PTI: The Life and Work of Gertrude Himmelfarb
Economists measure economic change, and journalists describe the political change, but David Brooks asked, “who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in manners, values, and mores, how each era defines what is admirable and what is disgraceful?” Gertrude Himmelfarb was the pre-eminent moral historian of our times, dedicating seventy years of scholarship to tracing moral changes and consequences. Watch this conversation as four distinguished public intellectuals – William Kristol, Matt Continetti, Jerry Muller, and Sam Moyne – discuss and explore her work.
Economists measure economic change, and journalists describe the political change, but David Brooks asked, “who captures moral change? Who captures the shifts in manners, values, and mores, how each era defines what is admirable and what is disgraceful?” Gertrude Himmelfarb was the pre-eminent moral historian of our times, dedicating seventy years of scholarship to tracing moral changes and consequences. Watch this conversation as four distinguished public intellectuals – William Kristol, Matt Continetti, Jerry Muller, and Sam Moyne – discuss and explore her work.