Oct 28, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
As a student in China in 1992, there was no internet access, no international cable TV (after 1989, CNN was only available in five-star hotel rooms) and imported newspapers were days old and cost almost ten dollars. Friends at the U.S. consulate provided video...
Oct 24, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
FDR (and RN) biographer Conrad Black has posted a thoughtful and instructive piece on The Daily Beast: “Why The Right Should Leave FDR Alone”. Apparently some right wingers (specifically “some supply-side economic purists”) have been bashing...
Oct 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Yahoo’s news section has an article about the latest celebrity endorsements of Sen. Barack Obama, accompanied by two video clips. In one of these, paid for by the Obama campaign, actor Ed O’Neill, none too ably channeling his Al Bundy persona from the...
Oct 23, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Alas, it won’t be available in time for holiday giving this year, but a new book by William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn —Race Course Against White Supremacy— will be published by the Third World Press on 1 June 2009. The appealing and evocative title...
Oct 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
There’s good news for those in the Washington area who just can’t wait for the opening of the Frost/Nixon film. Peter Morgan’s original play, in its nationally touring production, opens at the Kennedy Center next month for a two-week run, with Alan...
Oct 22, 2008 | News, The New Nixon
Words matter. It was said that Lyndon Johnson had little regard for “the integrity of words.” Sadly, that is how it is with many politicians. But at the end of the day, though we have many ways to examine a particular candidate, it comes back much of the time to...