San Diego’s Jon Stewart of Satire Is Ex-SDSU Professor

Lawrence “Laurie” Baron is professor emeritus of modern Jewish history at San Diego State. He has a doctorate in modern European intellectual history from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He’s an expert on Holocaust films...

For a year now, Baron’s take-no-prisoners pen has been skewering all-comers in his column “Humoring the Headlines” for San Diego Jewish World, an online news site run by another former educator (and longtime journalist),  Don Harrison.

Political correctness be damned.

“Originally when I approached Laurie about becoming a regular columnist for San Diego Jewish World, it was to be our movie reviewer,” Harrison said. “His books on Holocaust movies qualify him as an expert.”

But when Baron decided he’d like to do a satirical column, it was an “unexpected but welcome bonus,” Harrison said...