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Broken! Why Politics and Government Aren't Working

Mon, April 28, 2025
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Jonah Goldberg P'25
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Jonah Goldberg P'25

Americans distrust each other, the government, and most major institutions. For the last 25 years, both parties have managed to over-promise, over-reach and under-deliver. It's not supposed to be this way, and it doesn't need to be. Jonah Goldberg P'25, co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Dispatch, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and television contributor, believes that the solutions to these problems don't require new ideas, but a willingness to embrace the actual principles of liberal democracy and the Constitution, not move 'beyond' them, as partisans and ideologues in both parties have sought to do.

Jonah Goldberg P'25 is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Dispatch. He has been an LA Times columnist for two decades. A senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, he holds the Asness Chair in Applied Liberty.

Before founding The Dispatch, Goldberg was a senior editor and writer at National Review for 20 years. A former Fox News contributor, Goldberg is currently a CNN political commentator and appears regularly on NPR’s Morning Edition.

Goldberg is the author of three New York Times bestsellers, the most recent of which was Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, Populism, Nationalism, and Identity Politics is Destroying American Democracy.

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