front_cover_mini.jpgMany people – such as Avedon and Instaputz and peter ramus and Frenchy Lemieux and Pinko Punko – are starting to understand the groundbreaking nature of my book, and saying eminently fair and gracious and typically thoughtful things about it. These people have shown themselves to be serious intellectuals, capable of following a careful, detailed, highly thoughtful argument about Liberal Fascism without resorting to cheap name-calling and childish baby-food slinging hysterics as my liberal critics do. The Institute salutes you.

Many others have written in with eminently fair and gracious and typically thoughtful comments. This is one of my favorites:

Hi The Editors,

I just finished reading your book, and it has changed my life forever. I have ordered 50,000 copies of your book to stock a new library I am building with my life’s savings, a library which will contain nothing but your book. The library will be called The Liberal Fascism Library, and will be built of 50,000 bricks, where by ‘bricks’ I mean ‘more copies of your book’. And no one will be allowed to borrow a book from this library because they should buy their own copies, as well as one for everyone they know, as well as a few backups in case of flood or fire or Rapture.

Your book did, however, imply one important point, which I didn’t see you address directly, and I wondered what you had to say about it. You argue very persuasively that liberalism is in many ways the modern re-imagining of fascism. This would imply that today’s so-called ‘liberals’ are, in fact, the modern version of fascists. However, Jonah Goldberg has argued equally persuasively that George W. Bush, the leader of the country, is quite clearly a liberal. Now, if a liberal is like a fascist, and a liberal leader is therefore like a fascist leader, doesn’t that imply that George W. Bush is like Hitler? I await your thoughts.

Bonah Joldberg

Yes, indeed. Now, why can’t my liberal critics put together sophisticated arguments like this instead of being a bunch of a leftwing remoras attaching themselves to my whale of a book?