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Milt Rosenberg, RIP
Media blogger Robert Feder brings the sad news that Milt Rosenberg died Tuesday, and gives the legendary interviewer his due.
“He was a polymath, a perceptive analyst, and a keen questioner,” Morris told friends in an email Wednesday. “These traits, combined with a prodigious memory born of wide reading and experience, made him an outstanding interlocutor of political leaders, business executives, academics, journalists, artists, and others in the long parade of guests whom he welcomed to his studios and to the extraordinary conversations that he then held for the benefit of millions of Americans listening to his program each night in their homes and cars across the nation as streamed by clear-channel radio at 50,000 watts. For four decades his show was the mandatory first stop on the book tour of every author of a serious work of fiction or non-fiction.
“His career was also described by the arc of a moral conversion, carried out in public via his nightly broadcasts, from the ‘soft mindless leftism of an East Coast academic’ to an embrace of free market economics, traditional social values, and an appreciation of the United States as the world’s best hope for the defense of freedom and human decency in global affairs,” Morris wrote.
Born in New York and educated at Brooklyn College and the University of Wisconsin, Rosenberg earned a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Michigan. He taught at Yale University, the Ohio State University, Dartmouth College, and the Naval War College before joining the University of Chicago, where he served as director of the doctoral program in social and organizational psychology. He later became professor emeritus.
Mr. Rosenberg’s podcast was part of the Ricochet network. He will be missed.
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Mark Steyn remembers Milt Rosenberg.
One of my favorite memories of Milt involved a guest who heaped on the praises of his intellectual acumen and his importance.
Milt adopted an elderly rabbi’s voice and said, “But you say nothing of my humility.”
He was probably the main reason I initially joined Ricochet. A smart interviewer.
He had a long and blessed life and his show was excellent. Thank God for Milt Rosenberg and may his memory be a blessing.
Oh! What a treat to listen…especially re: Sherlock Holmes and jazz. So glad we have the archives. I’ll miss you, Milt!
So many days later, today, I read a comment in a different post about Milt’s passing. Somehow I missed this post.
Thank you for this tribute to a great man, whose memory is a blessing.
Peace to his wife, family and all who loved him.