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...
Aug 16, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
A little over a year ago, when Rick Perlstein published his mammoth study of “the American berserk” – the original subtitle of Nixonland – in the years between 1965 and 1972, he concluded his 748-page saga of heated hardhats and howling hippies...
Aug 13, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In this morning’s Washington Post, Paul Begala, one of the architects of Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign and later a major White House advisor, contributes an op-ed. In it he argues that, although supporters of an expansive health-care policy (single-payer or...
