Today, I recorded a Q&A with Alan Dershowitz, the famed lawyer, and Harvard prof. For the podcast, go here. In eleven days, Dershowitz completed a book: The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?

We talk about that, naturally. Dershowitz says, among other things, that President Obama took the military option off the table. And once he did that, the Iranians went to town on him. (I’m using my own words, as you can probably guess.)

About Senator Schumer and his stance against the Iran deal, there is cynicism on the right. Not in Dersh: who says that Schumer incurred considerable political risk — MoveOn and the rest are on the warpath against him, and so is the White House — and that he is a “profile in courage.”

Dersh also inveighs against the New York Times, for saying that Iran-deal critics such as Schumer have somehow betrayed their “commander-in-chief.” “Shame on the New York Times,” says Dershowitz, with passion.

Frustratingly, we can’t get him to support a Republican for president — of Mitt Romney, he says, “I think he would have been a great president.” The attachment to one’s native party, so to speak, is strong (and the professor is down-the-line Democratic on domestic policy).

Senator Ted Cruz was a student of his. He was “brilliant,” says Dersh, and “more of a libertarian than a social conservative,” in his perception (Dershowitz’s). Ted argued with him a lot in class. And did a fair amount of talking. Afterward, students would come up to Dershowitz and say, “Hey, who’s teaching this class, you or Cruz? Come on, put him down sometimes.” Dershowitz refused to do that.

He tells me about the time Justice Goldberg asked him to smuggle some Lucky Strike cigarettes into Israel — they were for Goldberg’s old friend Golda Meir.

We talk about the O.J. Simpson case, of course. (Dershowitz was on the legal team of the killer – that’s my word, as you probably don’t need to be told.) The professor’s mother had a memorable way of referring to the case: “the Oy Vey Simpson case.”

Toward the end of this Q&A, we talk about political correctness, that great scourge on campus and elsewhere. Recently, Dershowitz was discussing the Bradley/Chelsea Manning case, and he said something like, “When he stole the material . . .” An indignant woman in the audience got up and said, “You should say ‘she’!” Dersh refused — because Manning was a man (or whatever) at the time of his crimes.

“There’s a lot of Stalinism on college campuses today,” says Dersh.

Anyway, there’s a lot more. Again, the link is here. The sound on my end isn’t very good, because I had WiFi problems. But the important thing is to hear Dershowitz — whom you’ll enjoy, I think, whatever your political views, or mine.