…good, old-fashioned anti-Semitism…seems to be cropping up everywhere these days…

Indeed. Ani-Semites crawling out of the closet wherever you look. But Andrew Sullivan joining the pack is especially significant. Sullivan’s outstanding talent is great fashion sense. He always surfs just ahead of of the next big trend. Casual anti-Semitism, briefly out of vogue, is fashionable again in Britain where Sullivan comes from and he’s betting it gains cachet here in the US. Brace yourself.

Hats off to Leon Wieseltier who (with considerable grace) identifies the primitive source of Sullivan’s prejudice in the opening paragraphs of his TNR piece. (Quick: What do Pat Buchanan, Father Coughlin and Andrew Sullivan have in common?)