Kenneth Marcus, head of the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights, is the Jeff Foxworthy of the American Israelist movement. When he says, “If you do X (call Israel a racist endeavor, express sympathy for Palestinian self-determination, support BDS, and so on ad infinitum), you might be an anti-Semite,” he means: “You’re definitely an anti-Semite.”
Adam Smith and Equality of Force
It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the contact that various distant peoples had had with Europeans, following the discoveries of Christopher Colombus and Vasco de Gama. The results, by Smith’s time in 1776,...
