When Bess Myerson won Miss America in 1945, corporate sponsors like Ford and Catalina Swimwear quietly pulled out—revealing that antisemitism didn’t vanish with the war. In “Exceptional Hatred,” James Loeffler traces how hate speech has always walked a razor’s edge with free speech, from Chicago’s fiery 1940s rallies to the 1977 Skokie Nazi march, and culminates in today’s digital radicalization—arguing that the real danger isn’t just hateful words, but the authoritarian forces that enable them.

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