Articles By Gertrude Himmelfarb
December 2014
Gertrude Himmelfarb on her husband
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July/August 2012
The Wealth of Nations should not be seen as separate from Smith's moral philosophy — it itself is a profoundly moral text
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May 2009
‘Tocqueville made the case for the philosophy of the second-best’
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April 2009
America's greatest critic put moral imagination at the heart of his literary and social criticism
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About Gertrude Himmelfarb
Gertrude Himmelfarb is an American historian and author of many books, most recently The People Of The Book: Philosemitism in England, from Cromwell to Churchill (Encounter). She is a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2004 received the National Humanities Medal awarded by the President. She is on the Advisory Board of Standpoint.
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