How I accidentally joined the vast right-wing conspiracy (and found inner peace)

the long version

"Author and ethics columnist Harry Stein didn't start out conservative. But somewhere along the way, real life - and fatherhood - gave him pause. In this memoir, Stein recounts his personal journey from '70s liberal to '90s conservative - a journey that began with a few troubling questions he couldn't even share with his friends." "The transformation of Harry Stein began when he became a father. And nothing in his wildest dreams could have prepared him for what was to come.". "First of all, the Right was beginning to sound right. Even worse, the Left was beginning to sound - and look - wrong. In a memoir both personal and political, Stein cuts through the distortions on both sides and shows how liberating it is to no longer have to pass as a correct thinker. Speaking to his peers and to his times, Stein tackles such provocative topics as feminism, affirmative action, PC education, media, gay rights, and sexual McCarthyism. He tells what he really thinks of ... sex, lies, and Bill Clinton ... how his columns on Murphy Brown and day care were his personal 'coming out' ... the daily corruption of network news and big-time front pages ... what has happened to a once-great newspaper, The New York Times."--BOOK JACKET.