8. Wieseltier's tendency to over-rate voices of moderation like Trilling & Isaiah Berlin seems like reaction against his own Kahanist past
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10. Perhaps Trilling/Berlin serve as the super-ego that helps keep the Kahanist id under control.
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11. But perhaps also editing book reviews has given Wieseltier a channel for anger that in other JDL members led to terrorism & death.
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12. I wasn't completely joking when I compared Wieseltier to Sideshow Bob:https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/533484524437381122 …
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13. Anyone who has read Wieseltier's prose or his book review section knows there is a lot of barely controlled anger at work.
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14. As book review editor, Wieseltier would often tap a reviewer who he knew would hate a book and egg them to do a hit piece.
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15. Ethically, I'm not sure that's the best way to edit a book review section, although it makes for tremendously entertaining reviews.
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16. Oddly enough, the New Republic has been haven to another former Kahanist, Yossi Klein Halevi.
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17. To go from Meir Kahane to Martin Peretz is progress. Up to a point.
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18. In his analysis of Kahanism, Wieseltier makes interesting point that JDL was both anti-black & envious of blacks
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19. As per Wieseltier, JDL feared the Black Panthers while also modeling themselves after them.
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