{"id":507,"date":"2009-06-08T12:47:19","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2009-06-08T12:47:19","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:47:19","slug":"monday-book-pick-liberal-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/monday-book-pick\/monday-book-pick-liberal-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick &#8211; Liberal Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767917189\/eclipsswebwarren\" TARGET=\"_top\"><b>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change<\/b><\/a> by Jonah Goldberg<\/p>\n<p>Recently released in paperback, the well researched book explains the history you should know.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=205\">As Dr. Pournelle pointed out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Goldberg\u2019s book is an anomaly: serious students of political science shouldn\u2019t find anything here they didn\u2019t already know. Alas, I had to say \u201cshouldn\u2019t\u201d, because a very great number of people who consider themselves serious students of political science will be shocked and astonished to discover that Fascism, Progressivism, and modern American Liberalism have many intellectual roots in common. Roosevelt\u2019s New Deal incorporated many elements of Italian Fascism, and in fact before the mid-30\u2019s many Western statesmen had admiring things to say about Fascism and about Il Duce Mussolini who made the trains run on time and brought prosperity \u2014 or its illusion \u2014 to Italy. Goldberg documents all this as well as the Jacobin roots of both Fascism and Progressivism. The notion that human life can be improved by central planning and tinkering with the legal and economic system is the common thread to them all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Change by Jonah Goldberg Recently released in paperback, the well researched book explains the history you should know. As Dr. Pournelle pointed out: Goldberg\u2019s book is an anomaly: serious students of political science shouldn\u2019t find anything here they didn\u2019t already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,54,19],"tags":[165,453,532,617,621],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-book-pick","category-political-books","category-politics","tag-book","tag-jonah-goldberg","tag-monday-book-pick","tag-political-book","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-8b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}