# Jonah Goldberg Up: [[Thomas Sowell]] · [[Users/@CapitalismMag/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - CapitalismMag on Sowell's What Is Fascism (2026-10-24)|CapitalismMag post analysis]] **Role in this topic:** the author of the book Sowell's column reviews - American conservative writer, born 1969 ◻. Formerly at *National Review*, and in 2019 co-founder (with Stephen Hayes) of *The Dispatch* ◻. Left Fox News in 2021 over Tucker Carlson's *Patriot Purge* ◻. - ***Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning*** (Doubleday, Jan 2008) ◻. It argues that fascism grew from the same progressive and collectivist roots as the modern American left. Reviews: [NYT (David Oshinsky, Dec 30, 2007)](https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html) and [The Guardian (2009)](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/08/goldberg-liberal-fascism-review), both critical. Sowell praised it ("brilliant analysis"). - Goldberg says he is not calling liberals Nazis ◻. A later anti-Trump stance and a 2018 book, *Suicide of the West* ◻. - The "rigidly secular" schools phrase in Sowell's column comes from Goldberg's account of the 1919 fascist program ⚠️ (source not located).