For those who haven't seen it yet, here, from the New Republic, is Michael Tomasky's masterful demolition of Jonah Goldberg's bestselling book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. I particularly like this parenthetical speculation:

(For all his supposed fearlessness, though, he pulled one haymaker of a punch: the original subtitle of the book was The Totalitarian Temptation From Mussolini to Hillary Clinton. I'm mildly curious about the logic by which a writer who insists that Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy were fascists thought that the original subtitle violated some canon of judgment or taste.)

Matthew Boudway is senior editor of Commonweal.

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