If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

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.