Memo to the Editors

Memo to: The Editors of NRFrom: Bill RusherDate: August 1, 1969Subject: The New Left

If you figure that my career as a debater began in the fall of 1937 during my sophomore year at Great Neck High, when I joined an extracurricular organization called The Filibusters, I have been arguing politics, man and boy, for 32 years. For the first thirty of those years, my principal sparring partners were liberals and leftists of all the usual hues, and even before I graduated from high school my dislike for their politics had become so marked that the school yearbook for the far-off year 1940 describes me as having a “natural aversion to radicals.”

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Memo to: The Editors of NRFrom: Bill RusherDate: August 1, 1969Subject: The New Left

If you figure that my career as a debater began in the fall of 1937 during my sophomore year at Great Neck High, when I joined an extracurricular organization called The Filibusters, I have been arguing politics, man and boy, for 32 years. For the first thirty of those years, my principal sparring partners were liberals and leftists of all the usual hues, and even before I graduated from high school my dislike for their politics had become so marked that the school yearbook for the far-off year 1940 describes me as having a “natural aversion to radicals.”