Sep 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s a clever bit of editing by Nick Dorazio, a citizen frusted because his Congressman wouldn’t hold a real time town hall on the subject of health care. So he took the raw material of an old episode of Dragnet, in which Jack Webb (as Sgt. Joe Friday)...
Sep 8, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
In Sunday’s Boston Herald, the inimitable Howie Carr —the longtime bane of Kennedy and scourge of Kerry— examined the odds and the consequences of Joe Kennedy running for his uncle’s Senate seat. Apparently the former congressman has renounced...
Sep 1, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
World War II began seventy years ago today. After the initial German victories there would be some months of phony war before Europe really engaged; and it would take a couple of years before we entered; but today is when it began. W. H. Auden famously lamented the...
Aug 31, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
Here’s the best —you can forget the rest — from Paul Krugman’s column in today’s New York Times: …it’s now doubtful whether health reform, even if we get it — which is by no means certain — will be anywhere near as good as Nixon’s...
Aug 28, 2009 | News, The New Nixon
I recently posted a piece about Alex Ross’ three New Yorker articles based on the material released as a result of his Freedom of Information Act requests regarding the government’s interest in Leonard Bernstein. The bulk loyalty investigations were...
