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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Volokh Conspiracy Opinion</font></div><div>Ben Shapiro discovers right-wing anti-Semitism</div><div>By David Bernstein May 19, 2016 </div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Ben Shapiro:</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>I’ve spent most of my career arguing that anti-Semitism in the United States is almost entirely a product of the political Left. </b>I’ve traveled across the country from Iowa to Texas; I’ve rarely seen an iota of true anti-Semitism. I’ve sensed far more anti-Jewish animus from leftist college students at the University of California, Los Angeles, than from churches in Valencia. As an observer of President Obama’s thoroughgoing anti-Israel administration, I could easily link the anti-Semitism of the Left to its disdain for both Biblical morality and Israeli success over its primary Islamist adversaries. The anti-Semitism I’d heard about from my grandparents — the country-club anti-Semitism, the alleged white-supremacist leanings of rednecks from the backwoods — was a figment of the imagination, I figured. I figured wrong. Donald Trump’s nomination has drawn anti-Semites from the woodwork.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Unlike Shapiro, I’ve never doubted the persistence of right-wing anti-Semitism. Way back when (but not that long ago), I volunteered for the Jack Kemp presidential campaign. As a lowly intern, I got to open a good bit of mail from donors and potential donors, many identified from rented mailing lists belonging to right-wing direct-mail gurus. The volume of overtly anti-Semitic mail was quite remarkable, especially since Kemp was not Jewish, nor did any “Jewish” issue play a significant role in his campaign.</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Nevertheless, when I’ve blogged about anti-Semitism at the VC, I have focused on left-wing anti-Semitism, for two reasons.</b> First, American Jews and their “defense” organizations such as the Anti-Defamation League tend to be exquisitely attuned to real or potential anti-Semitism emanating from the right, much less so from the left. For example, in January, before the Iowa caucuses, Ted Cruz attacked Trump for having “New York values”; Hillary Clinton suddenly opened up about her Christian religious beliefs while fending off a challenge from a Jewish candidate; and Bernie Sanders was busily attacking “a handful of people on Wall Street [who] have extraordinary power over the economic and political life of our country.” Only Cruz’s comment received attention as an alleged anti-Semitic dog whistle, even though Clinton’s and Sanders’s statements were objectively at least as open to that charge. (For the record, I don’t think any of these incidents involved anti-Semitism, though they all might have pleased anti-Semites.) Meanwhile, surveys show that Jews significantly overestimate the level of anti-Semitism among Republican-leaning constituencies such as conservative evangelicals and underestimate it among Democratic-leaning constituencies, such as Hispanics.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Second, as a public political matter, at least until the Trump campaign, anti-Semitism was largely and increasingly marginalized on the mainstream conservative right. This was in significant part due to the efforts of the late William F. Buckley,</span> who throughout his career made an effort to rid conservatism of its anti-Semitic fringe, including such former allies as Patrick Buchanan and Joseph Sobran, and more recently due to the efforts of evangelical Christian leaders, including a theological emphasis on God’s statement in Genesis, “I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse,” as requiring being nice to the Jews. Not only has anti-Semitism on the right diminished significantly, but Jews, especially orthodox Jews, have of late become a significant presence in “mainstream” conservative organizations. I attended the Conservative Political Action Committee conference briefly this year and was surprised to see advertised prominently on the agenda the Fifth Annual CPAC Shabbat dinner, and there were quite a few kippot among the attendees.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Meanwhile, the left has gone in the other direction, increasingly tolerating anti-Semitism so long as its dressed up as criticism of Israel or “Zionists.”</b> As good an example as any involves an essay written by Steven Salaita for the Nation in November. Rabbi Jill Jacobs, a prominent left-wing rabbi and strong critic of Israeli policy, took exception in a letter to the editor, arguing that “Salaita resurrects some of the most vicious anti-Semitic tropes, protecting himself by assigning these slurs to Zionism and Zionists, clear stand-ins for Judaism and Jews.” She then elaborated, quoting statements “which do not even pretend to be about criticism of Israeli policy, [but] summon the well-known bogeyman of a Jewish conspiracy that controls banks, governments, and other seats of authority.” The editors’ response failed to address her specific charges, amounting instead to, “it can’t be be anti-Semitism if you purport to be attacking Zionism.” And speaking of Shabbat dinners, recently a large group of activists at the National LGBTQ Task Force’s Creating Change conference shut down a Shabbat dinner and discussion hosted by left-wing American Jewish and Israeli groups, via a demonstration that was described by eyewitnesses as as both anti-Semitic and physically threatening.</div><div>
</div><div>Unfortunately — and somewhat surprisingly, given that Trump has many Jewish friends, a Jewish daughter (via conversion), and claims to be a proud supporter of Israel — Trump’s campaign has brought the anti-Semitic “alt-right” out of the woodwork, lately attacking “Never Trump” as a Jewish conspiracy.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> David Horowitz recently fanned the flames, arguing that Bill Kristol’s opposition to Trump made him a “renegade Jew.” Horowitz’s point was stupid but not anti-Semitic — he apparently believes the Jewish apocalypse is at hand if Hillary Clinton isn’t defeated — but his Breitbart.com commenters seem to have missed the subtlety. Trump himself seems indifferent to this, as he has been to many other manifestations of bigotry emanating from his supporters.</span></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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Bernstein</b> (born 1967) is a professor at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University_School_of_Law" class="mw-redirect" title="George Mason University School of Law" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">George Mason University School of Law</a> in Arlington, Virginia, where he has taught since 1995.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bernstein(law_professor)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup> His primary areas of scholarly research are constitutional history and the admissibility of expert testimony. Bernstein is a contributor to the legal blog, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%2212%22" height="%2212%22%3E%0A%09%3Cpath" fill="%22%23fff%22" stroke="%22%2336c%22" d="%22M9.995" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" e="E" a="A" cpath="Cpath" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" none="none" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data">The Volokh Conspiracy</a>. Bernstein is a graduate of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School" title="Yale Law School" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Yale Law School</a>, where he was a John M. <b>Olin Fellow</b> in Law, Economics and Public Policy, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a Claude Lambe Fellow of the Institute for Humane Studies,</span>and a senior editor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_Journal" title="Yale Law Journal" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Yale Law Journal</a>. He received his B.A. degree summa cum laude with honors in History from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis_University" title="Brandeis University" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Brandeis University</a>.</font></p><h2 style="background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Publications">Publications</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David_Bernstein(law_professor)&action=edit§ion=1&editintro=Template:BLP_editintro" title="Edit section: Publications" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url(" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><i>Beito Review</i></a></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law</i> (co-editor, with Foster and Huber) The MIT Press, January 29, 1999, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" title="International Standard Book Number" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-262-56119-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-262-56119-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">978-0-262-56119-8</a></font></li></ul><dl style="margin-top: 0.2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><dt style="font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Selected law review articles and review essays</font></dt></dl><ul data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="%221.0%22" encoding="%22UTF-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg" width="%225%22" height="%2213%22%3E%0A%09%3Ccircle" cx="%222.5%22" cy="%229.5%22" r="%222.5%22" fill="%22%2300528c%22/%3E%0A%3C/svg%3E%0A" style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: url(" xmlns="%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22" xmlns:data="data"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Misbegotten Judicial Resistance to the Daubert Revolution", 89 <i>Notre Dame L. Rev.</i> 27 (2013)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"Excluding Unfit workers:</span> Social Control Versus Social Justice in the Age of Economic Reform," 72 <i>L. & Contemp. Probs.</i> 177 (2009) (with Thomas C. Leonard)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Revisiting Yick Wo v. Hopkins", 2008 <i>Ill. L. Rev</i>. 1393</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Expert Witnesses, Adversarial Bias, and the (Partial) Failure of the Daubert Revolution", 93 <i>Iowa L. Rev</i>. 451 (2008)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Red Menace Revisited", 100 <i>Nw. U. L. Rev</i>. 1295 (2006)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Learning the Wrong Lessons from an American Tragedy", 104 <i>Mich. L. Rev</i>. 1961 (2006)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered", 114 <i>Yale L.J</i>. 593 (2004) (with Ilya Somin)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<b>Lochner's</b> Feminist Legacy", 101 <i>Mich. L. Rev</i>. 1960 (2003)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Lochner's Legacy's Legacy", 82 <i>Tex L. Rev</i>. 1 (2003)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Lochner Era Revisionism, Revised: Lochner and the Origins of Fundamental Rights Constitutionalism", 82 <i>Geo. L.J.</i> 1 (2003)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases", 41 <i>Wm. & Mary L. Rev</i>. 211 (1999) (symposium)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"The Breast Implant Fiasco"</span>, 87 <i>Calif. L. Rev</i>. 457 (1999)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Philip Sober Restraining Philip Drunk: Buchanan v. Warley in Historical Perspective", 51 <i>Vand. L. Rev</i>. 799 (1998)</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-Americans", 74 <i>Tex. L. 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Bernstein is the George Mason University <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Foundation Professor </span>at the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.law.gmu.edu/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">George Mason University School of Law</a> in Arlington, Virginia, where he has been teaching since 1995.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He has been a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School, Georgetown Law Center, University of Michigan Law School, and William and Mary Law School.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professor Bernstein teaches Constitutional Law I and II, Evidence, Expert and Scientific Evidence, and Products Liability. He is a contributor to the popular <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Volokh Conspiracy</a>blog.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A prolific and often controversial scholar, Professor Bernstein is the author of several books:</font></p><blockquote style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 3em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; font-style: inherit; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/Lawless-Administrations-Unprecedented-Assault-Constitution/dp/1594038333/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1441223508&sr=1-1&keywords=lawless+bernstein" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lawless: The Obama Administration’s Unprecedented Assault on the Constitution and the Rule of Law</a> (Encounter Books 2015)</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; font-style: inherit; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-Against-Obamacare-Volokh-Health/dp/1137363746" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Conspiracy against Obamacare: The Volokh Conspiracy and the Health Care Case</a> (Palgrave Macmillan 2013) (pb and hc) (co-author)</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; font-style: inherit; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/Rehabilitating-Lochner-Defending-Individual-Progressive/dp/022600404X/ref=la_B001K7PO08_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429731184&sr=1-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform</a> (University of Chicago Press 2011; pb 2012)</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; font-style: inherit; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.wklawbusiness.com/store/products/new-wigmore-treatise-evidence-expert-evidence-second-prod-0735593531/hardcover-item-1-0735593531" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence</a> (Aspen Law and Business 2004; 2nd edition 2010) (co-author)</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/You-Cant-Say-That-Antidiscrimination/dp/1930865600/ref=la_B001K7PO08_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429731184&sr=1-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Antidiscrimination Laws</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> (Cato Institute</span> 2003; pb 2004)</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; font-style: inherit; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/Only-Place-Redress-Reconstruction-Constitutional/dp/0822325837/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor</a> </span><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/Only-Place-Redress-Reconstruction-Constitutional/dp/0822325837/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal</a> (Duke University Press 2001)</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; font-style: inherit; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160220125014/http://www.amazon.com/Phantom-Risk-Scientific-Inference-Law/dp/0262061562/rref=ase_davidebernste-20/=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1429546590&sr=1-1&keywords=phantom+risk" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law</a> (MIT Press 1993; pb 1999) (co-editor)</font></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.625em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to his books, Professor Bernstein is the author of dozens of scholarly articles, book chapters, and think tank studies. The law reviews that have published his work include the <span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Boston University Law Review, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal (2), Illinois Law Review, Iowa Law Review. Journal of Supreme Court History (3), Law and Contemporary Problems (2), Michigan Law Review (2), North Carolina Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review (2), Texas Law Review (2), Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review,</span> and the<span style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Yale Law Journal</span> (2).</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">freq wapo opinion?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/03/31/george-mason-law-school-gets-30-million-gift-names-itself-after-the-late-justice-antonin-scalia" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2016/03/31/george-mason-law-school-gets-30-million-gift-names-itself-after-the-late-justice-antonin-scalia</a>/?utm_term=.afde0d60c484</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Volokh Conspiracy Opinion</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>George Mason Law School gets $30 million gift, names itself after the late Justice Antonin Scalia</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By David Bernstein March 31, 2016 </font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Here is the press release,</b> and an article from the Wall Street Journal.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">My understanding is that this is not an endowment, which would limit the law school to spending a small percentage of the gift each year indefinitely, but funds that will be disbursed over a period of years, substantially increasing the law school’s budget for that period of time. Much of the money will be used for scholarships.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Congratulations are due to Dean Henry Butler for finalizing the largest gift in George Mason University’s history, and great thanks are due to a generous anonymous donor, who gifted $20 million, to the Charles Koch Foundation, which donated $10 million, and to the Scalia family for allowing us to honor the late Justice in this way.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Red Menace, Revisited</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">David E. Bernstein</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Introduction</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Professor Martin Redish, a distinguished scholar of freedom of expression (among other</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">things), wades into the debate over the legacy of the anti-Communism of the late 1940s and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1950s in The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Redish’s unique</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">contribution is to approach this controversy from the perspective of First Amendment theory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> First, we shall review the history of the debate over Communism and anti-Communism in</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American history. Through the mid-1960s, most historians concluded that the American</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Communist Party (CPUSA) was controlled by and beholden to the Soviet Union, and its hardcore</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">membership, at least, was disloyal to the United States. As one prominent historian</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">summed it up, the CPUSA was “the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power.”2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Over time, “revisionist” historians associated with the New Left painted a very different</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">picture of the CPUSA. According to these historians, the Party was a generally benign,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">idealistic, homegrown progressive movement interested in economic justice and civil rights.3</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Its</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Professor, George Mason University School of Law; Visiting Professor, 2005-06, University of Michigan School</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">of Law. Don Herzog, Harvey Klehr, Geoffrey Stone, and Eugene Volokh provided helpful suggestions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> MARTIN H. REDISH, THE LOGIC OF PERSECUTION: FREE EXPRESSION AND THE MCCARTHY ERA (2005). 2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> THEODORE DRAPER, THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM 395 (1957). 3</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> For a recent recapitulation, see Victor Navasky, Cold War Ghosts, NATION, July 16, 2001, at 40. Navasky writes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">of,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the experience of 99.9 percent of the million comrades who passed through the CPUSA during the</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1930s and early ‘40s—stay-at-homes who contented themselves with reading (and sometimes</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">shouting at) the Daily Worker, demonstrators who sang along with Peter Seeger and social</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">activists who organized trade unions and rent strikes in the North and fought lynching and the poll</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tax in the South.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Id. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">members were “liberals in a hurry”4</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> who understandably lost patience with the slow pace of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">liberal reform. The Party had close ideological and psychological ties to the USSR,5</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> and most of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">its members sympathized with that nation, but the CPUSA was independent, charges of</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">disloyalty were at best greatly exaggerated,6</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> and hostility to the Party was motivated primarily</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by mindless anticommunism.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> These conflicting views of the CPUSA also informed historians’ understanding of the socalled</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">McCarthy period, covering the late 1940s and much of the 1950s. At this time, AntiCommunism</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">was a dominant theme in American political life, and both the government and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">private parties acted to suppress the Party and punish its members. Traditionalist historians,</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">though considered “conservative” by left-wing revisionists, generally had mainstream liberal</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">views. Like their “Cold War liberal” forebears, who dominated anti-Communist intellectual</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">circles during the McCarthy period, the traditionalists often reviled McCarthy himself as an</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">irresponsible demagogue,7</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> but believed that the era’s anti-Communism was largely justified by</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">the Communists’ fealty to a hostile totalitarian power. To the extent that there was a certain</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">amount of overreaction8</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> to a perceived domestic threat, it was an understandable (if regrettable)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">response to revelations that American Communist spies for the Soviet Union such as Alger Hiss</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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David E. Bernstein∗
Introduction
Professor Martin Redish, a distinguished scholar of freedom of expression (among other
things), wades into the debate over the legacy of the anti-Communism of the late 1940s and
1950s in The Logic of Persecution: Free Expression and the McCarthy Era.
1
Redish’s unique
contribution is to approach this controversy from the perspective of First Amendment theory.
First, we shall review the history of the debate over Communism and anti-Communism in
American history. Through the mid-1960s, most historians concluded that the American
Communist Party (CPUSA) was controlled by and beholden to the Soviet Union, and its hardcore
membership, at least, was disloyal to the United States. As one prominent historian
summed it up, the CPUSA was “the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power.”2
Over time, “revisionist” historians associated with the New Left painted a very different
picture of the CPUSA. According to these historians, the Party was a generally benign,
idealistic, homegrown progressive movement interested in economic justice and civil rights.3
Its
∗
Professor, George Mason University School of Law; Visiting Professor, 2005-06, University of Michigan School
of Law. Don Herzog, Harvey Klehr, Geoffrey Stone, and Eugene Volokh provided helpful suggestions.
1
MARTIN H. REDISH, THE LOGIC OF PERSECUTION: FREE EXPRESSION AND THE MCCARTHY ERA (2005). 2
THEODORE DRAPER, THE ROOTS OF AMERICAN COMMUNISM 395 (1957). 3
For a recent recapitulation, see Victor Navasky, Cold War Ghosts, NATION, July 16, 2001, at 40. Navasky writes
of,
the experience of 99.9 percent of the million comrades who passed through the CPUSA during the
1930s and early ‘40s—stay-at-homes who contented themselves with reading (and sometimes
shouting at) the Daily Worker, demonstrators who sang along with Peter Seeger and social
activists who organized trade unions and rent strikes in the North and fought lynching and the poll
tax in the South.
Id.
2
members were “liberals in a hurry”4
who understandably lost patience with the slow pace of
liberal reform. The Party had close ideological and psychological ties to the USSR,5
and most of
its members sympathized with that nation, but the CPUSA was independent, charges of
disloyalty were at best greatly exaggerated,6
and hostility to the Party was motivated primarily
by mindless anticommunism.
These conflicting views of the CPUSA also informed historians’ understanding of the socalled
McCarthy period, covering the late 1940s and much of the 1950s. At this time, AntiCommunism
was a dominant theme in American political life, and both the government and
private parties acted to suppress the Party and punish its members. Traditionalist historians,
though considered “conservative” by left-wing revisionists, generally had mainstream liberal
views. Like their “Cold War liberal” forebears, who dominated anti-Communist intellectual
circles during the McCarthy period, the traditionalists often reviled McCarthy himself as an
irresponsible demagogue,7
but believed that the era’s anti-Communism was largely justified by
the Communists’ fealty to a hostile totalitarian power. To the extent that there was a certain
amount of overreaction8
to a perceived domestic threat, it was an understandable (if regrettable)
response to revelations that American Communist spies for the Soviet Union such as Alger Hiss</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">....</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==
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