The 'politics of fear,' for elderly Jews

Alan Weisman loves his students, and they love him. Last night, he was wearing baggy light blue jeans, a dark polo shirt and buttoned-up blazer. He had gelled his graying hair into a part. It goes well with his bushy mustache. "They're hip, they're smart," he said, standing in front of the projection screen after delivering a lecture on the "Politics of Fear." It was the third talk in a three-part series, and the audience loved how he compared the terrorist threat to the paranoia of the early Cold War. They remember the latter quite well. More

By Avi Zenilman

August 4, 2010 2:50 pm