[beckett]

Although I mainly agree with Steyn, no difficult chore, I feel compelled to say a few words in Miller's defense. Towards the end of his life Miller repudiated socialism, although admittedly it was a soft repudiation. He said, "There is hardly a week that passes when I don't ask the unanswerable question: what am I now convinced of that will turn out to be ridiculous? And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, filled with indecision, scepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere." He was clearly referring to his socialist political views.

Miller also visited Cuba only a year or so ago and wrote, in The New York Times, a scathing critique of Castro, with whom he and his group met for hours. He called Castro a long-winded bore trapped in the fantasies of the past, or words to that effect.

Miller's politics changed over time, and he should be accorded some credit for that.

[Common Tator]

Miller's politics changed over time, and he should be accorded some credit for that.

Sort of like the credit a killer gets for not killing???

[rcocean]

I'm sure if Hitler had lived; he would have repudiated Nazism.

Yes, well, maybe we were a little hard on the jews.

Sorry, I killed millions but we all grow and learn as we get older.

[Neophyte]

"...And yet one can't forever stand on the shore; at some point, filled with indecision, scepticism, reservation and doubt, you either jump in or concede that life is forever elsewhere." He was clearly referring to his socialist political views.

If this is a clear reference to anything, then pigs can fly.