Tribute to Michael Harrington

I didn’t know Michael Harrington personally, but in the public man I felt I had a special and elegant friend. First and last, I admired the lucid power and moral clarity of his prose, a legacy that will endure beyond memory. Everywhere in Harrington’s corpus there is decency, reason, and hope. But for inspiration, I will remember his public voice: thin but resonant, with a distinctive charged cadence and a faint Missouri twang; urgent, hortatory, always appealing to the best, it w...