Here’s a strange one: National Republic Online editor, dim star of the right-wing wankosphere and heir to a wing-nut dynasty Jonah Goldberg has finally finished his long-anticipated literary masturbation, err, masterstroke, Liberal Fascism. (Goldberg’s toils in pursuit of the tome are documented here, here, and here.) Only the subtitle of the book has changed – from the oh-so-proactive The Totalitarian Temptation From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton to The Totalitarian Temptation From Hegel to Whole Foods. Huh?
Goldberg must not get out much from behind his Cheetos-encrusted keyboard in the front lines of the Glorious Global War on IslamoFascistNaziVeganism, because if he did, he’d know Whole Foods’ John Mackey is a hardcore, dyed-in-the-wool libertarian. Not exactly shot-caller of the granola mafia.
We can only hope Goldberg’s third subtitle will cover the Totalitarian Temptation from, say, Chuck E. Cheese to public libraries. Don’t get me started on them …
This article appears in June 22 • 2007.