"Right of the Left and to the Left of the Right"

"'He was the most philosophical-minded of the American historians,' said the political historian Paul Berman, a writer in residence at New York University. 'He was always trying to get at the big questions, about heroism, virtue and the conflict between utopian aspirations and the disappointments of life. His work was a kind of ongoing meditation.'"

William Grimes in The New York Times writes an obit for historian John Patrick Diggins.