Former President Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100. As president, Jeane Kirkpatrick brilliantly explained, he was an abysmal failure. On his watch, the economic “misery index” skyrocketed and the geopolitical correlation of forces shifted in the Soviets’ favor….
Seventy-five years ago China fell to the communists. Revisionist history can be a touchy subject, especially when it attempts to correct an “accepted” version of history that has been passed on to generations of Americans by teachers in high schools…
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) was created by Congress in 1983 to promote democracy and democratic institutions abroad. It performed valuable ideological and propaganda services during the last decade of the Cold War as part of the Reagan administration’s…
James Burnham: An Intellectual Biography By David T. Byrne (Northern Illinois University Press, 256 pages, $33.95) “Only by renouncing all ideology can we begin to see the world and man.” So wrote James Burnham in a 1963 edition of The…
“We win, they lose.” That Reagan statement was a declaration for the ages, a denouement to the 20th century, encapsulating what Ronald Reagan did to defeat the Soviet Union and win the Cold War. There’s nary a Reaganite who doesn’t know…
The Russians weren’t supposed to have atomic weapons. Not yet. Not in 1949. But there was no denying (President Harry S. Truman did try) that the seismic data the American military collected looked identical to the kind of seismic activity…
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” the notion that Reagan had a…
The publication of a new biography of Paul Nitze, who served in national security posts in Democrat and Republican administrations between 1940 and 1989, is a good moment to reflect on the need for knowledgeable, informed, and courageous experts to…
We Win They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy & the New Cold War By Matthew Kroenig & Dan Negrea (Republic Book Publishers, 220 pages, $25) In January 1977, Richard V. Allen, who would eventually become President Ronald Reagan’s National Security Advisor,…
