Identity Politics: My Professional Look-Alikes

When I was a little boy, people regularly told me that I resembled the child actor Gary Coleman, star of the popular TV sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes.”

- By Jason L. Riley

Coleman was short and had fat cheeks. I didn’t appreciate the comparison. I thought I was much better looking.As an adult I acquired a different doppelgänger, not a famous actor but a fellow opinion journalist whom I happened to befriend after mov