Hypothesis: All memoirs by right-wing pundits are attempts to answer the question, "why does no one like me?" See: Toby Young's How to Lose Friends & Alienate People, Barbara Amiel's Friends & Enemies. Norman Podhoretz's Ex-Friends. Martin Peretz's promised The Book of Grudges.
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At least Lewis has the saving virtue of genius. Though I think the most unpleasant rightwing genius remains Evelyn Waugh. Guy was just the worst!
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Imagine being a young person and discovering that people don’t like you because you’re an ass, then deciding to spend your life working to make being an ass good rather than just starting to care about other people.
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Sure, but now there's a whole political party for people like that. And that's why they don't want us voting.
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Few right wingers or left wingers for that matter are known for their sunny outlook on life even before they reach the age to write memoirs.
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And penned the ne plus ultra of caustic Canadiana in Self Condemned...
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Add to that his 1954 masterpiece Self Condemned.
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See also Whitaker Chambers
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