What Antisemites Get Right

These questions are all racist in one way or another, but people have been asking them for a long time. They all start from the same observation and arrive at one of two conclusions: the Jews are unique either because they’re very good or very bad—there is no middle position. Taking the Nobel Prize example, we can say that Jews are either smarter than everyone else or win more prizes (and win more generally) because they invented the game we’re all playing. Both answers see a conspiracy, but disagree about who’s responsible.