[NOTE: This is another installment in my series on literary leftists.] You may know Will and Ariel Durant as the authors of a series of books on world history called The Story of Civilization, which I read one long-ago summer … Continue reading →
Last October I wrote a post about former Congressman Artur Davis, Democrat of Alabama, which ended with this sentence: If Davis keeps paying attention, he may discover a lot more out there that’s chilling””and a large proportion of his cold … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Like yesterday’s post, this rumination was sparked by Martin Amis’ book Koba the Dread.] Here’s a tragic quote about political change, from Dmitri Volkogonov, a man who wrote biographies of Stalin, Lenin, and Trotsky: “Perhaps the only thing I … Continue reading →
I love love love to read changers’ stories about their political conversions. They’re all a little bit alike and yet different. I get the urge to write to them and say “Hey, visit my blog; you’ll find a lot there … Continue reading →
No one can be replaced, but some people seem more irreplaceable than others, and Andrew Breitbart was one of them. He was also one of the last people whose death announcement I expected to read today. He was young. He … Continue reading →
A fascinating story: from violent 60s radical to—well, to what? Do you think Judith Clark’s change is sincere? Do you think she should be let out of prison? Those are two separate questions, by the way. [ADDENDUM: David Horowitz says … Continue reading →
There’s an interesting phenomenon coming from the left: more people seem to have become unable to listen to Obama’s voice because they’ve found his promises to be empty. Matt Taibbi notes at Rolling Stone that he’s become so disillusioned with … Continue reading →
Sound familiar? [Hat tip: commenter Artfldgr.]
Continue reading →Here’s another story of political change, this time from Rima Greene, a Jewish leftist feminist lesbian (yep, all four) in San Francisco who woke up to a few realizations [emphasis mine]: When I was part of the Left, I thought … Continue reading →
Today the WSJ‘s Bari Weiss tackles playwright David Mamet’s political conversion from left to right . It’s an old story to readers of this blog, not just because such political conversions are a theme here, but because I’ve written before … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Jimmy J.”] I’ve written about playwright David Mamet’s left-to-right political conversion before, but Andrew Ferguson’s new piece in the Weekly Standard updates us on some of the details, and just how far he’s come. As conversion stories … Continue reading →
There seems to be a lot of this change stuff going around—or at least, potential change. George Monbiot—the liberal environmentalist Brit who gave his name to “moonbat”—has had what I’ve come to think of as the betrayal experience. But I’ll … Continue reading →