Welcome back, everyone, to the re-education. The topic of today's monologue is the lynching that helped create the anti-defamation league, and what the injustice to Leo Frank, more than a century ago, tells us about anti-Semitism today in America.

I then discuss the modern anti-deformation league, what it is in 2022, with my guest, the brilliant polymath journalist and critic, Leo Liebowitz.

You can find his work at Tablet. I highly recommend it.

I work right outside of Mr. Frank's office.

And I've never seen anything wrong to be going on in there.

He's always been a perfect gentleman to me.

And I believe he's just as innocent as the angels in heaven.

What about Jim Conley?

Would you say he's as innocent as the angels in heaven?

No, sir. I'd say he's a liar.

Objection.

Jim Connolly is not on trial here.

Sustained.

Would you believe him under oath?

His hand on the Bible?

I don't reckon that book would mean much to Jim Connolly.

That was a compelling courtroom scene from the 1988 movie, The Murder of Mary Fagan.

It's about the strangulation of a 13-year-old girl in 1913 at the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta, Georgia, and the trial of a Jewish man falsely accused of this gruesome

murder named Leo Frank.

I choose today to discuss Leo Frank because his ordeal is a way

into understanding many themes that have emerged in light of the recent anti-Semitism scandals

in our culture and the danger that populist movements pose to the Jewish people. Make no mistake,

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