Jacqueline Rose will be speaking tonight in New York, hosted by LRB, on a contemporary reading of the Dreyfus affair. This is exciting. I’m hoping to get there. If I don’t, I’m hoping other folks go and report on it.
[Free associating: Mark Rudd’s father was an Army captain in the 50s, having changed his name from Rudnitsky out of fear of anti-Semitism, but Mark Rudd went into the SDS in the 60s and today Jews don’t go into the military in the US in anything approaching rates of other religious groups, following other paths to success. I save my J’accuse for the former Under Secretary of Defense, Douglas Feith, who peddled a list of bad "facts" to Congress to justify Iraq war, which he supported as a One-Jerusalem neoconservative with a portrait on his wall of Herzl, who was inspired by Dreyfus case to dream up Zionist escape from Europe. Feith’s imposture will transform the US establishment, ultimately, as lies about Dreyfus broke down a French regime.]
