The problem is that most Americans don't have the time to sift through the underlying history of common and Constitutional law, which is probably why it's relatively easy to castigate brilliant scholars like Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia, who are two of the most eloquent spokesmen for originalism, but are routinely (successfully) demonized by dimwits like Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy, who know absolutely nothing about this nation's bedrock legal document.
Horowitz probably has greater insight into the seditious left's attempts to undermine our resolve on the domestic front than any other contemporary polemicist/pundit.
He wrote a very incisive essay-entitled "The Passion of the Jews"-years ago for Ramparts, when he was still a proud member of the new left.
It dealt specifically with the seeming conflation, among Jews, of Utopian notions of compassion and humanitarianism and contemporary strains of socialist political dogma.
Even though it focused almost exclusively upon the struggle within the Jewish community to reconcile essential Talmudic law and religious truths with modern notions of egalitarianism and equality, the idea of "tikkun olam," expressed in the continuing drive to save humanity through utopian socialist schemes, is not unique to one faith.
Yup. It took a long time to put that article together. Your comments thereon would be welcome. I am still composing a piece to respond to one of its later posts. It ain't dead yet.
Want more? This thread contains an interesting speculation on my part that links together the forces you mention.
It dealt specifically with the seeming conflation, among Jews, of Utopian notions of compassion and humanitarianism and contemporary strains of socialist political dogma.
There's nothin' quite so inequitably profitable as being the enforcer of "equality, compassion, and humanitarianism."
BTW, to me, the term "Talmudic law" is an oxymoron. The Commandments are the Law; the Talmud is human interpretation of that Law to the point of virtual meaninglessness, simply because if one writes statutes to cover everything they inevitably conflict. My kids are writing a term paper on the fall of the Roman Republic. One of the key steps was to adopt Athenian Law, and then the patricians went about interpreting that law as a way to bend the game in their favor.