Woodrow Wilson
It's the Technocratic Arrogance, Stupid
Obama isn't Bush or Nixon. He's in hot water for behaving too much like Woodrow Wilson.
It’s been a bad week for the president. Between revelations about the IRS’s targeting of the Tea Party and news of the Justice Department’s seizing the phone records from the Associated Press, an administration that promised a new sort of politics seems to have put itself in a position where Obama is being compared to Richard M. READ MORE >>
Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg
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How to Read the King James Bible
The English Bible, King James Version Vol. 1, The Old Testament Edited by Herbert Marks (Norton Critical Editions, 2,280 pp., $22.50) Vol. 2, The New Testament and The Apocrypha Edited by Gerald Hammond and Austin Busch (Norton Critical Editions, 1,518 pp., $22.50) READ MORE >>
Clinton vs. Obama: A Rhetorical Analysis
What many feared was correct: Bill Clinton outdid Barack Obama in oratory this week. READ MORE >>
The Titanic And The Virgin
I had forgotten, until I picked up my copy of Steven Biel's Down With The Old Canoe: A Cultural History Of The Titanic, that Henry Adams booked passage on the Titanic's return trip. READ MORE >>