Thank you for the post - this sounds like a great book!! I also went from being a liberal (and a Berkeley one at that!) to a conservative, because I realized that the way to achieve the best for everyone in a society are the principles of Conservatism. I posted it to Facebook.
I made the same journey. Although I was not a Berkeley liberal I did make the obligatory hippie's Hajj to the campus. But I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.