The Fear That Silences: How the Charge of Antisemitism Warped Moral Judgment

By Charles Erickson & Peter Erickson

Conversations Among the Ruins, a podcast exploring geopolitics and the decline of the unipolar world order.

April 4, 2026

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There are moments in political life when a society’s moral failure is not hidden at all. It is not buried in classified archives or obscured by the fog of time. It unfolds in public, in plain language, in images no one can plausibly deny having seen. The scandal is not ignorance. The scandal is paralysis.

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