On becoming more left-wing - by Rafael Ruiz

Dan Williams has just unpaywalled his post on becoming less left-wing (disclaimer: I haven’t read the other two posts, because I irrationally refuse to pay for Substack). Reading it prompted me to reflect on my own ideological journey over the past decade. So I want to outline a very similar process I went through as an undergrad until today. My story starts out much like Dan’s, I also drifted away from the left a bit in my early twenties, for many of the same reasons he did. Which makes sense, since we’re both analytic philosopher guys of the same generation (we’re pretty close in age, I think?). But then I ended up becoming more left-wing again. Since the post summarizes more than ten years of ideological change, the account is extremely stylized. Some of the books are not mentioned in the real order I read them in. But I don’t think I would have the writing patience for a thorough autobiography, and it would read in a much more messy way. (Since his story is just about becoming less

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