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Category Archives: Leon Wieseltier
The Sins Of Leon Wieseltier
Joseph Epstein writes: My first contact with Leon Wieseltier was by letter. The year was 1977. Written on Balliol College, Oxford, letterhead stationery, the letter informed me that I was a force for superior culture in America, one of the … Continue reading
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Professor Allan Nadler Defends Leon Wieseltier
Professor Allan Nadler posts on FB: “Jeffrey M. Ellis What in the world are you talking about? How can they have been substantiated if all remain anonnymous. LAW? What law ?? Please name a “law” that Leon has violated! Or … Continue reading
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‘My Story with Leon Wieseltier’
The only reason that men like Leon Wieseltier and Harvey Weinstein show an interest in pretty young women with pretensions is that they want to fuck them. It’s not because they care what these women think. No man cares what … Continue reading
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Wieseltier vs. “The Bell Curve”
Steve Sailer writes: With the former literary editor of The New Republic, Leon Wieseltier and his formidable Old Testament prophet-meets-Beethoven affect, in the news again, it’s perhaps worth remembering his outraged reaction to The Bell Curve by Richard Herrnstein and … Continue reading
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Jewish Pundit Leon Wieseltier Exposed
Leon Wieseltier, a major cocaine hound and bisexual degenerate, has enjoyed many a threesome with leading male Jewish intellectuals (including famous professors) and various lucky ladies. Abusing drugs and women are his leading hobbies aside from lecturing the rest of … Continue reading
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Leon Wieseltier Is Not A Fan Of German Intellectual Thilo Sarrazin
Leon Wieseltier writes in The New Republic Nov. 9, 2010: “Over a perfectly prepared bowl of cholent, the coarse stew to which all Galicianer souls are superstitiously attached, I sat in the kosher restaurant in Munich last week, on the … Continue reading
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Second thoughts on this petition to take down Syria’s regime?
I email Professor Jonathan Sarna about this petition he signed in 2013 along with Leon Wieseltier, Joseph Telushkin, Shmuly Yanklowitz, Avi Weiss, Yosef Blau, David Wolpe, Eric Yoffie, Menachem Genack, Steven Weil, Haskel Lookstein, Mark Dratch, Jeffrey K. Salkin to … Continue reading
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Leon Wieseltier Profile
Lloyd Grove wrote for the March 1995 edition of Vanity Fair: New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier is the egghead boy toy of such glamorous powers as Barbara Streisand, Shirley MacLaine, and Tipper Gore. But has he abandoned the life … Continue reading
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