NY Intellectuals

The NY Intellectuals was a group of NY leftist CIA propaganda writers (the Left Wing Church), connected to City College of NY, Columbia University and NY University and propaganda offices Congress for Cultural Freedom, American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Young People's Socialist League with outlets Partisan Review, Commentary of the American Jewish Committee, Dissent, The Liberator. Michael Walzer of Dissent was advisor of Jerome Corsi.

Members

- Alfred Kazin (City College of NY, Commentary)
- Clement Greenberg (ACCF, Partisan Review, promoted Abstract Expressionism of Jackson Pollock)
- Daniel Bell (ACCF, City College of NY, Columbia University, Harvard, The New Leader, The End of Ideology, Commentary, The Public Interest with Irving Kristol and Nathan Glazer, Hudson Institute, his daughter Jordy Bell taught at jesuit school Fordham)
- Diana Trilling (ACCF, The Nation)
- Delmore Schwartz (Commentary, teacher of Lou Reed of the Velvet Underground)
- Dwight Macdonald (Philips Exeter Academy, ACCF, RESIST with Noam Chomsky and William Sloane Coffin)
- Elliot Cohen (CFR, Project of the New American Century, Commentary, American Jewish Committee, American Enterprise Institute)
- Hannah Arendt (University of Chicago, student of Martin Heidegger in Germany, Der Monat of CCF, Commentary, Youth Aliya, Eichman in Jerusalem, The New School)
- Harold Rosenberg
- Irving Howe (CCNY, Commentary, Dissent, Democratic Socialists of America, Partisan Review of CCF, friend of jesuit Michael Harrington, in Woody Allen's Zelig)
- Irving Kristol (CCF, CPD, Commentary, Encounter with Stephen Spender, neo-conservatism, father of William Kristol, who founded Project for New American Century)
- Lionel Abel (translator of JP Sartre and André Breton, Partisan Review, Humanist Manifesto)

- Lionel Trilling (Partisan Review, teacher at Columbia University of Norman Podhoretz, Beat poets Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, member of propaganda office Institute for British-American Cultural Exchange with Huntington Hartford, the president of CCNY and NY University, Michael Hollingshead)

- Midge Rosenthal Decter (NYU, Rosenthal family, married to Moshe Decter of ACCF, Committee for the Free World, Committee for the Present Danger, The Heritage Foundation of Edwin Feulner)
- Norman Mailer (Greenwich Village, Commentary)
- Norman Podhoretz (student of Lionel Trilling, American Jewish Committee, Project for New American Century)
- Nathan Glazer (CCNY, Berkeley, Harvard, The Public Interest)
- Paul Goodman (CCNY, New Left, scriptreader for MGM, Gestalt therapy with Fritz Perls of Esalen, influenced by Kurt Lewin, IPS, gay agenda)
- Saul Bellow (University of Chicago, NYU, Playboy, Committee for the Present Danger, Commentary)
- Seymour Martin Lipset (Columbia, American Enterprise Institute)
- Sidney Hook (Columbia, CCNY, Congress for Cultural Freedom, American Committee for Cultural Freedom, Commentary)
- Susan Sontag (lived with Nicole Stéphane Rothschild and later Herbert Marcuse of Frankfurt School, Esalen Institute)
- William Barrett (CCNY, NY University, friend of Albert Camus)
- William Philips (NY University)

the Left Wing Church

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