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Pedro Gonzalez, Guest Columnist Pedro Gonzalez is an Ashland-based writer. You can find him at readcontra.com . I'm going to tell you a story about the story that changed my life. It's set in Springfield, where I went in 2024 to speak with locals about the pet-eating hoax for a conservative magazine . By the time I had filed my column, I had a renewed sense of the preciousness of the American experiment.
Feb. 28, 2026, 4:35 a.m. ET Pedro Gonzalez's visit to Springfield to cover a hoax about immigrants led him to leave the conservative movement. Pedro Gonzalez is an Ashland-based writer. You can find him at readcontra.com. I’m going to tell you a story about the story that changed my life. It’s set in Springfield, where I went in 2024 to speak with locals about the pet-eating hoax for a conservative magazine.
A few months ago, I wrote an article on art and the right for The Metropolitan Review. The gist of it was that thinking about art in terms of “right” and “left” and, therefore, trying to be creative in accordance with specific political criteria is a mistake. No great novel has ever been written by an author who set out to pen the perfect ideological story. In general, I think the whole debate is a big waste of time.