Books
In Memory of Amy Kass
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Memory of Amy Kass." The Weekly Standard, August 20, 2015.Excerpt: Amy Kass’s family and friends, students and colleagues, will testify to her many virtues—her love and devotion to husband, children, and grandchildren (so amply reciprocated by… More
In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism." The Weekly Standard, March 6, 2017.Excerpt: David Cannadine dedicates his biography of Margaret Thatcher: “In memory of Mrs T.” But that Mrs T is not, as one might suppose, Mrs. Thatcher, the longest-serving prime… More
The Historian as Moralist by Yuval Levin
– Levin, Yuval, "The Historian as Moralist," National Review, December 31, 2019.The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as… More
The Historian of Moral Revolution by David Brooks
– Brooks, David, "The Historian of Moral Revolution," The Atlantic, December 31, 2019.David Brooks writes about Gertrude Himmelfarb: Economists measure economic change and journalists describe political change, but who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– John Podhoretz, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Irving Kristol told this story about his courtship of his wife Bea—they met and they knew and he asked her what she wanted in life and she said she wanted to publish ten books.… More
R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Ahmari, Sohrab, "R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb," New York Post, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist… More
Times (UK) Obituary
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb," The Times, December 31, 2019.When historians find their work cited in political debate, it is usually to provide an incidental gloss, a brief claim to intellectual backing well buried in a policy speech. The work of… More
Telegraph (UK) Obituary
– Telegraph (UK) Obituary, December 31, 2019.GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, the American historian, who has died aged 97, was known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era and as a conservative cultural critic,… More
The Last Victorian Sage by Myron Magnet
– Magnet, Myron, "The Last Victorian Sage," City Journal, January 2, 2020.Gertrude Himmelfarb, our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation’s greatest historians of any stamp, died Monday at 97. Though a Washingtonian for the last decades of her long… More
Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians
– Keiper, Adam, "Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians," The Bulwark, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: ertrude Himmelfarb, a historian who helped resuscitate the reputation of the Victorians and a public intellectual who shaped neoconservatism, died this week at the age of 97. In a… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Terzian, Philip, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Washington Examiner, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died last week in Washington, D.C., at 97, was everywhere described as a “historian of ideas,” which is certainly true. But she was also a… More
Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Charen, Mona, "Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb," National Review, January 3, 2020.Excerpt: When I emailed Mary Ellen Bork that our mutual friend, Gertrude Himmelfarb, a.k.a. Bea Kristol, had passed away at 97, she replied, after expressions of sadness, “Now she and… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue," The Economist, January 11, 2020.The Bagehot column of the Economist on Gertrude Himmelfarb: The last of the great Victorian intellectuals died on December 30th. Gertrude Himmelfarb wasn’t a Victorian in the literal… More
My Mother Gertrude Himmelfarb by Bill Kristol
– Kristol, Bill, "My Mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, February, 2020.Excerpt: My parents, Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, moved to Washington from New York in 1987. My father wrote about their move in the New Republic because, needless to say, if… More
A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics
– Johnson, Daniel, "A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics," The Critic (UK), February 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, the 1920s were already roaring. When she died aged 97 on 30 December, the 2020s were just dawning. Her parents, Max and Bertha, were… More
The Cheerful Pessimist by Irwin Stelzer
– Stelzer, Irwin, "The Cheerful Pessimist," Standpoint, February 26, 2020.On December 30, as the year ended, so did the life of Gertrude Himmelfarb. She was 97. When I last saw her about a month earlier, it was at a small meeting she convened in her apartment in… More
A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb
– "A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb," Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020 meeting.From the Estoril Political Forum (Portugal) meeting of 2020, a (Zoom) tribute to the life and work of Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Essays
In Memory of Amy Kass
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Memory of Amy Kass." The Weekly Standard, August 20, 2015.Excerpt: Amy Kass’s family and friends, students and colleagues, will testify to her many virtues—her love and devotion to husband, children, and grandchildren (so amply reciprocated by… More
In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism." The Weekly Standard, March 6, 2017.Excerpt: David Cannadine dedicates his biography of Margaret Thatcher: “In memory of Mrs T.” But that Mrs T is not, as one might suppose, Mrs. Thatcher, the longest-serving prime… More
The Historian as Moralist by Yuval Levin
– Levin, Yuval, "The Historian as Moralist," National Review, December 31, 2019.The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as… More
The Historian of Moral Revolution by David Brooks
– Brooks, David, "The Historian of Moral Revolution," The Atlantic, December 31, 2019.David Brooks writes about Gertrude Himmelfarb: Economists measure economic change and journalists describe political change, but who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– John Podhoretz, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Irving Kristol told this story about his courtship of his wife Bea—they met and they knew and he asked her what she wanted in life and she said she wanted to publish ten books.… More
R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Ahmari, Sohrab, "R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb," New York Post, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist… More
Times (UK) Obituary
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb," The Times, December 31, 2019.When historians find their work cited in political debate, it is usually to provide an incidental gloss, a brief claim to intellectual backing well buried in a policy speech. The work of… More
Telegraph (UK) Obituary
– Telegraph (UK) Obituary, December 31, 2019.GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, the American historian, who has died aged 97, was known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era and as a conservative cultural critic,… More
The Last Victorian Sage by Myron Magnet
– Magnet, Myron, "The Last Victorian Sage," City Journal, January 2, 2020.Gertrude Himmelfarb, our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation’s greatest historians of any stamp, died Monday at 97. Though a Washingtonian for the last decades of her long… More
Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians
– Keiper, Adam, "Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians," The Bulwark, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: ertrude Himmelfarb, a historian who helped resuscitate the reputation of the Victorians and a public intellectual who shaped neoconservatism, died this week at the age of 97. In a… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Terzian, Philip, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Washington Examiner, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died last week in Washington, D.C., at 97, was everywhere described as a “historian of ideas,” which is certainly true. But she was also a… More
Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Charen, Mona, "Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb," National Review, January 3, 2020.Excerpt: When I emailed Mary Ellen Bork that our mutual friend, Gertrude Himmelfarb, a.k.a. Bea Kristol, had passed away at 97, she replied, after expressions of sadness, “Now she and… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue," The Economist, January 11, 2020.The Bagehot column of the Economist on Gertrude Himmelfarb: The last of the great Victorian intellectuals died on December 30th. Gertrude Himmelfarb wasn’t a Victorian in the literal… More
My Mother Gertrude Himmelfarb by Bill Kristol
– Kristol, Bill, "My Mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, February, 2020.Excerpt: My parents, Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, moved to Washington from New York in 1987. My father wrote about their move in the New Republic because, needless to say, if… More
A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics
– Johnson, Daniel, "A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics," The Critic (UK), February 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, the 1920s were already roaring. When she died aged 97 on 30 December, the 2020s were just dawning. Her parents, Max and Bertha, were… More
The Cheerful Pessimist by Irwin Stelzer
– Stelzer, Irwin, "The Cheerful Pessimist," Standpoint, February 26, 2020.On December 30, as the year ended, so did the life of Gertrude Himmelfarb. She was 97. When I last saw her about a month earlier, it was at a small meeting she convened in her apartment in… More
A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb
– "A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb," Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020 meeting.From the Estoril Political Forum (Portugal) meeting of 2020, a (Zoom) tribute to the life and work of Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Commentary
In Memory of Amy Kass
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Memory of Amy Kass." The Weekly Standard, August 20, 2015.Excerpt: Amy Kass’s family and friends, students and colleagues, will testify to her many virtues—her love and devotion to husband, children, and grandchildren (so amply reciprocated by… More
In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism." The Weekly Standard, March 6, 2017.Excerpt: David Cannadine dedicates his biography of Margaret Thatcher: “In memory of Mrs T.” But that Mrs T is not, as one might suppose, Mrs. Thatcher, the longest-serving prime… More
The Historian as Moralist by Yuval Levin
– Levin, Yuval, "The Historian as Moralist," National Review, December 31, 2019.The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as… More
The Historian of Moral Revolution by David Brooks
– Brooks, David, "The Historian of Moral Revolution," The Atlantic, December 31, 2019.David Brooks writes about Gertrude Himmelfarb: Economists measure economic change and journalists describe political change, but who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– John Podhoretz, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Irving Kristol told this story about his courtship of his wife Bea—they met and they knew and he asked her what she wanted in life and she said she wanted to publish ten books.… More
R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Ahmari, Sohrab, "R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb," New York Post, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist… More
Times (UK) Obituary
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb," The Times, December 31, 2019.When historians find their work cited in political debate, it is usually to provide an incidental gloss, a brief claim to intellectual backing well buried in a policy speech. The work of… More
Telegraph (UK) Obituary
– Telegraph (UK) Obituary, December 31, 2019.GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, the American historian, who has died aged 97, was known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era and as a conservative cultural critic,… More
The Last Victorian Sage by Myron Magnet
– Magnet, Myron, "The Last Victorian Sage," City Journal, January 2, 2020.Gertrude Himmelfarb, our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation’s greatest historians of any stamp, died Monday at 97. Though a Washingtonian for the last decades of her long… More
Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians
– Keiper, Adam, "Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians," The Bulwark, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: ertrude Himmelfarb, a historian who helped resuscitate the reputation of the Victorians and a public intellectual who shaped neoconservatism, died this week at the age of 97. In a… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Terzian, Philip, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Washington Examiner, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died last week in Washington, D.C., at 97, was everywhere described as a “historian of ideas,” which is certainly true. But she was also a… More
Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Charen, Mona, "Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb," National Review, January 3, 2020.Excerpt: When I emailed Mary Ellen Bork that our mutual friend, Gertrude Himmelfarb, a.k.a. Bea Kristol, had passed away at 97, she replied, after expressions of sadness, “Now she and… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue," The Economist, January 11, 2020.The Bagehot column of the Economist on Gertrude Himmelfarb: The last of the great Victorian intellectuals died on December 30th. Gertrude Himmelfarb wasn’t a Victorian in the literal… More
My Mother Gertrude Himmelfarb by Bill Kristol
– Kristol, Bill, "My Mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, February, 2020.Excerpt: My parents, Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, moved to Washington from New York in 1987. My father wrote about their move in the New Republic because, needless to say, if… More
A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics
– Johnson, Daniel, "A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics," The Critic (UK), February 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, the 1920s were already roaring. When she died aged 97 on 30 December, the 2020s were just dawning. Her parents, Max and Bertha, were… More
The Cheerful Pessimist by Irwin Stelzer
– Stelzer, Irwin, "The Cheerful Pessimist," Standpoint, February 26, 2020.On December 30, as the year ended, so did the life of Gertrude Himmelfarb. She was 97. When I last saw her about a month earlier, it was at a small meeting she convened in her apartment in… More
A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb
– "A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb," Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020 meeting.From the Estoril Political Forum (Portugal) meeting of 2020, a (Zoom) tribute to the life and work of Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Multimedia
In Memory of Amy Kass
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Memory of Amy Kass." The Weekly Standard, August 20, 2015.Excerpt: Amy Kass’s family and friends, students and colleagues, will testify to her many virtues—her love and devotion to husband, children, and grandchildren (so amply reciprocated by… More
In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism." The Weekly Standard, March 6, 2017.Excerpt: David Cannadine dedicates his biography of Margaret Thatcher: “In memory of Mrs T.” But that Mrs T is not, as one might suppose, Mrs. Thatcher, the longest-serving prime… More
The Historian as Moralist by Yuval Levin
– Levin, Yuval, "The Historian as Moralist," National Review, December 31, 2019.The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as… More
The Historian of Moral Revolution by David Brooks
– Brooks, David, "The Historian of Moral Revolution," The Atlantic, December 31, 2019.David Brooks writes about Gertrude Himmelfarb: Economists measure economic change and journalists describe political change, but who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– John Podhoretz, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Irving Kristol told this story about his courtship of his wife Bea—they met and they knew and he asked her what she wanted in life and she said she wanted to publish ten books.… More
R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Ahmari, Sohrab, "R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb," New York Post, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist… More
Times (UK) Obituary
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb," The Times, December 31, 2019.When historians find their work cited in political debate, it is usually to provide an incidental gloss, a brief claim to intellectual backing well buried in a policy speech. The work of… More
Telegraph (UK) Obituary
– Telegraph (UK) Obituary, December 31, 2019.GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, the American historian, who has died aged 97, was known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era and as a conservative cultural critic,… More
The Last Victorian Sage by Myron Magnet
– Magnet, Myron, "The Last Victorian Sage," City Journal, January 2, 2020.Gertrude Himmelfarb, our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation’s greatest historians of any stamp, died Monday at 97. Though a Washingtonian for the last decades of her long… More
Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians
– Keiper, Adam, "Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians," The Bulwark, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: ertrude Himmelfarb, a historian who helped resuscitate the reputation of the Victorians and a public intellectual who shaped neoconservatism, died this week at the age of 97. In a… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Terzian, Philip, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Washington Examiner, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died last week in Washington, D.C., at 97, was everywhere described as a “historian of ideas,” which is certainly true. But she was also a… More
Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Charen, Mona, "Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb," National Review, January 3, 2020.Excerpt: When I emailed Mary Ellen Bork that our mutual friend, Gertrude Himmelfarb, a.k.a. Bea Kristol, had passed away at 97, she replied, after expressions of sadness, “Now she and… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue," The Economist, January 11, 2020.The Bagehot column of the Economist on Gertrude Himmelfarb: The last of the great Victorian intellectuals died on December 30th. Gertrude Himmelfarb wasn’t a Victorian in the literal… More
My Mother Gertrude Himmelfarb by Bill Kristol
– Kristol, Bill, "My Mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, February, 2020.Excerpt: My parents, Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, moved to Washington from New York in 1987. My father wrote about their move in the New Republic because, needless to say, if… More
A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics
– Johnson, Daniel, "A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics," The Critic (UK), February 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, the 1920s were already roaring. When she died aged 97 on 30 December, the 2020s were just dawning. Her parents, Max and Bertha, were… More
The Cheerful Pessimist by Irwin Stelzer
– Stelzer, Irwin, "The Cheerful Pessimist," Standpoint, February 26, 2020.On December 30, as the year ended, so did the life of Gertrude Himmelfarb. She was 97. When I last saw her about a month earlier, it was at a small meeting she convened in her apartment in… More
A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb
– "A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb," Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020 meeting.From the Estoril Political Forum (Portugal) meeting of 2020, a (Zoom) tribute to the life and work of Gertrude Himmelfarb.
Teaching
In Memory of Amy Kass
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Memory of Amy Kass." The Weekly Standard, August 20, 2015.Excerpt: Amy Kass’s family and friends, students and colleagues, will testify to her many virtues—her love and devotion to husband, children, and grandchildren (so amply reciprocated by… More
In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism
– Himmelfarb, Gertrude. "In Search of Mrs. T: The Elusive Woman behind Thatcherism." The Weekly Standard, March 6, 2017.Excerpt: David Cannadine dedicates his biography of Margaret Thatcher: “In memory of Mrs T.” But that Mrs T is not, as one might suppose, Mrs. Thatcher, the longest-serving prime… More
The Historian as Moralist by Yuval Levin
– Levin, Yuval, "The Historian as Moralist," National Review, December 31, 2019.The passing of Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30th at the age of 97, is a loss felt keenly by all who had the good fortune to know her. To family and friends, she was known as… More
The Historian of Moral Revolution by David Brooks
– Brooks, David, "The Historian of Moral Revolution," The Atlantic, December 31, 2019.David Brooks writes about Gertrude Himmelfarb: Economists measure economic change and journalists describe political change, but who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– John Podhoretz, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Irving Kristol told this story about his courtship of his wife Bea—they met and they knew and he asked her what she wanted in life and she said she wanted to publish ten books.… More
R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Ahmari, Sohrab, "R.I.P. Gertrude Himmelfarb," New York Post, December 31, 2019.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, a giant of 20th-century American letters, died Monday; she was 97. Reviewing her 1968 masterpiece, “Victorian Minds,” in Commentary, the sociologist… More
Times (UK) Obituary
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb," The Times, December 31, 2019.When historians find their work cited in political debate, it is usually to provide an incidental gloss, a brief claim to intellectual backing well buried in a policy speech. The work of… More
Telegraph (UK) Obituary
– Telegraph (UK) Obituary, December 31, 2019.GERTRUDE HIMMELFARB, the American historian, who has died aged 97, was known for her studies of the intellectual history of the Victorian era and as a conservative cultural critic,… More
The Last Victorian Sage by Myron Magnet
– Magnet, Myron, "The Last Victorian Sage," City Journal, January 2, 2020.Gertrude Himmelfarb, our foremost historian of ideas and one of the nation’s greatest historians of any stamp, died Monday at 97. Though a Washingtonian for the last decades of her long… More
Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians
– Keiper, Adam, "Remembering the Eminent Scholar of the Victorians," The Bulwark, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: ertrude Himmelfarb, a historian who helped resuscitate the reputation of the Victorians and a public intellectual who shaped neoconservatism, died this week at the age of 97. In a… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Terzian, Philip, "Gertrude Himmelfarb," Washington Examiner, January 2, 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died last week in Washington, D.C., at 97, was everywhere described as a “historian of ideas,” which is certainly true. But she was also a… More
Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb
– Charen, Mona, "Remembering Gertrude Himmelfarb," National Review, January 3, 2020.Excerpt: When I emailed Mary Ellen Bork that our mutual friend, Gertrude Himmelfarb, a.k.a. Bea Kristol, had passed away at 97, she replied, after expressions of sadness, “Now she and… More
Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue
– "Gertrude Himmelfarb and the Politics of Virtue," The Economist, January 11, 2020.The Bagehot column of the Economist on Gertrude Himmelfarb: The last of the great Victorian intellectuals died on December 30th. Gertrude Himmelfarb wasn’t a Victorian in the literal… More
My Mother Gertrude Himmelfarb by Bill Kristol
– Kristol, Bill, "My Mother, Gertrude Himmelfarb," Commentary, February, 2020.Excerpt: My parents, Irving Kristol and Gertrude Himmelfarb, moved to Washington from New York in 1987. My father wrote about their move in the New Republic because, needless to say, if… More
A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics
– Johnson, Daniel, "A Brilliant Life of Ideas, Insight, and Politics," The Critic (UK), February 2020.Excerpt: Gertrude Himmelfarb was born in Brooklyn, the 1920s were already roaring. When she died aged 97 on 30 December, the 2020s were just dawning. Her parents, Max and Bertha, were… More
The Cheerful Pessimist by Irwin Stelzer
– Stelzer, Irwin, "The Cheerful Pessimist," Standpoint, February 26, 2020.On December 30, as the year ended, so did the life of Gertrude Himmelfarb. She was 97. When I last saw her about a month earlier, it was at a small meeting she convened in her apartment in… More
A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb
– "A Tribute to Gertrude Himmelfarb," Institute for Political Studies, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, 2020 meeting.From the Estoril Political Forum (Portugal) meeting of 2020, a (Zoom) tribute to the life and work of Gertrude Himmelfarb.