 According to his student Bălăceanu-Stolnici, he had "a left-wing orientation of the British Labourite kind".Citing the need for intellectual freedom, he publicly defended Sadoveanu, who was being attacked by his far-right colleagues, with pieces in the left-leaning newspaper "Dimineața".Although active in such civil society causes, he was never a member of a political party, and also administered criticism to the establishment National Peasants' Party.