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 ...