Democrats and their media allies, neoconservatives, and establishment Republicans deride the notion of an “America First” foreign policy. They distort history to trace the roots of today’s “America First” approach to foreign policy to those groups in the United States…
The Search for Reagan By Craig Shirley (Post Hill Press, 336 pages, $29) It was 20 years ago today, June 5, 2004, that Ronald Reagan passed away. I remember where I was when I heard the news. Many of you…
Writing in Foreign Affairs, Stuart Eizenstat contends that President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy was a success. “[D]uring his one term in office,” Eizenstat asserts, “Carter left an enduring and positive foreign policy legacy that few presidents who have served two…
The 2024 presidential campaign has entered uncharted territory — sports. Now, to be sure, smart politicians claim to be sports fans; it’s political malpractice not to do so when 90 percent of voters are. Pols wear the local team’s jackets…
Kristi Noem wrapped up the Almira Gulch vote. Some other constituencies remain skeptical. In her new book No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward, South Dakota’s governor tells the story of…
Historical analogies are never perfect, but the 2024 presidential campaign and election clearly has echoes of 1968. The 1968 presidential election was one of the closest in history. It pitted incumbent Vice President Hubert Humphrey against former Vice President Richard…
Arming East Asia: Deterring China in the Early Cold War By Eric Setzekorn (Naval Institute Press, 348 pages, $30) The more you reflect on history, the better Dwight Eisenhower as a president looks. Liberal historians and political scientists, enthralled with…
I always wanted to cast a Kennedy vote. Whatever you think about John F. Kennedy, if you belong to a certain cohort, it left a hole in your heart when he was gunned down by a sociopath, possibly a KGB…
Presidential historian Armitage Goodwin is the visiting associate teaching assistant at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson Center for Harmonious Race Relations. Here he explains his recent voting in the prestigious Presidential Greatness Project Expert Survey. As a participant in the clunkily…
