Presidential Apocrypha

If, like me, you find the following funny, then you’ll probably enjoy the several other “More Apocryphal Stories of the Presidents” by Yoni Brenner in last week’s New Yorker: On a rainy night in 1793, the Van Buren family ox slipped in the mud,...

The Dog Beneath The Skin

Clive Crook, whose column from and about America in the Financial Times usually has something interesting to say, yesterday tendered an apology to his Republican readers. As you recall, in the debate over the fiscal stimulus, Republicans accused the president of...