Jonah Goldberg

Lead House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), right, hugs House impeachment manager Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.) after she spoke during the second day of the second Senate impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump, at the Capitol in Washington on Feb. 10, 2021.

Column: Impeachment trials aren’t about proving criminal behavior

February 9, 2021 at 8:01 p.m.

After three presidential impeachments, I've seen enough to conclude that one of the worst things about them is the lawyers. Even among some of my favorite legal commentators, the problem...

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene leaves her office on Capitol Hill on Feb. 3, 2021.

Column: The GOP is all too happy to accommodate QAnon

February 4, 2021 at 12:11 a.m.

Warning: Disturbing stuff ahead. There's a conspiracy theory called Frazzledrip. Even for QAnon types, it's pretty fringe, which is saying something. Recall that the central belief in Q-world is that...

Nurse manager Rob Treiber receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Hebrew Rehabilitation Center in Boston on Dec. 30.

Column: Set our vaccination goals higher, President Biden

January 27, 2021 at 10:25 p.m.

We are far from the destination, but the return to normalcy has begun — and so have the normal games presidents play. Donald Trump said many times that COVID-19 would...

Column: Both sides need to ditch whataboutism and condemn bad actors

January 22, 2021 at 10:23 p.m.

As many feared, after President Joe Biden was inaugurated, a mob unleashed destruction. They stormed the Democratic Party headquarters. They spray-painted "(expletive) Biden!" and smashed the Democratic HQ's windows. One...

A security fence surrounds the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 10, 2021.

Column: Parler’s lawsuit against Amazon is destined to fail

January 15, 2021 at 8:04 p.m.

I have never been a free speech absolutist. I am, however, somewhat closer to being a First Amendment absolutist. Many free speech absolutists don't like this distinction because they think...

Sen. Ted Cruz leaves a Republican Senate luncheon on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 20, 2020.

Column: Ted Cruz shows why the GOP isn’t going back to Reaganism

March 11, 2024 at 1:54 p.m.

Throughout Donald Trump's captivity of the GOP, many Republicans have held fast to the hope that after he leaves office, the party can return to the sunny Reaganism of the...

American flags are displayed together with Chinese flags on top of a trishaw in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2018.

Column: A Cold War approach won’t work with China

December 18, 2020 at 11:47 p.m.

It's easy to miss, given how polarized our politics are, but there is a growing consensus around a very big issue: China. Foreign policy experts, military leaders and politicians across...

Texas' Attorney General Ken Paxton waits on the flight line for the arrival of Vice President Mike Pence at Love Field in Dallas on June 28, 2020. A longshot lawsuit that President Donald Trump is now calling "the big one" in his effort to subvert the will of the voters is helmed by Paxton.

Column: Texas AG’s lawsuit is a shameful display of hypocrisy

December 11, 2020 at 10:17 p.m.

I'm angry. I have been defending the Electoral College and the larger Madisonian vision behind it — often called "federalism" — for decades. As a pointed critic of the president,...

Supporters of the Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., an Election Day event hosted by the Georgia Republican Party on Nov. 3, 2020, in Atlanta.

Column: Republicans need to find a way out of this mess

December 1, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.

"How do we get out of this?" That's the question preoccupying the right these days. The specific "this" varies, but what unites all the concerns is the mess Donald Trump...

Commentary: Today’s Republicans see conservatism as a mere tool

November 26, 2020 at 7:05 p.m.

In 1965, William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review magazine and, as much as anyone, of modern American conservatism, ran for mayor of New York City. It was a...

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