With the 2008 publication of his book, Liberal Fascism, Goldberg established his reputation as the dauphin of the outraged right—a royal line that includes Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. Above all else, Goldberg seeks to ridicule and decry liberalism, even declaring the Wilson administration "the first appearance of modern totalitarianism in the Western world."

Blustering, good-humored, and provocative, Goldberg perfected the art of dropping gleeful barbs that tickled conservatives and incensed liberals during his years at National Review. Goldberg's migration to print, and to a newspaper with a left-leaning constituency, coincided with a mellowing of his rhetoric, but he remains one of the right's best-loved voices.