James Q Whitman James Q Whitman is Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School, and the author of Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law. Are Nazis as American as apple pie? 20 August 2017 Is the United States threatened by Nazism? The short answer is no, notwithstanding the frightening events in Charlottesville, Virginia. 20 August 2017