'Tis the season for exposes on anti-semitic and Nazi-sympathizing intellectuals

We recently had the latest Heidegger scandal, and now we have Louis Menand on the increasingly bizarre case of Paul DeMan, whom Menand plausibly describes as a "sociopath" rather than simply a Nazi collaborator and anti-semite, given his many years of fraud, misrepresentations, and lies.  Of course, Menand has another aim, namely, to defend DeMan's work in literary theory, to defend (remarkably) its "rigor."  At moments like this, one realizes that even words like "rigor" require indexicals attached, since "rigor a la Menand" has nothing to do with what you might have thought the word meant, as anyone who has read DeMan's "rigorous" misreadings of Nietzsche will know.  In any case, a somewhat less forgiving account than Menand's of DeMan's bizarre life is here.