On Moral Courage and Character

I write this from a hotel room in Toronto.  It is the middle of the night, and I cannot sleep, wracked with the deep, chesty cough of a Dickensian character in a consumption.  Months of internalizing the anti-Semitic bullying have taken their toll.

I have reached the tipping point. 

The tipping point for me, it seems, was “The ‘consensus’ around her is a …