by Victor Davis Hanson
Tribune Media Services
Democracies have seen novelists who entered politics (Upton Sinclair and Mario Vargas Llosa). Sometimes politicians aspire to become novelists (Georges Clemenceau and Newt Gingrich). In almost every case, their fiction at one time or another was wrongly used against them in campaigns and political life — on the mistaken notion that whatever a novelist writes mustreflect, even in some small way, his own views. Continue reading “James Webb and Lessons in Make-Believe”