I'm reading Michael Medved's autobiography Right Turns. It is a wonderful peek into a complex and delightful man. His secular upbringing with intellectual Jewish Democrat parents could not have prefigured his current Orthodox Judaism and Republican activist present. His Yale undergraduate peace activism and Democratic campaign work, including friendships with William Sloane Coffin, Hillary Rodham and others could not have led to a complete rejection of liberal ideologies, but it did. His chance encounter with an Chasidic rabbi who, when he wasn't even sure he believed in God, strapped phylacteries on his arm and forehead amid hebrew prayers which led to a spiritual "charge" of energy which led him to establish the ritual phylacteries as part of his daily routine was not characteristic of an intellectual, but rather a man of the heart. I recommend it.