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A Universal Aspiration

Excerpt from Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion by David Horowitz
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All the totalitarian movements of modernity have been inspired by the same fantasy of a world made right and finally brought into harmony with itself. This utopian delusion is not restricted to aspiring commissars or religious fanatics. In one form or another, it is the ideal of every believer in a universal progress, including those who would be dismayed to think of themselves in such destructive company.

The desire to make things better is an impulse essential to our humanity. But taken beyond the limits of what is humanly possible, the same hope is transformed into a destructive passion, until it becomes a desire to annihilate whatever stands in the way of the beautiful idea. Nihilism is thus the practical extreme of the radical project. Consequently, the fantasy of a redeemed future has repeatedly led to catastrophic results as progressive radicals pursue their impossible schemes. It is an enduring irony of the human condition that the urgency to make the world “a better place” is also the chief source of the suffering that human beings have inflicted on each other from the beginning of time.

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Reviews: Volume I

  • WSJ: Notable and Quotable – “What it Means to be a Conservative”

  • The Weekly Standard: “A Good Fight”

  • WND: “A Life Transformed”

  • The Blaze: “The Horrific Story That Prompted David Horowitz’s Conservative Transformation

  • Daily Caller: “How the American Left Lost Its Nerve”

  • NRO: “A Witness”

Reviews: Volume II

  • Review: The Black Book of the American Left, Volume II by Janice Flamengo, PJ Media

  • On Horowitz’s New Book: Progressives – Paul Hollander

  • The Black Book of the American Left: Volume 2 — The Progressives – Barbara Kay

  • David Horowitz Exposes Why Progressives Must Lie: Spyridon Mitsotakis

  • Understanding Today’s Campus Left

Reviews: Volume III

  • ‘The Great Betrayal’ Defends Those Who Won’t Defend Themselves

    May 31, 2016

Reviews: Volume IV

  • Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews by David Horowitz–Review by Lee Bender

    June 16, 2015

  • Review of Volume IV – Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews

    May 15, 2015

  • Review:  David Horowitz, The Black Book of the American Left: Volume IV:  Islamo-Fascism and the War Against the Jews

    April 14, 2015

Reviews: Volume V

  • Review of Culture Wars: Volume V by Barbara Kay

    January 18, 2016

  • Review of Volume V: Culture Wars by Jay Nordlinger

    November 30, 2015

Reviews: Volume VI

  • America’s Real Racists: Review of “Progressive Racism” by John Perazzo

    June 20, 2016

  • Review of Progressive Racism (Volume VI) by Mark Tapson

    May 12, 2016

Reviews: Volume VII

  • Black Book Matters:  A Review of Volume VII by Lloyd Billingsley

    July 17, 2017

  • Review of The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama by Barbara Kay

    December 27, 2016

  • Review of The Left in Power: Clinton to Obama by Richard Baehr

    October 28, 2016

Reviews: Volume VIII

  • The Left in the Universities: A Review by Mark Bauerlein

    October 17, 2017

  • The Ideological Hijacking of the University and the Betrayal of its Traditional Mission

    September 25, 2017

Reviews: Volume IX

  • Destructive Legacy of the Left: A Review by Barbara Kay

    January 14, 2019

  • David Horowitz’s Curtain Call?: Review of “Ruling Ideas” by Richard Kirk

    June 25, 2018

  • The Left’s Ruling Ideas: A Review of Volume IX by Mark Tapson

    May 29, 2018

  • Inside the Mind of the Left: A Review of Volume IX by Michael Ledeen

    May 1, 2018

  • David Horowitz Explains the Ruling Ideas of the Left: A Review by Richard Baehr

    April 25, 2018

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