One of my heros. I heard him speak at Oxford in 1979? Sadly he died in 2006. Here he is interviewed after he'd received the Templeton Prize in 2001.
The Curious Case of the Freedom Flotilla
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As the great man's guest must produce his good stories or songs at the evening banquet, as the platform orator exhibits his telling facts at mid-day, so the journalist lies under the stern obligation of extemporizing his lucid views, leading ideas, and nutshell truths for the breakfast table.Cardinal J. H. Newman, Preface to The Idea of a University, 1852
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