joining us is jonah goldberg, his most recent book is called "suicide of the west". we will get to the subtitle in a minute but mr. goldberg, is there a line you could drawe between your three books, liberal fascism, tyranny of clichÉs and now "suicide of the west"? >> yes, one most obvious one is they took an enormous amount of work by jonah goldberg. often tell people that this book is a bit of a prequel to liberal fascism and if i had it all to do over again i would written parts of liberal fascism differently. it's amazing how it's become a total for people to hate me on the left or like it on the right and i have changed some of my views about how intellectual history works. in liberal fascism there's a tendency that is true of other people on the left and right to say philosopher a said acts. 500 years later philosopher b said therefore philosopher b must of been influenced by philosopher a. obviously some of that goes on but that intellectual connecting of the dots blaming everything on russo, i don't believe it in it as much anymore. it's interesting and illu

jonah goldberg. and how this is destroying american policies. >> good to be here. >> here are some of the current best selling nonfiction books according to amazon. topping the list is "becoming", former first lady michelle obama's memoir. after that a collection of the late columnist charles krauthammer's speeches. >> and president trump and his response to the hurricane, by staff and stephen colbert. and then growing up in the idaho mountains and introduction to formal education at age 17. and wrapping up a look at some of the best selling books according to amazon, a look at human history "sapiens", some of them have appeared and you can find them on-line at book tv.org. throughout the year, book tv attendance events and book fairs to speak with nonfiction authors. at the book fair in washington d.c. we spoke with ira shapiro about the future of the senate. >> ira shapiro, give us a ens

. >> joining us now is jonah goldberg we will get to the subtitle in justst a minute is there a line between liberal fascism the most obvious that i oftenve tell people this is a bit of a prequel. if i had to do it over again i would do it differently. it is amazing how it is a totem to hated on the left door like it onn the right but i changed my views how intellectual history works in liberal fascism there is a common tendency for people to say 500 years a different philosopher says something else that it must be influenced by philosopher a-letter but to connect the dots so i don't believe in that as much anymore because it is illuminating but i have a much bigger believer in how our brains with the ideas that it is hardwired to manifest itself so that sense to be part of a group or a tribe that instinct is more important than i realize. not just those idease but the receptivity of our brains so there is a lot of overlap with the limited government and conservatives that that evolution is marked and where my head is at a lot these days mimic if you would rewrite liberal fascism wou

and analysis are peggy noonan,ie e glaude, jr., of princeto university, kimberly atkins, and jonah goldberg, senior editor at "national review." welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcerfrom nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press." . >>> good sunday morning. shortly after the filings by special counsel robert mueller and special prosecutors in new york were releas friday evening, president trump tweeted in the third person. totally clears the president. thank you. well, not really. not even close. in fact this is how the usuay supportive "new york post" put it. donald and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. well, the court filings technically are aboutmichael cohen and paul manafort, the most consequential player in this drama is really the person identified as individual 1, donald trump. federal prosecutorsviay inal 1 directed cohen to make illegal payments to women with whom the president had affairs. that would be a felony. and they describe how cohen corrected the timeline o contacts with russia about the m

eddie glaude, peggy noonan, peggy atkins and jonah goldberg.the way back machine for the campaign. here's a great paul manafort quote during the convention that now you just have to see two years later. >> so to be clear mr. trump has no financial relationships with any russian oligarchs. >> that's what he said. that's what i -- that's obviously what our position is. >> we're a long way from there, kimberly. >> really. yes, we really are. there's always a tweet, there's always a quote when it comes to paul manafort. obviously what we saw this week, usually when files come out and they paint a picture of what's going on, they call them speaking indictments. this is like a shouting indictment of the broad category robert mueller is looking into, including these ever-denied connections with russians, business deals with russians that president trump denied having. if people have been lying to congress, lying to investigators about that, that is a big problem for the president. >> let me put up sort of the quick bullet points of michael flynn -- of

past 'er, tara westover, awe the or educated, jerome coresy, with killing the deep state, and jonah goldberg who authored suicide of the west appeared on "after words" and were month the most watched become esovereign 2018. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. for a television schedule visit booktv.org and follow along behind the scenessed a book tv on twitter, i instagram and facebook. >> the national press club holds an annual become fair and this year booktv attended and spoke with several nonfiction authors. "the new york times" magazine's mark leibovich talked about the current issues facing the national football national football league. >> mash mark leibovich. mat is the current state of the national football league. >> well, the most popular sport in the country, never been more profitable, never had more people watching, and yet it feels like they shand here is going to fall on the league at any point. never felt more dangerous also. the leagues a so many quote unquo issues round health and safety the incompetence of the people who run the thing, around just the changing taste of

. >> joining us now is jonah goldberg we will get to the subtitle in justst a minute

. >> that's a taste of "suicide of the west", jonah goldberg's new book, subtitle of the rebirth of tribalism, populism, nationalism and identity politics is destroying american democracy. thank you for your few minutes here in miami. >> great to be here. thank you very much. >> the miami book fair continues now. >> good afternoon. ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. our next action is about to begin. thank you. welcome. again, i know many of you have been here with us at the miami book fair. some of you have been with us sense last sunday and won the book fair begin. it's truly a pleasure to welcome you to our 35th edition of miami book fair here at miami dade college and for those of you who know miami-dade college very well you know that miami-dade college has an open door we are democracy's college surveilling 106 of 5000 students and truly proud of every single one of our students. each of whom have a story that we are here to validate each and every day that they are with us. all we not our students, faculty and staff are among the hundreds of volunteers at miami book fair eve

wonderful -- this past year, author of educated, jerome with killing the jeep state and jonah goldberg offered suicide the west all appeared on booktv's afterwards program. and all were among the most watched book events of 2018. >> good afternoon everyone. thank you so much for joining us here my name is alishia. [applause] [laughter] i am the community and organizational development coordinator at metro art national office a of arts and culture and i am privilege to facility facilitate the progr

charles hurt opinion editor for "the washington times" ," and jonah goldberg sr.nal review. the moment was quite something to see but the minority leader saying get the cameras out of here, let's talk. and then the president saying that's transparency. >> i'll never understand that complaint in this era of trump. i would think at the very least people who don't like trump and the things that he says would at least applaud the fact that he is transparent. he doesn't mind having the press in these meetings. you got two people here in pelosi and chuck schumer who have 65 years of political experience, he's a complete novice. what we saw in that 15 minutes in the oval office was him completely getting them -- playing rope-a-dope with them so they are playing 100% his game. he is right on the issue of border security, republicans win that fight, trump winds that fight, it's what got him electe elected. there are a couple things that chuck schumer said that were amazing, one line that election matter, i guess elections matter except in 2016 when trump won. he said this

jonah goldberg who authored suicide of the west. all appeared on booktv's afterwards program. all were among the most watched book events of 2018. >> good evening and welcome. i am carter, have the privilege of serving as the president here at the association i'm very thankful that you've taken time to join us here. thank you very much for agreeing to be here this evening. a couple of other guests i would like to introduce you to. bishop of the military services. he's a retired army chaplain. near and dear to christy's heart and mind. a fellow graduate of the university in cleveland ohio. if you were to take, go back in time for me to photograph of the court to 1975, and say, which one of these cadets is going to be efficient? [laughter] you would not have picked the leather jacket, tote wearing, motorcycle riding, ranger elephant, soon to be in for treatment is not your first choice. to end up as a bishop in the catholic church. it's wait to see you again. thanks for turning us this evening. although joining us, general of the united states army. highest ranking female gradua

. >> so is this just symbolism as jonah goldberg argues in the national review saying this is just about a symbolic wall that a lot of people know is never going to happen but donald trump just has to make this final push? >> i think it's definitely bollic. there have been any number of experts that say the wall wouldn't even really add to border security. you've had some border patrol people saying if it's a wall that he first described, they couldn't see what was going on on the other side. then he changed it like it's a scenic wall that you could see through. i think now nancy pelosi described it as a hanging beads or something. we don't even know what we're talking about here in terms of the wall. it's all symbolism because it's not serious. it's about playing to the base. he's playing politics. and trying to keep the mueller report off of people's minds. and he's getting ready for what may happen when the house begains next week when they're sworn in to start talking about what they want to investigate and look into his personal business as well as his businesses. >> i'm going to go

past 'er, tara westover, awe the or educated, jerome coresy, with killing the deep state, and jonah goldbergo authored suicide of the west appeared on "after words" and were month the most watched become esovereign 2018. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2. for a television schedule visit booktv.org and follow along behind the scenessed a book tv on twitter, i

inaudible conversations] >> this past year tara westover, author of "educated," jerome corsi and jonah goldbergall appears on booktv's "after words" program, and all were among the most watched book events of 2018. >> coming up this weekend on booktv, today at noon eastern coverage of the second annual well-realize black girl festival in brooklyn, new york, with a key note address by author and poet patricia smith. >> i didn't know much about the steamy, problematic down south my parents had come from. i knew the south was steamy because they never stopped complaining about chicago's cold teeth. i knew it was problematic because television told me so. on our flickering floor model philco, people who looked like me were cornered by snarling police dogs or doused while they sat stoically at lunch counters. i heard about people who looked like me gone missing, swaying from poplars, swirling in rivers. i heard other names for people who looked like me, names with ugly, bladed edges, names to make us smaller, quieter, less boisterous, hess of ourselves -- less of ourselves. >> sunday at 9 p.m. on "a

this past year, author of educated, jerome with killing the jeep state and jonah goldberg offered suicide the west all appeared on booktv's afterwards program. and all were among the most watched book events of 2018. >> good afternoon everyone. thank you so much for joining us here my name is alishia. [applause] [laughter] i am the community and organizational development coordinator at metro art national office a of arts and culture and i am privilege to facility facilitate the program as well as restorative justice and arts programs. there at metro art and i am the light thrilled to be in conversation with these authors this afternoon. yes, and so we're going to do brief introductions going here down the line. we have ta faye. >> hello. i'll be superbrief. my name it ta -- a black southern writer from jackson, mississippi. wrote a novel called long division ethic division how to those in america, and have a memoir coming out tuesday called heavy thank you all for coming. [applause] >> hi i'm ray paris from carson, california. and i was a professor at michigan state and i just went to se

. >> i heard jonah goldberg, the conservative writer for the national review the other day talking aboutthere used to be a time when republicans looked at the moral issue -- forget the legality of it all, forget whether or not this payment was acceptable or not acceptable under the law. the morality of it, the idea that the president shortly after his wife gave birth to their son was having these affairs with whomever -- doesn't matter. in this case, stormy daniels and karen mcdougal, allegedly. >> yeah. and breaking the law, according to the southern district of new york. i mean, it's all so unbelievable. i'm still reeling from the dave bossie thing, fired at newt gingrich's gingrich's insistence because he was such an out of control sort of character. then went into sort of various sleazy direct mail things and so forth for 15 years. then was a big trump guy because, why not? you know, birds of a feather and all of that. the fact he could be chief of staff is so jaw-dropping, it almost trumps everything else. but errorrin hatch, it's just pathetic. >> i have to say, what's interesting

joining us now is jonah goldberg. his most recent book is called "suicide of the west" we'll get

and here is another one, this is from jonah goldberg this weekend writing about why the trump presidencynotes this, weirdly, it's gotten to the point that when i say president trump is not a man of good character, i feel like i should preface it with a trigger warning for many of my fellow conservatives. most of the angry responses are rooted in the fact they do not wish to be reminded of this obvious truth. but others seem to have convinced themselves that trump is a man of good character and they take personal offense at the insult, even though i usually offer it as little more than an observation. kristen, last word. at this point it's hard to deny what is -- has been in front of people for two, three years. >> yeah, again, none of this should be surprising. i think the reason why you have an awful lot of conservatives who, nonetheless, we've seen terrible behavior out of the president but stick by him is they think he is the means to the end, as was mentioned in the previous column, but also they voted for him, this he support him. if all of a sudden they were to say, wow, i made a m