Connecting.the.Dots

To older ears, Barack Obama’s triumphal book tour with “The Audacity of Hope” has obvious echoes of John F. Kennedy and “Profiles in Coura...

In the 1982 movie “Tootsie,” Dustin Hoffman in drag is auditioning for a soap opera when the producer asks the cameraman, “I’d like to mak...

Two weeks before the election, President Bush tells us he's working on a "timetable" for getting out of the Iraq mess, but his...

The New York Times’ conservative Deep Thinker, David Brooks, is in love. His October 19th column, “Run, Barack, Run” is a valentine to the...

“I’ m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it any more!” That line, from a 30-year-old movie written by my high-school classmate, Paddy ...

When a ubiquitous Big Name comes out with a book defending The Middle Class (today, anyone with TV), starts speechifying against “politi...

Nothing, and that’s what makes it news. After serving as co-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, former Congressman Hamilton is doing the same o...

If he were alive, John F. Kennedy would be turning 90 next May. As an elder statesman, he could tell today’s politicians of both parties a...