[randita]

Dorothy Rabinowitz is an excellent, thoughtful writer. Well researched and usually of a conservative nature. It's clear that Ann Coulter hit a nerve there. Ann must have criticized someone or something that D.R. holds dear in order to engender this kind of response.

[jocon307]

"Dorothy Rabinowitz is an excellent, thoughtful writer. Well researched and usually of a conservative nature. It's clear that Ann Coulter hit a nerve there. Ann must have criticized someone or something that D.R. holds dear in order to engender this kind of response."

I read this piece and what I think that nerve was is the whole "witch-hunt" aspect of the 50's search for Communists in gov't, entertainment, etc.

Rabinowitz is well known for leading the charge against the lunatic "child molestator" witch hunts of the 1980's. The ones featuring Margaret Kelly Michaels (as a victim) and Janet Reno (as an overzealous - to say the least - prosecutor). I think Rabinowitz is arguing against gov't over reaching on little or no evidence. Since I haven't read the book I can't say if her criticism is valid or not, but I think this is the bee in her bonnet.