as an atheist jew, there are few things i enjoy more than a piece of well reasoned anti-semitism (heidegger, burckhardt, schmitt). only the jew who knows how superior is his thinking knows how fit he is to be despised; only the jew would be willing to honestly appraise the validity of such an argument against his existence. but you can't just hate a jew anymore: it's got to be systematic, abstracted into a theory. which is the greatest proof of how completely and systematically jewish consciousness has remade the world. the real meaning of macdonald's work is nostalgia not for the world in which jews had less power -- but the world in which, because of this, you could be free to hate them.

unfortunately, despite my enthusiasm, CofC is a giant POS. macdonald wants to blame the jews for liberalism -- if not modernity per se -- but this is tough, because not only were hegel, robespierre, napoleon, and alexander the great not jews, but america has no prior tradition which to react to and repudiate liberalism. here, a "conservative" is always only an earlier liberal opposing a newer one, or simply an obscurantist moron.

so all macdonald is left with is bottomless evidence that jews are simply the most successful liberals, which is to say, the best users of liberalism. we have the power. which is another way of saying, the best americans. that doesn't work either. so the pseudo-synthetic notion of "group evolutionary strategy," antithetical to liberalism, is introduced, to demonstrate that jews are actually liberals-in-disguise. liberalism has been co-opted, the same way countless other social systems have been, to serve primordial (tribal) jewish needs.

so, the jews are at once guilty of liberalism as well as its undermining. sounds like something a fucking jew would do, after all.

joel katz