Editing Irving Howe (section)

==Legacy==
Howe had strong political views that he would ferociously defend. [[Morris Dickstein]], a professor at Queens College, referred to him as a "counterpuncher who tended to dissent from the prevailing orthodoxy of the moment, whether left or right, though he himself was certainly a man of the left."<ref name=NYT/>

[[Leon Wieseltier]], literary editor of ''The New Republic'', said of Howe: "He lived in three worlds, literary, political and Jewish, and he watched all of them change almost beyond recognition."<ref name=NYT/>

American philosopher [[Richard Rorty]] dedicated ''[[Achieving Our Country]]'' (1998)—a book about the development of 20th century American leftist thought—to Irving Howe's memory.

Howe appeared as himself in [[Woody Allen]]'s [[mockumentary]] ''[[Zelig]]'' (1983).