Dear Reader (especially those of you with a very positive mindset),
I like eggheadiness (even if Microsoft doesn’t think it’s a real word). But my thinking about it—let’s call it intellectualism if only to appease my word-processing overlords—has evolved a bit over the years. We’ll leave some of that for another time, but one lesson I’ve really taken to heart in the last decade is that just because you explain, analyze, defend, or critique something in very intellectual terms doesn’t mean the thing you’re talking about is very intellectual.
Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, enormous lizards roamed the Earth. More immediately prior to that, Jonah spent two decades at National Review, where he was a senior editor, among other things. He is also a bestselling author, longtime columnist for the Los Angeles Times, commentator for CNN, and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. When he is not writing the G-File or hosting The Remnant podcast, he finds real joy in family time, attending to his dogs and cat, and blaming Steve Hayes for various things.
