Word: historicizing
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NEWT GINGRICH USED TO DREAM last spring about the day when he would get to sit down and play a kind of Russian roulette with the President. The stakes would be very high. The whole government would be held hostage while the country waited to see who would blink. The...
The more liberal White House aides ended the week in rapture. Not only had they won this skirmish, but the disarray in the G.O.P. ranks made it less likely that there would ever be a balanced-budget deal, which would suit them just fine. In negotiations over the weekend, Clinton...
More than any other single person, Newt Gingrich has brought about this historic reversal of roles. In the process, he has just about finished off the political consensus initiated 60 years ago by Franklin D. Roosevelt. Gingrich's success was fed by the smoldering anger of a nation suffering from...
The Moses from Marietta has pieced together a set of political ideas to offer a hopeful if hazy vision of the future and to provide conservatives with an agenda that is not simply the opposite number of their opponents'. But his chief accomplishment thus far is the destruction of the...
In a year that saw the Oklahoma bombing, the denouement of the O.J. Simpson trial, the Million Man March, the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the Bosnian peace agreement, there were other men and women who shaped our world. But in the end, Gingrich is our 1995...