Liberal Fascism, The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, by Jonah Goldberg, Selected Quotes
July 23, 2011 | By Jack Yoest
Liberal Fascism, by Jonah Goldberg Charmaine and I are preparing for the National Review Cruise coming up in November.
We've got to get ready: Packing, scheduling work, care for the kids.
And most important--reading the books of the speakers.
We are just now finishing up Jonah's book, Liberal Fascism, published by Doubleday.
We should have read it earlier but didn't.
Because we were mistaken--I judged his book by its cover. The yellow smiley face with a Hitler mustache appeared to be just another polemic by just another smart conservative.
Jonah should have looked to the cover art of another very good book for tips, Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex, and Title IX, by Jessica Gavora. His wife.
Jonah Goldberg and Jessica GavoraI expected a light, breezy book. Nope. I started it and couldn't put it down.
The Alert Reader knows that Your Business Blogger(R) teaches graduate students at The Catholic University of American and undergrads at the Northern Virginia Community College. But while reading Jonah's book I was constantly a-yelling every five minutes to Charmaine, "Did you know...? Did you know...?" some fact from Liberal Fascism. Usually, she didn't. And she has a Ph.D. in government (political science) from UVA. That's how deep liberals (the fascists) have buried the simple truth.
We got the e-book for our iPad; sorry no page numbers. Word search your copy if you doubt.
Jonah credits George Carlin "Smiley-Face Fascism" for the juxtaposed title-image.
(This even sounds like Carlin. In the movie Dogma, Carlin as a Catholic cardinal, announces a new marketing campaign featuring Jesus as a goof-ball statue, the "Buddy Christ.")
Jonah's quotes will be bold(ed).
"American Liberalism is a totalitarian political religion...where truly no child is left behind."
Goldberg published this book in 2007 and he describes how fascist governments work. One indicator, for example, is by appropriating large businesses.
How on earth did he know that president Obama would be taking over General Motors a few years later?
Introduction, "Everything you know about Fascism is wrong." (Which is how another speaker on the NRO Cruise, Ramesh Ponnuru, begins The Party of Death, Everything you know about Roe vs Wade is a lie...)
Goldberg wisely leads off by attempting to define Fascism. Hard for anyone to do but in broad brush-strokes. Jonah starts by drawing an outline with the French Revolution with Robespierre and then Napoleon as the first modern dictators leading the first Fascist movement: "totalitarianism, terrorist, nationalistic, conspiratorial, populist..." "Some fifty thousand people ultimately died in the Terror, many in political show trials that Simon Schama describes as the "founding charter of totalitarian justice.""
Leave it to the French to be first in something in the modern era.
"It was Rousseau who originally sanctified the sovereign will of the masses while dismissing the mechanics of democracy as corrupting and profane."
Goldberg continues at the beginning of the last century, where, "Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism."
Fascism is a "Form of populist ultra-nationalism."
Jonah quotes Emilio Gentile, "New regime, destroying democracy."
"Wilson was the first president to speak disparagingly of the Constitution..."No doubt," [Wilson] wrote, taking dead aim at the Declaration of Independence, "a lot of nonsense has been talked about the inalienable rights of the individual, and a great deal that was mere vague sentimental and pleasing speculation has been put forward as fundamental principle..." Wilson, of course, was merely one voice in the progressive chorus of the age."
"Adolf Hitler was indisputably to Wilson's left." Italics in original.
"American progressives were obsessed with the "racial heath" of the nation, supposedly endangered by mounting waves of immigration as well as overpopulation by native-born Americans...Leading progressives intellectuals saw eugenics as an important... tool in the quest for the the holy grail of "social control.""
"Hitler "studied" American eugenics while in prison..."
"[HG] Wells call[ed] for an "enlightened Nazism"...a keen eugenicist and particularly supportive of the extermination of unfit and darker races."
HG Wells was also a lover of Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood.
"John Maynard Keynes, the founding father of liberal economics...declared eugenics "the most important...genuine branch of sociology..." Italics in original.
"In 1927 [Oliver Wendell] Holmes wrote, "I...delivered an opinion upholding the constitutionality of a state law for sterilizing imbeciles...and felt that I was getting near the first principle of real reform." [Italics in the original]...referring to...the notorious case of Buck v. Bell."
Why should a civilized society not perform human experimentation on embryos? "Who is troubled by euthanasia, abortion, and playing God in the laboratory?" Goldberg continues,Good dogma is the most powerful inhibiting influence against bad ideas and the only guarantor that men will acto on good ones. A conservative nation that seriously wondered if destroying a blostocyst is murder would not wonder at all whether it is murder to kill an eight-and-half-month old fetus, let alone a "defective" infant.
"How, exactly, is this substantively different from Margaret Sanger's [policies]...after the Holocaust discredited eugenics per se, neither the eugenicists nor their ideas disappeared...Indeed...Planned Parenthood is today more eugenic than Sanger intended. Sanger, after all despised abortions [so she wrote publicly, but in private letters Sanger often expressed different opinions]...as "barbaric" abortion resulted in "an outrageous slaughter" and "the killing of babies"..."
"Revealing enough, roughly 80 percent of Planned Parenthood's abortion centers are in or near minority communities."
"Peter Singer [not 'Sanger'] widely hailed as the most important living philosopher and the world's leading ethicist. Professor Singer, who teaches at Princeton, argues that unwanted or disabled babies should be killed in the name of "compassion." He also argues that the elderly and other drags on society should be put down when their lives are no longer worth living."
"Singer doesn't hide behind code words...[see his] essay..."Killing Babies Isn't Always Wrong"...his views are popular or respected in many academic circles..."
But maybe not at The Catholic University of America. Thank goodness.
"The sociologist Andrew Hacker decries "white logic," ...argue[s that] blacks...under perform academically because the subject matter in our schools represents white-supremacist thinking. Black children reject schoolwork because academic success amounts to "acting white."
"To forgive something by saying "it's a black thing" is philosophically no different from saying "it's an Aryan thing." The moral context matters a great deal. But the excuse is identical."
"Without the standards of the Enlightenment, we are in a Nietzschean world where power decides important questions rather than reason. This is exactly how the left appears to want it."
Progressives run a-muck? Sinclair Lewis says of The Jungle on the Chicago meat packing industry, "The Federal inspection of meat was, historically, established at the packers' request," Sinclair wrote in 1906. "It is maintained and paid for by the people of the United States for the benefit of the packers." The historian Gabriel Kolko concurs..."
"[Marian Wright] Edelman [of The Children's Defense Fund] greatest influence has been in welfare policy, and there her ideas have proven to be spectacularly wrong..."When you talked about poor people or black people you faced a shrinking audience," she has said. "I got the idea that children might be a very effective way to broaden the base for change." Indeed, Edelman...can be blamed for the saccharine omnipresence of "the children" in American political rhetoric."
"Hitler banned religious charity, crippling the churches role as a counterweight to the state. Clergy were put on government salary, hence subjected to state authority. "The parsons will be made to dig their own graves," Hitler cackled. "They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes.""
In Germany "In 1935 mandatory prayer in school was abolished, and in 1938 carols and Nativity plays were banned entirely."
Goldberg brings us up todate, "Gloria Steinem is rhapsodic about the superior political and spiritual qualities of "pre-Christian" and "matriarchal" paganism."
"We joke a lot about "health fascists" these days...This is... nothing new. Herbert Hoover, Woodrow Wilson's food administrator, required children to sign a loyalty pledge to the state that they wouldn't eat between meals."
"Hitler loathed cigarettes, believing they were the "wrath of the Red Man against the White Man, vengeance for having been given hard liquor.""
The Nazis used the slogan "Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz" -- "the common good supersedes the private good" -- to justify policing individual health for the sake of the body politic."
How then can we communicate with Liberals?
The problem is, we now live in a world conditioned by the progressive outlook. People understand things in progressives terms. Even if you are skeptical about such notions, you cannot convince others of the rightness of your own positions if you do not speak the lingua franca.
To wit: "If you believe that abortion is evil, you will not convince someone who rejects moral categories like good and evil."
"[Pat] Buchanan calls himself a "paleoconservative," but in truth he's a neo-progressive. During the 2000 election he denounced free marketeers and flat taxers, saying that they spent too much time with "the boys down at the yacht basin." He came out in favor of capping executive pay..."
This would explain Buchanan's continued employment at CNN.
"Already it is becoming difficult to question the pagan assumptions behind environmentalism without seeming like a crackpot. My hunch is it will only get harder. Liberals and leftists for the most part seem incapable of dealing with jihadism-- a quintessentially fascist political religion --or fear of violating the rules of multicultural political correctness."
"Liberals are right because they "care," we are told, ..[and] therefore control the argument without either explaining where they want to end up or having to account for where they've been. They've succeeded where the fascist intellectuals ultimately failed, making passion and activism the measure of political virtue, and motives more important that facts."
Liberal Fascism is well research and documented. Over 20 percent of the volume is in footnotes and appendices-making good, additional reading for policy wonks. For example, "Christine Rosen, Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement..."
"58. Peter Singer, "Killing Babies Isn't Always Wrong," Spectator, Sept. 16, 1995, pp 20-22." More on Singer.
"35. Competition to get into veterinary school is tougher than it is to get into medical school. Why? Because Congress stays out of it (and because they haven't allowed the trial lawyers to get into it). And because the government leaves the vets alone, the vets leave the government alone."
Go and buy Goldberg's book and join us on the National Review cruise.
Thank you (foot)notes,
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Speakers at the jump.
Mark Steyn is an international bestselling author, a Top 41 recording artist, and a leading Canadian human rights activist. That's to say, his book America Alone: The End Of The World As We Know It was a New York Times bestseller in the United States and a Number One bestseller in Canada; "A Marshmallow World", his Christmas single with Jessica Martin reached Number Seven on Amazon's easy listening bestsellers, and Number 41 on their main pop chart; and, as for being a leading Canadian human rights activist, he is actively trying to destroy the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission, for reasons he explains in his book Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech And The Twilight Of The West. Mark is also a visiting fellow of Hillsdale College; and a popular guest host of America's Number One radio show The Rush Limbaugh Program, and America's Number Two cable show Hannity. In addition, his writing on politics, arts and culture can be read each week throughout much of the English-speaking world.
In the United States, his column appears in newspapers from The Washington Times to The Philadelphia Bulletin to The Orange County Register in California, as well as in Investors' Business Daily. Mark also writes for The New Criterion, and serves as National Review's Happy Warrior. In Canada, he is a contributing editor to Maclean's, the Dominion's oldest and biggest-selling news weekly. Mark also appears in The Jerusalem Post, the Middle East's leading English-language daily; The Australian, Australia's national newspaper; Investigate and Hawke's Bay Today in New Zealand; and more occasionally in The Wall Street Journal and (translated into Italian) Il Foglio, but even when he's not in them he thinks they're worth reading. Mark also chips in at The Corner and appears each week on The Hugh Hewitt Radio Show.
Ralph Reed
Ralph Reed is chairman and CEO of Century Strategies, a public relations and public affairs firm. He has advised numerous Fortune 500 companies and served as a senior advisor to the George W. Bush presidential campaigns in 2000 and 2004.
The Wall Street Journal called Reed "perhaps the finest political operative of his generation." He was named one of the top 10 political newsmakers in the nation by Newsweek, one of the 20 most influential leaders of his generation by Life magazine, and one of the 50 future leaders of America by Time magazine. As executive director of the Christian Coalition (1989-1997), he built one of nation's most effective grass roots organizations and played a pivotal role in the election of the first Republican Congress in 40 years. Under his leadership, the Christian Coalition grew from 2,000 members to more than 2 million members and supporters in 3,000 local chapters, with a budget of $27 million.
He is a sought-after political commentator on television whose columns have appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author and editor of three best-selling books. He served as executive director, College Republican National Committee (1982-1984), and as youth co-chairman of the re-election campaign of President Ronald Reagan.
Andrew Klavan
Award winning author, screenwriter and media commentator Andrew Klavan is the author of such internationally bestselling novels as True Crime, filmed by Clint Eastwood, and Don't Say A Word, filmed starring Michael Douglas. Andrew has been nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Award five times and has won twice. His books have been translated around the world. His latest novel for adults, The Identity Man, has been praised by Nelson Demille as "fast paced, intelligent and thought-provoking; a great read!" Television and radio host Glenn Beck says "Andrew Klavan never disappointsb&one of the best illustrations of the power of redemption that I've ever read." His last novel Empire of Lies was about media bias in the age of terror, and topped Amazon.com's thriller list. Andrew has also published a series of thrillers for young adults, The Homelanders, which follows a patriotic teenager's battle against jihadists. The books have been optioned to be made into movies by Summit Entertainment, the team behind the mega-successful Twilight film series.
Andrew is a contributing editor to City Journal, the magazine of the Manhattan Institute. His essays and op-eds on politics, religion, movies and literature have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and elsewhere. Andrew is a frequent media guest on television and radio stations from coast to coast, where he is known for his quick wit, humor and commentary on politics and entertainment.
Mona Charen
Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C. area.
Charen began her career at National Review where she served as editorial assistant. On her first tax return at the age of 22, Charen listed her occupation as "pundit," explaining later "You have to think big."
In 1984, Charen joined the White House staff, serving first as Nancy Reagan's speechwriter and later as associate director of the Office of Public Liaison. In the latter post, she lectured widely on the administration's Central America policy. Later in her White House career, she worked in the public-affairs office helping to craft the president's overall communications strategy.
In 1986, Charen left the White House to join the presidential quest of then-Congressman Jack Kemp as a speechwriter.
Charen launched her syndicated column in 1987 and it has become one of the fastest-growing columns in the industry. It is featured in more than 200 papers including the Boston Globe, the Baltimore Sun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Atlanta Journal and Constitution, and the Washington Times. She spent six years as a regular commentator on CNN's Capital Gang and Capital Gang Sunday, and has served as a judge of the Pulitzer Prizes. She is the author of two bestsellers Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got it Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First (2003), and Do-Gooders: How Liberals Harm Those They Claim to Help - and the Rest of Us (2005).
John Derbyshire
John Derbyshire is a contributing editor to National Review Online and National Review, for which he writes a monthly column, "The Straggler." He is the author of several books, including Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream, (1996), which the New York Times cited as a "Notable Book of the Year, Prime Obsession (2004), which won the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America, and his 2009 political work, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism.
Bernard Lewis
Over a 70-year career, Bernard Lewis emerged as one of the most influential postwar historians of Islam and the Middle East. His elegant syntheses have made Islamic history accessible to a broad public in Europe, America and elsewhere. His work on the pre-modern Muslim world conveyed both its splendid richness and its self-absorption. His studies in modern history rendered intelligible the inner dialogues of Muslim peoples in their encounter with the values and power of the West. While Lewis' work demonstrated a remarkable capacity for empathy across time and place, he has stood firm against the political correctness that has come to dominate much of the historiography of the Middle East.
While Lewis possesses all the tools of Orientalist scholarship with its emphasis on philology, culture, and religion, (his work displays an astonishing mastery of many languages), he is a historian by training and discipline. He was one of the first to apply new approaches in economic and social history to the Islamic world. In the 1970s he predicted the resurgence of radical, political Islam, and in 1990's of the new religiously defined terrorism.
He studied at the Universities of London and Paris, specializing in the history of Islam. During the Second World War, Lewis served in British Intelligence. After the war he returned to the University of London and in 1949, at the age of 33, was appointed to the new chair in Middle Eastern history. In 1974 Lewis accepted a joint position at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study, retiring in 1986 at age 70. This marked the beginning of the most prolific period in his career, during which he completed more than a dozen books, explaining Islam and Muslim society to a general audience. In 2002 and 2003 he had two best sellers: What Went Wrong: The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East; Western Impact and the Middle Eastern Response and The Crisis of Islam: Holy War & Unholy Terror. His books have been translated into 30 languages.
Victor Davis Hanson
Hanson is the author of hundreds of articles, book reviews, scholarly papers, and newspaper editorials on matters ranging from ancient Greek, agrarian and military history to foreign affairs, domestic politics, and contemporary culture. He has written or edited 17 books, including Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece (1983; paperback ed. University of California Press, 1998); The Western Way of War (Alfred Knopf, 1989; 2d paperback ed. University of California Press, 2000); Hoplites: The Ancient Greek Battle Experience (Routledge, 1991; paperback., 1992); The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (Free Press, 1995; 2nd paperback ed., University of California Press, 2000); Fields without Dreams: Defending the Agrarian Idea (Free Press, 1996; paperback, Touchstone, 1997; The Bay Area Book reviewers Non-fiction winner for 1996); The Land Was Everything, Letters from an American Farmer (Free Press, 2000; a Los Angeles Times Notable book of the year); The Wars of the Ancient Greeks (Cassell, 1999; paperback, 2001); The Soul of Battle (Free Press, 1999, paperback, Anchor/Vintage, 2000); Carnage and Culture (Doubleday, 2001; Anchor/Vintage, 2002; a New York Times bestseller); An Autumn of War (Anchor/Vintage, 2002); Mexifornia: A State of Becoming (Encounter, 2003), Ripples of Battle (Doubleday, 2003), and Between War and Peace (Random House, 2004).
A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War, was published by Random House in October 2005. It was named one of the New York Times Notable 100 Books of 2006. Hanson coauthored, with John Heath, Who Killed Homer? The Demise of Classical Education and the Recovery of Greek Wisdom (Free Press, 1998; paperback, Encounter Press, 2000); with Bruce Thornton and John Heath, Bonfire of the Humanities (ISI Books, 2001); and with Heather MacDonald, and Steven Malanga, The Immigration Solution: A Better Plan Than Today's (Ivan Dee 2007). He is currently editing Makers of Ancient Strategy for Princeton University Press.
Hanson has written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, International Herald Tribune, New York Post, National Review, Washington Times, Commentary, The Washington Post, Claremont Review of Books, American Heritage, New Criterion, Policy Review, Wilson Quarterly, Weekly Standard, Daily Telegraph, and has been interviewed often on National Public Radio, PBS Newshour, Fox News, CNN, and C-Span's Book TV and In-Depth. He serves on the editorial board of the Military History Quarterly, and City Journal.
Since 2001, Hanson has written a weekly column for National Review Online, and in 2004, began his weekly syndicated column for Tribune Media Services. In 2006, he also began thrice-weekly blog for Pajamas Media, Works and Days.
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarty is Co-Chair, Center for Law and Counterterrorism, will discuss "A New Legal Framework for National Security" on January 26, 2010. McCarthy is a former federal prosecutor and a Contributing Editor with National Review Online. He co-chairs the Center for Law and Counterterrorism, where he also serves as a senior fellow.
Following the September 11 attacks, Mr. McCarthy supervised the U.S. Attorney's Anti-Terrorism Command Post in New York City. From 1999 through 2003, he was the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District's satellite office, responsible for federal law enforcement in six counties north of New York City.
Mr. McCarthy is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Attorney General's Exceptional Service Award (1996) and Distinguished Service Award (1988). He has served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and as an Associate Independent Counsel in the investigation of a former cabinet official.
He has also been an Adjunct Professor of Law both at the Fordham University School of Law and at New York Law School. He writes extensively on a variety of legal, social and political issues for National Review and Commentary, among other publications, as well as providing commentary for various television and radio broadcasts.
Jim Geraghty
Jim Geraghty is a conservative activist and regular contributor to National Review Online and National Review. In addition to writing columns for National Review, Geraghty also blogs for National Review Online and is a former reporter for States News Service.
During the 2004 US Presidential election, Geraghty was often critical of Democratic Party presidential candidate John Kerry. At the time his weblog used the name "The Kerry Spot". It was later renamed "TKS". Geraghty reported on the Killian documents and Rathergate stories on a daily basis on behalf of National Review and was critical of CBS and Dan Rather. Geraghty was one of the self described Pajamahadeen.
Starting in March 2005, Geraghty posted to TKS from Turkey, where he lived as an expatriate. In January 2007, he moved from TKS to a new blog, originally named "The Hillary Spot" but since renamed to "The Campaign Spot".
Geraghty's book, Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership (Touchstone, September 2006, ISBN 0743290429) argues that national security and safety in the face of terrorist threats is the key issue in U.S. politics.
Geragthy frequently mentions his maxim "All statements from Barack Obama come with an expiration date. All of them." This recurring theme in his writing is sometimes known as "Geraghty's Rule."
On March 25, 2010, after Congressman who had supported health care reform received death threats, Geraghty tweeted "BREAKING: Nation founded by men willing to shoot people over tax rates recoils in horror at threats to lawmakers"
Bob Costa
Robert Costa is a political reporter for National Review based in Washington. He was the inaugural William F. Buckley Jr. fellow at the National Review Institute. His journalism experience includes a fellowship at the Wall Street Journal and internships at PBS and ABC News.
Costa earned a master's degree in politics from the University of Cambridge in 2009, where his research focused on Winston Churchill. At Cambridge, he was an active member of the Cambridge Union, president of the Queens' College Politics Society, and deputy editor of the Cambridge Student. Costa graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in American studies. As an undergraduate, he directed Notre Dame's student television network and won the James E. Murphy award for exceptional journalism.
Costa hails from Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
James Lileks
James Lileks was born in Fargo North Dakota, the son of Norman Rockwell and Betty Crocker. He attended the University of Minnesota for seven years, attending class for five; at the Minnesota Daily he started writing a column that has continued in the Twin Cities market for thirty years.
After college he used his English Major to find employment as a convenience store clerk, but soon left the world of actual labor for a series of jobs spent typing fiction in small, cloth-covered cubicles. He has been a columnist for City Pages, the Pioneer Press, Newhouse News Service and is presently a columnist for the Star-Tribune, where he also runs the buzz.mn blog.
He has published eight books - two novels, two collections, and four retro snarkfests based on his pop-culture history project, The Institute of Official Cheer. The Institute, a blog called "the Bleat" and many other time-wasting diversions can be found at www.lileks.com. He is married with one child and one dog and lives in Minneapolis under the southeast approach to the airport.
Michael Walsh
Michael Walsh was for 16 years the classical music critic for Time Magazine and has also worked for the San Francisco Examiner and the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle. He is the author of eleven books, including five works of non-fiction as well as the novels Exchange Alley, As Time Goes By (the authorized sequel to the movie Casablanca), and And All the Saints, a winner of the 2004 American Book Awards for fiction. His thriller, Hostile Intent, was published in September by Pinnacle Books and hit the New York Times bestseller lists and shot to No. 1 on Kindle. The sequel, Early Warning, was published in Sept., 2010. With Gail Parent, he is the co-writer of the hit Disney Channel 2002 Original Movie, Cadet Kelly, at the time the highest-rated show in the history of the network.
Mr. Walsh is also Vice President of the board of directors of the Wende Museum in Los Angeles, which is devoted to East German and Cold War scholarship.
As "David Kahane," he is a columnist for National Review Online and the author of Rules for Radical Conservatives, published in Sept., 2010, by Ballantine Books.
Kevin Williamson
Kevin D. Williamson is deputy managing editor of National Review and writes NRO's Exchequer blog on debt and deficits. He is the theater critic for The New Criterion and his book on socialism will be published early next year. He is a native of Lubbock, Texas, and lives in New York City.
Kathryn Lopez
Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online and the author of a nationally syndicated column of conservative political and social commentary for Newspaper Enterprise Association. She is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, including on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, NPR, BBC and C-SPAN. A graduate of the Catholic University of America, Miss Lopez is a weekly guest on the nationally syndicated "Hugh Hewitt Show" and a regular commentator and correspondent for Vatican Radio.
Jay Nordlinger
Jay Nordlinger is a senior editor of National Review. He writes about a variety of subjects, including politics, foreign affairs, and the arts. He is music critic for The New Criterion, as well as for NR. He was music critic for the New York Sun during the six years of its existence (2002-08). For National Review Online, he writes a column called "Impromptus." He has won awards for his work on human rights, in particular. Some 100 pieces are gathered in Here, There & Everywhere: Collected Writings of Jay Nordlinger. A native Michigander, Nordlinger lives in New York.
Ramesh Ponnuru
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review and a columnist for Time. Ponnuru grew up in Kansas City and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton's history department.
Ponnuru has published articles in numerous newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Newsday, and the New York Post. He has also written for First Things, Policy Review, The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, Reason, and other publications. He has appeared on numerous television news programs. He is the author of The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life. He is also the author of the monograph The Mystery of Japanese Growth (American Enterprise Institute/Centre for Policy Studies). He has been a fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and a media fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
Rich Lowry
Richard Lowry graduated in 1990 from the University of Virginia, where he studied English and history. He edited there a conservative monthly magazine called the Virginia Advocate. He went on to work as a research assistant for Charles Krauthammer, then as a reporter for a local paper in northern Virginia.
He joined National Review in 1992, after finishing second in an NR young writers contest. He became NR's Articles Editor before moving to Washington in the summer of 1994 to cover Congress.
He was named editor of National Review in 1997. He has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and a variety of other publications. He is a syndicated columnist and a commentator for the Fox News Channel. His book, Legacy: Paying the Price for the Clinton Years, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York City.
Jonah Goldberg
Jonah Goldberg was the founding editor of National Review Online and is currently editor-at-large of NRO. He is a Pulitzer-nominated columnist for The Los Angeles Times.
Mr. Goldberg is currently a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
His column is carried by the Chicago Tribune, New York Post, Dallas Morning News and scores of other papers. His first book, Liberal Fascism, was a #1 New York Times and Amazon bestseller and was selected as the #1 history book of 2008 by Amazon readers. He is a member of the Board of Contributors to USA Today and previously served as a columnist for the Times of London, Brill's Content and the American Enterprise. His writings have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, The New Yorker, Food and Wine and numerous other publications. He is currently a Fox News Contributor. He lives in Washington DC with his wife, Jessica Gavora, daughter, dog (Cosmo), cat (Gracie), and a rotating line-up of fish and snails that do not seem to live long enough to warrant permanent status in his biography.
Deroy Murdock
Deroy Murdock is an American conservative syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service and a contributing editor with National Review Online. Deroy Murdock's columns appear in The New York Post, The Boston Herald, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register and many other newspapers and magazines in the United States and abroad.
John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995-96, where he advised on constitutional issues and judicial nominations.
Professor Yoo received his B.A., summa cum laude, in American history from Harvard University. In law school, he was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1993, and then clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has received the Bator Award for excellence in legal scholarship and teaching from the Federalist Society.
Charles Kesler
Charles R. Kesler is a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute, editor of the Claremont Review of Books, and professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Kesler also teaches in the Claremont Institute's Publius Fellows Program and Lincoln Fellows Program.
Dr. Kesler is editor of Saving the Revolution: The Federalist Papers and the American Founding, and co-editor of Keeping the Tablets: Modern American Conservative Thought. He has written extensively on American constitutionalism and political thought, and his edition of The Federalist Papers is the best-selling edition in the country.
Dr. Kesler contributes regularly to the opinion pages of The Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His articles on contemporary politics have also appeared in The Washington Times, Policy Review, National Review, and The Weekly Standard, among other journals.
Sally Pipes
Sally C. Pipes is Taube Fellow in Health Care Studies, president and chief executive officer of the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank. Prior to becoming president in 1991, she was assistant director of the Fraser Institute, based in Vancouver, Canada.
Ms. Pipes addresses national and international audiences on health care issues. She has been interviewed on ABC's 20/20 with John Stossel; CNN's Lou Dobbs Show; Fox News "Glenn Beck Show;" NBC's "Nightly News with Brian Williams"; Fox Business Network; "The O'Reilly Factor," Fox News "Your World With Neil Cavuto", "The Today Show;" "Kudlow & Company on CNBC, MSNBC, "Dateline;" "Politically Incorrect;" "The Dennis Miller Show;" and other prominent programs.
She has written regular columns for the Examiner newspapers, Chief Executive and Investor's Business Daily. Her health care opinion pieces have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times of London, The Hill, RealClearPolitics, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, U.S. News and World Report, the Boston Globe, and the San Diego Union-Tribune, to name a few. Ms. Pipes' views on health care also appeared in a special report of the world's 30 leading health care experts published by Forbes.com entitled, "Solutions: Health Care" and in Steve Forbes latest book How Capitalism Can Save Us. She was widely quoted in Shape Magazine and in the New York Times Sunday Magazine in an article by Princeton's Peter Singer on how Obama will ration your care.
James Q. Wilson
James Q. Wilson is one of the leading contemporary criminologists in the United States.
Wilson, who has taught at several major universities during his academic career, has also written on economics and politics during his lengthy career. Wilson is the author or co-author of fourteen books, including Moral Judgment and the Moral Sense American Government, Bureaucracy, Thinking About Crime, Varieties of Police Behavior, Political Organizations and Crime and Human Nature with Richard J. Herrnstein. In addition Wilson has edited or contributed to books on urban problems, government regulation of business, and the prevention of delinquency among children. Many of his writings on morality and human character have been collected in On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson.
During his career Wilson has served on a number of national commissions concerned with public policy. He was chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966, Chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972-1973, a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime in 1981, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1991, and a member of the board of directors of the Police Foundation from 1971 to 1993.
Wilson has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. In 1990 the American Political Science Association presented him with the James Madison Award for a career of distinguished scholarship, and in 1991 and 1992 he served as the association's president. In 1994 he received the John Gaus Award for exemplary scholarship in the fields of political science and public administration.
Tony Blankley
For seven years, Tony Blankley served as press secretary to then Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich. In that role, Tony Blankley not only helped create messages which shook the country, Tony Blankley also helped create policy. Tony Blankley's knack for appetizing soundbites (which Tony Blankley calls his "poor-man's poetry") and sound political strategy made Tony Blankley one of Washington's premiere sources of ideas and insights.
Working for the most renowned Speaker in decades, Blankley became one of the leading spokesmen for the Contract with America. Prior to Tony Blankley's career on Capitol Hill, Blankley served President Reagan as a speechwriter and senior policy analyst.
After leaving Gingrich's office in February 1997, Blankley joined the staff of John F. Kennedy Jr.'s George magazine. As a contributing editor, Blankley's monthly column "Between the Lines" featured his inside-the-beltway insights. Blankley also appears regularly on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, as well as CNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews, Rivera Live, The News with Brian Williams and MSNBC. In June 1999, Blankley joined The Washington Times as a weekly political columnist. In June 2002, Tony Blankley was named editorial page editor.
The same depth of knowledge and sharp wit that kept reporters turning to Tony Blankley during his time on Capitol Hill have made Blankley one of today's leading media commentators. Tony Blankley's opinions and analysis of political events have been featured on the front pages of The New York Times, USA Today, and other major publications, and Tony Blankley was a syndicated columnist for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate.
Blankley has quickly become a favorite speaker of corporate and association audiences around the country. Tony Blankley uses his background in both the executive and congressional branches to design speeches which provide insight into today's headlines, and the issues that will fill tomorrow's.
In addition to being a popular speaker, Blankley is an accomplished debater. Clients have paired him with the likes of Bill Press and Bob Beckel, among other noted Democratic pundits, to create a uniquely informative and provocative program. Whether delivering a keynote or debating, Blankley gives his audience more than just analysis. Focusing on the personalities and stories which make politics interesting, Tony Blankley helps audiences remember the information long after they leave the event.
Elliott Abrams
Elliott Abrams is Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor in the Administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House.
Mr. Abrams joined the Bush Administration in June, 2001 as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the NSC for Democracy, Human Rights, and International Organizations. From December 2002 to February 2005, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs. He served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy from February 2005 to January 2009, and in that capacity supervised both the Near East and North African Affairs, and the Democracy, Human Rights, and International Organizations directorates of the NSC.
His articles and book reviews have appeared in Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, The Public Interest, and National Review. He is the author of three books, Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, and Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, and the editor of three more, Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and "Just War" Today; Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy; and The Influence of Faith: Religion and American Foreign Policy. He has appeared on Meet The Press, Face The Nation, Nightline, and most major television news programs.
John O' Sullivan
John O'Sullivan is editor-in-chief of United Press International. He was Editor of National Review from 1988 to 1997 and in 1998 was named Editor-at-Large. His previous posts have included special adviser to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, associate editor of the London Times, assistant editor of the London Daily Telegraph, and editor of Policy Review.
O'Sullivan was born in Great Britain in 1942. He was educated at London University where he received a B.A. (Hons.) and a Diploma of Social Studies. He stood for Parliament as a Conservative in the 1970 general election for Gateshead West.
He is the founder and co-chairman of the New Atlantic Initiative, an international bipartisan effort dedicated to reinvigorating and expanding the Atlantic community of democracies. The NAI was formally launched at the Congress of Prague in May 1996.
O'Sullivan has published articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Policy Review, The National Interest, The New Criterion, the Times Literary Supplement, The American Spectator, The Spectator (London), Quadrant, and other journals.
He is on the Executive Advisory Board of the Margaret Thatcher Foundation, the Advisory Council of the Social Affairs Unit in London, and the Honorary Board of the Civic Institute in Prague. He was made a Commander of the British Empire (C.B.E.) in the 1991 New Year's Honors List. He lectures on British and American politics.
Kevin Hassett
Kevin A. Hassett is resident scholar and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. His research interests include tax policy, the U.S. economy, the stock market, and investments.
Before joining AEI, Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was an economic adviser to the George W. Bush campaign (2004) and the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain during the 2000 presidential primaries. Previously, he was also a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury (former Bush and Clinton administrations). Hassett is a weekly columnist for Bloomberg and his articles have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, Washington Post, and others. He has also appeared on the Today show, the CBS Morning Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
Cal Thomas
Cal Thomas is America's most widely syndicated op-ed columnist, appearing in more than 600 national newspapers. Thomas is the author of more than 10 books, including, "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That Is Destroying America" co-authored with Bob Beckel.
Thomas is FOX News political contributor who joined FOX News in 1997. He also appears as a panelist on "FOX News Watch."
Thomas is a 40-year veteran of broadcast and print journalism. He has worked for NBC News in Washington, D.C. and hosted his own program on CBNC that was nominated for a Cable ACE Award in 1995. Thomas is a graduate of American University.
Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh D'Souza's new book What's So Great About Christianity is published by Regnery. It is the comprehensive answer to a spate of atheist books denouncing theism in general and Christianity in particular.
D'Souza has been called one of the "top young public-policy makers in the country" by Investor's Business Daily. The New York Times Magazine named him one of America's most influential conservative thinkers. The World Affairs Council lists him as one of the nation's 500 leading authorities on international issues. Newsweek cited him as one of the country's most prominent Asian Americans.
A former policy analyst in the Reagan White House, D'Souza also served as John M. Olin Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the Robert and Karen Rishwain Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1983.
Mr. D'Souza's books have had a major influence on public opinion and public policy. His 1991 book Illiberal Education was the first study to publicize the phenomenon of political correctness. The book was widely acclaimed and became a New York Times bestseller for 15 weeks. It has been listed as one of the most influential books of the 1990's.
In 1995 D'Souza published The End of Racism, which became one of the most controversial books of the time and a national bestseller. D"Souza's 1997 book Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader was the first book to make the case for Reagan's intellectual and political importance. In 2000, D'Souza published The Virtue of Prosperity: Finding Values in an Age of Techno Affluence, which explores the social and moral implications of wealth.
In 2002 he published his New York Times bestseller What's So Great About America , which was critically acclaimed for its thoughtful patriotism. His 2003 book Letters to a Young Conservative has become a handbook for a new generation of young conservatives inspired by D'Souza's style and ideas. The Enemy at Home: published in 2006, stirred up a furious debate both on the left and the right; even so, it became a national bestseller and will be published in paperback, January 2008, with a new Afterword by the author responding to his critics.
D'Souza's articles have appeared in virtually every major magazine and newspaper, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Vanity Fair, New Republic, and National Review. He has appeared on numerous television programs, including the Today Show, Nightline, The News Hour, O'Reilly Factor, Moneyline, and Hannity and Colmes.
John J. Miller
John J. Miller is director of the Herbert H. Dow II Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He joined that staff of National Review in 1998 and is currently its national correspondent. He has written five books, including The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football and a novel, The First Assassin. The Chronicle of Higher Education has called him “one of the best literary journalists in the country.
S.E. Cupp
S.E. Cupp is author of the new book "Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity," which comes out April 27th (Simon & Schuster). She is also co-author of "Why You're Wrong About The Right," which was published by Simon & Schuster in June of 2008. S.E. is a political columnist and culture critic. She has a regular online column at the New York Daily News, a regular feature at The Daily Caller, and is a contributor to Politico's "Arena." A political commentator who has appeared on FOXNews, MSNBC, CNN, CSPAN, Al Harra and others, S.E. is a regular guest on "Hannity," "Larry King Live," "Fox & Friends," "Geraldo," and "Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld." She has been heard on dozens of radio shows, including The Dennis Miller Show, The Mancow Show, The Curtis Sliwa Show, Bubba the Love Sponge, Andrew Wilkow, The Alan Colmes Show and others.
Tracie Sharp
Tracie Sharp is president of State Policy Network, the capacity building service organization of free market, state-focused public policy think tanks. SPN has over 130 members, including 58 state think tanks representing all 50 states. Ms. Sharp has been an active leader in the state-focused think tank movement since 1988, serving on the SPN board of directors since its founding in 1992 and hired as president in August 1999.
Ms. Sharp is a trustee to the Roe Foundation of Greenville, S.C. She also serves as trustee to the Special Hope Foundation, a family foundation supporting innovative projects to assist the causes of the physically, emotionally, and developmentally disabled.
Prior to assuming leadership of State Policy Network, Ms. Sharp was executive director and one of the founders of Cascade Policy Institute, Oregon's state-focused, market-oriented think tank. During her tenure (1991-1999), Cascade became the leading free market voice in the state, thriving on nationally-recognized public policy research, most notably in the areas of k-12 education reform and social security privatization.
Rob Long
Rob Long is a writer and producer in Hollywood. He began his career writing on TV's long-running "Cheers," and served as co-executive producer in its final season. During his time on the series, "Cheers" received two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globe awards. His most recent television series were "George and Leo," starring Bob Newhart and Judd Hirsh, "Love & Money," on CBS, and "Men, Women & Dogs," on the WB Network - all three of which he created with his writing partner, Dan Staley. Their production company, Staley/Long Productions, was based at Paramount Studios from 1993 to 2001, and is currently based at Touchstone Television.
He is a contributing editor of National Review, and Newsweek International and writes occasionally for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times. His weekly radio commentary, "Martini Shot," is broadcast on the Los Angeles public radio station KCRW, and is distributed nationally.
His first book, Conversations with My Agent, chronicled his early career in television. It was published in the UK by Faber & Faber, in the US by Dutton, and in France by Actes Sud. His second book, Set Up, Joke, Set Up, Joke, was published in November 2005 by Bloomsbury.
John H. Sununu
John H. Sununu was born in Havana, Cuba. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his bachelor's degree in 1961, a master's degree in 1962, and a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1966. He was a mechanical engineering professor at Tufts University from 1966 to 1968 and associate dean of the College of Engineering until 1973. From 1963 until his election as governor, he served as president of JHS Engineering Company and Thermal Research Inc. He represented Salem in the New Hampshire State Legislature from 1973-1974. He became New Hampshire's 75th Chief Executive on January 6, 1983, and served three consecutive terms.
On January 21, 1989, Governor Sununu was commissioned Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush, serving in the White House until March 1, 1992. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineers' Committee on Public Engineering Policy and has served as a member of the President's Council on Environmental Quality Advisory Committee. Sununu chaired the National Governors Association, the Coalition of Northeastern Governors, and the Republican Governors Association. From 1992 until 1998, he co-hosted CNN's nightly Crossfire program, a news/public affairs discussion program. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Charmaine Yoest
Dr. Charmaine Yoest is President & CEO of Americans United for Life (AUL), the first national pro-life organization in the nation, whose legal strategists have been involved in every pro-life case before the United States Supreme Court since Roe v. Wade.
Dr. Yoest began her career in the White House during the Reagan Administration and recently served as a Senior Advisor to the 2008 Huckabee for President Campaign. She is also the co-author of Mother in the Middle, an examination of childcare policy, published by HarperCollins. A regular political commentator, Dr. Yoest has appeared on all of the major networks and cable outlets. In print, Dr. Yoest is quoted regularly and has been published widely.
Previously, Dr. Yoest served as the Project Director of the Family, Gender and Tenure Project at the University of Virginia, a nationwide study funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She was also a recipient of Mellon, Olin, Bradley, and Kohler Fellowships. She also served as a Vice President at the Family Research Council, one of the largest pro-family public policy organizations in the country. Dr. Yoest has a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Virginia.
Fred Thompson
Fred Dalton Thompson is an American politician, actor, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, and radio host. He served as a Republican U.S. Senator from Tennessee from 1994 through 2003.
Thompson served as chairman of the International Security Advisory Board at the United States Department of State, was a member of the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Visiting Fellow with the American Enterprise Institute, specializing in national security and intelligence.
As an actor, Thompson has appeared in a large number of movies and television shows. He has frequently portrayed governmental figures. In the final months of his U.S. Senate term in 2002, Thompson joined the cast of the long-running NBC television series Law & Order, playing Manhattan District Attorney Arthur Branch.
In May 2007 he took a break from acting in order to run for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. In 2009 he returned to acting and is co-starring with Brian Dennehy in the movie Alleged, about the Scopes Monkey Trial.
John R. Bolton
John R. Bolton, a diplomat and a lawyer, has spent many years in public service. From August 2005 to December 2006, he served as the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations. From 2001 to 2005, he was under secretary of state for arms control and international security. At AEI, Ambassador Bolton's area of research is U.S. foreign and national security policy.
Roman Genn
Genn was born in Moscow, in 1972 at the height of the Cold War. He quickly sized up the political realities of his country and so, at age 5, he began to collaborate with the communist regime by drawing propaganda posters for his kindergarten class, including "THANK YOU, COMRADE BREZHNEV, FOR OUR HAPPY CHILDHOOD".
This work earned him extra food, cool toys and soft toilet paper.
In his early teens, ungrateful for his free education and Soviet health care, a greedy and unpatriotic Genn began to draw a series of reactionary caricatures critical of the government and the Soviet system. At first, these attempts were merely an adolescent ploy for cheap popularity and a way to look cool in front of girls. Later, however, when he attempted to sell these works on the streets of Moscow, many unpleasant encounters with police officials ensued. Reprimands were handed out by the administration of the Moscow Art College, which had been foolish enough to admit him. It was time to leave the Motherland, and through the kindness of strangers Genn landed in Los Angeles in 1991, where he lives and prospers.
Since accomplishing the American dream (owning a car wash or body shop) was out of Genn's league, he had to stoop to selling his caricatures to, among others, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, New York Daily News, International Herald Tribune, Newsday, Newsweek, Harper/Collins, Penguin Group (USA), Saatchi & Saatchi, TV Guide, Barron's, The American Lawyer, and many other publications.
Genn is a contributing editor of The National Review, and one of his more scandalous Clinton-era covers generated protests on the streets of New York and Washington D.C., as well as a New York Times article and a CNN Crossfire "debate" on the subject of freedom of speech in cartoons and caricatures. Genn proudly accepts the title of "The attack dog that Buckley unleashed upon humanity" given to him by the great David Levine of the New York Review of Books.
Sent to Moscow by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Newsday to cover the Russian Presidential election of 1996 Genn had to be bailed out by his sponsors after the Moscow police realized he was back in their jurisdiction.
In the years 2000-2002 the Los AngelesTimes published Genn's bi-weekly feature, "The Gallery by Roman Genn," where he turned his pen on unsuspecting citizens of this great metropolis.
The Ethnic Grievance Industry regularly brings Genn's modest renderings to the attention of News Networks and TV shows, such as ABC's Nightline, CBS' 60 minutes, CNN's Crossfire, NBC's Dateline, among the others.
Genn's caricatures have been featured in several personal, as well as many group exhibitions. In 2006 James Gray Gallery had the first showing of his oil paintings "Sic transit Gloria Mundi", which paid homage to the genius of old white men, the only group that stoically withstood abuse and humiliation from Genn's poisonous pencil.
