I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.
For most of my life, I wasn't on the Left.
I took the liberal view for many decades, but I believe I have changed my mind.
Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.
I became a real free market fanatic. I'm probably less so now than even two or three years ago.
Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal. Nowadays, I regard myself as a libertarian.
