I’ve just seen a long, very strange article

by E. Michael Jones, which he’s published in the new issue of his magazine

Culture Wars. Jones got himself disinvited from speaking at a conference

scheduled for this fall, and sponsored by Touchstone Magazine, with which I am editorially affiliated. The

apparent cause of the withdrawn invitation was a recent issue of Culture

Wars that carried article after article obsessing over the Jews and their

malign influence. It was revolting stuff, and though I had no part in the

decision, I am glad the Touchstone editorial board disassociated itself from

such a nasty character as Jones. Well, Jones has now decided that I had

everything to do with what’s happened to him, and so does National Review. In the paranoid

screed he’s just written, Jones says NR was created as a CIA front to

destroy “competing conservatisms.” In January 2002, alleges Jones, William

F. Buckley decided that he needed to punish the Pope for being against war

on Iraq, so he (WFB) had me start writing articles critical of the Catholic

Church over the sex abuse scandal, which broke that month. Jones goes on to

say that I “helped create” the priest-pederasty scandal, which apparently

does not exist in reality. Jones goes on a lengthy and truly loony personal

attack on me and my family, badly misstates Catholic doctrine in an attempt

to tie me to the repugnant pro-abortion Catholic Frances Kissling, and

interestingly, condemns me for taking career advice from a Jew. He doesn’t

quit until he’s assaulted others, including (you knew this was coming) the

notorious David Frum. I commend Jones’ pitiful bleat of an article to your

attention as yet another sign that some of paleoconservatism’s leading

lights are losing their minds to Jew-obsessed paranoia.