Marcus wrote:David Goldman is extremely intelligent, extremely well-educated, and, most of the time, very well-mannered. Beyond those gratuities of genetics and breeding, Goldman's great strength is his recognition of the moral impetus behind history.
Goldman's great weakness, of which his Zionism is a product, is his need to explain Judaism despite Christianity.
I would add, his need to pander to the Republican rubes, especially as elections draw nigh. It's not really his points that annoy me at those times, but the obvious hackery that he needs to use to jam them in to his writing.
What, you didn't like his "How Obama Lost the Election" article in 2008, where he predicted Obama was doomed because of Sarah Palin?
"The fundamental rule of political analysis from the point of psychology is, follow the sacredness, and around it is a ring of motivated ignorance."
