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Entry: Banishing Nostalgia Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/banishing_nostalgia#14286 Post contents: Dear Mr. Meehan, Ah, you spotted it! I read the great Ritter's "Leftism: From de Sade to Hitler" when I was 16, including all the footnotes, and it shaped my views for life! I came across him in the good old NR, which also ran Molnar and Sobran--two major influences on my writing ever since. I wrote K-L a letter with a piece of my youthful prose, and he was kind enough to send me an encouraging postcard. I never met him until I was in my mid-30s and he in his late 90s--at a Philly Soc meeting hosted by ISI in honor of Ropke, about whom I was just finishing a book. Here's the pic: http://www.phillysoc.org/zmirerik.jpg A great moment for me! I'm now co-editing a Molnar book, and hope to help bring some of K-L's books back out in future. Prost! John Sent at: 2008 11 21