Has the Golden Age for American Jews Come to an End?

As someone who has been directly involved in political activities on the Left since 1964, I occasionally find myself thinking that contemporary accounts of politics and political affairs from those bygone days are at least somewhat wrong, or perhaps I have no idea what was really going on back then.

Either way, I find myself issuing correctives to present-day explanations about past political events because I agree with Justice Felix Frankfurter that ‘history has its claims.’

The latest missive which claims to explain what happened before we had the internet and all those other digital things, is a very long and detailed story in the current Atlantic magazine, which says that the ‘Golden Age’ for Jews in America has come to an end.

The author, Franklin Foer, a former editor of The New Republic, and now a staff writer for The Atlantic, which makes his liberal credential impeccable, claims that “Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans — and demolish the liberal order they helped establish.”

He then goes on to say, “The Golden Age of American Jewry has given way to a golden age of conspiracy, reckless hyperbole, and political violence, all tendencies inimical to the democratic…