Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion
Last updated October 31, 2026
David Horowitz, once a radical of the 1960s New Left, profiles people whose politics were driven by the hope of remaking the world, among them Christopher Hitchens, the feminist Bettina Aptheker and the academic Cornel West. Drawing on his own past and on their words, he argues that this utopian impulse, from Karl Marx to Barack Obama, breeds cynicism and nihilism and has caused great human suffering.
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