“I’m Okay With Western Civilization,” Says One Ivy League Professor, Bravely

Jeff Robbins, a Massachusetts Democrat, Battles “the Hamas lobby“

The Israel-hating and America-hating Ivy League professors and big-city newspaper columnists these days are so common that it sometimes seems newsworthy, or at least worthy of note, when someone in those categories breaks the pattern.

So when the chance came up to have lunch with Jeff Robbins—a columnist for the Boston Herald who also teaches at Brown University, where he is a visiting assistant professor of the practice of political science—I leaped at the opportunity.