At one point in my tumultuous Executive Editorship of Ramparts Magazine in the 1960s, it seemed time either to retreat or send in reinforcements. So…
Posts published by “Warren Hinckle”
Beware the caption writers of the sixties. They lump it all as a decade of protest and malcontent, which it of course was. But to…
At various times during the checkered decade past (the 60s) I have been called licentious, a profligate, and adventurer, a sensationalist, a wastrel, a capitalist…
My Catholic education taught me never to trust a priest under or over 30. They became quite vicious if anyone threatened their sense of authority…
There is something to be said for the disadvantages of Catholic education, at least as it was in San Francisco of the logy, foggy 50s.…
On the night before the Thanksgiving of 1964 I was comfortably seated in the neo-Edwardian lobby of the Algonquin Hotel in New York City having…
What do you do when you have to say, “I’m sorry”? If you’re the professor who holds the anti-smoking chairmanship at the University of California,…
Limerick, Ireland — On Cecil Street in the ancient fortress city of Limerick, there is a pub called Bill Clinton, named after the American you-know-what.…