Turning right

Interview | Michael Medved on how a liberal can become a conservative, how a conservative can think Hillary Clinton is nice, and how a Jew can hope for Christian revival | Marvin Olasky

Michael Medved’s Salem Radio three-hour daily talk show, a favorite among many evangelical listeners, reaches more than 2 million people in 181 markets across the country. His 10th book, Right Turns (Crown Forum, 2004), engagingly tells how he turned from the leftist life of the ‘60s and ‘70s to Orthodox Judaism and conservative politics.

WORLD: What was the political atmosphere at Yale during the mid- and late-1960s, and how did that help to push you further to the left?

MEDVED: The most striking aspect of that political atmosphere involved dramatic change—from a student body overwhelmingly supportive of the War in Vietnam (as late as 1966) to a campus seething with near-unanimous opposition to U.S. foreign policy.