The steady stream of leaked stories against Kamala Harris reflects buyer’s remorse among powerful Democrats. Regretting that she was chosen as vice president, these Democrats don’t mind letting authors and journalists now know about Biden’s ambivalence toward her. New York…
It was an amazing sight. Meeting over the weekend in suburban Harrisburg, the conservative Pennsylvania Leadership Conference was flooded with activists from all over the state. They spent hour after hour in workshops patiently listening and planning how to deal with issues…
Some time ago, as part of preparing for a graduate course that I teach, I did a study of the habits of successful crisis management by presidents. I studied four presidents who faced serious foreign policy crises and resolved them…
Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960 By Irwin F. Gellman (Yale University Press, 504 pages, $35) I was but 14 in 1960, but do have a very personal memory of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign. We had…
Oh, this is rich. Over there at the Washington Post, media watcher Erik Wemple has headlined this about Fox’s Sean Hannity: “Sean Hannity’s bottomless corruption.” And just why is Hannity guilty of “bottomless corruption”? Because, writes Wemple, Hannity was “providing…
This past October, author Robert A. Caro turned 86, and he continues to work on the fifth and final volume of his magisterial biography of Lyndon Johnson. Caro’s first volume of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, entitled The Path to…
Two professors — one from Yale University and the other from Renmin University of China — urge policymakers in Washington and Beijing to learn the “right lessons” from Cold War history in a new article on the Foreign Affairs website….
In the days of John F. Kennedy, the Democrats emphasized their political distance from the pope. Kennedy promised Americans that he would never let the pope influence him on “matters of public policy.” How times have changed. Today’s Democrats boast…
It appears increasingly unlikely that President Joe Biden can finish this year, let alone his term, in the Oval Office. One need not be a physician to see the substantial cognitive decline that’s occurred even since Biden was a candidate….
