Apr 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Last month I wrote about a recent appearance that Ed Nixon, the younger brother of the 37th President, made to promote his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait, during which he described how the sight of Meteor Crater in Arizona, in the course of a trip he made with...
Apr 10, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
At the website of the magazine Foreign Policy, David J. Rothkopf, a Washington-based consultant and visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, has written about “Five Books That Haven’t Been Written Yet” (but, he continues,...
Apr 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
This week, unsurprisingly given the area’s strongly liberal electorate, Cook County (Illinois) Commissioner Mike Quigley defeated GOP nominee Rosanna Pulido, by a 69-to-24 percent difference, and was elected to the Fifth Congressional District seat that Rahm...
Apr 6, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I’m still working on getting a copy of Michael Kimmage’s The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism (which I noted in an earlier post) and hope to review it before the end of the month. In the meantime,...
Apr 4, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Today in io9.com, the science-fiction blog which is part of the Gawker.com online group, Alasdair Wilkins takes a look at comic books, movies, science-fiction novels, and TV shows over the last half-century which have speculated on who might be sitting in the White...
