Remembering Irving Howe

I had corresponded with Irving Howe over the last fifteen years, concerning articles for Dissent and related matters, but we had never met. Then, in August and September of 1990, Octavio Paz and his friends at Vuelta organized an international symposium in Mexico City on the theme “The Twentieth Century: The Experience of Freedom,” bringing together writers and intellectuals from Europe, East and West, and the Americas, to discuss the collapse of communist totalitarianism a...