Arguing the World: The Legacy of the New York Intellectuals March 28, 2007

Film Excerpts from PBS's "Arguing the World" and a conversation with Michael Walzer, Nathan Glazer, and Ruth Wisse

In the 1930s Brooklyn-born children of Eastern European immigrants
rose to become the most important intellectuals and critics of the last half-century. Their passionate debates gave birth to the magazines, books, and ideas that have changed the course of American and Jewish history.

It's time to get the debate going once again at the kick-off event of the New Voices/Azure Student Journals Conference for Student Journalists.

Michael Walzer
editor of Dissent; political theorist at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton

Ruth Wisse
professor of Yiddish and comparative literature at Harvard

Nathan Glazer
vetern New York intellectual; professor emeritus at Harvard

Official Website: http://www.newvoices.org/conference.html