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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

David Horowitz Discusses the Project

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