A Jesuit education can feel like a hall of mirrors. You read and report back, sure. But if you study philosophy, the priest can easily spend an hour talking about The Simpsons. …

Note that President Nixon did not write this, and makes no claims to it. We retrieve it from the Archive as a service to baseball fans, and will delete it if the author, who we cannot locate, requests. — RZ A B.B.- Any line drive or hard hit ball that…

Litvinoff (1915–2011) was a singular East End genius, self-taught (as so many were) at Whitechapel Library. He wrote poems, plays, novels, and screenplays for most of his life. …

Antonia Fraser found this on a legal pad ten years after Pinter’s death. I’ll let it speak for itself. (It was published in the Guardian, so I doubt I’m trespassing on rights. Needless to say they’re reserved and controlled by Pinter’s agent: Judy Daish, 10 St. Charles Pl., London W10…

A new essay by Bond, written for the revival of his play Have I None at Four Points Theatre, 2019. — JS Brexit Is Our Suicide Note by Edward Bond Twenty years ago I wrote Have I None. It’s set in 2077. When I re-read it I was surprised. It…

My Dad first took me to Cooperstown in 1992. I was 11, just old enough to appreciate it. He did a good job filling in the gaps when I didn’t know a player. He saw the plaques for Mantle, Berra, Ford, all the Yankees of his youth. …

Regular Essays Available at TheNixonMemos.Com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ronald Ziegler (714) 993–5075 WOODCLIFF LAKE, NJ (April 23, 2018) — After a hiatus of 16 months, President Nixon today announced his return to regular long-form political writing. …

I’ve written extensively about how most comparisons between President Trump and President Nixon are convoluted at best. Usually they’re downright false, historically bankrupt insults to Nixon that speak to the source’s laziness and prejudice. The Comey firing is the first direct line between Trump and Nixon that I’ve seen. Though the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s Russia ties is presumably not as advanced as the Watergate probe was on October 20, 1973, Trump’s action may rise to Nixon’s level.

Remember: Nixon’s paranoia (and commitment to dirty tricks) solidified after the 1960 election was stolen from him. This is a matter of record, and was the culmination of a dozen years of largely unfounded, class-based attacks on Nixon. Trump has never suffered for anything. Nixon broke laws for political expediency. (“I played by the rules of politics as I found them,” he said.) Trump does so to prove a point.