Do legal challenges to hate speech protect Jews or threaten them?

Bess Myerson, the first and only Jewish Miss America, was crowned on Sept. 8, 1945. In the hazy nostalgia that passes for historical understanding nowadays, people might assume her victory was due to the warm embrace that America gave all things Jewish after the horrors of World War II. It wasn't. James Loeffler starts his new book, "Exceptional Hatred: Antisemitism and the Fight Over Free Speech in Modern America," with Myerson's win, noting that old habits die hard. Sponsors who traditionally…