Mass Appeal

Unguided Missal? Mass composer Leonard Bernstein in 1971. Last week on The New Yorker’s website, music critic Alex Ross wrote three articles based on newly released Freedom of Information Act-obtained government documents regarding inquiries into...

John Hughes    1950-2009

Director-writer-producer John Hughes died on 6 August while taking a walk in New York City.  He was 59. Ben Stein calls John Hughes “the poet of human exaltation, the poet of human happiness” — and it’s impossible to imagine a more infectiously...

Rick Perlstein On The Town Hall Demonstrators

A little over a year ago, when Rick Perlstein published his mammoth study of “the American berserk” – the original subtitle of Nixonland – in the years between 1965 and 1972, he concluded his 748-page saga of heated hardhats and howling hippies...

Setting The Record Straight On Social Security

In this morning’s Washington Post, Paul Begala, one of the architects of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and later a major White House advisor, contributes an op-ed. In it he argues that, although supporters of an expansive health-care policy (single-payer or...

RN Revisited And Rethought

An article by Richard J. Cross III in yesterday’s Baltimore Sun deserves quotation in full. Mr. Cross IDs himself somewhat in the piece; more recently he was press secretary and speechwriter for former Maryland Governor Bob Ehrlich. In February, America...

EN On RN

Ed Nixon, was on CSPAN yesterday to discuss the 35th anniversary of his older brother’s resignation: In another CSPAN interview dated two months ago, Mr. Nixon discussed his new book The Nixons: A Family Portrait. Click here to order The Nixons from the Richard...