Oct 17, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a link to an article about the upcoming election by Joan Didion. It’s a short piece with a long provenance; it is brought to you via The Daily Beast (where it is nicely titled “Slouching Toward Washington”), from today’s Salon...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Few Americans remember Quemoy and Matsu, but they were a key issue in the 1960 debates between Kennedy and Nixon. These Taiwanese-governed islands lie just off the coast of mainland China. A couple of times during the 1950s, the communists had shelled these islands,...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
There is now a website on which fellow academics are invited to express solidarity with the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education’s Distinguished Professor: It seems that the character assassination and slander of Bill Ayers and other people who...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Late this afternoon, John McCain will at last —at long last— stride onstage at the Ed Sullivan Theater, acknowledge the applause, shake hands with the host, and sit down in the guest chair. The first order of business will be taking his medicine from...
Oct 16, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Ron Howard’s film Frost/Nixon made its debut in Leicester Square last night, as the opener of the London Film Festival. And the early reviews (four of them, and from the quality papers as you might expect) are now in. But before we get to them —second...
Oct 15, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
I think Antonio Gonzalez, head of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, was correct when he said on the Tavis Smiley show tonight that while Sen. John McCain scored the most points in tonight’s debate with Sen. Barack Obama, he did not score a...
