[DeweyCA]

It is interesting to hear what this NYU prof thought of himself while he was a leftist. It confirms all of the stereotypes of them thinking that they are the saviors of the world and that we are the ignorant dregs of society. I am glad that he has "seen the light" and that he has the courage to tell about it. If only 50 million more American leftists would awaken to reality like he has done.

[dynachrome]

The self hating Jews will shun him.

[marron]

Its tough enough for someone to finally figure out he was wrong.

Much more difficult for him to figure out that the rubes he hates were right.

[Reddy]

“Sometimes, these measures had unintended consequences (see under: Stalin, Josef),”

No way this is legit.

Leftists worship at the altar of Joseph Stalin.

[PetroniusMaximus]

He will find no home in the Republican party, the cheaper and shabbier “Me-to” dictators.

[Yardstick]

Would be interesting to hear him and David Horowitz talk about their turn from the left.

[drSteve78]

What a waste of lifetime effort.

[rbg81]

It’s been years now, but I still remember the time a dear friend and mentor took me to lunch and warned me, sternly and without any of the warmth you’d extend to someone you truly loved, to watch what I said about Israel.

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A blind man could have seen that one coming a mile away.

[Red6]

Nice way to describe his journey.

I think as he puts it, many have a “turn” in their life. I did.

[Buttons12]

Wikipedia tells us that Liel Leibovitz is “an Israeli journalist, author, media critic and video game scholar.”

However, at 46 he could still make something of himself.

[sauropod]

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[Billthedrill]

Ah, yes The Turn. It has a history all its own. First for me and I think still the best exposition on this wrenching change is Whittaker Chambers' Witness. If the author hasn't read it he might find a good deal of comfort there, because Chambers had no real reason other than conscience to leave a comfortable existence similar to the author's to do what he did.

Paul Hollanders' The End Of Commitment is a study of people both in and out of the intellectual life who faced a similar change. For one Russian general it was simply a walk under a prison window and hearing the screams. Highly recommended.

[FLT-bird]

He does have some points. The Left-Right labels do not mean what they used to and don’t really fit any more. Nor does the word “liberal” in its 20th century American sense.

Progressives aka the Wokeratti are the most illiberal people you could meet. They are for explicit racism. They are for censorship. They are for the 3 letter agencies and they are for foreign wars. They are against bodily autonomy. They are anti choice. They are against women’s rights, and they especially HATE the working class.

I can remember a lot of my Left leaning teachers growing up who were against every single last thing listed above that the current Woke movement is for. I didn’t agree with liberals of a generation ago about everything but there were plenty of things - such as all of the above - that I did agree with them about.

[DeweyCA]

Like a person discovering Christianity and being born-again, this is this guy’s personal testimony of leaving the darkness of leftism and discovering the truth of conservatism.

[Chuckster]

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[Zionist Conspirator]

I embraced my people, and my people embraced me. They gave me everything I had always imagined I wanted: a Ph.D. from an Ivy League university; a professorship at NYU, complete with a roomy office overlooking Washington Square Park; book deals; columns in smart little publications; invitations to the sort of soirees where you could find yourself seated next to Salman Rushdie or Susan Sontag or any number of the men and women you grew up reading and admiring. The list goes on. Life was good. I was grateful.

Ah, those champions of the poor and disenfranchised!