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If "intellectual" were a title like "baron" that could be inherited, few people would have a stronger claim to it than David Rieff.
His father is University of Pennsylvania sociologist Philip Rieff, the author, most notably, of Freud: The Mind of A Moralist . His mother is essayist, novelist, filmmaker, and political activist Susan Sontag, as iconic an intellectual as our resolutely anti-intellectual culture is ever likely to recognize.
Rieff's Newsweek piece did allow that, in spite of having "to fight a just war with one hand tied behind its back ...
Rieff's interventionist stances on Bosnia and Rwanda evade such reckoning.
If that question has, for the moment at least, been answered, you won't hear it from David Rieff.