The real question is 'Why Don't Most Youthful Leftists Turn Right When They Get Old?'

Owen Jones has now written about our encounter in today���s Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/09/peter-hitchens-tory-trotskyite-left-right

 

 

It���s strange how often this question comes up. But my transition from revolutionary youth to crusty, conservative, religious old age is one of the clich��s of humanity, or was until our current age. It���s not really very startling and is easily explained.

 

Far more interesting is the fact that most of my revolutionary comrades are *still* on the left, that they did not undergo the normal transformation but continue, well into their sixties and seventies, to espouse the moral, social and cultural views they held in their twenties.

 

It is this evidence of real and deep cultural revolution, unlike anything human civilisation has ever experienced before, that ought to be attracting interest