Aug 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
The absence of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy last week from the funeral of his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, followed by the death on Tuesday morning of columnist Robert Novak, who was diagnosed with brain cancer not long after the lawmaker fell ill from the same cause,...
Aug 20, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
From 1993 until 2001, few figures were more prominent among the critics of the Administration then in charge than Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch, who, during those years, launched eighteen civil suits against the Clinton White House, and was often to be...
Aug 18, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
President Obama and his family enjoyed and praised the beauty of Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon during their recent whirlwind western tour. And Douglas Brinkley has written a doorstopper celebrating TR’s role in creating our National Parks. But it was...
Aug 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Commentators such as Thomas Edsall, Charles Cooper and Michael Crowley have blamed protests against Obamacare on a GOP effort to stir up “angry white males.” It all goes back to Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” they say. The main...
Aug 17, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Unguided Missal? Mass composer Leonard Bernstein in 1971. Last week on The New Yorker’s website, music critic Alex Ross wrote three articles based on newly released Freedom of Information Act-obtained government documents regarding inquiries into...
Aug 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Director-writer-producer John Hughes died on 6 August while taking a walk in New York City. He was 59. Ben Stein calls John Hughes “the poet of human exaltation, the poet of human happiness” — and it’s impossible to imagine a more infectiously...
