I recently spoke by phone with Dershowitz, an emeritus professor of law at Harvard and the author of the new book “ The Price of Principle: Why Integrity Is Worth the Consequences.” It was released last week and happens to be about the very subject of the e-mail he received: cancel culture, and an unwillingness to hear differing opinions. He even released the text of what he said was an e-mail from someone who had been beaten up on the beach for reading one of his books. (Dershowitz denies the accusations.)ĭershowitz has lately been going on television and Twitter to discuss cancel culture, specifically how he has been shunned on Martha’s Vineyard, his longtime summer getaway. In 2019, Connie Bruck profiled Dershowitz for The New Yorker, and looked into allegations that he had sexually abused Virginia Giuffre, who was trafficked by Epstein. (He has defended both.) In recent years, however, his career has taken even more controversial turns, notably his public campaign against the Mueller investigation and his decision to join President Trump’s legal team. Simpson, and enmeshing himself in political debates on subjects such as torture and the Israeli occupation. Alan Dershowitz became one of the most famous lawyers in America by representing high-profile clients such as Jeffrey Epstein, Mike Tyson, and O.
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