of public discourse, among other topics. As president of NYU, Sexton discussed the nature of the university recurringly on The Open Mind (TV series). He also appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report on December 6, 2006; during his time in the studio, he gave Stephen Colbert a hug, which he was known for giving affectionately on campus. He appeared again on Colbert on March 7, 2013 to promote his book Baseball as a Road to God, which he also discussed twice on MLB Network. In addition, Sexton has been interviewed repeatedly in the business and popular press, including: In August 2008, Sexton was cited in Newsweek magazine in a piece called "The Campus of the Future." In May 2010, Sexton was profiled by Bloomberg Businessweek in an article that focused on his priorities for New York University. The next month, in its 25th anniversary issue, Crains New York Business named Sexton one of its 25 People to Watch. In December 2010, Sexton was cited in the On Leadership section of The Washington Post for his efforts as president of NYU. In September 2013, he was the subject of a profile in The New Yorker. Sexton was interviewed by sociologist Jonathan VanAntwerpen for chapter four of the book Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (David L. Kirp et al.). He was also interviewed by Stephen Nelson about universities and their place in public dialogue for the book Leaders in the Labyrinth. Personal life Sexton's marriage to author Kathleen B. Jones, whom he met while a debate coach at St. Brendan's High School, was annulled after five years. Jones described the marriage as a "storybook romance" between a "young debate coach" and an "even younger star debater" in her non-fiction book Living Between Danger and Love. He met Lisa E. Goldberg, who became his wife in 1976, while they were both students at Harvard Law School. Ms. Goldberg, who became president of the Charles H. Revson Foundation, died suddenly of a brain aneurysm on January 21, 2007 at age 54. Sexton says that his wife was reading a piece about immortality by the cosmologist Max Tegmark when she died. He eulogized her at a memorial service in February 2007. Sexton's older child, Jed, is a Harvard graduate, an actor, and math teacher; in 2021, he entered law school and works on pro bono legal matters.