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Freedom Writing: The First Time

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Eighty–five years ago, I suppose Charles Lindbergh may have been the most unlikely of the world's qualified pilots to complete the first nonstop transatlantic flight. Lindbergh was virtually unknown, even though his father had represented ...

Freedom Writing: Ronald Reagan vs. Robert Kennedy

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In the 1980s, I had a Commodore 64 computer in my home, which I used primarily for two purposes — writing (using word processing software that probably can't be found anymore, even though, as I understand it, Commodore 64s and their ...

Freedom Writing: The Day George Wallace Was Shot

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There were quite a few assassinations — and assassination attempts — when I was growing up. But I believe the one that occurred 40 years ago today — in which Alabama Gov. George Wallace was shot while campaigning in Laurel, Md., ...

Freedom Writing: The Romney Report

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I grew up admiring the work of the Washington Post. The Post's investigation of the Watergate break–in and coverup inspired me to study journalism in college, work for newspapers and, ultimately, teach and advise journalism students.

Typo of the day for librarians: Violater* (for Violator*)

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I'm starting to feel a bit violated by the signage in and around my building. The motto of New York State is Excelsior (which means "ever upward"), but thankfully this is metaphorical and doesn't involve taking the "Escaltor." Now I see we've got ...

Freedom Writing: The Arkansas Rockefeller

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Tomorrow would have been Winthrop Rockefeller's 100th birthday. It may seem inappropriate to refer to him — as my headline does — as "the Arkansas Rockefeller" — although that is the title of a book about Rockefeller that was written by a ...

Freedom Writing: A Great Moment in American Journalism

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A great moment in American journalism occurred 100 years ago in the aftermath of the sinking of the Titanic. Unfortunately, it is probably one of the lesser known stories surrounding the famous shipwreck. Carr Van Anda, managing editor of ...

Freedom Writing: Seward's Folly

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America has made some pretty shrewd land acquisitions over the years — Manhattan, the Louisiana Purchase and so on. One of the best may have been the one that took place on this date in 1867 — when William Seward, secretary of State ...

Freedom Writing: 'I Gave Them a Sword'

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Thirty–five years ago today, journalist David Frost and former President Richard Nixon sat down for the first of the Frost–Nixon interviews in Monarch Bay, Calif. The interviews were edited into four 90–minute programs that were broadcast in ...

Freedom Writing: The Wrong Man?

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"Demjanjuk is essentially on trial not for anything he did, but simply for being at Sobibor. No specific criminal acts need be alleged, much less proved. Page through transcripts of previous Nazi trials and you'll find a rigorous focus on particulars ...

Freedom Writing: The Politics of Rage

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"Wallace was getting 50 percent in the first scattered returns; the lead shrank in the first half–hour to 47 percent, then to the low 40s, and then stabilized at 42 percent. But the 42 percent had a profile — it was not simply the north and the piney ...

Freedom Writing: The Awkward Southerner

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Four years ago, I remember Mitt Romney taking a lot of grief from Southern journalists, both broadcast and print, over his efforts to appear to be one of us. I always felt that was a mistake on Romney's part. I didn't think it cost him the Republican ...

Freedom Writing: Anticipating Super Tuesday

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There's always a Super Tuesday in America's presidential politics — at least in modern times. Presidential primaries are, as I have mentioned here before, relatively new phenomena in American politics — historically speaking. Before Jimmy ...

Freedom Writing: When the Wheels Came Off for Ed Muskie

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"It changed people's minds about me, of what kind of a guy I was. They were looking for a strong, steady man and here I was weak. I doubt whether I'm a candidate who could ever have won in this country this year. I'm a man for a country ...

Freedom Writing: Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar

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That is what Sigmund Freud allegedly wrote or said to explain that not everything has a deeper meaning behind it. I haven't studied psychiatry in depth — just what I studied in college — but I know enough about it to know that an article of faith ...