George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, from a screenplay by Mr. Clooney and Grant Heslov, comes to us as an austere, almost minimalist labor of love and political projection from Mr. Clooney, who clearly intends us to see parallels between the exorcised demons of McCarthyism over 50 years ago and our ordeal at the Read More
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck, from a screenplay by Mr. Clooney and Grant Heslov, comes to us as an austere, almost minimalist labor of love and political projection from Mr. Clooney, who clearly intends us to see parallels between the exorcised demons of McCarthyism over 50 years ago and our ordeal at Read More
A half-century after he crawled into a bottle of booze, never to libel, slander and defame again, Joseph McCarthy is about to re-emerge. In fact, he recently made a guest appearance in that tip sheet of the zeitgeist, Page Six, which reported that “some historians” are upset that an upcoming movie about Edward R. Murrow Read More
Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America , by Ted Morgan. Random House, 685 pages, $35.
Way before Ann Coulter decided that a book accusing millions of fellow citizens of being traitors would be career-enhancing, another prominent Washingtonian was up to the same trick. Only with a twist. Instead of writing a best-seller and going Read More
Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture , by Thomas Doherty. Columbia University Press, 305 pages, $27.95.
It is often said that television came into its own as a political medium during the 1960 debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. We now know that the old story is misleading in Read More
Ann Coulter was wearing a black cocktail dress, a Cartier watch and a diamond bracelet when she walked into Cafe Luxembourg. We hadn’t had dinner for a few weeks and I wanted to see what was on her mind. But first I told her that over the weekend I’d stopped by the Book Hampton bookstore Read More
Ann Coulter showed up for dinner at Cafe Luxembourg wearing a tight, stretchy blue shirt, white pants and Chanel flats. As the blond babe noire of liberal America sat down across from me, I noticed that she was beaming. And no wonder: Her new book, Treason -in which she passionately defends Joseph McCarthy and makes Read More
Rudolph Giuliani informs us that he is serious about
empaneling a decency commission to rule on matters artistic, and the first
prospective commissioner mentioned in the press is the new Roman Catholic
Cardinal and Archbishop of New York, Edward Egan. His Eminence wisely parried
questions concerning his possible appointment to this prospective panel, but
nobody Read More
The Redhunter: A Novel Based on the Life of Senator Joe McCarthy , by William F. Buckley Jr. Little, Brown, 421 pages, $25.
Now here is an unpromising project: “a novel based on the life of Senator Joe McCarthy.” I suppose we should be grateful it’s not an opera or epic poem.
William Read More
