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The American Prospect

The Zeal of the Convert

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Matthew Sheffield is one of the most interesting people I’ve ever met.

His father rebelled against Mormonism of his youth, resentful of how it had shed its original, 19th-century strangeness.

Sheffield's father was a professor of classical guitar, a brilliant composer beloved by the great Andrés Segovia .

He and a brother developed computer proficiency, and he picked up a college education in dribs and drabs.

Sheffield has long since become a committed leftist.

Matthew Sheffield is the first managing editor of the Washington Examiner , now a website.

He says he was horrified by right-wing conservatives' efforts to move media to the right.

Sheffield: Conservatives always descend from some sacred, impregnable prior truth.

Sheffield says conservatives learn to reason by affirming the concept as fundamentalists.

Frida Ghitis: Conservative -dominated media has no mechanism for moderation, only for ever-greater extremism.