What may seem an utterly baffling mystery is the thinking of Martin Peretz and of other neocons who are presently pulling out all stops to attack Christianity. At least some of this group wish to have their cake and to eat it at the same time: to incite American Christians against a Muslim danger to the "West’ while simultaneously shaming these Christians about their past. Why would Peretz at this particular time be devoting a forthcoming issue of The New Republic to the accusations of Daniel J. Goldhagen, who, having produced a mostly invented account of how all the Germans … Continue reading Goldhagenizing the Catholic Church