https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/03/22/the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-memory-hole/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:14:41 -0400<![CDATA[One of the leitmotifs of Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s Liberal Fascism is the shell game that &#8220;progressives&#8221; (more on the scare quotes in a few moments) use to transfer bad decisions of progressives and liberals of the past to American history as a whole. FDR&#8217;s decision to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II? America&#8217;s shame. Eugenics? It was embraced wholeheartedly (and then some) by such early progressives as Margaret Sanger, Woodrow Wilson, H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and John Maynard Keynes. And was rejected wholesale by the Catholic Church and religious conservatives such as G.K. Chesterton. Despite that, as Jonah notes in Liberal Fascism, quoting Yale historian and professor of surgery Sherwin Nuland, Nuland and other writers at the New Republic and similar left-wing publications are convinced that &#8220;Eugenics was a creed that appealed to social conservatives, who were pleased to blame poverty and crime on heredity.&#8221;]]>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:27:29 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2012/03/22/the-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-memory-hole-n255301