You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.

It reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list of hardcover nonfiction in its seventh week on the list. The Los Angeles Times added Goldberg to its editorial lineup in 2005.

Goldberg is known for his contributions on politics and culture to National Review Online of which he is editor-at-large. From 2006 to 2010 he was a frequent participant on bloggingheads. He is the author of Liberal Fascism (2008) which reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.