If you’re wondering how TV got the way it is today, go back to 1968, when ABC, struggling for ratings against the dominance of CBS and NBC, defied convention by putting two erudite men from opposite ...

Gore Vidal (1925-2012) is one of those rare but regularly appearing types on the U.S. literary landscape who tried to make a wholesome contribution to the life of the nation, but having a classicist's ...

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William F. Buckley spent a lifetime trying to make a coherent intellectual case for conservatism but could never articulate what it was supposed to consist of apart from owning the libs. At this ...

By the mid-1960s, the presidential conventions had turned into full-fledged TV events, but ABC was dead last in the ratings. In order to spice up their convention coverage, ABC executives invited two ...