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Gary Stein
The Mayor and the Massena Blood Libel
When State Trooper Corporal H. M. “Mickey” McCann asked if it was true that Jews offered human sacrifices on holy days, the diminutive rabbi responded with a tongue-lashing that may have reminded McCann, a veteran of the Great War, of his drill sergeant.
The Abrams Case and Justice Holmes’ Philo-Semitism
In 1919 Oliver Wendell Holmes changed his mind and in so doing transformed the law of free speech.