Sublime

Michael Ovitz,

Speaking with a conservative about the police or the military is exactly like speaking with a progressive about people of color. The immediate instinct is to defend the group from any criticism.

The late Derrick Bell, the first tenured African American professor at Harvard Law School, is often regarded as the progenitor of what we generally call critical race Theory, having derived the name by inserting race into his area of specialty: critical legal theory.

Did some American Jews prefer the moral ease of victimhood, I asked myself, to the complexities of Israeli power? Was no Israel better than an Israel that fell short of their dreams?

To an unrivaled extent, Obama identified American interests with the Palestinians.

That linkage seemed to me to be the most damaging part of his speech. The Arabs had long complained that they were forced to pay the price of the Jews’ near eradication by Europe, which dumped the survivors in Palestine. That narrative denied three thousand years of unbroken Jewish connection to our land. It overlooked the fact that Jews had always

Eisenhower did not share Moseley’s racist dogmatism, and in his subsequent correspondence he ignored the general’s anti-Semitic rants.16 Yet he never took issue with Moseley’s views, and in his memoirs suggested the general had been the victim of bad press coverage.