What turns people into wicked punks while they no doubt continue to believe themselves to be decent and good? Bad ideas, that’s what, ideas that give people license to answer words and policies with terror. What’s the bad idea on the left? Control. The notion that the left’s cause is so righteous it needs to pay no mind to liberty but simply deserves to win by any means necessary. Let five judges on the Supreme Court make law and damn the “outdated” Constitution. Give unelected bureaucracies like the EPA the power to regulate people’s lives without appeal or oversight. Give ignoble gnomes like Peter Strzok the wherewithal to criminalize the political opposition. And of course, bring on the socialism: a philosophy that declares a person’s work, his time, his life, his property belong not to him but to the state. Control.
As Mark Steyn once said about Islamacists, we shouldn’t ask why they hate us, but why they despise us. And people who hate the country, and half the people in it, sure as hell shouldn’t be in charge of it.
In addition to the books and short stories, he wrote some Twilight Zone episodes, and Star Trek.
I woke up from s nap and my wife told me we'd lost Harlan. I knew his writing forever, and knew him for over 30 years. I don't know that we were friends; he liked my stuff, but he always scared hell out of me. I know I'll miss him. The field, too. Our enfant terrible is gone. https://t.co/kDT1Abqb0N