RIP Howard Zinn (1922-2010)

I'm saddened by the news of a friend and mentor Howard Zinn at the age of 87. When I was a fresh-faced undergrad at Boston University, I took three classes with Howard, including a seminar in which a small group helped him with research on his second edition of "A People's History of the United States." Toward the end of that semester, he asked me what my plans were for graduate school. I told him that I wasn't planning on it as I considered myself an activist rather than an intellectual. He said - "Why not be both?" All these years later, I still hope that he's right. He'll be missed.