A moral cockroach: the resiliency of anti-Semitism. From: Commonweal | Date: April 10, 1992| Author: Carlin, David R., Jr. | COPYRIGHT 1992 Commonweal Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

It is difficult to know what to make of the recent upsurge in anti-Semitism. On the national level Pat Buchanan's message contains liberal doses of what might be called genteel anti-Semitism--if it were not for the fact that Pat is so lacking in gentility that nothing he has to offer, not even his anti-Semitism, can be said to be truly genteel.

In my neck of the woods, on the campus of Brown University in Providence, there has been an outbreak of direct, explicit, and vu...