https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/05/07/jonah-goldberg-discusses-the-tyranny-of-cliches-part-i/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 09:08:17 -0400<![CDATA[Perhaps the opening quote in Jonah Goldberg&#8217;s new book,  The Tyranny of Clichés, from George Orwell &#8212; &#8220;We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men&#8221; &#8212; unduly influenced me. But as I joked with Jonah at the start of our two-part interview, when I first read the galleys of The Tyranny of Clichés back in February, my first thought, despite how pretentious it sounds, was that whereas Liberal Fascism was the equivalent of Emanuel Goldstein’s “The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism,” the alternative history book within the book of George Orwell’s 1984, The Tyranny of Clichés was sort of like the Cliff Notes to the Newspeak Dictionary.]]>Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:17 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2012/05/07/jonah-goldberg-discusses-the-tyranny-of-cliches-part-i-n255436