On a recent episode of The Daily Show, Ron Howard, who was on the program to promote his film Frost/Nixon, said something that rankled me. He opined that, were George W. Bush to grant an exhaustive post-presidency interview the way Richard Nixon did in 1977, Jon Stewart would be the...

Only a few hours after the election was called for Barack Obama, his supporters (and advisors) began speaking about the moments when the result "sank in" -- when it stopped feeling like some beautiful dream and solidified into reality. For me, and I suspect for others, watching Obama on television...