John Ettorre wrote:

>>>>you jilted right-wing yahoos… your books don’t get too much attention [in the NYT] because they tend to be of marginal interest to intelligent people.

Are you on the left because you think the left’s views are correct… or because you think all the “intelligent” people are on the left and all the “yahoos” are on the right, and want to feel you belong to the “correct” group?

A typical case of what Harold Rosenberg called the “herd of independent minds”.