One Day in the Life of an Ex-Leftie

Front Page Magazine ^ | 14 January 2010 | David Solway

[CanGyrene]

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is David Solway, the award-winning author of over twenty-five books of poetry, criticism, educational theory, and travel. He is a contributor to magazines as varied as The Atlantic, the Sewanee Review, Books in Canada, and the Partisan Review. His book, The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity, was a Canadian bestseller. A former leftist, he abandoned the political faith after 9/11. He is the author of the new book, Hear, O Israel!

FP: David Solway, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Congratulations on your new book.

I would like to talk to you today about some of the difficulties you have suffered as an ex-leftie in our literary culture. Tell us a bit about how you are being treated as an author and poet and the challenges you are facing with your new book.

Solway: Let me begin by distinguishing between the person and the writer. As a person, I’ve experienced my share of problems, like any conservative in today’s liberal-left culture. Long-standing friendships have gone by the board. Discussions become quarrels. The attempt to articulate one’s conservative principles meet with incomprehension, disbelief or outright ridicule—and even ostracism.

[CanGyrene]

As the author of the extraordinary denunciation of Obama in his Open Letter to Americans, it is very interesting to see what this Canadian says about the Human Rights Commission in Canada, and how (say I) it is almost a shoo-in for Obamaland. TAKE NOTICE - this is ugly.

[marron]

Excellent interview. Worth reading in its entirety.

[TChad]

Good stuff, thanks.

Canada seems to be turning into quite an ugly country.

[antceecee]

Yes... bookmarking for future review.