The Life and Times of a Public Intellectual

Sally Kohn: She was an incredible public intellectual and not just the number of her books, but the fact that they were all accessible and readable. So she didn't have a long term partner, she had different serious romantic relationships, but no person, lifelong person. And I think there's even, even when she dipped down to the most popular level, she retained some of the academic rigor about this love-of-the-self thing.Kohn: The cancer diagnosis was, was just incredibly hard for her and all of her friends. It showed how beloved she was.