Thank you for your civil response.
I find it hard to believe that a man who spent 50 years at the Village Voice and was a close friend of I.F. Stone did not share the views of both the paper and the reprehensible shill for the Communists, I.F. Stone.
But I am willing to admit that he was a good music critic, and will also entertain the possibility that as he grew older, his outlook on issues changed.
Even if he did continue to draw his pay from the Village Voice, which DID and DOES overlook the actions of dictators and tyrants around the world in order to portray our President, government and way of life as just as evil in a perverse morally equivalent world they inhabit.
Thank you for your discussion, too. It’s much to Nat’s credit that for years, maybe decades, there were people at the Voice who wouldn’t speak to him :o)