Gore Vidal on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/gore_vidal Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2012 2012-08-02T17:06:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo America the Great ... Police State http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/america_the_great_police_state_20120802/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/america_the_great_police_state_20120802/ barack obama, cambridge, class warfare, fascism, gore vidal, henry louis gates jr., police, police state, professor, racism, Gore Vidal's Essays Gore Vidal

Truthdig was proud to be the home of Gore Vidal’s essays over the last six years. In a tribute to his legacy, we’ll be rerunning his great works. In this essay, written in 2009, Vidal wants us to accept that the U.S. is no longer a republic, no longer governed by laws—only by armed men and force.

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Let us accept the facts staring us in the face – that demonstrably we are no longer a republic. We are no longer governed by laws, only by armed men and force. This is just like the days of Billy the Kid. You have an armed man going down a dusty street and that is authority. And it has come to this for us.

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]]> 2009-07-28T10:45:00+00:00 Gore Vidal: ‘The Most Interesting Man in the World’ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20090411_gore_vidal_the_most_interesting_man_in_the_world/ http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20090411_gore_vidal_the_most_interesting_man_in_the_world/ amelia earhart, author, bill maher, gore vidal, hbo, historian, homosexual, iraq, real time, rome, sarah palin, Vidal

The whip-smart and ever-sly Gore Vidal visited “Real Time” on Friday, giving his historical and sometimes hysterically funny take on the state of the United States. He also revisited a few key moments from his personal history, illustrated by some priceless archival footage found by Bill Maher’s crack research team. Is it too soon to make an Amelia Earhart joke?

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]]> 2009-04-11T20:55:00+00:00 Gore Vidal Blasts Racism Claim http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_gore_vidal_blasts_racism_claim/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_gore_vidal_blasts_racism_claim/ andrew gumbel, barack obama, gore vidal, hillary clinton, huffington post, michelle bachmann, p.g. wodehouse, poetry, president, racism, sarah palin, slave, Gore Vidal's Essays Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal, racist? Au contraire, the renowned author asserts in this response to a recent piece on The Huffington Post that claimed Vidal had a problem with Barack Obama’s bid for the White House because of the president-elect’s race.

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]]> 2008-11-11T04:03:00+00:00 John McCain in the Echo Chamber http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081027_mccain_in_the_echo_chamber/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081027_mccain_in_the_echo_chamber/ barack obama, democratic party, franklin delano roosevelt, gore vidal, john mccain, lincoln, new deal, pow, president, russia, sarah palin, socialist, Gore Vidal's Essays McCain

October proved to be the cruelest month, for that was the time that Sen. McCain, he of the round, blank, Little Orphan Annie eyes, chose to try out a number of weird lies about Barack Obama ostensibly in the interest of a Republican Party long overdue for burial.

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]]> 2008-10-27T23:59:00+00:00 Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_taking_back_the_republic/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080612_taking_back_the_republic/ american media, articles of impeachment, cheney, constitution, democracy, dennis kucinich, gore vidal, house of representatives, president bush, republic, Gore Vidal's Essays Kucinich

On June 9, 2008, a counterrevolution began on the floor of the House of Representatives against the gas and oil crooks who had seized control of the federal government. This counterrevolution began in the exact place which had slumbered during the all-out assault on our liberties and the Constitution itself.

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]]> 2008-06-12T06:56:00+00:00 Gore Vidal Speaks Seriously Ill of the Dead http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080320_gore_vidal_speaks_seriously_ill_of_the_dead/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080320_gore_vidal_speaks_seriously_ill_of_the_dead/ buckley, convention, debate, magazine, media, newsweek, obituary, television, vidal, Gore Vidal's Essays Gore Vidal

The iconic author objects to Newsweek’s obituary of his onetime rival, William F. Buckley, a “knightly man” who stood up to “bullies” like Gore Vidal ... by verbally gay-bashing him on national television.

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]]> 2008-03-20T21:20:00+00:00 Gore Vidal on the Democratic Debate Debacle http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071218_whither_dennis_kucinich/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20071218_whither_dennis_kucinich/ blitzer, clinton, cnn, debate, democrat, des moines register, gore vidal, iowa, kucinich, president, Gore Vidal's Essays Democrats in Iowa

Whither Dennis Kucinich?  If the powers that be at CNN and a certain Iowa news outlet (attention: Des Moines Register) thought that elbowing Kucinich out of the most recent Democratic presidential debate would slip by unnoticed, Gore Vidal is more than ready to disabuse them of that notion.

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