Edward Alexander | Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy

The Anti-Semitism of Liberals

By Edward Alexander, on September 10th, 2007

While the physical violence of the new Jew-hatred is largely the work of young Muslims, the ideological violence against Jews is the work primarily of leftists, battlers against racism, professed humanitarians, and liberals (including Jewish ones). A review of Bernard Harrison's The Resurgence of Antisemitism: Jews, Israel, and Liberal Opinion.

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Liberalism is Always Being Surprised

By Edward Alexander, on February 12th, 2006

Since the liberal view of the world is daily confuted in Iran, in Gaza, in Europe, by the tenacity of Muslim rejectionism, ever more desperate “explanations” of what is happening must be contrived.

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The Democratic Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem

By Edward Alexander, on August 1st, 2004

Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats have a growing anti-Semitic "problem" at the grass-roots or Michael Moore level of the party that they know not how to deal with. Outside of the Islamic world, the anti-Semitic upsurge of recent years is mainly a left-wing phenomenon.

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Making the Case for Jew Hatred: Martin Jay Explains How Jews Cause Antisemitism

By Edward Alexander, on October 9th, 2003

A look at Martin Jay’s recent essay, Ariel Sharon and the Rise of the New Anti-Semitism, which blames Jews for the recent insurgence of Anti-Semitism.

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Edward Said: 1935 – 2003

By Edward Alexander, on September 30th, 2003

If enormous influence in the academic world is a reliable indicator of intellectual distinction, then Edward Said merited his reputation as one of America's intellectual eminences.

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Should Edward Said be a Walker-Ames Lecturer at the University of Washington?

By Edward Alexander, on May 6th, 2003

Three teachers at the University of Washington say no, citing Said's hatred of the United States and other bizarre views. Said described Operation Iraqi Freedom as the crusade of an "avenging Judeo-Christian god of war."

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Suicide Bombers and Professors

By Edward Alexander, on January 11th, 2003

Professors imprisoned in Marxist cliche and socio-economic determinism have concluded–on the basis of no evidence whatever–that the suicide bombers, mostly products of middle-class families, act out of poverty, hopelessness, and despair. Professor Alexander discusses three of these academic apologists.

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Columbia University Professor excuses suicide bombers

By Edward Alexander, on August 27th, 2002

Dear Professor Yatrakis,

I write, as a "concerned" alumnus, to call to your attention–in case you've not already seen them–remarks made by Professor G.C. Spivak in Leeds in June. Their appalling evil, their poverty of mind, their doubtful literacy ("killees"?) make one wonder whether anyone of authority at Columbia has considered the appropriateness [...]