Last month, I and several other graduates of Georgetown Preparatory School returned to the yearbook office — the one that bizarrely became a focal point of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh ’s confirmation battle. I’ll get to that, and why our return was so important, shortly.

For now, let’s address the bigger picture. My book, The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stasi , which recounts Kavanaugh’s confirmation and the Left’s efforts to drag me into it, is starting to get attention. The book has been out for a year, and the political horror story it depicts is finding readers. They are slowly realizing that everything I predicted and warned about, specifically the Left’s tireless attack on the Supreme Court, is coming true. I warned that the Left was going to repeat what was done to me, that it would go after not just the justices but their friends. With the recent media attacks on not only Justice Clarence Thomas but Justice Samuel Alito, it is doing exactly that.

The Devil’s Triangle is an account of being targeted by the criminal and psychopathic Left during the Kavanaugh nomination in 2018. Kavanaugh and I went to high school together, and the Left tried to use my wild behavior in those years — some of it documented in our yearbook, which was actually used against us in detail — against him. The same Left that now downplays or denies the rape and murder of Israeli women had no trouble believing me and Kavanaugh ran a high school drug and gang rape cartel.

In short, I was subjected to extortion, witness tampering, death threats, and a honey trap.

Despite these shocking events, the media, even the conservative media, have not given The Devil’s Triangle its due. People told me to move on. Fine, I said — but the Left’s war against the Supreme Court didn’t start with me, and it certainly won’t end with me, either. Be ready for what is coming. If you think the Left is above scouring Federalist Society director Leonard Leo’s high school yearbook and falsely accusing him of crimes, you’re not living in modern America.

Journalist Robert Spencer recently reviewed The Devil’s Triangle and wrote this: “What makes The Devil’s Triangle so important, and so enduring: It is a virtual guidebook to how the Left operates today, and how the vaunted peaceful and tolerant side doesn’t hesitate to savage reputations and destroy lives in order to attain its goals.”

What happened to me was not an isolated incident but part of a wider movement to destroy conservatives by any means necessary. This included weaponizing our high school yearbook.

In my book, I compare the modern Left to the Stasi, the secret police under East German communism. A sad feature of the Kavanaugh hit was our betrayal not only at the hands of opposition researchers and politicians but also by former friends and people we had known. Journalist Peter Wensierski once noted that Stasi informers were not always police: “Instead, they were totally normal citizens of East Germany who betrayed others: neighbors reporting on neighbors, schoolchildren informing on classmates, university students passing along information on other students, managers spying on employees and Communist bosses denouncing party members.”

This is the kind of culture being created by the modern Left with its attacks on the friends of the justices — which brings me to my high school yearbook.

In 2018, the media and United States senators tried to destroy me and Kavanaugh by citing our underground 1983 high school newspaper, the Unknown Hoya. Jokes about beer and dates and beach trips were examined like Ancient Greek artifacts.

Guys from our own school had given it to the media. We have an incredibly tight class, and it wasn’t one of our crew. Still, like the Stasi informers, the hit came from a supposedly friendly source.

We recently held our 40th high school reunion at the great Jesuit institution Georgetown Prep. There was great catching up with my old brothers. We made shirts with the logo of the Unknown Hoya, even though we were warned not to bring up the paper. Naturally, being 1980s kids, we started selling the shirts. We went through 400 in two days.

There was also a mission we needed to accomplish. In the name of liberty, honor, free thought, rock 'n' roll, and adolescent fart jokes, we had to reclaim the turf they tried to shame us for. If you’re going to be free, you have to live it. You have to wear the shirt they attempt to censor and refuse the shame they are doling out.

So we did. We sneaked away from the main action to revisit the room where we had written those famous captions and jokes, done layouts, and developed the film. Deep in the basement bowels of a centuries-old building, the room is now a storage space. We went in, sat on some boxes, and lit up cigars. To use a metaphor that would get censored in most places, we were Crusaders reclaiming the Holy Land. We reminisced and joked about a nearly hidden little phrase in the yearbook, one that will forever escape the eyes of the American Stasi. It will be buried with us.

It will be buried with us because we have honor. In his great book Honor: A History, critic James Bowman explores how the concept of honor went from an expression common among regular people, as well as military and aristocratic groups, to a reflection of how well a citizen demeans himself in the service of a leftist therapeutic culture. Honor was once connected to how you would be perceived after leaving this world. It had, as Bowman notes, “an independent existence of its own.”

These days, Bowman concludes, “We dishonor honor, perhaps because we fear its reinstitution into our twenty-first-century culture.”

Yes, we do. That’s why the Left doesn’t want people reading The Devil’s Triangle — in its worldview, honor is always subservient to politics.

Mark Judge is an award-winning journalist and the author of  The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi . He is also the author of God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Damn Senators, and A Tremor of Bliss.