Jul 31, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The last week saw the passing of a man and a woman who were both not only important figures at the Nixon White House, but by any measure significant in twentieth-century American history. On July 23, Clay T. Whitehead, director of the White House Office of...
Jul 30, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Chinese authorities promised to relax internet controls as one of the conditions negotiated with the International Olympic Committee. However, over time, that commitment has been slowly eroded as the Olympics got closer. Chinese authorities later stated that internet...
Jul 29, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Looking at a copy of Time today, and considering the utterly peripheral role the newsweeklies now play, it’s impossible to imagine how much clout that magazine had for so long until television took over as the purveyor and arbiter of news in the early 1970s. But...
Jul 29, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Leon Wieseltier is the Washington Diarist in the new New Republic. “Dread of Winter” is a typically thoughtful, provocative, and stylish article about —among many other things— the recent “humorous” New Yorker Obamas-as-terrorists...
Jul 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Here it is, uploaded less than 24 hours ago: the teaser-trailer for Oliver Stone’s upcoming epic biopic W. It looks —how can I put this delicately— like a real stinker. But then it’s only a trailer. It’s a wonderful world, and a lot could...
Jul 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
(UPDATE: Great minds continue to think alike, and I published this post unaware of my colleague Robert Nedelkoff’s just-prior notice of this unhappy turn of events.) One reads today’s typically insightful Bob Novak column with the knowledge that he was...
