Pick-and-Choose Isolationism 24%

By Jonah Goldberg33%

7/8/2026, 7:00:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 17 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Appeal to Authority, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 33% saturation with 203 hits. Analysis detected 945 faulty-reasoning hits from 616 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.1% and a BS Rank of 24% (15,659 of 20,515 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 76.30% of the article peer group.

Pick-and-Choose Isolationism | Interview: Aaron MacLean 
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Jonah Goldberg is editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Dispatch, based in Washington, D.C. 
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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. 
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