Calvin Trillin: Prophet
Calvin Trillin is a funny guy, but he's also prophetic. In a typically snarky column about "The New Right" in 1978, he wrote that the last "New Right" was in 1961, and he expected the next one in 1994, thus predicting Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution 16 years before it occured.
So what was Trillin writing in about 1990?