Jonah Jacob Goldberg is an American conservative journalist, author, and political commentator. He is the founding editor of National Review Online, serving from 1998 until 2019 as an editor at National Review. Goldberg writes a weekly column about politics and culture for the Los Angeles Times. In October 2019, he became the founding editor of the online opinion and news publication The Dispatch.
Goldberg is the author of the No. 1 New York Times bestseller Liberal Fascism, released in January 2008; The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, released in 2012; and Suicide of the West, published in April 2018, which also became a New York Times bestseller, reaching No. 5 on the list the following month.
He is a regular contributor on news networks such as CNN and MSNBC, appearing on programs like Good Morning America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto, The Glenn Beck Program, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Goldberg was an occasional guest on several Fox News shows such as The Five, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and Outnumbered. He was also a frequent panelist on Special Report with Bret Baier and a frequent participant on bloggingheads.tv from 2006 to 2010.
Goldberg has been a noted critic of President Donald Trump, fellow Republicans, and the conservative media complex during and after the Trump presidency. In November 2021, Goldberg and his colleague Steve Hayes resigned from Fox News in protest over Tucker Carlson's documentary Patriot Purge, describing it as "a collection of incoherent conspiracy-mongering, riddled with factual inaccuracies, half-truths, deceptive imagery, and damning omissions."