Sep 26, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the Washington Post, economist James K. Galbraith of the University of Texas – who is not only one of the leading liberal figures in his field, but the son of John Kenneth Galbraith, William F. Buckley Jr’s eternal Firing Line antagonist –...
Sep 25, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
On October 2, anyone in the Los Angeles area who’s interested in paying the $100 admission can go to the Landmark Theater in West LA, watch the vice-presidential debate on a big-screen television, then enjoy some supplemental entertainment: a reading of the new...
Sep 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In recent days interest in the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted on Federal espionage charges in the early 1950s and sent to the electric chair, has been revived after Morton Sobell, the last living defendant charged (and convicted) with them,...
Sep 16, 2008 | News, Nixon Today, Pre-Presidential Years, The New Nixon
Bob Hoover, the book-review editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (and, thus, belonging to a breed now perhaps more rare than the ivory-billed woodpecker) has written an article for that paper concerning Sam Roberts’ recent New York Times stories about the...
Sep 14, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
They say that the deaths of prominent people come in threes, and remarkably, three of the notable Americans whose deaths were announced this weekend were California residents. These were the novelist David Foster Wallace, whose premature and tragic passing I note...
