By Bradley R. Smith, Roberto Hernández ∙ April 22, 2017
Steven Pinker is one of the leading Jewish intellectuals of America. He also claims to defend free speech particularly at campus university. Bradley R. Smith poses some interesting questions for Professor Pinker with regard an even at Harvard University and CODOH.
Bradley R. Smith was born in Los Angeles on February 18, 1930. At 18 he joined the army and in 1951 served with the infantry in Korea where he was twice wounded. After three decades of a variety of professional activities, it suddenly hit him: In 1979 he read a leaflet by Professor Robert Faurisson, "The Problem of the Gas Chambers." Then, Arthur Butz’s The Hoax of the Twentieth Century did it for him. He understood from the beginning that he would address the censorship, the suppression of independent thought, the taboo against publishing and debating revisionist arguments—not the arguments themselves. That has remained his position. In 1989, Smith founded Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH) dedicated to defending free speech and free inquiry into the Holocaust question. He handed over CODOH's helm in late 2014. He passed away on his 86th birthday, February 18, 2016. Read a series of obituaries here.
Roberto Hernández was the pen name of a long-time assistant and contributor to CODOH since around the turn of the millennium until about early 2023.
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