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Erica Heller is a New Yorker in her fifties.  In her twenties and thirties she worked in advertising. Then she dropped out of the field and wrote a novel, Splinters - a natural thing to do when one is the daughter of the late Joseph Heller, author of Something...

Ted Stevens conceded defeat in his bid for re-election to the Senate today, strengthening the Democratic hand in the upper chamber but at least saving the GOP elders some embarrassment.  This eliminates the prospect, at least immediately, that Gov. Sarah Palin, as...

While there's still time --- if there's still time --- some FOB ---Friend of Barack--- should do him a real solid and slip him a copy of What Do We Do Now? --- Steve Hess' "Workbook for the President-Elect" hot off the presses from the Brookings Institution just in...

The improbable upward career of the improbable hit Frost/Nixon continues.  The film, which will open in theaters on December 5th, premiered in New York last night at the Ziegfeld Theater.  If you believe Fox News' super savvy entertainment reporter Roger Friedman,...

John Taylor below cites Dr. Kissinger's remarks about the possibility of Senator Clinton following in his footsteps to Foggy Bottom. Even the idea of such an appointment has fascinated ---and is on the verge of obsessing--- the pundit class. If I were just a tad more...

The Associated Press today has an article by Calvin Woodward discussing the current speculation that President-elect Obama, known to have read Doris Kearns Goodwin's bestselling study of Lincoln's Cabinet Team Of Rivals, may follow the Great Emancipator's example and...

It has now been about a half-year since Rick Perlstein's Nixonland was published, and some time back I noticed that no review had appeared in The American Spectator, a magazine avidly read by the 37th President and usually not a place where major books about him go...

The Grand Old Party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, & Ronald Reagan, has entered the proverbial wilderness. It moves from the box seats to the cheap seats, or better - to mix the metaphor a bit – the backbenches. How Republicans handle this exile, and just how long...

In the days since Barack Obama's election there has been quite a bit of talk about his reaching across party lines to seek the advice of elder statesmen. Today in the Washington Times (in a column by the deputy editor of the paper's op-ed section, Benjamin Tyree), a...

Today, as he does every day, Jonathan Movroydis has found and linked many of the most interesting journalism of the last 24 hours.  Among them is Camile Paglia's monthly column in Salon. As usual, this is an omnibus affair covering a variety of topics and a multitude...