During the Watergate show trial, the due process guarantees of the Fifth and Sixth Amendments were simply cast aside in an effort to destroy a president who was hated by the Washington “Deep State.”
Tag: Richard Nixon
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The Greatest Psy-Op in the History of American Electoral Politics
The ultimate battle between corporate and social media has been a long time coming. The outcome will decide much more than the 2024 election.
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Joe Biden Faces Richard Nixon’s Choice
Like Nixon, Biden must now write his last chapter—for one way or another, he’s reached the end of the book.
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The Quandry of Tribal Sovereignty
Native American resistance, resilience, and perseverance remain prevalent. The limits of Native American sovereignty remain mysterious.
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MSNBC Host: Donald Trump, Like Richard Nixon, Is Racist
Trump and Nixon promoted policies that disproportionately benefitted blacks, but this doesn’t stop Democrats from promulgating the fiction that Republicans are racists.
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What We Are Reading: May 2024
Short reviews of The Unheavenly City by Edward C. Banfield, and Beethoven: His Spiritual Development, by J.W.N. Sullivan.
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PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr.
In failing to mention Communism, the makers of a PBS documentary about William F. Buckley unintentionally remind viewers of why Buckley was needed in the first place—and why he still is.
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America Can Be Great Again
America's crowning achievement was the moon landing. But, since 1972, our nation's priorities have shifted from moon missions to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It doesn't have to be this way.
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The Struggling Journalist Ruse
Taki, by posing as a starving journalist, deceives an immanent novelist into granting an interview.
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What Happened to Ron DeSantis?
When a politician stakes his campaign on a demonstration of how thorough, consistent and philosophically pure he is, he might impress conservative journalists and policy wonks, but they don't pick the nominee.
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Stan Evans: Unsung Hero of the Right
Despite his significant contributions to the post-WWII right in America, M. Stanton Evans is not as well-known as his many accomplishments warrant. Steven Hayward's new biography sets the record straight.
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The Age of Nixon
Russell Kirk, a venerated conservative man of letters, weighs in on Nixon’s response to the media-incited campaign against him, from the July 1990 issue of Chronicles.
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Is ‘Autocracy’ America’s Mortal Enemy?
'Autocracy' has not been America's mortal enemy for that long.
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What Makes Biden So Pugnacious?
President Biden has a history of painting himself as heroic in personal encounters where few contemporaries recall him that way.