Elena Kagin's Upbringing on the Upper West Side

Lawrence Auster links to a riotous Ann Coulter opinion piece in response to a NYT article on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagin's upbringing in an apparently insufferably smug and intellectually self-contained Jewish environment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

I like it when she proposes a question to be asked to the nominee: One third of Americans are Evangelical Christian. Do you know any? Name two.

An aunt in the NYT is quoted as saying nothing was sacrosanct in the Kagin home. Well, Miss Coulter pierces that lie many times over. Also, some of the commentators to Mr. Auster's entry are well worth the reading. It's amazing how liberalism is so tyrannical people have to watch what they say very carefully for fear of saying something that will get them ostracized.

I heartily concur with Rick Darby, one of those commentators:

I admire many things about Jewish culture: the concern with justice and morality, the high value placed on literary and scholarly interests, a deep feeling for music and art. American Jews' tragic flaw, in my view, is a near-complete blind spot about toxic left-wing politics. They continue to act as though they are a persecuted minority, a pogrom about to fall on them any minute, and that their best defense is to turn the country into an ethnic patchwork of "majority minorities." So much intelligence, so little political wisdom.