A Reaganite Speech?
It was an inaugural address that, on the surface, is eloquent and seems unobjectionable. One Reagan scholar e-mailed me and said it sounded like a speech that Ronald Reagan could ...
It All Came Down to Turnout
Conservatives and Republicans will now begin fighting with each other and blaming each other. They will criticize Mitt Romney and the Romney campaign. And, indeed, adjustments need to be made ...
Predicting the Soviet Collapse
It was 20 years ago this summer that the final disintegration of the Soviet Union rapidly unfolded. In June 1991, Boris Yeltsin was freely elected president of the Russian Republic, ...
A Welcome Correction
I have been delighted by the huge number of e-mails — all positive — that I’ve received about my “Reagan at Notre Dame.” But I want to draw readers’ attention ...
Reagan at Notre Dame
For those of us fascinated by Cold War history, the last few months have been a treat, with recognition of two 20th-century giants who played a huge role in peacefully ...
Reagan@100: Mrs. Ruth Smith of Coeur d’Alene
Of all the presidents I’ve studied, I’ve never encountered as many truly remarkable stories and anecdotes as I have about Ronald Reagan. His connection to the common man really was ...
Obama’s Communist Mentor
When you write a book, particularly one that requires several years of research, you tend to encounter a bunch of unexpected information. Sometimes you find things that, if reported, will ...
Ronnie and Joe
Today marks the 99th anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. In a telling development, Republicans around the country have begun holding Reagan Day dinners, as they’ve long traditionally done every February ...
The Silencing of Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright
I continue to be quite perplexed by a few things that are surely related: Where is Bill Ayers? Where is the Reverend Jeremiah Wright? They seem to have fallen off ...
Sarah the Slasher
The Left’s nastiness toward Gov. Sarah Palin is quite appalling, even given the usual ugly character assassination we have come to expect from liberals. That has been especially true regarding ...