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...
Jul 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Robert Novak’s new column concerning the campaign, linked to below among the featured articles, is a quite incisive analysis of Sen. Barack Obama’s big dilemma of the moment – how to get his support in the polls above 50%, which means trying to find...
Jul 27, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
The August issue of Smithsonian has a feature on “Four Political Conventions That Changed America,” including articles on the 1912 Republican convention by Lewis Gould; the 1948 Democratic convention by Truman biographer Alonzo Hamby; the 1968 Democratic...
