This is why, more than ever before, public service television should be strengthened to ensure that freedom of thoughtandexpression, pluralism and accountability are protected.
He was an occasionally observant if less than pious Catholic who became part of that circle of secular, mostly Jewish New York intellectuals whose style of thoughtandexpression, if not their current politics, was rooted in the polemics of the kind of exotic Marxist radicalisms that never tempted him.