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When Modern Library brought out the 20th edition of David Halberstam’s Vietnam War classic, “The Best and the Brightest,” in 2001, the publishing house made a surprising choice to write the foreword: hawkish Republican presidential contender John McCain.
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EIGHT years ago, in a presidential campaign far, far away,
Republican candidate John McCain released his first book, the rightly
acclaimed early-years autobiography “Faith of My Fathers.”
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ON TUESDAY, President Bush will be obliged, by law, to wrap his
double-talking mouth around one of the most curiously persistent
debates in modern geopolitics: Whether to call a 92-year-old genocide
a “genocide.”
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ACCORDING TO “The Wisdom of Crowds,” a 2004 book by James Surowiecki,
pluralistic markets of non-specialist individuals tend to arrive at
conclusions and predictions that are reliably more accurate and
efficient than those made by experts.
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MARK MY words: Southern California is about to suffer a major earthquake.
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WHEN President Ford announced in his brief and sober inaugural
address that “our long national nightmare is over,” it wasn’t just an
attempt to lay the turbulent Nixon presidency to poetic rest.
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IN A
PERVERSE way, I’m hoping that “Crash” sweeps the field at the
Academy Awards ceremony.
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THE NEWSPAPER you are reading has been lovingly compiled by hundreds
of humans who urinated into plastic measuring cups for the privilege
of bringing it to you.
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An occasional column in which the Times invites outside critics to
implode a Southern California newspaper that made Barbra Streisand
write an angry letter.
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YOU COULD forgive sports columnist Bill Plaschke for crowing in last
Sunday’s paper.
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