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DAVID MARCUS: Dovie Eisner’s beautiful life inspired a generation of conservative thinkers

The conservative thinker with a rare neuromuscular disorder advocated against euthanasia

By David Marcus Fox News

Published September 17, 2026 3:20pm EDT

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I can’t remember the first time I met Dovie Eisner, which is odd given that he always stood out, his small broken body wheelchair-bound with a breathing tube as a result of his being born with a recessive genetic neuromuscular condition called nemaline myothapy. But I do remember the last time.

From about 2012 until he slipped into a coma last year and passed away last week on Sept. 11, Dovie was a central figure in the small world of conservative writing and thinking in New York City. 

It was a group that, along with myself, included the likes of Karol Markowitz, Sohrab Ahmari and Armin Rosin. Basically, if you had ever written a right wing op-ed in Gotham, you were a friend of Dovie.

Dovie’s position in this circle was entirely of his own volition. He would seek us out, often one by one, first through social media, then a lunch or dinner carefully choreographed to accommodate his severe disability. I’ve never known anyone so anxious to be on the scene, nor so deserving.

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