Heaven, and the author, forgive me—I mis-wrote the title of Jon Entine’s fine new book when listing it among our Christmas selections on NRO. I called it Abraham’s Children: Race, Destiny and the DNA of The Chosen People. The true title is Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of The Chosen People. Identity is not destiny, though it probably contributes more to destiny than most of us would care to acknowledge.

And I’ll say again what I said there: Jon’s book is not just of interest to Jews. It is in fact the forerunner of a new genre of books, of which I am sure we shall see many more: history informed by genetics