It Pays to Have Friends in High Places: Tikvah Fund Intersectionality, Encounter Books, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, and C-Span Book TV

[David Shasha]

It Pays to Have Friends in High Places: Tikvah Fund Intersectionality, Encounter Books, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, and C-Span Book TV

 

As I was doing my usual check on this weekend’s Book TV line-up, imagine what I found!

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?528548-1/providence-power

 

That’s right.

 

Destroyer of the Sephardic heritage, Rabbi Meir Soloveichik!

 

The acting rabbi of the Touro Synagogue, now called Ahavath Israel, comes to C-Span Book TV:

 

https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/Yf3EnAvOLIQ

 

https://groups.google.com/g/Davidshasha/c/V1zb7VRbK3g

 

Our dear Trumpscum White Jewish Supremacist friend has a very important new book to promote:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Providence-Power-Portraits-Jewish-Statesmanship/dp/1641773286

 

Published by Encounter Books.

 

I foolishly decided to run through their list of authors:

 

https://www.encounterbooks.com/authors/

 

Here are the highlights, or, better lowlights, with some identifying web resources if you do not know them:

 

Ambassador John Bolton

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bolton#National_Security_Advisor_(2018%E2%80%932019)

 

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/biography/John+R.+Bolton

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/john-bolton/

 

https://theintercept.com/2020/06/18/john-bolton-memoir-trump/

 

Amir Taheri

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/author/amir-taheri/

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taheri#Controversies_and_fabrications

 

https://mosaicmagazine.com/author/amir-taheri/

 

Andrew Puzder

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Puzder#Secretary_of_Labor_nomination

 

https://www.kktv.com/content/news/Puzder-withdraws-nomination-for-labor-secretary-413875603.html

 

Andrew C. McCarthy

 

https://nrinstitute.org/fellows/andrew-c-mccarthy/

 

https://nypost.com/author/andrew-c-mccarthy/

 

Abby W. Schachter

 

https://www.commentary.org/author/abby-schachter/

 

Aryeh Lightstone

 

https://outorah.org/author/1225/

 

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/interviews-and-profiles/651472/2023/08/13/

 

https://www.jns.org/aryeh-lightstone-until-president-trump-the-us-was-not-a-true-superpower/

 

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/meet-aryeh-lightstone-behind-the-scenes-us-israel-facilitator-653943

 

Batya Ungar-Sargon

 

https://www.amazon.com/Bad-News-Media-Undermining-Democracy/dp/1641772069

 

https://www.thefp.com/p/how-journalism-abandoned-the-working

 

https://tikvahfund.org/collegiate-forum/tikvah-podcast-conversation-with-batya-ungar-sargon/

 

Carol Swain

 

https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/_qIOfBkXk34/m/qktJqKFcAQAJ

 

https://vanderbilthustler.com/2021/01/31/former-vanderbilt-political-science-and-law-professor-carol-swain-serves-as-vice-chair-for-1776-commission/

 

https://nationalcenter.org/project21/2019/03/12/white-nationalism-is-the-lefts-latest-trope-against-trump-by-dr-carol-m-swain/

 

Charles Murray

 

https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/qhEzbAT9JVE/m/DIdm02gXCAAJ

 

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/charles-murray

 

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/the-real-problem-with-charles-murray-and-the-bell-curve/

 

Charles R. Kesler

 

https://www.cmc.edu/academic/faculty/profile/charles-r-kesler

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/22278065/donald-trump-conservative-politics-charles-kesler

 

https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/thinking-about-trump/

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/magazine/claremont-institute-conservative.html

 

Christopher F. Rufo

 

https://manhattan.institute/person/christopher-f-rufo

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/03/24/chris-rufo-desantis-anti-woke-00088578

 

David E. Bernstein

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/david-e-bernstein/

 

https://fedsoc.org/contributors/david-bernstein

 

David Horowitz

 

https://hnn.us/article/180156

 

https://noethics.net/News/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15527:-david-horowitz-todays-lunatic-award-winner&catid=262:lunatic-award-winners&Itemid=110

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/20/donald-trump-david-horowitz-stephen-miller-family-separation-border-policy

 

David Meir-Levi

 

https://www.freedomcenteroncampus.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/biglies.pdf

 

https://www.frontpagemag.com/question-obamas-allegiances-david-meir-levi/

 

Devin Nunes

 

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/29/15096442/house-intelligence-committee-devin-nunes-trump-wiretapping-obama

 

https://groups.google.com/g/davidshasha/c/QS5NJ7WuYYg

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/06/gop-rep-devin-nunes-resigns-from-congress-to-become-ceo-of-trumps-media-company.html

 

Douglas E. Schoen

 

https://www.nixonfoundation.org/event/meet-douglas-schoen-2/

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/bannon-lawyer-david-schoen-civil-rights-background/index.html

 

Douglas Murray

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VoGD_VJ9kYpaNUsL2R8jMkmgAYpNrwDouuV8hhT4h8k/edit

 

https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-douglas-murray-on-the-war-on-the-west/

 

Gabriel Schoenfeld

 

https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/israel-zionism/2015/09/jews-against-themselves/

 

https://www.commentary.org/author/gabriel-schoenfeld/

 

Gertrude Himmelfarb

 

https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-yuval-levin-on-the-remarkable-legacy-of-gertrude-himmelfarb/

 

https://tikvahfund.org/uncategorized/the-conscience-of-a-jewish-conservative/

 

Ibn Warraq

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Am_Not_a_Muslim

 

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc_24_3/tsc_24_1_elbel_2_printer.shtml

 

Jason L. Riley

 

https://www.hoover.org/research/maverick-jason-riley-life-and-times-thomas-sowell

 

https://manhattan.institute/person/jason-l-riley

 

https://www.c-span.org/video/?507008-1/author-discussion-race

 

Jay Nordlinger

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/author/jay-nordlinger/

 

Joel Kotkin

 

https://manhattan.institute/person/joel-kotkin

 

https://tikvahfund.org/library/podcast-joel-kotkin-thinks-about-god-and-the-pandemic/

 

John Yoo

 

https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1872508_1872490_1872483,00.html

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/20/trump-john-yoo-lawyer-torture-waterboarding

 

Joshua Muravchik

 

https://jinsa.org/person/dr-joshua-muravchik/

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/joshua-muravchik/

 

Ken Starr

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ken-starr-legacy-endless-congressional-investigations-clintons-rcna47792

 

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/18/ken-starr-lewinsky-scandal-00057381

 

Kevin D. Williamson

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/author/kevin-d-williamson/

 

https://www.commentary.org/author/kevin-williamson/

 

Laura Ingraham

 

https://www.foxnews.com/person/i/laura-ingraham

 

Leon R. Kass

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/leon-r-kass/

 

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-06-26/ty-article/.premium/doctor-who-blamed-feminism-for-rising-incidence-of-rape-wins-prestigious-tikvah-fund-prize/00000188-f79b-d6ce-abb9-f7ffe9040000

 

Melanie Phillips

 

https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/melanie-phillips-brands-black-lives-matter-anti-jew-and-deeply-antisemitic/

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/melanie-phillips-douglas-murray-jewish-book-week-muslims-trans-issues-a9380166.html

 

https://www.jewishleadershipconference.org/session/jews-muslims-and-the-crisis-of-europe/

 

Michael A. Ledeen

 

https://www.fdd.org/team/michael-ledeen/

 

https://www.aei.org/profile/michael-a-ledeen/

 

Neal Kozodoy

 

https://tikvahfund.org/about-2/staff/neal-kozodoy/

 

https://www.commentary.org/author/neal-kozodoy/

 

https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/history-ideas/2020/04/a-tribute-to-mosaics-founding-editor/

 

Norman Podhoretz

 

https://www.commentary.org/author/norman-podhoretz/

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/norman-podhoretz/

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dqTxHAp38o_OwER7gEEvNDF0Ey3JYtnb/edit

 

Robert H. Bork

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork_Supreme_Court_nomination

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/bork-nixon-offered-next-high-court-vacancy-in-73-088086

 

Robert P. George

 

https://fedsoc.org/contributors/robert-george

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/magazine/20george-t.html

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/robert-p-george/

 

Robert Spencer

 

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/robert-spencer

 

https://gettysburgian.com/2017/05/todd-green-accuses-robert-spencer-of-professional-islamophobia-in-speech-to-campus-community/

 

https://www.meforum.org/islamist-watch/author/Robert+Spencer

 

Scott W. Atlas

 

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940376041/dr-scott-atlas-special-coronavirus-adviser-to-trump-resigns

 

Sidney Powell

 

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/trump-indictment-georgia-sidney-powell-booked-into-fulton-county-jail/2YQ6CLPDFZGXFJPQPODLQ2VPHY/

 

Thomas Sowell

 

https://www.hoover.org/research/thomas-sowell-intellectual-giant

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/2007/10/meet-my-friend-clarence-thomas-sowell/

 

Victor Davis Hanson

 

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6329043987112

 

https://www.amazon.com/Case-Trump-Victor-Davis-Hanson/dp/1541673549

 

https://www.hoover.org/research/classicist-farmer-life-and-times-victor-davis-hanson

 

Wilfrid M. McClay

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/wilfred-m-mcclay/

 

https://www.hillsdale.edu/faculty/wilfred-mcclay/

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mPuTFFszLO7fbsK6MOu510pAY5YtJxQf/edit

 

William F. Buckley Jr.

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Sa30LvH4D8-gDldfYnoHVfTO-Np-gGE8MuUyy8ZX5JU/edit

 

William Kristol

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/14/the-weekly-standard-to-shut-down-1064753

 

https://theintercept.com/2018/12/16/the-10-most-appalling-articles-in-the-weekly-standards-short-and-dreadful-life/

 

https://tikvahfund.org/faculty/william-kristol/

 

WHEW!

 

And that is only a small sample of the author list, but I did want all of you to get a sense of just how radical Meir Soloveichik is, and how that radicalism can lift you to the very top of the Religious Fascism heap:

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gurvl_eDt0Dt-szaa_cJVHgw-zfJ5gDnc62P9RrSi4k/edit

 

As I have shown in the links to these radical authors, there is quite a substantial connection to The Tikvah Fund. 

 

But more than this, the sampling provides a panoramic view of American Far Right ideologues from McCarthyism to the Reagan Revolution to the Trumpscum Sedition.

 

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-reagan-were-more-alike-you-think-n1291315

 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DfUWhnL4uL3stOO2jcbC9ewu3mzgZQ0MxHPXTQPrQcY/edit

 

Indeed, the sampling provides a through-line from William F. Buckley, Jr.’s McCarthyite White Christian Nationalism to Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre apparatchik Robert Bork to Lewinsky-corrupt, sex-obsessed Ken Starr to John “Waterboard Them All” Yoo all the way to White Supremacists Charles and Douglas Murray, Victor Davis Hanson, and RUFO to the Trumpscum Seditionists Scott Atlas, Sidney Powell, Andy Puzder, Devin Nunes, Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, Laura Ingraham, and Doug Schoen.

 

It is a real murder’s row of malfeasance in the promotion of the New Fascism.

 

Indeed, I was not previously aware of the extent of the Encounter Books role in the promulgation of American anti-democracy crusaders.

 

It is this illustrious club that now counts Meir Soloveichik as one of their very own.

 

Something for Congregation Shearith Israel to be proud of.

 

Yasher Koach!

 

 

 

David Shasha