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)