But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

It reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list of hardcover nonfiction in its seventh week on the list. The Los Angeles Times added Goldberg to its editorial lineup in 2005.

Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online of which he is editor-at-large. From 2006 to 2010 he was a frequent participant on bloggingheads. He is the author of Liberal Fascism (2008) which reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.