Anyone who was fortunate enough to meet my late grandfather Max Huberman knows that he was an epic individual. With a personal history reads like a history of liberalism in the 20th century, Max's life was committed to the preservation of justice and free thought, whether he was campaigning for racial justice, religious liberty, or empowering people to transform their health through a plant-based diet. His personal motto was a quote from Horace Mann: "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity," and he lived that creed many times over.
But it was not Max's ideological fervor alone that inspired such admiration from those around him. While Max possessed a politician's drive, he was a poet at heart, and his ability to distill complex emotions, histories, and philosophies into verse and jokes endeared him to family and strangers alike.
