Matt Taibbi, contributing editor at Rolling Stone and author of many volumes of incisive political writing, returns to speak about his work at LFPL for the first time since 2014. If Hunter S. Thompson’s times called for a critical and creative journalistic response, surely our times do as well. has often been described as an inheritor of the Gonzo style. As he catalogs our nation’s political and social ills, Taibbi echoes Thompson by combining outraged observation with thoughtful – and often humorous – critique.