A fine mini-meditation on shifting personal politics, from Jay Nordlinger’s “Impromptus”:
I must say, I was touched by what the New York Times had to report about Max Rovner, the 34-year-old lawyer in Chicago who said he had ‘felt a shift in his identity’ owing to the recent Middle East crisis. Says the Times, ‘As a liberal, he used to look at National Review with disdain; now, as a Jew, he sees kinship in its support of Israel.’ The suddenly less disdainful lawyer said, ‘I had never felt any connection whatsoever to the Christian right, but here they are, staunchly, 100 percent behind Israel. Alan Keyes, the folks on the Fox News Channel, Newt Gingrich — I disagree with all of these people constantly. I
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Killing me softly…