My rhetorical writing standards and style were formed in the 1950s and ’60s, which was a time and place like no other for Jewish self-expression in the diaspora.
Israel was cool, Jewish comedians were cool and overt antisemitism was very uncool. Jews didn’t need safe spaces on campus, because the entire campus was a safe space for everyone. Jews were finally insiders here — and our children even more so. We could speak our minds in untrammeled freedom.
