Oct 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Alas, it won’t be available in time for holiday giving this year, but a new book by William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn —Race Course Against White Supremacy— will be published by the Third World Press on 1 June 2009. The appealing and evocative title...
Oct 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a link to an article about the upcoming election by Joan Didion. It’s a short piece with a long provenance; it is brought to you via The Daily Beast (where it is nicely titled “Slouching Toward Washington”), from today’s Salon...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
There is now a website on which fellow academics are invited to express solidarity with the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education’s Distinguished Professor: It seems that the character assassination and slander of Bill Ayers and other people who...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Late this afternoon, John McCain will at last —at long last— stride onstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater, acknowledge the applause, shake hands with the host, and sit down in the guest chair. The first order of business will be taking his medicine from...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Ron Howard’s film Frost/Nixon made its debut in Leicester Square last night, as the opener of the London Film Festival. And the early reviews (four of them, and from the quality papers as you might expect) are now in. But before we get to them —second...
