Whatever you may think of Charles Murray’s arguments on Jewish intelligence, I think a lot of intelligent people should be able to agree that Tony Judt’s rebuttal to Murray is lacking. In fairness the Sunday Times may have given him short shrift, but this dry whine hardly amounts to “scathing” or even interesting:

Tony Judt, a British historian based at New York University, is scathing about Murray’s theory. “My own, statistically naive, impression these days is that intelligence, ignorance and bigotry are distributed among Jews in proportions comparable to their presence in society as a whole,” he said.

Update: On second thought, I guess it is mildly interesting given Judt’s use of the phrase “these days” and Judt’s recent troubles.