Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.
Jonah GoldbergIf you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.
Jonah GoldbergBut this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one.
Jonah GoldbergA week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is. That's because rhetorically and substantively, he seems to be in another world.
Jonah GoldbergIn crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
Jonah GoldbergLook, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.
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