A One Time Only Invention

In today’s New York Times, veteran science correspondent William A. Broad previews two new books that combine to do some rewriting —or at least some major revision— of the atomic history. The Nuclear Express: A Political History of the Bomb and its...

Is That A Threat Or A Promise?

The AP reported Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s comment about the the possibility of his cousin Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg being appointed to completeHillary Clinton’s Senate term and running for the seat in 2010: Robert Kennedy said the family would come out en...

12/7/08

From RN: In December 1941, thanks to the recommendations of one of y professors from Duke, David Cavers, I was offered a job with the Office of Price Administration in Washington.  The pay was only $3,200 a year, not nearly as much as Pat and I were making together...

Is Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg’s Hat In The Ring?

When reports began to circulate a few weeks ago that President-elect Obama was likely to name Sen. Hillary Clinton to run the State Department, there was much discussion about who would be named by New York Gov. David Paterson to replace her.  The state’s...

More on Chris Wallace At “Frost/Nixon” Screening

In today’s Washington Times Douglas MacKinnon, who served in the White House under Reagan and the first George Bush, and also at the Pentagon, discusses Chris Wallace’s challenge to the panel at the Frost/Nixon preview in Washington earlier this week. He...

NYT/F/N

he New York Times today reviews Frost/Nixon.  I think it’s fair to say that Manohla Dargas, the paper’s chief film critic, is not unadmiring; but she is decidedly less impressed, than many other reviewers: Stories of lost crowns lend themselves to drama,...