The New York Public Intellectuals and Beyond: Exploring Liberal Humanism, Jewish Identity, and the American Protest Tradition

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347 Index Aaron, Daniel, 146 Abdalla, Raquiya, 258, 272n76 Abdi, Nura, 259 Abel, Lionel, 69 Abrams, Elliott, 288 Abrams, M.H., 48, 49, 55 academics, 320 Across the River and Into the Trees (Hemingway), 106–107 Adams, Henry, 280 Adler, Mortimer, 106 Adorno, Theodor, 120n48, 207, 232 African American intellectuals, 9, 174; 1980s–1990s, 194–205; belief of in socialism, 198; as caught in a double bind, 200–201; dominant African American public intellectuals, 195; post-9/11, 205–210; and traditions of prophetic resistance, 200; and the university system, 200 African American studies, 195, 208 Against Interpretation (Sontag), 64–65 Ajami, Fouad, 290 Aleichim, Sholem, 40, 134, 318; as Howe’s culture hero, 140–141n65 Alexander, Edward, 123, 125, 136n9, 137n20 Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 259 Als, Hilton, 198 Althusser, Louis, 244 America at the Crossroads (Fukuyama), 289 American Committee for Cultural Freedom (ACCF), 26–27 American Conservatism (ed. Frohnen, Beer, and Nelson), 302n23 American Conservative, 288 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), 294 “American Scholar” (Emerson), 168–169 Americans for Intellectual Freedom (AIF), 26 Anderson, Sherwood, 60, 64 Ansa, Tina McElroy, 267 Antin, Mary, 332 antisemitism, 19, 21, 214–215, 220, 228; antisemitic rhetoric directed against the neoconservatives, 276–297, 336–337; in the black community, 285; in modern writers, 47 Appiah, Kwame Anthony, 209, 210 Arafat, Yasser, 218 Arbeiter Ring (Workmen’s Circle), 38 Arendt, Hannah, 40, 76, 99, 108, 151, 155, 159, 215–21, 224–2256; Eichmann in Jerusalem, 108, 215, 217; “He’s All Dwight,” 110; parallels with Said, 216–218; “Zionism Reconsidered ,” 215 Arguing the World documentary, 156 Aristotle, 52 Armies of the Night (Mailer), 112 Armitage, Richard L., 309n105 Arndt, Susan, 263 Arnold, Matthew, 62, 80, 91n6, 93n43; influence of on neoconservatism, 90; “touchstones” of, 63 Atlas, James, 120n47 Morris_FINAL.indb 347 Morris_FINAL.indb 347 9/25/2008 8:13:59 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:59 AM 348 INDEX Auden, W.H., 155, 179 Auerbach, Erich, 47, 55 Austen, Jane, 226–227 Austin, Mary, 188 Awake and Sing (Odets), 314–315 Babel, Isaac, 65–66; “Di Grasso,” 68; Red Cavalry (Babel), 66 Baker, James, III, 298, 300 Bakes, Houston, 242n47 Baldwin, James, 200, 202, 208 Bamford, James, 291 Banks, William, 200 Banta, Martha, 191n32 Baraka, Amiri, 202 Barnes, Albert C., 178 Barrett, William, 25–26, 73, 104 Barth, John, 144 Barthelme, Donald, 144 Barthes, Roland, 65 Barzun, Jacques, 73 Bauer, Gary, 278 Bayley, John, 68, 81 Beginning of the Journey, The (D. Trilling ), 145 “Behavior in Extreme Situations” (Bettelheim ), 117n20 Bell, Daniel, 54, 104, 131, 145, 146, 151, 155, 156, 161 Bellow, Saul, 43, 52, 95, 123, 136n3, 146, 313–314; Herzog, 333; Humboldt’s Gift, 95 Beloved (Morrison), 243 Benda, Julien, 229, 233 Bender, Thomas, 23 Benjamin, Walter, 322 Bennett, William, 89, 280 Berlin, Irving, 43 Berlin, Isaiah, 154 Berman, Paul, 153 Bérubé, Michael, 194, 198, 205 Bettelheim, Bruno, 99, 117n20 Black Panthers, 112, 113 Blackmur, R.P., 67, 68 Blake, William, 72, 92n29 Bloom, Harold, 55, 58, 143, 154, 324– 325; The Book of J, 325; Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, 325; The Western Canon, 325 Bloomfield, Morton, 54 Boas, Franz, 196 Bobos in Paradise (Brooks), 321 Boggs, Carl, 177 Bolkstein, Frits, 293 Bolton, John, 285, 287, 298 Bondy, Francois, 26 Borchgrave, Arnaud de, 309n116 Born in the Big Rains, a Memoir of Somalia and Survival (Korn), 258 Bové, Paul A., 23, 240, 307n84 Boyers, Robert, 122, 135n1 Boynton, Robert, 194, 197–198 Bradford, M.W., 280 Bradford, Melvin E., 300n3 Brecht, Bertolt, 244 Brock, David, 302n20 Brodkey, Harold, 143 Brodsky, Joseph, 68 Bromwich, David, 72 Brooks, David, 321 Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 41 Brown, Dan, 294 Buchanan, Patrick J., 285, 286, 288–289, 292, 304n52, 336 Buckley, William F., 284–285, 285–286, 299, 303–304n49 Burnham, James, 118n39 Burnshaw, Stanley, 69, 77n13 Bush, George H. W., 277; administration of, 277 Bush, George W., 153, 205, 284, 287, 297, 300; administration of, 154, 337; and the invasion of Iraq, 336; Jewish disapproval of, 308n102; lack of foreign policy experience, 287; personality of, 304n53 Morris_FINAL.indb 348 Morris_FINAL.indb 348 9/25/2008 8:13:59 AM 9/25/2008 8:13:59 AM Index 349 Butler, Judith, 253 Butler, Nicholas Murray, 67 Buttigieg, Joseph A., 307n84 By the Waters of Manhattan (Reznikoff), 190n2 Cabral, Amilcar, 237 Cahan, Abraham, 190n2, 314; The Rise of David Levinsky, 314; A Tale of the Ghetto, 314 Call It Sleet...