King Jr.'s dream had become an "American nightmare" because civil rights had encouraged, in Sobran's words, "black thugs". Catholic teachings Sobran said Catholic teachings were consistent with his opposition to abortion and the Iraq War. Asked to summarize his views, Sobran said once, "I won't be satisfied until the Church resumes burning for heresy" — a remark that Buchanan's biographer Timothy Stanley described as "funny, offensive and honest". Jews and Israel Sobran frequently used his columns to criticize Israel, the Holocaust and Zionism. In one column, Sobran wrote that The New York Times "really ought to change its name to Holocaust Update". In a 1992 column, he complained of "a more or less official national obsession with a tiny, faraway socialist ethnocracy", meaning Israel. Sobran argued that the 9/11 attacks were a result of the United States government's policies in the Middle East. He claimed those policies are formed by the "Jewish lobby". In 2002, Sobran wrote, "My chief offense, it appears, has been to insist that the state of Israel has been a costly and treacherous ‘ally’ to the United States. As of last Sept. 11, I should think that is undeniable. But I have yet to receive a single apology for having been correct." Sobran said he lacked the "scholarly competence" to be a Holocaust denier. He also claimed that the official number of Holocaust victims was inaccurate and that Nazi Germany was not intent on racial extermination. He said his attitude was not anti-Semitism but "more like counter-Semitism". Published works Books Single Issues: Essays on the Crucial Social Questions – Human Life Press – 1983 Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time – Free Press 1997. Sobran espoused the Oxfordian theory that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, wrote the plays attributed William Shakespeare . Hustler: The Clinton Legacy – Griffin Communications 2000 At the time of his death, Sobran was working on two books, one concerning Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the United States Constitution and another about de Vere's poetry. Articles and speeches His essays appeared in The Human Life Review, Celebrate Life! and The Free Market. The Church Today: Less Catholic Than the Pope? – National Committee of Catholic Laymen – 1979 How Tyranny Came to America, Sobran's, n.d. Pensees: Notes for the reactionary of tomorrow, National Review, December 31, 1985. (extended essay) Power and Betrayal – Griffin Communications – 1998