Am I hated because I'm hateful? Or are my haters hate-filled?

A Jew and a Christian come together to agree that my book "Noticing," which they haven't read, must be evil.

Below are a couple of essays denouncing Ross Douthat, the New York Times’ fine conservative oped columnist, for interviewing Passage Press publisher John “Lomez” Keeperman without either of them ever mentioning that Keeperman published my anthology, Noticing.

I have to agree. Not shilling for my product is unforgivable!

From Liberal Currents:

The New York Times Launders Another Fascist

Misogyny, racism, and antisemitism all were glossed over in Ross Douthat's softball interview of Jonathan Keeperman.

Chance Phillips

02 May 2025

… One of the many things which conspicuously goes unmentioned in Douthat’s softball interview is Noticing, the almost five hundred page collection of professional racist Steve Sailer’s various scribblings Passage Press published last year.

In one essay included in the book, Sailer argues that “American Jews should realize that, like the Protestant elite of yore, their privileged position as a de facto leadership caste bestows upon themselves corresponding duties to conserve the long-term well-being of the United States—rather than to indulge in personal and ethnic profit and power maximization.”

This shocking concept of noblesse oblige I stole from that notorious anti-Semite David Brooks of the New York Times.

If you’ll allow me a brief sidebar, it is rarely a good sign when an author has written enough essays on “the Jews” for that topic to merit a whole chapter in their greatest hits collection. It also tends to be a red flag when most of your bylines are in The Unz Review, a website most notorious for churning out new “evidence” the Holocaust never happened.

Having made that particular sidebar, I would now be remiss not to mention that Noticing, the title of the book that Douthat, again, seemingly found less interesting than a reprint of public domain Hardy Boys stories, is a dog whistle. A dog whistle that I see most often in the comments of phonk heavy social media videos about noticing “globalists,” “juice,” or simply “the Joos.”

A brief skim of the book’s table of contents will also readily show that the man who believes Jewish people ought to love money and power less so they’ll stop causing mass immigration thinks white fertility is a major problem and Black people are genetically predisposed to be unintelligent and commit crimes too.

None of this is news though. Sailer was a prolific commenter back during the heyday of the blogosphere and can still often be found at the bottom of Scott Alexander’s latest piece. I actually checked while writing this piece and Sailer has left north of twenty comments on Alexander’s latest post on tariffs and the populist right, including, naturally, a diatribe about “American elites spending a decade pointlessly encouraging, in effect, blacks to get themselves killed in shootings and car crashes, all in the name of Black Lives Matter.”

This Sailer guy is against blacks getting killed in shootings and car crashes: what a racist!

And Douthat has known who Sailer is at minimum since 2016.

But, allowing that Douthat likely doesn’t agree with Sailer on the Jewish question, I can imagine Ross felt it might be seen as gauche to mention your interview subject has proudly published compendiums of racist, antisemitic drivel.

From Mere Orthodoxy (I would guess that the title alludes to Catholic convert G.K. Chesterton’s book Orthodoxy and Protestant C.S. Lewis’s book Mere Christianity.)

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