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far the greatest part of mankind. People are in the habit of wishing to live under laws made by their own kind of rulers, and of being unwilling to submit to alien dictation. This is a fact of universal experience. If our conservative instincts are to serve us, let us remember that the benefits of law, government, common good, justice, freedom, cannot be attained if we stray too far from empirical political realities like that which Mr. Maier so clearly perceives.

Cross-Currents pretends to be “an important, carefully documented and shocking exposé of international political anti-Semitism during the last decade.” But it is not a tract on anti-Semitism at all; though it uses anti-Semitism—by direct accusation as well as subtle implication—to smear people who are not Liberals.

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far the greatest part of mankind. People are in the habit of wishing to live under laws made by their own kind of rulers, and of being unwilling to submit to alien dictation. This is a fact of universal experience. If our conservative instincts are to serve us, let us remember that the benefits of law, government, common good, justice, freedom, cannot be attained if we stray too far from empirical political realities like that which Mr. Maier so clearly perceives.

Cross-Currents pretends to be “an important, carefully documented and shocking exposé of international political anti-Semitism during the last decade.” But it is not a tract on anti-Semitism at all; though it uses anti-Semitism—by direct accusation as well as subtle implication—to smear people who are not Liberals.