G-File

Every Wednesday and Friday, Jonah Goldberg draws on his deep understanding of American history, culture, and conservatism to analyze politics and policy.

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Confining Themselves to Irrelevancy

The progressive No Excuses PAC is on a snipe hunt for an AOC-like candidate in West Virginia.

The Running With Scissors Party

A good conservatism is a boring conservatism. That’s not what we have right now.

Out-Memeing the Market

Does the current panic over GameStop actually reveal some deep-seated problem with market economics?

I’m Not Going To Say I Told You So … But

Okay, maybe just a little.

Advice for Biden: Be Like Ike

Eisenhower is the closest model for what the new president needs to be.

Popular Affront

The disservice of our national news media is far worse than just ‘bias.’

If Impeachment Could Lead to Violence, Then Trump Should Resign

Since when do conservatives argue that we should appease potential rioters?

American Benghazi

Snowflakery for me, but not for thee.

The Long March Back

A prudent, controlled burn of the GOP’s dead weight would be wiser than an unmitigated act of arson.

The Long March Back

A prudent, controlled burn of the GOP’s dead weight would be wiser than an unmitigated act of arson.

Morality as a Foreign Language

When we can’t speak from a common moral framework, we lose the ability to judge even the most obvious ethical failings.

Conservatives’ Minds Are Not for Rent

The American right, a group designed to resist political cults from the start, is in danger of losing its dogma.

Releash the Kraken

Supporting efforts to steal the election isn’t just fan service, it’s bubble fortification. (And it will last beyond the court's rejection of the Texas case.)

General Fallacies

Who should you really look out for: Lloyd Austin, or the guy who hired him?

Screwtape Went Down to Georgia

'The safest road to Hell is the gradual one.'

Puritans, Both Foreign and Domestic

The problem is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do what they think we should do.