Michael Harrington

In 1973, he coined the term neoconservatism.\n', '

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 24, 1928, to an Irish-American family. He attended Roch Catholic School and St. Louis University High School, where he was a classmate (class of 1944) of Thomas Anthony Dooley III. He later attended the College of the Holy Cross, the University of Chicago (MA in English Literature), and Yale Law School. As a young man, he was interested in both leftist politics and Roman Catholicism. He joined Dorothy Day\'s Catholic Worker Movement, a communal movement that stressed social justice and nonviolence. Harrington enjoyed arguing about culture and politics, and his Jesuit education had made him a good debater and rhetorician.\n', '

On May 30, 1963, Harrington married Stephanie Gervis, a freelance writer and staff writer for the Village Voice. He died on July 31, 1989, of esophageal cancer. Du…