Josh Lovvorn

“Despite the fact that the New Deal was a failure, it remains the gold standard in liberal policy making.”
― Jonah Goldberg, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

“Doctors make no such exceptions to the Hippocratic Oath—save, of course, when it comes to abortion—and only then when another dogmatic obsession trumps their oath. Alas,”
― Jonah Goldberg, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

“Hayek, more than anyone else, illuminated the knowledge problem. Simply put: No one person can ever know enough. Planners who think they can process all of the data from disparate sources across vast expanses of geography and culture are, quite simply, educated fools.”
― Jonah Goldberg, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

“Taken on its own terms, pragmatism’s folly is that it separates intelligence from wisdom. Its greatest sins are arrogance and deceit, including self-deceit. It is arrogant because it assumes the individual—particularly the expert—can know everything he needs to know without reference to received wisdom,”
― Jonah Goldberg, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas