Thanks to my colleagues for raising such provocative questions about American anti-Semitism, the state, and the “marketplace of ideas.” Given the increasingly open expressions of hatred currently coming not only from the margins but from public figures, and a national dialogue driven largely by polemics and ad hominem attacks, might scholarship have something useful to offer us? So I am grateful to be having this discussion about the history of American anti-Semitism at this moment in time. There are many issues here but I’d like to focus on three: Is there slippage between targets of hatred? What has the role Read more