Author’s Night: Jonah Goldberg

Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Nationalism, Populism, and Identity Politics Is Destroying American Democracy

With his trademark blend of political history, social science, economics, and pop culture, two-time New York Times bestselling author, syndicated columnist, National Review senior editor, Jonah Goldberg makes the timely case that America and other democracies are in peril as they lose the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity.

Moderated by Kathryn Jean Lopez.  Kathryn is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and an editor-at-large of National Review. 

Jonah Goldberg is a Senior Editor at National Review and a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute as well as the National Review Institute. He has been a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times since 2005 and a nationally syndicated columnist since 2000. He hosts the popular podcast The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg. His syndicated column appears regularly in the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Dallas Morning News and scores of other papers. His first book, Liberal Fascism, was a #1 New York Times and Amazon bestseller and was selected as the #1 history book of 2008 by Amazon readers. His second book, The Tyranny of Clichés, was also an instant bestseller and hailed as perhaps “the best and most fun-to-read primer on the tenets of conservative politics since P. J. O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores.” Goldberg is a member of the Board of Contributors to USA Today and previously served as a columnist for The Times of London, Brill’s Content, and The American Enterprise. His writings have appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, The New Yorker, Food and Wine, and numerous other publications. He is currently a Fox News Contributor and a regular panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier. He was previously a CNN contributor and he has appeared on numerous TV shows, including Face the Nation and This Week. The Atlantic magazine has named him one of the top fifty political commentators in America.

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