The Fallout: How a guilty liberal lost his innocence, by Andrew Anthony

Fantastic bit of politics regarding how the author's previous lifelong leanings to left-wing politics took a battering up to & particularly after the terrible events of 9/11. It sounds straightforward but it's much more subtle than that as the author describes his upbringing that formed his politics & how many things began to change his opinion culminating in a revulsion of how the so-called liberal intelligentsia reacted, or didn't, to the terrorist attacks. I found myself nodding in agreement at the well-thought, rationally explained & often politically un-correct arguments as I too have been appalled at some of the opinions & attitudes which now seem to define modern liberalism. It is no longer the kind of open-minded liberalism that I grew up with, for example it apparently condones authoritarianism at home & abroad, & has an evident hatred of anything from the West, as well as an apparent guilt-induced self-hatred. All in all a valuable wake-up call for many people that unfortunately wouldn't dream of reading it despite (another point the book makes) their politics supposedly being one of an accepting open-mind. Finished end of September 2011.
5/5