Birnbaum vs. Hoffman
Robert Birnbaum’s latest interview is Eva Hoffman. The two chat about “her passports, living in England, the symbolic meanings of such things, After Such Knowledge as a culmination, 2Gs, Ruth Franklin, Melvin Julius Bukiets, September 11, Noam Chomsky, the Enlightenment, Barbara Ehrenreich, social democracy in Europe, David Rieff, Christopher Hitchens, writing fiction, Cynthia Ozick, students at MIT, Samantha Power, Leonard Bernstein’s Norton Lectures, David Mitchell, and [Birnbaum]”.