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...Nation on Trial evolved from two articles published in British journals earlier this year. The first was written by Ruth Bettina Birn, the chief historian of the Canadian Justice Department's War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section. The second was the work of Norman G. Finkelstein, a professor of general studies at New York University and adjunct associate professor of political science at Hunter College...
...Birn and Finkelstein could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Goldhagen emphatically denied that he is planning any lawsuit, and has instead written several pieces attacking the quality of both Birn's and Finkelstein's scholarship...
...Finkelstein's 50 page piece, which appeared in the July-August issue of New Left Review, another British publication, alleges that Goldhagen's book "is not scholarship at all," and is rife with "glaring internal contradictions...
...episodes happening now? Partly because the defeats on same-sex marriage and workplace discrimination raised bitter questions about whether closeted gay lawmakers were guilty of hypocrisy. "If Sarah Brady owned a handgun, would you write about it?" asks Frank, who tumbled out of the closet years ago. Thus Arthur Finkelstein, the mastermind behind the campaigns of antigay conservatives, was outed last month by Boston magazine. And there is the ever more permeable barrier between public discourse and the upwardly churning tides of gossip. At the Washington headquarters of the gay G.O.P. organization Log Cabin Republicans, executive director Richard Tafel says...