Professor Noah Feldman, of Harvard Law School, provides a short but very clear and useful explanation here.
I’m politically conservative. There was a time when I thought highly of Newt Gingrich. I still believe him to have a number good qualities. He is, among other things, a trained and often insightful historian (educated at Emory and Tulane, where he earned his Ph.D.), and some of his political ideas when he was in Congress were quite brilliant.
But he’s become increasingly disappointing to me, on many fronts.
On one of them, back in December 2011, I even felt the need to publish a special column — not included in the two regular series that I write — correcting an egregious historical error of his:
“Gingrich is wrong: Palestinians are not ‘invented'”
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