The Great Appeaser

Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Members can share articles with friends & family to bypass the paywall. You’re reading the G-File, Jonah Goldberg’s twice-weekly “news”letter providing his unique—and humorous—take on politics and culture. Dear Reader (even those of you involved in the Guinness heist. While I can’t condone your behavior, I’m not unsympathetic.), If I release a rabid monkey on a leash into a museum, and it smashes vases, bites tourists, and flings poo at the Mona Lisa, I can’t claim I’m not responsible when I choose not to tug on the monkey’s chain—especially when I tell the monkey lovers: “A vote for the monkey is a vote for me and my party.” Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. Prior to