A couple of years ago, there appeared a fine collection of essays on American conservatism in the 1960s, edited by Laura Gifford and Dan Williams. I wrote one of those essays. In it, I examined how Orthodox Jews positioned themselves
vis-à-vis the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. I just now came across a review of the book. Here is an excerpt:
"Each essay is about fifteen pages long, clearly focused, and tightly written—in this sense, they are models of scholarly writing. Several stand out, if for different reasons. Justin Coffee's essay on Spiro Agnew is the best in the book. How many of us remember that Agnew, before he became a national disgrace, had been an upwardly mobile suburbanite and then a progressive governor whose move to the right mirrored that of millions of other Americans? Almost as good is Robert Daniel Rubin's piece on how Orthodox Jews split from American Judaism's dominant liberalism; it is an excellent reminder that Jews in the United States are not monolithic in their politics."
Review of Right Side of the Sixties
How pleasing it to have my writing acknowledged in this way. And kudos to Justin Coffee!
