He puts it much better than I can in a March column I missed:
I don't think of myself as having gone squishy. I think of myself as
having grown sober. And my conservative critics? On them, I think the
most apt verdict was delivered by Niccolo Macchiavelli, 500 years ago:
"This is the tragedy of man. Circumstances change, and he does not."
Read the whole thing. He has not changed his core principles or beliefs and they remain, as mine do, well within the boundaries of what we might call t...
Published on June 30, 2010 09:12