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by | Apr 12, 2022

Talk about a lesson in unself-awareness. The other day, New Hampshire’s “Republican” governor, Chris Sununu, came to The Swamp and…

by | Mar 21, 2022

Some time ago, as part of preparing for a graduate course that I teach, I did a study of the…

by | Mar 20, 2022

The date was November 4, 1980. Ronald Reagan had just been elected president. Ironically, it was exactly one year to…

by | Feb 3, 2022

Call it a coincidence that as Daniel Lucks’ book Reconsidering Reagan arrived in my mailbox, news arrived that John Hinckley…

by | Jan 16, 2022

The date was April 4, 1968. It was, of course, a day with bittersweet meaning on this day when we…

by | Jan 11, 2022

There he goes again. The state of the Republican base is the fault of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin,…

by | Dec 30, 2021

Well, this is it. The final Five Quick Things of 2021. Have you had enough yet? Are you among our…

by | Dec 15, 2021

“Democracy,” H.L. Mencken wrote, “is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it…

by | Dec 12, 2021

Three decades ago, the Soviet Union was on life support. The second pole of the Cold War’s vaunted bipolar world…

by | Dec 12, 2021

Concerns about the wars that Russia and China may soon start over Ukraine and Taiwan are bringing out the worst…

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