At lunch, in my first year in New York, the political scientist Daniel Bell once drew for me, on a paper tablecloth, a family tree of what was then, in the world of letters, the New York political-intellectual community: from the academy (City University of New York, University of Chicago, Hunter, Barnard, Yale, Columbia, The New School) through the publications (Partisan Review, The Nation, Commentary, The New Leader; Encounter; The New Republic) and personalities (teachers, writers, editors, political figures; Trotsky through Marcuse, Rahv through Kopkind) to their ideological forebears and
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