Richard Nixon took the high road in 1960. Donald Trump should now
The striking similarities between the elections of 1960 and 2020
Richard nixon
Friday
Thursday
Impeachment doesn’t work
The Democrats could tackle Trump in more effective ways. But they are too interested in the political theater
Tuesday
Impeachment is regime suicide
The ruling class still believes in a consensus that doesn’t exist. Their legitimacy is vanishing
Tuesday
Why don’t Republicans care about the environment?
Conservation is a conservative value
Monday
Nixon and me
And Bill Clinton too
Monday
Richard Nixon: the president who made George H.W. Bush possible
Bush always listened keenly to Nixon’s counsel and carefully considered it, though he didn’t always choose to heed it in full
Thursday
Republicans should have seen the Brett Kavanaugh ambush coming – Richard Nixon did
‘The hearings themselves have become a scandal,’ said the 37th president of the Clarence Thomas allegations in 1991. How right he was
Thursday
50 years after Bobby Kennedy’s murder, the ‘deep state’ still reigns supreme
New York This week 50 years ago saw the assassination of Robert Kennedy, a man I met a couple of times in the presence of Aristotle Onassis, whom some Brit clown-writer once dubbed Bobby’s murderer. (Bad books need to sell, and what better hook than a conspiracy theory implicating a totally innocent man?) I once witnessed Bobby, at a Susan Stein party, asking Onassis for funds — the 1968 election was coming up — and Ari showing Bobby his two empty trouser pockets. Bobby’s assassination did alter American politics. Violence, black anger and despair spilled out on to the streets of American cities. His death caused far more grief among
Tuesday
Encounters with eight presidents
Peregrine Worsthorne, the hugely distinguished British journalist, has died aged 96. He was a wonderful man and a brilliant columnist, who once described his job as ‘the articulation of an intelligent, well thought out, coherent set of prejudices’. He also worked as Washington correspondent for The Times of London and the Daily Telegraph. In 2014, … Read more
Saturday
His dark materials
In this giant, prodigiously sourced and insightful biography, John A. Farrell shows how Richard Milhous Nixon was the nightmare of the age for many Americans, even as he won years of near-adulation from many others. One can only think of Donald Trump. Nixon appealed to lower- and lower-middle-class whites from the heartland, whose hatred of … Read more
