Erik Lewis
High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism By David Wills (Beatdom Books, 557 pages, $15) On September 28, 1987, the following appeared in the editorial section of the San Francisco Examiner: Joe Biden is gone now —…
On July 24, 1974, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled in U.S. v. Nixon that the 37th president, Richard M. Nixon, could not exert executive privilege over White House recordings related to the Watergate break-in. The ruling…
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder By Salman Rushdie (Random House, 224 pages, $28) Two summers ago, Salman Rushdie was stabbed by an Islamist radical while giving a talk at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York. The attack left…
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known on the street as AMLO, took a strident tone during his sit down with CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday. He threatened to flood the U.S. border with even more migrants if the U.S….
Jean-Luc found me in the lobby of the Las Américas Airport near the capital city of the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti. “Thanks so much for hosting me,” I said, and we embraced like old friends, even though we’d never…
In June 2020, as peaceful protesters burned city after city as part of their ongoing Summer of Love, Europe watched on warily as the love threatened to spread across the pond and soon did, in the United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium,…
Last week in New Hampshire, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley got ambushed with a question on, of all things, the Civil War. Here we go again. When asked what caused the Civil War, Haley explained: I think the cause…
On August 12, 2022, a 24-year-old California-born Islamist named Hadi Matar rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York where novelist Salman Rushdie was about to speak, stabbing Rushdie ten times, in the chest, neck, stomach, thigh…
I was on a beach in Brazil two Christmases ago when I heard that Anne Rice had died suddenly of a stroke. The news had been posted on her son, the novelist Christopher Rice’s, Facebook page. I was shocked, though…
