The last time I saw Irving Howe was at Carnegie Hall. We bumped into each other during the concert’s intermission. He was aglow. Isn’t it wonderful, Peter, he exclaimed, wonderful! The concert was Antonín Dvořák’s Stabat Mater. That this insistently secular left-wing Jewish intellectual was so entranced and moved by a profoundly religious, explicitly Christian work sti (...)
January 14, 2011
Books
Model of Dissent
Politics and the IntellectualConversations with Irving HoweEdited by John Rodden and Ethan GoffmanPurdue University Press, $30.95, 376 pp.
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