The prospect of Joe Biden joining Barack Obama’s ticket, which seems to have grown more real in recent days, raises an interesting possibility: another Biden presidential campaign.
Given how his campaign turned out this year, the idea of Biden ever seeking the Read More
Irwin Winkler’s Home of the Brave, from a screenplay by Mark Friedman, based on an original story by Mr. Friedman and Mr. Winkler, enjoys some kind of pioneering distinction as the first major feature film to deal with the problems of veterans returning from the chaotic hostilities in Iraq. It is estimated that more than Read More
On the cover of this week’s edition of Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative, Hillary takes fire from another direction: The anti-war, anti-Israel right, to whom her support for her husband’s interventions in the Balkans seem particularly damning, as does her hard line on Iran. The cover story’s author, the libertarian Justin Raimondo, seems Read More
Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism , by Dominic Sandbrook. Alfred A. Knopf, 397 pages, $25.95.
Eugene McCarthy was steely and whimsical, inspired and doomed, gallant and cruel, self-possessed andself-destructive, thoughthelastgets mixed up with the issue of sacrifice. They used to burn people like him: He could see into dark places. Read More
In Love With Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy , by Ronald Steel. Simon & Schuster, 220 pages, $23.
Here’s the argument, bluntly stated: Robert Francis Kennedy is overrated in the memory of Americans. He accomplished little of value in the offices of state he held, and the belief that he would have made Read More
First she was a Yankee fan.
Then she was Jewish.
And now Hillary Rodham Clinton wants us to believe that despite her years of liberal activism, she’s actually a tough-on-crime conservative, thanks to her opposition to her husband’s offer of clemency to jailed Puerto Rican nationalists.
Give the First Lady credit for one Read More
