Lest anyone one believe that such vicious partisan misrepresentation is an anomaly for Mr. Blumenthal, we wish to call our readers’ attention to the brief but telling discussion David Horowitz provides of this darling of the Left in his riveting memoir, Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey, just published by the Free Press. Toward the end of the book, Mr. Horowitz describes the “journalistic firing squad” that assembled to discredit him and his longtime collaborator, Peter Collier, after their political conversion in the 1980s from radical Marxism to—well, we suppose we would have to call Mr. Horowitz’s position Neoconservative. In fact, it is what would once have been called a moderate liberalism. As Mr. Horowitz explains,

the conservatism I had arrived at could be expressed in a single patriotic idea: The revolutionary failures of the Twentieth Century had demonstrated the wisdom of the Americ ...

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This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 15 April 1997, on page 2
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