Anatomy of Nixonism

The old Nixon and the new Nixon are one and the same man: the president of the United States. That is at least one secret of Nixonism.

For, alas, it is now necessary to name an ism after a man whose identity, after 25 years of public life, still seems to be nothing more than a succession of wooden poses. Were there any justice to history one could simply excoriate this second-rater who, by a series of accidents, finally insinuated himself into the presidency. But history is, of course,...