Yglesias Award Nominee

“I now think that Ellison was … right to excoriate me for my dismissive attitude toward black culture, and that my Jewish critics were right to take offense at my questioning whether the survival of the Jewish people was worth the suffering it entailed (though at the time, the proximity to the Holocaust made it very hard for me to keep this question out of my mind and to refrain from raising it in print). On the other hand, though I think what I said about white racism in 1963 was right, the contention that nothing has changed since then seems to me almost demented,” – Norman Podhoretz, on the 50th anniversary of his infamous article “My Negro Problem – And Ours.”