Tribute

Stanley Hoffmann was a major scholar, an outstanding public intellectual, and a brilliant teacher in the field of international relations. Like many, my life was greatly enriched by knowing him. When I arrived at Harvard in 1960, the Government Department included a number of ponderous luminaries who created little empires. Not Stanley. He attracted by the sheer brilliance of his thought and the sparkle of his personality. Though I never took his course (I was working on Africa at the time), I w