Aug 9, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of President Nixon’s resignation, and since I wrote about coverage of this last night, some more articles and op-eds of note have appeared. Apart from the memorable discussion of RN’s achievements on this...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
On July 29 of last year Vanity Fair’s website put up a portrait of President George W. Bush by that eminent visual satirist Drew Friedman. In it, the President was made up to look like that latterday icon of villainy, the late Heath Ledger in his Oscar-winning...
Aug 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last month the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, and of Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin’s historic moonwalk, was the subject of many hours of TV coverage and commentary, and of innumerable column-inches of articles and op-eds in...
Aug 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last week I posted about Inherent Vice, the new novel by Thomas Pynchon set in Los Angeles during the spring and early summer of 1970 – that is, in the second year of the Nixon Administration. Today the book went on sale nationwide, and to promote it Penguin...
Jul 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Two weeks ago I noted the passing of 113-year-old Henry Allingham, who, besides being the oldest man on Earth, was also the last founding member of the Royal Air Force and one of the last five veterans of "the war to end all wars" still living. At that time...
