Rube Goldberg was a professional cartoonist for over 60 years, the creator of more than a dozen nationally syndicated comic strips, and the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning, yet he is remembered at the end of the twentieth century...

Reuben Garret Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 - December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist who received a 1948 Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning. He is best known for his series of popular cartoons depicting Rube Goldberg machines, complex...

With No Country For Old Men's cinematic debut it was perhaps inevitable that bookstores would see a surge of popular interest in the already-popular work of Cormac McCarthy. And in the East Village, where the reading of novels is hardly the greatest danger posed...

The Presidency: Those who call George Bush a lame duck are wrong. He still has both the bully pulpit and his veto pen to help him push his agenda. He might be able to use both, and very soon.Congress is about to send President Bush...

1. Television has greatly narrowed the freedom of the intellectual to do his job and "disturb the public peace." 100 years ago, the French intellectual Julien Benda could stand up against the establishment for Alfred Dreyfus "because he was innocent... in the name of universal...

THE COUPBy Jamie MalanowskiDoubleday, 240 pages, $22.95 Jamie Malanowski’s debut novel about a palace coup in the White House has some sizable flaws, but for all the preposterousness of the plot—which pivots around a bachelor tech genius lothario Vice President, Gordon Pope, who can only...