In 1964, Carl Oglesby was married with children, living in what he calls a "see-Spot-run" neighborhood, and working a white-collar job in the defense industry. In 1965, he was the president of Students for a Democratic Society, trading bourgeois tranquility for a life of protesting the Vietnam War, bedding movement sex symbols, cutting folk albums, and quixotically trying to forge an alliance between the New Left and the Old Right. Read my review of Carl Oglesby's Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement in the City Journal's online edition.

I find the organizations of the 60s New Left fascinating, for some reason. Both Whittaker Chambers' "Wistness" and David Horowitz's "Radical Son" were great reads. I very much look forward to your "Conservative History of the American Left". I don't know what it is exactly that makes these groups and people so captivating to me, it is certainly not any sympathy for their ideas.

Nice ad in Town Hall mag for ACHAL.

Something about Town Hall creeps me out. I get the feeling that, had we lost the war, about two thirds of the writers there would be smilingly ignorant mid-level reiksbureaukrats.

Ben,

I don't quite understand what you mean and am curious about what creeps you out. The Mag is actually pretty good. I think.