Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The New York Times’ coverage of Caroline Kennedy’s first outing as a Senate candidate can hardly be what the Ms. Kennedy or her supporters had in mind. In fact, the story’s headline —In Appearance Upstate, Kennedy Says Little— is really...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Several years ago, David Cornwell (better known by his nom de plume, John Le Carré) told an interviewer that, “espionage was not really something exclusive and clandestine. It was actually the currency of the Cold War. Spies were the poor bloody infantry of the Cold...
Dec 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Jonah Goldberg’s column today applies some belated common sense to current events: The freakout is understandable. Economic trust is breaking down. Investors are buying Treasury bills that pay no interest because they’re scared to leave their money even in...
Dec 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Mike McCurry —who, along with Marlin Fitzwater, is generally considered the gold standard of modern White House Press Secretaries— has written an interesting piece (“How My Party Found God”) for the Daily Beast about the role faith could play...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Russ Smith is a Baltimore resident and occasional contributor to the Wall Street Journal. But once upon a time he was quite a potent figure in the world of “alt-weeklies,” founding the Baltimore City Paper in 1977 and a Washington counterpart four years...
Dec 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Today we learned that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has informed New York Gov. David Paterson that yes, she does want to sit in Sen. Hillary Clinton’s soon-to-be-vacated seat on Capitol Hill. Before I get to the touching video clip featured in this post, let me...
