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Yesterday morning, toward the end of MSNBC's Morning Joe, host Mika Brzezinski suppressed a giggle as she introduced Nixonland author Rick Perlstein. Viewers might have been forgiven for assuming the giggle was no different from any of the others that the frothy Ms....

  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 Library, the film,...

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...

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 riots before...

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 namesake; he...

This morning Nixonland author Rick Perlstein replies to The Age Of Reagan author Sean Wilentz at The New Republic's site, and what he has to say will take Roger Stone's mind off the question of which shirt to wear tomorrow, if only for a moment. The historian also...

Some weeks ago a commenter asked when I was going to complete my assessment of Rick Perlstein's Nixonland. Rest assured it will come in a few days. In the meantime here is an interview with Perlstein from the new issue of the libertarian journal Reason, conducted by...

In the next day or so I'll put up a post concerning dollars - that is to say, the estimated $300 million that Sen. Barack Obama may raise for his campaign, now that he has reversed his previous position and become the first major-party presidential candidate since...

On the day that changed everything, September 11, 2001, then New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani seized the moment and guided that most unmanageable of all municipalities through its unsurpassed dark day. When the mayor reached the point of exhaustion in the early...

Republicans are comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter.  Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's domestic policy adviser, claims that Carter does not deserve blame for the malaise of the late 1970s.  He says: “What led to the economic problems was the built-in inflation, which we...