Talk:Anthony Lewis

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Anthony Lewis article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Biography: Arts and Entertainment

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography
	This article is supported by the arts and entertainment work group.

New York City

	New York City portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject New York City, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of New York City-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.New York CityWikipedia:WikiProject New York CityTemplate:WikiProject New York CityNew York City
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

Freedom of speech Low‑importance

	Freedom of speech portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Freedom of speech, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Freedom of speech on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Freedom of speechWikipedia:WikiProject Freedom of speechTemplate:WikiProject Freedom of speechFreedom of speech
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Journalism Low‑importance

	Journalism portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Journalism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of journalism on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.JournalismWikipedia:WikiProject JournalismTemplate:WikiProject JournalismJournalism
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Human rights Low‑importance

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Human rights, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Human rights on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Human rightsWikipedia:WikiProject Human rightsTemplate:WikiProject Human rightsHuman rights
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Law Low‑importance

	Law portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Law, an attempt at providing a comprehensive, standardised, pan-jurisdictional and up-to-date resource for the legal field and the subjects encompassed by it.LawWikipedia:WikiProject LawTemplate:WikiProject Lawlaw
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Politics Low‑importance

	Politics portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Politics, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of politics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.PoliticsWikipedia:WikiProject PoliticsTemplate:WikiProject Politicspolitics
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

United States: Government Mid‑importance

	United States portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United States, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of topics relating to the United States of America on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the ongoing discussions. Template Usage Articles Requested! Become a Member Project Talk Alerts United StatesWikipedia:WikiProject United StatesTemplate:WikiProject United StatesUnited States
Mid	This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the project's importance scale.
	This article is supported by WikiProject U.S. Government (assessed as Mid-importance).

Untitled

But the statement it replaced - "Anthony Lewis is also, though readers of his former column in the Times on Israeli-Palestinian issues might find this hard to believe, a prominent Jewish-American." - didn't bother you? Shpxurnq 04:21, 27 December 2006 (UTC)Vexorg[reply]

Part of the article reads "Anthony Lewis is also a prominent Jewish-American, a fact evidently troublesome to those who regard his views on Israeli-Palestinian issues as heretical." Having that statement in an article that doesn't mention Lewis' views on Israeli-Palestinian issues seems evidently troublesome to me, and I am removing it.Inappropriatecontent 22:25, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this was removed long ago. 174.226.5.184 (talk) 20:24, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

NY Times opinion under 'quotes'

am i the only one that finds this paragraph under 'Quotes' a little confusing and sounding somewhat like someone ELSES opinion mixed with an actual quote?

From the op-ed page of the New York Times:

The whole bloodbath debate unreal. What future could possibly be more terrible than the reality of what is happening to Cambodia now? As the death marches out of Phnom Penh proceeded, Lewis went on making excuses for the Khmer Rouge. He mused that it was ``the only way to start on their vision of a new society. Americans who objected were guilty of ``cultural arrogance, an imperial assumption, that . . . our way of life would be better. gba (talk) 20:17, 10 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like this too was removed long ago. 174.226.5.184 (talk) 20:25, 27 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Author section, from article, Freedom for the Thought That We Hate

Per WP:FAC comments, removed this sect below from the article Freedom for the Thought That We Hate.

It might be of some use to help improve this article:

Author

Anthony Lewis (1927–2013) was twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his writing.^[1]^[2] Lewis was a columnist for The New York Times before retiring in 2001.^[1] His first Pulitzer Prize award was awarded in 1955 for journalism with the Washington Daily News reporting on a member of the military dismissed from the United States Navy.^[2] The individual was later allowed back into military service due to Lewis' investigative journalism.^[2] In 1963 Lewis received his second Pulitzer Prize for his work for The New York Times reporting on the Supreme Court of the United States.^[2] He was awarded the Nieman Fellowship by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.^[2]

Lewis' previous works include Gideon's Trumpet (1964) about Clarence Earl Gideon and the U.S. Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright,^[3]^[4] Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution (1964),^[5]^[6] and Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment (1991) discussing the U.S. Supreme Court case New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.^[7]^[8] He edited the compilation work Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times (2001).^[9]^[10] Lewis died on March 25, 2013 at the age of 85.^[11]

Hopefully some of the above sourced text can be incorporated into this article.

Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 04:12, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ ^a ^b "Mass. judge who wrote gay marriage ruling retiring". KVUE Television, Inc., a subsidiary of Belo Corp. Associated Press. July 21, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Times Writer To Be Bicentennial Speaker". The Hour. Norwalk, Connecticut. February 2, 1976. p. 13; Section: In Westport.
^ Lewis, Anthony (1964). Gideon's Trumpet. New York: Random House. ISBN 0679723129.
^ OCLC (2012). "Gideon's Trumpet". WorldCat. OCLC 2482722. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
^ Lewis, Anthony (1964). Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394444124.
^ OCLC (2012). "Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution". WorldCat. OCLC 422388. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
^ Lewis, Anthony (1991). Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. New York: Random House. ISBN 0679739394.
^ OCLC (2012). "Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment". WorldCat. OCLC 23139904. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
^ Lewis, Anthony (2001). Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times. New York: Times Books / Henry Holt. ISBN 0805071784.
^ OCLC (2012). "Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times". WorldCat. OCLC 46909462. Retrieved November 5, 2012.
^ Liptak, Adam (March 25, 2013). "Anthony Lewis, Supreme Court Reporter Who Brought Law to Life, Dies at 85". The New York Times. p. A1. Retrieved March 28, 2013.

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 6 external links on Anthony Lewis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at {{Sourcecheck}}).

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 10:23, 15 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 7 external links on Anthony Lewis. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.susqu.edu/lawandsociety/LewisCommentary.htm
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/about.aspx?id=17378
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/lewis.asp
Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20051023031745/http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributors&bioid=21 to http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=about.viewContributors&bioid=21
Corrected formatting/usage for http://knight.stanford.edu/lectures/knight/1994/lewis_bio.html
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17375
Corrected formatting/usage for http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17872

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 04:39, 7 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

About the importance rating

Actually all WikiProjects who gave importance ratings all underestimated the importance, since it is Anthony Lewis that created legal journalism in America, and his book Freedom for the Thought that We Hate sparked much discussion (his view that hate speech should not be prohibited by law generated controversies, e.g. Jeremy Waldron argued that legislators should ban all hate speech).--RekishiEJ (talk) 09:41, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

[mass-1] "Mass. judge who wrote gay marriage ruling retiring". KVUE Television, Inc., a subsidiary of Belo Corp. Associated Press. July 21, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2012.

[thehour-2] "Times Writer To Be Bicentennial Speaker". The Hour. Norwalk, Connecticut. February 2, 1976. p. 13; Section: In Westport.

[3] Lewis, Anthony (1964). Gideon's Trumpet. New York: Random House. ISBN 0679723129.

[4] OCLC (2012). "Gideon's Trumpet". WorldCat. OCLC 2482722. Retrieved November 5, 2012.

[5] Lewis, Anthony (1964). Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394444124.

[6] OCLC (2012). "Portrait of a Decade: The Second American Revolution". WorldCat. OCLC 422388. Retrieved November 5, 2012.

[7] Lewis, Anthony (1991). Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment. New York: Random House. ISBN 0679739394.

[8] OCLC (2012). "Make No Law: The Sullivan Case and the First Amendment". WorldCat. OCLC 23139904. Retrieved November 5, 2012.

[9] Lewis, Anthony (2001). Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times. New York: Times Books / Henry Holt. ISBN 0805071784.

[10] OCLC (2012). "Written into History: Pulitzer Prize Reporting of the Twentieth Century from The New York Times". WorldCat. OCLC 46909462. Retrieved November 5, 2012.

[adamliptak-11] Liptak, Adam (March 25, 2013). "Anthony Lewis, Supreme Court Reporter Who Brought Law to Life, Dies at 85". The New York Times. p. A1. Retrieved March 28, 2013.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

[11]