Editor’s Note: David Levering Lewis won two Pulitzer Prizes for his two-volume biography of W. E. B. Du Bois titled, W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919 and W. E. B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963. Lewis also authored the noted study of the Harlem Renaissance, When Harlem Was in Vogue. He also wrote the widely read biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., King: A Biography. Additionally, he has written a book on the scramble for Africa, The Race to Fashoda, and a study of the Dreyfus affair, Prisoners of Honor. He is a Martin Luther King, Jr. University Professor in the Department of History at Rutgers University. He sits on the board of directors of The Crisis magazine in New York. This interview was conducted by Joel Wendland.

In an October issue of Profil, an Austrian weekly magazine, the columnist, Georg Hoffman-Ostenhof, raises the question: “Is Bush a War Criminal?”

A reporter from the BBC recently interviewed a Cuban psychiatrist about the innovative treatments being employed at his hospital. She asked him why, given that so many neuroses and psychoses result from living under capitalism, people develop mental illness in Cuba. This was bait.

When does “regrettable collateral damage” become a deliberate and calculated war against families? This is an important question to consider now.

The world was glued to the TV screen last February as a teenager was victimized by a tragic error at a major medical institution and given a mismatched heart-lung transplant. The frenzy that followed to find yet another organ donor captured our imaginations and hopes until it came to its tragic end. It was barely mentioned, as to who was going to pay for her procedures and the use of the array of medical equipment.

It seems that most people who have reviewed Stupid White Men from a left perspective have focused mostly on the last few chapters that are embroiled in the controversy over the Greens and the Democrats. What is missing is praise for Michael Moore’s biting sarcasm, his well-researched criticism and his plucky humor that enable the reader to get through the book psychologically intact.

For some, the curbing of civil liberties started with September 11th. For others, the struggle had been going on long before. There are many complex details to understanding the US government’s record on human rights.