think he was on the cover of Newsweek , he was 
covered by American television, and there was a 
period when he was the most-talked-about 
intellectual on the planet. And then, long before he 
died, all that went away. Many people turned 
against him because they found his ideas didn’t 
hold up or didn’t fit with their thinking. They found 
that he was too opportunistic; they found that he 
would fling off an idea at random without thinking 
about it. They found that he was too easy to buy, 
he was too available on the speech-giving circuit, 
and somehow a bad aura collected around him for 
those and probably 50 other reasons. So he was in 
decline long before he died, which I think was 1980.