The European

A wonderfully perceptive article, which the Harvard Review published on Stanley Hoffmann in 2007, when he was 78 years old, was entitled “Le Professeur”. That was a way of underscoring his outstanding characteristic1. And, indeed, he was a phenomenal and devoted teacher, as an amazingly large number of alumnae and alumni—an army of professors among them— will be glad to testify. But another dimension of his role in public life is equally important. Hoffmann was the quintessential Europea