The Fromson File

In an analysis of the foreign policy approaches of both John McCain and Barack Obama, the New York Times says “both men have been forced into surprising detours.” McCain’s perspective is drawn from his experience as a prisoner of war in Hanoi during the Vietnam War. The question rarely ever broached is this: did he [...]

Over the past weekend, sold-out audiences in Los Angeles attended an L.A. Theater Works production of Norman Corwin’s The Rivalry, a radio play about the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Lincoln was the anti-slavery candidate of the newly-formed Republican Party that stood for racial equality through the end of the 19th century. But in the past [...]