Eric Ehrmann

Eric Wayne Ehrmann is an American-born author and blogger who holds permanent residence in Brazil. He has been doing columns on sports, politics and proliferation issues in Latin America for 30 years. He was one of the first feature writers for Rolling Stone (1968-71) working under co-founder Jann S. Wenner.

His blog columns on global affairs are published on WorldPost, a joint venture of the Berggruen Institute and Huffington Post. His work disussing sports crime, and corruption have appeared on multiple platforms on The Huffington Post. His political columns have also been published by USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, National Review, The New York Times, The Buenos Aires Herald, The Journal of Commerce and The Toronto Star.

Reaching across the geopolitical divide, Ehrmann for several years has been writing the "Institutions and Conmpetition" blog at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) in Moscow, an adjunct of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where his columns appear in English and Russian. In addition, he does predictive analysis with a IARPA (Intelligence Advanced Research Projects) activity that has been privatized. He is since 1995 a professional member of PEN USA, an affiliate of London-based International PEN, and has long advocated extending the human rights protections PEN advocates for writers, to bloggers.

Ehrmann was born 13 August 1946 in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and is an only child from a modest Jewish background. He worked in the Republic Steel bar mill in Cleveland to earn money for his early college education and was a member of the United Steelworkers of America (AFL-CIO) during that period. His father was also a member of the CIO and the AFL-CIO and was a journeyman plumber and an elected official of Plumbers Local 55 AFL-CIO at the time of his death at age 49 in 1967. Shipping records indicate that his antecedents were Jewish immigrants who emigrated from the Austrian, German and Russian empires, arriving in the United States during the late 19th century.

He was confirmed in the Reform Jewish Movement in 1962 by Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld of Fairmount Temple-Congregation Anshe Hesed. He was graduated class of 1964 from Shaker High School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Eric Ehrmann is not a member of a synagogue. His political commentary has, however, been published by Algemeiner, a New York platform discussing Jewish affairs.

According to the website of Rolling Stone co-founder Jann S. Wenner, Eric Ehrmann began writing for the magazine from his fraternity house while a columnist for The Miami Student, the student newspaper at Miami University of Ohio, which he attended before becoming a "college drop out". Later, in northern California, he contributed occasionally to the Berkeley Barb in 1969 and 1970 using his own name, and pseudonyms.

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