New Releases by Jonah Goldberg

Como o tribalismo, o populismo, o nacionalismo e a política identitária estão destruindo a democracia. Jonah Goldberg afirma, em O suicídio do Ocidente, que somente uma vez, nos últimos 250 mil anos, os humanos se depararam com uma forma de romper o ciclo eterno de pobreza, fome e guerra que definiu boa parte de nossa história — na Inglaterra do século XVIII, com o surgimento do capitalismo democrático liberal. Se a democracia, o individualismo e o livre mercado fossem o destino da humanidade, teriam aparecido muito antes na nossa escalada evolutiva. Nas últimas décadas, as virtudes políticas que alçaram o Ocidente à posição em que se encontra hoje se tornaram vícios. Somos cada vez mais direcionados a ver nossas tradições como sistemas de opressão, exploração e privilégio; o princípio da liberdade sofre ataques constantes vindos de todas as direções. Neste momento em que o autoritarismo, o tribalismo, a política identitária, o nacionalismo e o culto à personalidade estão destruindo as democracias por dentro, Goldberg expõe as tendências suicidas do Ocidente de ambos os lados do espectro político. Para que o Ocidente sobreviva, precisamos reconhecer e agradecer por tudo que a civilização nos proporcionou e redescobrir os ideais que nos tiraram da lama no passado para que não retornemos a ela. "Nas melhores circunstâncias, toda empreitada importante exige esforço. O milagre do capitalismo democrático liberal não é autossustentável. Dê as costas a sua manutenção e ele se despedaçará. Considere-o favas contadas e as pessoas começarão a ceder a seus impulsos naturais de tribalismo. As melhores perderão toda a convicção e as piores serão tomadas por passional intensidade. As coisas entrarão em colapso." O suicídio do Ocidente é um livro corajoso e necessário. Um apelo urgente para democracias que estão em perigo por terem perdido a vontade de defender os valores e as instituições que garantem a liberdade e a prosperidade necessárias à manutenção da sociedade.

Az elmúlt 250 ezer év során mindössze egyszer botlottunk olyan eszmébe, mely kiemelt bennünket a történelmünk túlnyomó részét meghatározó szegénység, éhség és háborúk végeláthatatlan körforgásából - a 18. századi Angliában, amikor véletlenül felfedeztük a liberális demokratikus kapitalizmus csodáját. Az akkor igen radikálisnak számító elképzelések mára társadalmunk alapját képezik. A kormány van értünk, nem pedig mi a kormányért. Az egyén szuverén. Mindannyian a saját lelkünk urai vagyunk. A munkánk gyümölcse bennünket illet. A nyugati világ sosem látott virágzást élt át ezeknek az eszméknek köszönhetően, ám az elmúlt évtizedekben bűnökként kezdték ábrázolni ezen politikai erényeket. Egyre inkább belénk nevelik, hogy hagyományainkra úgy tekintsünk, mint az elnyomás, a kizsákmányolás és a „fehér kiváltságosok” rendszerére, a szabadság elvei és a jogállamiság a jobb- és baloldal részéről egyaránt össztűz alatt állnak. Jonah Goldberg, az Egyesült Államok egyik legnevesebb konzervatív gondolkodója a politikatörténet, a popkultúra, a közgazdaság és a társadalomtudomány rá jellemző egyedi kombinációja révén leplezi le a Nyugat öngyilkos hajlamait az ideológiai lövészárok mindkét oldalán. Ahhoz, hogy a Nyugat életben maradhasson, újból hálát kell éreznünk civilizációnk értékei iránt, és újból fel kell fedeznünk azokat az eszméket, melyek a múltban kivezettek bennünket a véres mocsárból - máskülönben ez lesz a sorsunk. Az öngyilkosság egyszerű, a szabadságért viszont meg kell dolgozni.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent argument that America and other democracies are in peril because they have lost the will to defend the values and institutions that sustain freedom and prosperity. “Epic and debate-shifting.”—David Brooks, New York Times Only once in the last 250,000 years have humans stumbled upon a way to lift ourselves out of the endless cycle of poverty, hunger, and war that defines most of history. If democracy, individualism, and the free market were humankind’s destiny, they should have appeared and taken hold a bit earlier in the evolutionary record. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. As Americans we are doubly blessed, because the radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. Those ideas are: • Our rights come from God, not from the government. • The government belongs to us; we do not belong to it. • The individual is sovereign. We are all captains of our own souls, not bound by the circumstances of our birth. • The fruits of our labors belong to us. In the last few decades, these political virtues have been turned into vices. As we are increasingly taught to view our traditions as a system of oppression, exploitation, and privilege, the principles of liberty and the rule of law are under attack from left and right. For the West to survive, we must renew our sense of gratitude for what our civilization has given us and rediscover the ideals and habits of the heart that led us out of the bloody muck of the past—or back to the muck we will go.

Harry S. Truman became President of the United States on April 12, 1945. He assumed office during a time of great circumstance, leading America through the last few months of the Second World War, and shepherding the free world through eight years in which the fragile postwar peace could easily have been broken. A poor farmer from rural Missouri, Truman epitomized the everyday American. He prided himself on being a man of the people, a simple farmer and humble citizen in an extraordinary circumstance. Throughout his time in office, and in the decades since his retirement, critics have accused Truman of having been inexperienced and unable to manage the trials of the Presidency. Nonetheless, President Truman maintained the postwar peace while setting the course for the United States to win the Cold War, saved Europe through the Marshall Plan, consolidated the liberal advances made through Roosevelt''s New Deal, and led America''s economy through eight years of prosperity. Perennially underestimated, Harry Truman proved to be one of the most important Presidents of the twentieth century, and the story of his Presidency is one that truly deserves a prominent place in American history.

Since emerging as a presence on the Canadian political scene more than two decades ago, Stephen Harper has continuously been dismissed by his critics and foes alike for his inexperience and controversial national unity proposals. Yet even before moving into 24 Sussex Drive, Harper managed to successfully bring the Canadian Alliance back from the brink of political extinction, unite the right to form the Conservative Party, and defeat a once considered invincible Prime Minister to capture the Prime Minister''s Office.After Stephen Harper became Canada''s twenty second Prime Minister, pundits predicted that the Liberals would return to power within a matter of months. Yet two election victories later, Stephen Harper is already one of Canada''s top ten longest serving Prime Ministers, and he''s just getting started. As Jonah Goldberg illustrates, while to some his political rise was shocking and unanticipated, Stephen Harper has spent his entire life, from his childhood until the 2006 election, preparing to lead the nation, whether he intended to do so or not.

The bestselling author of Liberal Fascism dismantles the progressive myths that are passed-off as wisdom in our schools, media and politics. According to Jonah Goldberg, if the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, the greatest trick liberals ever pulled was convincing themselves that they’re not ideological. Today, “objective” journalists, academics and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun aphorisms. Barack Obama casts himself as a disciple of reason and sticks to one refrain above all others: he’s a pragmatist, opposed to the ideology and dogma of the right, solely concerned with “what works.” And today’s liberals follow his lead, spouting countless clichés such as: One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter: Sure, if the other man is an idiot. Was Martin Luther King Jr. a terrorist? Was Bin Laden a freedom fighter? Violence never solves anything: Really? It solved our problems with the British empire and ended slavery. Better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer: So you won’t mind if those ten guilty men move next door to you? Diversity is strength: Cool.The NBA should have a quota for midgets and one-legged point guards! We need complete separation of church and state: In other words all expressions of faith should be barred from politics …except when they support liberal programs. With humor and passion, Goldberg dismantles these and many other Trojan Horses that liberals use to cheat in the war of ideas. He shows that the grand Progressive tradition of denying an ideological agenda while pursuing it vigorously under the false-flag of reasonableness is alive and well. And he reveals how this dangerous game may lead us further down the path of self-destruction.

The stories of Canada''s Leaders of the Official Opposition who failed to become Prime Minister.

In Proud to Be Right, Jonah Goldberg, the New York Times bestselling author of Liberal Fascism, presents voices of the next Conservative generation. A fresh and provocative collection of lively political writing from right wing writers under the age of 30, Proud to Be Right rebuts the conventional wisdom that Generation Y is a uniformly liberal demographic—and that intelligent young people today fall blindly into the Barack Obama camp.

A book about the Premiers of Ontario.

''Fascismo de Esquerda'' oferece uma perspectiva sobre as teorias e práticas que definem o fascismo. Jonah Goldberg analisa as figuras de Hitler e Mussolini e conclui que, ao contrário do que pensamos, liberais como Hillary Clinton têm defendido políticas e princípios notavelmente semelhantes aos do nacional-socialismo. Um livro que mostra as origens do fascismo no clássico pensamento esquerdista.

“Fascists,” “Brownshirts,” “jackbooted stormtroopers”—such are the insults typically hurled at conservatives by their liberal opponents. Calling someone a fascist is the fastest way to shut them up, defining their views as beyond the political pale. But who are the real fascists in our midst? Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler''s National Socialism and Mussolini''s Fascism. Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term “National socialism”). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life. The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control. They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities—where campus speech codes were all the rage. The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine. Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist. Do these striking parallels mean that today’s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order? Not at all. Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler''s Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song. Many fascist tenets were espoused by American progressives like John Dewey and Woodrow Wilson, and FDR incorporated fascist policies in the New Deal. Fascism was an international movement that appeared in different forms in different countries, depending on the vagaries of national culture and temperament. In Germany, fascism appeared as genocidal racist nationalism. In America, it took a “friendlier,” more liberal form. 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. These assertions may sound strange to modern ears, but that is because we have forgotten what fascism is. In this angry, funny, smart, contentious book, Jonah Goldberg turns our preconceptions inside out and shows us the true meaning of Liberal Fascism.