesting throwaway remarks about fascism Ive ever seen, to the effect that when he is confronted by liberals ranting about fascism, he likes to. The specific looming threat, according to Goldberg and the tea-partiers. Free Will: Liberal Fascism Edition Will Wilkinson & Jonah Goldberg Free Will 03:33 Jonahs book Liberal Fascism mocked, praised 11:30. Today the word 'fascist' is usually an insult aimed at those on the right, from neocons to big business. In a nutshell, this mirrors the basic theme in Liberal Fascism by Jonah Goldberg. ![]()
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