“Frost/Nixon” To Open London Film Festival

  Frank Langella as President Nixon in White House East Room in Yorba Linda Director Ron Howard’s new film, “Frost/Nixon,” will have its world premiere not in Hollywood but at the London Film Festival in October. With three scenes shot at the Nixon...

Appeasement and Detente: Two VERY Different Things

The current on-going review of the history of APPEASEMENT during the 1930s and the lessons, if any, that can be applied to current geopolitics, has reminded some of the Nixonian philosophy of DÉTENTE. And there may appear to be a surface similarity. The argument goes...

Two 1968 Myths in One

In Time, Jay Newton-Small writes a sentence with a minor mistake and a major one: Richard Nixon practically perfected the transformation in 1968, initially building his “silent majority” of conservatives freaked out by hippie war protesters and inner-city...

George Carlin RIP

It’s probably a good thing that George Carlin didn’t believe in an afterlife. Because if he had, he would be turning over in his grave as a result of being remembered and lauded in the precincts of The New Nixon. He had no use and great contempt for our...