Dara Horn’s book People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present examined how contemporary culture sentimentalizes Jewish suffering while ignoring Jewish life. Her new book, provocatively titled The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living, picks up where that one left off, with an answer she says took her years to actually arrive at. I sat down with Dara onstage at the 92nd Street Y. She walked me through her central argument: Antisemitism isn’t ordinary prejudice—it’s a script, and the only thing that changes across centuries and ideologies is which value a given society claims Jews are secretly destroying. We got into how little most people actually understand about this history, elected officials included, as they throw around loaded terms without knowing where they came from or what they mean. She also made the case that treating this as a left-versus-right problem gets the diagnosis wrong from the start, since the same underlying accusation keeps resurfacing on every part of the political map. Toward the end, we shifted to something that reaches well beyond this one topic: what to actually do when someone you love starts repeating things they picked up from an algorithm rather than a person. Dara’s advice wasn’t to come armed with counterarguments—it was to get genuinely interested in where the idea came from, and let that interest do more work than any rebuttal could. 0:00 Intro 2:01 The "Antisemitism Lorax"4:40 Jewish Civilization as a Counterculture10:43 Are Jews a Generic Case of a Universal Bigotry 17:23 Educating People Out of Hate or Building Parallel Institutions 25:12 Why No One Knows What a Blood Libel Is 32:29 What's Wrong With Holocaust Remembrance Education 37:13 Is Antisemitism From the Right Different From Antisemitism on the Left 40:32 Ethnic Pride, Envy, and What Makes Jews Uncool 45:51 How to Talk to Friends Who've Fallen for Anti-Israel Narratives 52:24 Jewish Critics of Israel and the Privilege of Anti-Zionism 55:46 Closing: What Is the Final Solution to the Jewish Question