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February 13, 2008

Quote Meet Author

by AltHippo @ 6:29 pm. Filed under Liberal Fascism

Jonah Goldberg, aged 10, responds to a reader’s query. The reader asks: “Given the generally desultory reviews of your latest tome by reviewers across a wide spectrum of political thought, is it not possible you simply wrote a bad book? You’d hardly be alone. Most books are bad, but few authors spend as much time fretting about how they’re being reviewed as you.”

Too true, I say to myself, nodding my head in agreement. Liberal Fascism may be the stupidest book ever written. But, there’s no sense crying over spilled right-wing agitprop.

Jonah’s response (emphasis mine): “It’s a book blog about a book. A book I’m proud to have written. A book I think is very good (and quite a few folks agree with me so far) which has often generated some very bad — and I don’t mean critical — reviews. But what an odd complaint. If not here, where? If not me, who?”

That last bit, of course, is a bad paraphrase of that great Hillel quote: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?”

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