He was a leftie, but in the spirit of the old intellectuals who were good at analysis and wrote well. Didn’t agree with most of his positions, but really enjoyed listening to him explain them. You don’t have people like that anymore. Didn’t know anything about his family, but he seems to have been a good family man with a long term wife and two children. Very sorry for them. Another marker placed in the end of an era.
Yes, a good summarizer of leftist conventional wisdom. RIP.