Pollak: Joan Didion’s Warnings About the Emptiness of the Left Still Resonate

Few would describe Joan Didion as a conservative.

The writer, who passed away on Thursday at the age of 87 in New York from complications of Parkinson’s disease, was at times the doyenne of the liberal literary establishment.

But in her essays about her native California, notably “Slouching Toward Bethlehem,” Didion offered warnings about the emptiness of the left-wing counterculture emerging with the hippie movement and the New Left radicals — warnings that still resonate today.

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