I finally got around to finishing David Brock's book, Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative. Brock is — do I have to tell you? — the former Conservative journalist/"hitman" who has renounced his past reporting on, among other newsmaking topics, the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill skirmish and the claim that Bill Clinton had a quick tryst with a woman named Paula. Whether or not you believe The New David Brock will probably depend on whether or not you want to. Clearly, most pundits and participants are out to spin this to their advantage but if I had to vote, not so much on what happened but on how history will record it, I think I'd side with this article by Jane Mayer that appeared in The New York Review of Books.