On the Passing and Presidency of Ronald Reagan
Despairing over the gap between where we are and where we need to be with Illinois political leadership led me to take last week off from writing a column — and then on Saturday, President…
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Baby Boomers, Barack Obama, and War
“Was it moral suasion that made Qaddafi see the wisdom of giving up his weapons of mass destruction? Or Iran agree for the first time to spot nuclear inspections? It was the suasion of…
Read MoreCrusade Propaganda: The abuse of Christianity’s holy wars
By Thomas F. Madden: The crusades are quite possibly the most misunderstood event in European history.
Read MoreIn Defense of Endless War
By Christopher Hitchens: As 9/11 showed, civilization has enemies with which peace is neither possible nor desirable.
Read MoreHow civilizations fall
By Kenneth Minogue: Camille Paglia famously said that if we had waited for women to invent civilization we should still be living in grass huts.
Read MoreOkinawa, Harry Truman, and the Atomic Bomb
By Alexander Burnham: Okinawa had shocked the American civilian and military leadership.
Read MoreThomas Jefferson’s Sophisticated, Radical Vision of Liberty
By Jim Powell: When Virginians reflect on the American Revolution, they often like to describe George Washington as its sword, Patrick Henry as its tongue, and Thomas Jefferson as its pen.
Read MoreA New Order of Religious Freedom
By Richard John Neuhaus: In his draft of the “Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom,” Jefferson wrote: “The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.”
Read MoreRonald Reagan’s 1977 CPAC Speech
By Ronald Reagan: We know today that the principles and values that lie at the heart of conservatism are shared by the majority.
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Ronald Reagan’s ‘A Time for Choosing’ Speech
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