The Sorrow, the Pity, and the Angry Professor: The essay considers a “Chomskyite leftist” who rails against what he considers the devil’s pact between the U.S. government and a “cadre of Jewish spokespeople” to exploit the public’s lurid fascination with the Holocaust for personal and political advantage, whether it is the enormous fees garnered by reparations lawyers or the State Dept’s justification of a double standard in foreign policy.