Table of Contents
Preface to The Black Book of the American Left ix
Introduction to My Life and Times 1
Part I Reflections From My Life
1 Left Illusions 13
2 Why I Am No Longer a Leftist 23
3 Reality and Dream 31
4 My Conservatism 37
5 Black Murder Inc. 43
6 Treason of the Heart 71
7 A Political Romance 81
8 Reflections on the Road Taken and Not 91
9 Letter to the Past 95
10 Think Twice Before You Bring the War Home 103
11 The End of Time 107
12 Getting This Conservative Wrong 121
13 What My Daughter Taught Me About Compassion 131
14 Something We Did 135
15 Who I Am 141
16 Peter and Me 149
Part II Reflections on the Left
1 Goodbye to All That (with Peter Collier) 155
2 My Vietnam Lessons 161
3 Semper Fidel 175
4 A Decade Overrated and Unmourned (with Peter Collier) 185
5 Keepers of the Flame (with Peter Collier) 205
6 Carl Bernstein's Communist Problem @ Mine 213
7 Political Cross-Dresser 223
8 Still Lying After All These Years 243
9 Repressed Memory Syndrome 249
10 Fidel, Pinochet @ Me 259
11 Marginalizing Conservative Ideas 265
12 Can There Be a Decent Left! 271
13 The Left and the Constitution 279
14 Neo-Communism I 289
15 Neo-Communism II 295
16 Neo-Communism III 301
17 Discover the Networks 311
18 Keeping an Eye on the Domestic Threat 321
Part III Slander as Political Discourse
1 Paul Herman's Demented Lunacy 327
2 In Defense of Matt Drudge 331
3 Target of a Witch-Hunt 335
4 The Serial Distortions of Sid Vicious 349
5 The Surreal World of the Progressive Left 355
Part IV Two Talks on Autobiographical Themes
1 Plus Ca Change: Fifty Years Gone By 377
2 Reflections of a Diaspora few on Zionism, Israel and America 387