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Dershowitz asked the radical to speak up on behalf of Soviet Jewry. She refused because " 'they are all Zionist fascists and opponents of socialism.' Davis would urge that they be kept in prison where they belonged." Dershowitz's other targets include Pat Buchanan, Jesse Jackson, Meir Kahane and Norman Podhoretz. All made the mistake of locking horns with a master prosecutor; all come off a bloody second best...
...also indulge in an awful lot of navel gazing, often in a tone of self-satisfied righteousness; witness Dana Mack's account of being brave and lonely as a student at San Francisco's Lowell High School. The book's two essays on film, by Bruce Bawer and John Podhoretz, seem tendentious and repetitive...
...every erstwhile alarmist can bring himself to such optimism. Says Norman Podhoretz, editor of Commentary: "A lot of people are trying to undermine the foundations of the American experience and are pushing toward a more Balkanized society. I think that would be a disaster, not only because it would destroy a precious social inheritance but also because it would lead to enormous unrest, even violence...
...imperfect Israel has no right to exist. Fortunately, they acted somewhat more carefully than Sharfstein. Israel's "Declaration of Independence" explicitly states that the creation of the new state would destroy age-old double standards by "lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations." As Normon Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine writes, "the purpose of Israel was to normalize the Jewish people, not to perfect them. The Jewish state was to create not a utopia but a refuge from persecution...
...Podhoretz, since communists as surely as fascists can write, it's better to view literature as something which provides a variety of tame and nebulous things such as enjoyment and pleasure. Quite simply, after a good day's work at the office, Podhoretz instructs, go home and read a book. You'll enjoy...