Heinlein Centennial
1st July 2007
Item. John J. Miller’s appreciation of one of the most interesting people ever to graduate from the Naval Academy. (Apparently he had a tightly-focused career plan, too.)
When I was growing up, if you had asked me who was the greatest living writer of science fiction, I would have been unable to choose between Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov … and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one. And yet their political viewpoints were polar opposites. I wonder whether that says something significant about our culture.
It also reminds me that a lot of people who wound up being prominent on the political right started out on the political left. I can’t think of anybody who traveled in the other direction. Perhaps that also says something significant about our culture.