Neoconservative writer Max Boot provides a preview of his new biography of Ronald Reagan by claiming in a Foreign Affairs essay that Ronald Reagan did not win the Cold War. Boot characterizes as “myth ...
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As we debate whether we’re in a new Cold War, a recent movie and book about President Ronald Reagan’s legacy have inspired Americans to become more familiar with our 40th president. This is especially ...
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In Japan, she is known as the “iron lady,” a not-so-subtle comparison to Britain’s Margaret Thatcher — the staunch American ally who helped Ronald Reagan defeat the Soviet Union in Cold War I. Sanae ...
The Reaganites deplored detente, which they thought legitimized Communism. But in the late 1980s, when Reagan began serious bargaining with Gorbachev, the Nixonians became alarmed, fearing the ...
With the exception of Donald Trump, no president in my lifetime had a more shallow knowledge of history and foreign policy than Ronald Reagan. Reagan entered the White House in 1981 with an extremely ...
In 1988, when President Ronald Reagan was asked by a reporter during the summit in Moscow what his goal was in the Cold War, he said: “we win, they lose.” When it comes to today’s Russia and its ...
Since Donald Trump’s rise within Republican ranks, conservatives have divided into two competing foreign policy camps. One contends that Trump’s approach suits the world in which we live and ...
Two anti-communists. Clandestine visit -- "It's time to stroke Ronnie" -- Two schools of thought -- Evil empire -- Nixon detects Gorbachev's "steel fist" -- Abolition -- Conservative uproar -- The ...
As you prepare for this Fourth of July weekend, and as you make your plans to grill all the meat and/or blow up all the fireworks, take a moment to reflect on why we’re celebrating and what makes the ...