“Zeskind offers a well-placed warning ” —Kirkus Reviews
“Recommended for all libraries.” —Stephen L. Hupp, Library Journal
“Exhaustively researched, Blood and Politics is not only a brilliant account of the origins, modes of operation, collaborations, and internecine disputes of white supremacist, neo-Nazi, Holocaust-denier, and anti-Semitic groups in America, but alerts us to the fact that despite—or perhaps because of—significant improvements in race relations and changing demographic patterns, we are likely to witness a resurgence of their activities.” —Drew S. Days III, Professor of Law, Yale University, and former U.S. Solicitor General
The Birthers and the 14th Amendment
The Zeskind Fortnight No. 19 by Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart [Devin Burghart, my colleague at the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights, joined in researching, writing and thinking through this Fortnight. Thank you Devin.] Taking umbrage at the...
Pat Buchanan and the Mendacity of the Response to Sonia Sotomayor
Pat Buchanan and the Mendacity of the Response to Sonia Sotomayor The Zeskind Fortnight No. 18 by Leonard Zeskind The hearings are over and Sonia Sotomayor will become our newest Supreme Court Justice. Republicans have neither the votes not the will to oppose her. In...
The Punic Wars and the Council of Conservative Citizens Six Months After Obama Enters the White House
The Punic Wars and the Council of Conservative Citizens Six Months After Obama Enters the White House by Leonard ZeskindThe Zeskind Fortnight No. 17 Sam Dickson's soliloquy on how "Aryan Europe" was saved from the "Semites" when Rome crushed Carthage has to be the...
Rereading the Tea Leaves
Rereading the Tea LeavesJuly 4 Protests Will Include White Nationalistsby Leonard Zeskind on Huffington PostOn July 4, tens of thousands of mostly middle-class white people in hundreds of different cities will register their opposition to the Barack Obama presidency...
Racism, anti-Semitism and the Murder of Dr. Tiller
Racism, anti-Semitism and the Murder of Dr. Tillerby Leonard ZeskindHuffington Post - PoliticsScott Roeder, who is being held in a Wichita jail as a person of interest in the murder of Dr. George Tiller, is widely known for his anti-abortion zealotry. Less understood...
Book Review by Loretta Ross in The Public Eye
A Longtime Anti-Racism Activist’s Take on HistoryReviewed by Loretta J. RossThe Public Eye, Summer 2009Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream - By Leonard Zeskind (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 656...