The Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved (1970) [pdf]
If someone tried to do poiltical journalism like Hunter S. Thompson today, I'd bet they would probably get hauled in front of congress for a struggle session, a journalistic cashiering from party personalities, and some terrible random luck from the bureaucracy just to make an example.I wonder what changed about the world where the tradition of writers like Thompson, Hitchens, Vidal, Hemmingway, Menken, Bierce, and others with humour and moral courage just aren't a part of mainstream discourse.