Jun 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Youtube is setting up a kind of journalism school of the internet, featuring clips in which various eminences of the Fourth Estate attempt to explain their profession in the space of five or six minutes. The project is being undertaken with the cooperation of many of...
Jun 30, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Christopher Hitchens takes a look at the latest release of Nixon recordings at Slate. For the most part, his remarks about President Nixon, Dr. Henry Kissinger, and Rev. Billy Graham are precisely what one would expect him to say – especially when he presents...
Jun 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
No one ever accused RN of perfection. Throughout his career, reporters and cartoonists dwelt on his mistakes, his quirks, even his physical flaws: recall Garry Wills’s long, bizarre description of his face in Nixon Agonistes. As Eamon Javers wryly notes in...
Jun 27, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
What are the citizens of Vermont doing, now that the United States is being remade along the lines most of them seem to favor, and they no longer have to plot to secede from the Union to join Canada? Well, tonight, and next Tuesday, some of them will be going to see a...
Jun 26, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Michael Jackson was always a keen reader of comic books, and in the 1980s he was often referred to in them. Comicbook.com takes a look at some aspects of his association with the comics world. It’s been widely reported that in his last weeks the Gloved One...
