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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What Exactly Does Biden Mean by ‘Finish the Job’?

The president’s campaign slogan sounds nice but doesn’t make much sense.

In Praise of Normalcy

It’s how most Americans want to live their lives, contrary to the assumptions of arrogant radicals.

Pillows Full of Cash

Fox News pays up to keep any further dirty laundry from being aired in court.

Putin’s Useful Idiots

The MAGA crowd is calling fellow Americans enemies while treating our real enemies as misunderstood friends.

The Free Speech Switcheroo

It used to be conservatives asking, ‘Is the juice worth the squeeze?’

The Ties That Blind

With no other frame of reference, young conservatives are starting to think it’s normal to be jerks.

’Twas the Darkest and Stormiest Night

The dangers of Donald Trump’s magical thinking.

Goopy Infowars

When both sides try to peddle the same garbage in different packaging.

Donald Trump, Nietzsche, and TikTok

A very bloggy G-File.

Man Up

We’re suffering an epidemic of childishness.

Hallucinators and Grifters

Donald Trump is not the cure for what ails us.

Hitting Rewind on ‘Woke’

This isn’t the first time a slogan became a tool for sowing cultural confusion.

The Mind’s Lies

Does Joe Biden really believe the stories he tells about his past?

Trump’s Twisted Nationalism

To the former president, making America great again is about nothing more than making himself the most important person in the world.

Being Is Not a Substitute for Doing

A plague of demosclerosis.

Getting Away With Murder, Sort Of

The dangerous marriage of elitism and populism.