Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.
Category Archive: 1990s
“Where Were You When We Were Getting High?”: English Football, Politics, and Culture Since Euro 1996
It’s a long time since the vaporous heyday of Cool Britannia, and both the UK and European football look much different than they did in 1996.
Amid the loneliness of the Pandemic, both musicians and fans felt starved for live music — and got creative remaking it.
Henry Harary tells the story of the Jews who took their shot at escaping Syria in the 1990s and built new lives in America.
Any film that so handedly breaks from the mainstream script about Cuba deserves our praise—and our scrutiny.
Like discovering free verse, punk rock, or Prince, Guided by Voices offered the awesome realization that you could literally do whatever the fuck you want and it might actually be good.
Until the End of the World, Wim Wenders’s doomed epic, was shockingly prescient about America’s equally doomed 21st century.
OK Computer was the Sgt. Pepper of a generation with diminished expectations.