In Memoriam: Bernard Rosenberg

I first encountered Bernie Rosenberg in Social Science B at Brandeis, where we read mimeographed chapters of Max Lerner’s forthcoming book on American civilization, and Max sat on the stage of the largest lecture hall on campus and talked, with Leonard Levy on one side and Bernie on the other. Since Lerner was “the book,” Levy and Bernie were “the bookends”— earnestness on one side, skepticism on the other. I was assigned to Levy’s section, in recognition...