Apr 4, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
John Heinz died seventeen years ago today. Tragically and tragically before time. The issues he cared about —and characteristically burrowed in on— were seen as esoteric, and even irrelevant, by many at the time. But today we can see that the reform of...
Apr 3, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In case you already had dinner plans and/or your TiVo was on the blink, here’s what you missed on last night’s Daily Show. And here’s where you can get your hot off the presses copy of Bill’s updated Safire’s Political Dictionary.(1) For...
Apr 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In “Hearts and Minds, Again” —his Wonder Land column in today’s The Wall Street Journal—Daniel Henninger raises some provocative points. Mr. Henninger writes about the importance —and the importance of watching— the 1974 Oscar...
Apr 2, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The Washington Post reached new heights of populist aesthetic dudgeon over the architecture of the just-opened National Stadium. In today’s paper, the snarky Style sectionistas took on the question of naming rights. The Redskins play at FedEx Field, the...
Apr 1, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Reverend Jeremiah Wright has at least temporarily retired the phrase “chickens coming home to roost” but that’s the phrase that comes to mind reading Dan Calabrese’s column about Hillary Clinton’s performance as a staff attorney on the...