The Volokh Conspiracy - For an Ethnic Group That Likes To Think of Itself as Smart,

we Jews can be pretty dumb where politics is concerned. (See also The Tale of the Two Brothers.)

UPDATE: Just to make clear, I'm referring — as the links suggest — to what strikes me as the disproportionate Jewish propensity for Socialism (see the Related Posts below), which I'm quite willing to call a dumb idea, and to what is generally seen as the fairly dysfunctional Israeli style of government (see the Tale of the Two Brothers).

	[Eugene Volokh, March 29, 2006 at 1:03am] Trackbacks For an Ethnic Group That Likes To Think of Itself as Smart, we Jews can be pretty dumb where politics is concerned. (See also The Tale of the Two Brothers.) UPDATE: Just to make clear, I'm referring — as the links suggest — to what strikes me as the disproportionate Jewish propensity for Socialism (see the Related Posts below), which I'm quite willing to call a dumb idea, and to what is generally seen as the fairly dysfunctional Israeli style of government (see the Tale of the Two Brothers). Related Posts (on one page): For an Ethnic Group That Likes To Think of Itself as Smart, The Return of Israeli Socialism? Bad News from Israel's Elections--The Revival of Israeli Socialism: