Jun 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Christopher Hitchens takes a look at the latest release of Nixon recordings at Slate. For the most part, his remarks about President Nixon, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Rev. Billy Graham are precisely what one would expect him to say – especially when he presents...
Jun 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
No one ever accused RN of perfection. Throughout his career, reporters and cartoonists dwelt on his mistakes, his quirks, even his physical flaws: recall Garry Wills’s long, bizarre description of his face in Nixon Agonistes. As Eamon Javers wryly notes in...
Jun 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
What are the citizens of Vermont doing, now that the United States is being remade along the lines most of them seem to favor, and they no longer have to plot to secede from the Union to join Canada? Well, tonight, and next Tuesday, some of them will be going to see a...
Jun 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Jackson was always a keen reader of comic books, and in the 1980s he was often referred to in them. Comicbook.com takes a look at some aspects of his association with the comics world. It’s been widely reported that in his last weeks the Gloved One...
Jun 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Within a forty-eight-hour period the world lost three figures in the world of entertainment. Farrah Fawcett, in the days when she had Majors appended to her name, was the nation’s most popular sex symbol a year or so after Richard Nixon left the White House. Ed...
Jun 25, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Landon Donovan and US teammates celebrate the “stunning” 2-0 victory over Spain in Blomfontein. (AP photo by Antonio Calanni) George Vecsey reports for The New York Times: The stunning 2-0 victory by the United States over Spain —the best team in...
