Horowitz is the worst form of true believer. he was once a leftist who uncritically accepted much of what he now trashes. The true believer usually operates on blind faith, also tending toward deaf and dumb. While much of what he says about the left may be true, he was part of the worst aspects of that left. Now he has become a raving rightist, but he could go back the other way if he encounters another traumatic experience that pushes him in a different direction. He was editor of an influential publication of the sixties, Ramparts, which was the first slick, glossy magazine I ever read that was written from a left political perspective. It was valuable in its time. he was not. I think his parents were communists, or at least left wingers. I don't know what that says, if anything, about the sins of the parents being visited upon the children. fs