I've avoided giving too much thought to Jonah Goldberg's much discussed bestseller, Liberal Fascism, because I think the entire enterprise is so obviously stupid as to merit almost no consideration. In fact, the strenuous denunciations from various liberal intellectuals only gave the idiotic tome more legitimacy than it deserves.
So, I'm hoping that Michael Tomasky's masterful takedown of the book in the New Republic will close the chapter on having to comment on it. There's no better sort of book review to read than one written by a very intelligent person (Tomasky certainly qualifies) about a book they intend to completely destroy (see also Ross Douthat's review of Christopher Hitchen's god is not great for another example of the genre).
I doubt it will make any dent in the runaway sales success of the book, however.
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I remember hearing that once the comparison to Nazi Germany has been made, a rational argument must end or devolve into pointlessness. This book seems to hardly deserve the effort the reviewer put forth.
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