{"id":2884,"date":"2020-09-30T18:55:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/rebel-with-a-cause\/"},"modified":"2020-09-30T18:55:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T18:55:44","slug":"rebel-with-a-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/09\/30\/rebel-with-a-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel with a Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"

"The eighty-year-old mystery<\/a> of the murder of Sheldon Robert Harte, Leon Trotsky\u2019s most controversial bodyguard."<\/span><\/p>\n

Jean van Heijenoort<\/a> was another of the Old Man's bodyguards.  I met van Heijenoort in the mid-70s when he came to Boston College on the invitation of my quondam girlfriend, Charaine H., a student at Brandeis University where van Heijenoort taught.  I had arranged for Robert Sokolowski to come and read a paper on Husserl. Comrade Van attended the talk. By then, however, the political enthusiasms of his youth were a thing of the distant past.  He had given up politics for logic and love. My entry tells the tale of his murder by a crazed lover in Mexico City where Lev Davidovich Bronstein  met his grisly end. <\/span><\/p>\n

Moral?  Stick to logic if you want to play it safe. But there is more of life (and death) in politics and love.<\/span><\/p>\n

A comment from Joseph:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I regularly read your blog, but I never comment because I do not know how. Anyway, I wanted to send a note about the Monsignor<\/a> — what an incredible man. He is one of my personal models for how an academic should be. He is not only brilliant but also patient with students not so gifted (99.99% of them) — and he has quite a knack for teaching to several levels simultaneously. He is also funny (and not just for a priest). I'm glad that you have had the chance to meet him.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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"The eighty-year-old mystery of the murder of Sheldon Robert Harte, Leon Trotsky\u2019s most controversial bodyguard." Jean van Heijenoort was another of the Old Man's bodyguards.  I met van Heijenoort in the mid-70s when he came to Boston College on the invitation of my quondam girlfriend, Charaine H., a student at Brandeis University where van Heijenoort … Continue reading “Rebel with a Cause”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,102,199,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-communism","category-history","category-questers-and-other-oddballs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}