irst God created pepper-jack cheese, hard pretzels, and beer. And he said, "These are good." But God decided that others should appreciate his creations so he created the universe and then Earth and man and the light with which man could eventually see the pepper-jack cheese and beer. Later man discovered fire….animal husbandry….then came the Peloponnesian Wars….crop rotation….dwarf tossing….and National Review….
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Jonah Goldberg is editor-at-large of National Review Online for which he writes his thrice-weekly column "The Goldberg File" and a contributing editor to National Review. Goldberg also writes a nationally syndicated column distributed by Tribune Media Services, which appears often such newspapers as the Kansas City Star, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Washington Times, the Orlando Sentinel, San Francisco Chronicle, the Manchester Union Leader, and others. He also writes a regular media criticism column for The American Enterprise magazine. Mr. Goldberg was a contributing editor and columnist for the now-defunct Brill's Content.

Mr. Goldberg is also a CNN contributor and regular panelist on Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer. He is an occasional guest-host on Crossfire and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs.

Since Mr. Goldberg became editor of National Review Online, it rapidly become one of the dominant players in web journalism, earning high praise from The Columbia Journalism Review, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor. The New York Press concluded that National Review Online is "by far the best political online operation going today."

Jonah Goldberg is a former television producer who has credits in a wide range of productions. He was the senior producer of Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg, the award-winning public-affairs program and he has written and produced two PBS documentaries. Prior to his work in television Mr. Goldberg was a researcher at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC. An award-winning journalist, his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Worth, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, the New York Post, Reason, The Women's Quarterly, The New Criterion, Food and Wine, The Street.com, and Slate.

He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Jessica Gavora — an author , who is currently serving as Senior Policy Advisor and Chief Speechwriter to the Attorney General — and his dog Cosmo, who is currently serving as Lord High Commissioner on Squirrel and Other Vermin Containment on Special Assignment to the Goldberg Household.

 
 

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