Saturday, July 15, 2006
HOROWITZ SCREWS UP
Or -- yet another installment of "Why I am Not a Conservative"
I’ve been pretty much of a fan of David Horowitz for years. But I think he made a serious mistake recently when he invited a couple of authors of the Euston Manifesto to talk at his site, FrontPage.
I recently wrote here on Burchismo that I thought the Euston Manifesto was a good sign that there was some light on the Left. Horowitz missed a golden opportunity to build bridges to people who share basic liberal values. But he couldn’t resist what seems to me to be a rude and rigid attack from “right orthodoxy” on people who are trying to salvage the liberal tradition on the Left.
Here’s the problem: I agree with everything that Horowitz says in this interview. But his lack of diplomacy arises from the same kind of ideological rigidity he claims to have left behind when he abandoned his socialist background. This incident raises the question of how to carry out “kulturkampf.” The socialist fantasy is probably ineradicable in the larger sphere of human existence. Given that, some kind of productive modus vivendi has to be developed. Horowitz's attack-dog methodology does no good, IMO.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 10:46 AM
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