Nixon
Tax Tactics
High Crimes: How Israel Is Experiencing Its Own Watergate Affair
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Truths, Mostly
It takes a lot of courage to call a film Happy, Happy, and the young Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky manages to justify it. Her first feature film fixes on the very idea of happiness: what it is or is thought to be, and what happens to it. Other directors of her generation have been likewise concerned, but with Ragnhild Tronvoll’s supple screenplay, Sewitsky puts a story before us that is both recognizable and sufficiently probing. READ MORE >>
Should We Fear Even Successful Military Interventions?
Reason editor Matt Welch warns of a "success curse" in foreign policy: READ MORE >>
Obama’s in Good Company: All Presidents End Up Unpopular
The Lottery That Made Some Boomer Men Liberal
Via John Sides, a paper finds that Vietnam war-era males with low draft lottery numbers tended to become more liberal and more Democratic than those with higher draft lottery numbers: READ MORE >>
Can Democrats Win Back the House?
Charlie Cook points to reasons for historical caution: READ MORE >>
Nixon Disallowed Jewish Advisors From Discussing Israel Policy
New documents released today about Nixon and the Jews: Documents released today by the Richard Nixon presidential library contain fresh details on the former president’s antipathy toward Jews, his interest in exposing more details of John F. Kennedy’s policy on Cuba and Vietnam, and his approach to the office that he was eventually forced to resign. READ MORE >>
The Jets Go Hollywood
Just How Strong Are Political Parties?
How strong are American political parties? Party scholars disagree about how to go about thinking about that question. For me, the way to think about party strength is to think about how much of overall political activity goes through the parties. That is, pick an important political activity: writing laws, electing public officials, carrying out laws, political communications, civic rituals, and so on. Pick one, and ask: is it organized by the parties, or by some other mechanism? READ MORE >>
