Word: jeffriesism
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When we arrived at the faculty dining hall where the interview took place, I told Jeffries that I wanted to tape the interview. "That's fine with me," he said.
Recently, I went to New York to interview Dr. Jeffries for the Crimson's weekly magazine, What Is To Be Done?. My interest was that of a journalist who, in the past, has let controversial figures such as Camille Paglia, Noam Chomsky and Meir Kahane tell their stories candidly. As...
When I first contacted Jeffries in early October, I explained to him that I have conducted interviews with controversial people for The Crimson and that if he would allow me to interview him I would quote him at length and paraphrase him as little as possible.
Jeffries agreed to my proposal and we set the interview date for Thursday, October 17th. Although I arrived at his office on our scheduled date, because of his time constraints it would be almost 24 hours later that the actual interview would take place.
During our phone conversation, Jeffries said, "If all you're going to do is come down here and label me an anti-Semite, don't bother." I assured him that I would let him tell his won story and that I had no angle to my story yet, that an...