Epstein Secrets

A POLITE INTERVIEW = Skin So Thin, It’s Inside Out” Ethan Persoff talks with Paul Krassner about running The Realist, hacking The New York Times Bestseller list, and that “true, extraordinary liar,” Donald Trump. of American comedy: Lenny

hese days — it’s the fate of truly seminal sources to seem inevitable, when in fact they reshaped the world in their own image. Fortunately, in 2006 Krassner teamed with archivist/comic artist Ethan Persoff on The Realist Archive Project (http:// www.ep.tc/realist/), a free online repository of every issue

n delivered with a mordant, knowing skepticism, is as current as John Oliver and as omnipresent as the entire internet. But you don’t hear much about The Realist these days — it’s the fate of truly seminal sources to seem inevitable, when in fact they reshaped the world in their own image. Fortunately, in 200

ved to San Fran- cisco [in 1971]. By that time there were others doing referrals -- Protestant min- isters. So, I left my practice behind me. EP: The Realist was one of the first, if not the first, news sources to talk about Enovid [the first birth control pill]. PK: In the first few issues! And the pill

was providing sophisticated treatment for the survivors of Chernobyl. Cuban health care provided for more radiation victims than than did the U..S." Paul Krassner Desert Hot Springs HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033225

e radiation victims than than did the U..S." Paul Krassner Desert Hot Springs HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033225

said to a close friend, James Drougas, "Trump will be assassinated soon." "Professor" Corey also had a humanitarian streak. In 1996, in my magazine, The Realist, I published a photo of him, from a video by his son Richard, presenting Fidel Castro a bag of California-grown pistachio nuts (Castro said, "Califor

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y pin was still attached on his jacket. JULES SIEGEL Two years before Lenny's death, with his permission I published his obituary in my own magazine, The Realist. Before the issue went to press, he called his mother and a few others to let them know it would only be a hoax. The point was that he couldn't get w

it had been fun-like the issue with only the one large red headline on the Cavalier cover: "BEAT 'EM SENSELESS FIRST"-THE FREE SPEECH CONTROVERSY, BY PAUL KRASSNER... "Tronically," I wrote, "it is this concept of the total education experience on campus which I believe to be the basic significance of the much- m