Jun 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Some weeks ago a commenter asked when I was going to complete my assessment of Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland. Rest assured it will come in a few days. In the meantime here is an interview with Perlstein from the new issue of the libertarian journal Reason,...
Jun 21, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
In the next day or so I’ll put up a post concerning dollars – that is to say, the estimated $300 million that Sen. Barack Obama may raise for his campaign, now that he has reversed his previous position and become the first major-party presidential...
Jun 19, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
That is the query Barron YoungSmith, an intern at The New Republic, poses at the magazine’s website this week. (YoungSmith is a 2006 Brown University graduate, incidentally. And some people were amazed that 39-year-old Rick Perlstein was fascinated enough by...
Jun 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Somewhere up there, perhaps, Tim Russert is sending the word out to the George Clinton who did not sing “dogs of the world unite,” John C. Calhoun, Thomas A. Hendricks, Adlai E. Stevenson I, and Charles W. Fairbanks to appear on next Sunday’s Meet...
Jun 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today’s New York Times brings news of the latest effort on the part of liberal and left-wing media figures to sway American public opinion – the launch of the Progressive Book Club. Its CEO, nonprofit fundraiser Elizabeth Wagley (whose father John Wagley...
