The “Other Challenges” Of Garry Wills

The new issue of the New York Review of Books has a short op-ed, which first appeared as a blogpost last week at the magazine’s site, by Garry Wills, professor emeritus at Northwestern University and author of several dozen books about religion and American...

Marvin Minoff, RIP

Ron Howard’s acclaimed film Frost/Nixon, based on Peter Morgan’s play which was a hit in London’s West End and on Broadway, depicts two men as the architects of the famous set of TV interviews with President Nixon: the future Sir David Frost and the...

The First Pacific President?

In Tokyo today, President Obama said: “As America’s first Pacific president, I promise you that this Pacific nation will strengthen and sustain our leadership in this vitally important part of the world.” The president was in error.  Though he was...

Nixon’s New Jersey Friend Looks Back

Last week I wrote about a retired Atlantic City firefighter named Richard Nixon, whom the New York Times’s website had profiled in a series about everyday Americans with Presidential names. Today’s post is about the Richard Nixon who lived on the opposite...