"By far the most important and prescient book of the past decade is Jonah Goldberg's 'Liberal Fascism' (2007), which makes it easy to understand why town-hall meetings are stuffed with concerned and angry citizens."

National Review's Jonah Goldberg isn't quite sure what this poster-supposedly popping up all over the place in Los Angeles-really means, but he does hope we won't allow ourselves to get bogged down in the idea that putting Barack Obama in whiteface might be freighted with some unpleasant racial connotations. Focus on the socialism, okay?

Argumentative conservative Jonah Goldberg, author of "Liberal Fascism," has discovered, in the wake of yesterday's genius Times op-ed about how some Americans can neither be nor wed someone of the opposite or same sex, that it is foolish to attempt to define love or to be concerned with gender and homosexuality when it comes to the heart! Sounding more like Judy Butler than Mitt Romney, he asks: "Do we really want to live in a society in which love is a genetically mandated confidence game?"