I grew up with David Horowitz. He's older, so I got some of his hand-me-downs. Our parents were friends. He was a stellar student of history at Wisconsin (I think) and worked with D.F. Fleming, as I recall.

Later in life our paths diverged completely. Disillusioned with the left, he became a ultra-right-winger and easy to ridicule. And I did.

Today a friend forwarded me news that -- months ago -- Sarah Horowitz, one of his daughters had died. Included with that news was an essay David Horowitz wrote about his daughter which so humanized him and her, I'm not certain I'll be able to make fun of David again. I just hate it when political opponents as easily pilloried and demonized as David was, turn out to be people. I'm not going to agree with him, I don't think, but I'm going to have to give up sneering at him.