On September 8th, the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies welcomed Ronnie Grinberg, associate professor of history at the University of Oklahoma and author of Write Like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals (Princeton, 2025). The event was co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. In her talk, Grinberg discussed the subject of her recent monograph, the New York intellectuals, a group of primarily male and Jewish critics and writers in the mid-twentieth century including Irving Howe, Norman Mailer, and Lionel Trilling. Grinberg argues for the significance of virility and masculinity among members of the group, who prided themselves on verbal combativeness, quick wit, and intellectual prowess, which she dubs the “ideology of secular Jewish masculinity.” This extended to the women of the group, including Hannah Arendt, Midge Decter, and Diana Trilling, who had to perform such masculinity in order to be taken seriously, but who were frequently singled out for their “aggressiveness.” Grinberg concluded her talk with the group's eventual turn towards neoconservatism in the 1970s, which can be partially attributed to their fervent anti-communist stance and opposition to second-wave feminism.