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Entry: The Subversion of Lawrence Dennis Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_subversion_of_lawrence_dennis#5867 Post contents: As someone who has written, among other things, an article about Dennis for the not-as-yet online journal First Principles, I can attest to several of the questions raised here: Horne appears to be a card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA in the year 2007 - I have reasonably inferred this from his open association with the CPUSA's "Reference Center for Marxist Studies". I am very pleased that Justin has written this, but I feel the piece has two flaws, the first being that it does not do justice to the fact that, as became abundantly clear when I looked at Dennis' papers at the Hoover Institution, Dennis was, even if his views were idiosyncratic, nothing but entirely in the mainstream of the old right. His admirers even after World War II included such not commonly regarded as old right figures as Max Eastman, Wilmoore Kendall, and even young Bill Buckley when he was still putting on a charade. The second, I have to take issue with Justin, is that it is wrong, or at best, misleading, to say that Dennis evolved into a libertarian late in life. His admirers late in life included many early libertarians, but Radosh greatly overstated the case. I would also ask Justin if he could perhaps help elucidate something - I met Dennis' daughter a couple years ago in New York, who told me that Radosh personally interviewed Dennis for Prophets On The Right. I asked because in the book the discussion of Dennis' later life trailed off inconclusively, and further there is no mention of Dennis or anyone connected to the chapters on him in the book's acknowledgments. Do you know what's up here? Radosh of course has been very mysterious about his lost summer with the old right, I have a twisted fantasy that he's going to finally say his peace on the matter in a polemic against Ron Paul in Commentary. Sent at: 2008 05 16