I am telling the truth when I say that a former leftist friend and I exchanged books.

Actually, that's wrong too.

I gave her my copies of Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlett, and A Conflict of Visions by Thomas Sowell, and I bought Threshold by Thom Hartmann upon her insistence.

I read Threshold -- it was dumb.

Upon the moment she blocked me, she had had my books for more than ten years, and she never read a page from either book.

She still has my books. I guess they're her books now. I'm not gonna go after her to get the books back.

I'm seeing this as a trend, though.

Young leftists simply don't read books. They actively avoid books that might trigger them.

I don't want the philosophical Right to hold a monopoly on reading. If I were to be judged by the traditional, French model of Right and Left spectrum, I'm hard Left. I'm just tired of people on the Left seeing not reading books as a virtue.