The Wall Street Journal published my reply to Abraham Miller’s op-ed critical of my work on Jewish involvement in immigration policy. They had a very limited maximum word count (272) and removed the references. I previously posted a longer version on this site. April 10, 2018 11:29 a.m. ET 12 COMMENTS In dismissing my argument that Jewish […]
Robert Wright’s review of Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now got me thinking about how politics is increasingly polarized—a good thing certainly, but Wright adds some interesting wrinkles. A few preliminaries: Ricardo Duchesne has already said all the necessary things about Pinker’s hostility to identity politics—and White identity politics in particular as somehow irrational (thus ignoring entirely Frank Salter’s work on ethnic […]
I seem to be up to my eyeballs lately defending my writing on Jewish issues. In the wake of Nathan Cofnas’s attack on The Culture of Critique (to which I responded here and here; note Cofnas does not dispute my scholarship on immigration), the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by Abraham Miller, an emeritus professor of political […]
I have posted a second reply to Nathan Cofnas, this one on his comments to my first reply. It is long and tedious but I thought I would post the Introduction and an excerpt from the exchange on immigration. Introduction Nathan Cofnas has responded to my reply to his review of The Culture of Critique. […]
Well, it finally happened. I never understood why it took so long, but PayPal has finally bounced TOO as part of the campaign against the Alt Right and truth-telling generally, presumably pressured by the usual suspects. The PayPal buttons have been taken off the donations page, and recurring donations will not go through. We are […]
LES JUIFS ET LA GAUCHE Je n’ai jamais pu comprendre ce que le judaïsme avait à voir avec le marxisme, et en quoi se poser des questions sur ce dernier équivalait à être déloyal envers le Dieu d’Abraham, d’Isaac et de Jacob. (Ralph de Toledano [1996,50] discutant de ses expériences avec des intellectuels juifs d’Europe […]
