“The obligation to defend and extend freedom in its
simplest and most fundamental aspects is the sacred task of the intellectual,
the one task he must not compromise even when his posture seems intractable, or
unreasonable, or hopeless, or even when it means standing alone against
shibboleths like Revolution and The Third World.”— Jewish-American literary and
social critic Irving Howe (1920-1993), “What’s the Trouble?” in A Voice Still Heard: Selected Essays of Irving Howe, edited by Nina Howe
with the assistance of Nicholas Howe Bukowski (2014)
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