“Is wealth a cousin of ignorance?” – Salman Rushdie | Big Think

Salman Rushdie pretty much predicted the future in his new book, The Golden House, wherein the antagonist is "a ruthlessly ambitious, narcissistic, media-savvy villain sporting makeup and coloured hair." Read into that what you will, but Rushdie here posits that he's baffled by the sudden worldwide rejection of knowledge and the elites. He says that…

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Escritor Salman Rushdie é operado após ser esfaqueado no pescoço em NY | Portal E. M. Cioran News

Autor sofreu atentado em na manhã desta sexta-feira e foi levado às pressas, de helicóptero, para hospital O escritor anglo-indiano Salman Rushdie, de 75 anos, está passando por cirurgia após ter sido esfaqueado no pescoço, na manhã desta sexta-feira, por um homem não identificado durante um evento em Nova York. Seu estado de saúde ainda…

“Author Salman Rushdie Attacked on Lecture Stage in New York” – Joshua GOODMAN

BLOOMBERG, 12 August, 2022 Chautauqua, N.Y. (AP) -- Salman Rushdie, the author whose novel The Satanic Verses drew death threats from Iran's leader in the 1980s, was attacked and apparently stabbed in the neck Friday by a man who rushed the stage as he was about to give a lecture in western New York. A…