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Tag: Ronald Reagan
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The Very Big Lie About Sam Francis and ‘Chronicles’
Recent attempts to smear Sam Francis and, with him, this magazine with the views of people like David Duke are just more tired myth perpetuation by the left to discredit serious American populism.
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Immigration Amnesty by Any Other Name
For the GOP, this bill means death with indignity at the polls.
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Calling out the Billionaire ‘Boss’
“Born in the USA” Bruce Springsteen never supported the America that actually exists, but rather its Obama-style transformation.
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Pope vs. President Is a Fight Everyone Loses
When a pope and a president work together for peace, without compromising with evil, they can achieve what’s otherwise impossible.
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Tony Dolan’s Other Evil Empire
This month marks the one-year anniversary of the great speechwriter’s death and is a good time to reflect on the power of honesty in combating evil.
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Ronald Reagan’s Imaginary Friends and Enemies
Edmund Morris was wrongly ridiculed for using a fictional narrator in his biography Dutch. The recent Reagan biopic shows how it’s the perfect technique to tell the 40th president’s story.
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Our Boy Bill
Sam Tanenhaus's mammoth biography of Bill Buckley reveals new stories, but it doesn't locate the core of the man's conservatism or where he wanted the movement to go.
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The Computing Arms Race of Cold War 2.0
As nations compete over access to advanced AI technology, they will need the cool-headed restraint that prevented the first Cold War from ending in tragedy.
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The Laughable Hypocrisy of Joyce Vance
A left-wing attorney’s new book on “our democracy” relies on vacuous clichés and shopworn slogans rather than a cogent argument.
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Yesterday’s Totalitarian
Stephen King’s The Long Walk is a fantastical exploration of an old moral universe where totalitarianism presents itself without complications or nuance and thus leaves us unprepared to confront evil as it actually exists.
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The Broken Promises of Free Trade
The economic, free-trade leg of Reagan's stool cut the others out and toppled the coalition. It's time we return to authentic economic conservatism.
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A Tale of Two Stools
Reagan and Trump both crafted unique political alliances of disparate groups built more on rhetoric than deeds. Many promises made, few fulfilled.
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Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse
The kind of men we look to for strength are precisely the kind of men our culture now condemns.
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Depose King James Boasberg
To eliminate black-robe supremacy, Judge James Boasberg has got to go.
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Libertarian Grandstanders Target Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill
President Trump never promised to eliminate the $36 trillion national debt that took us decades to accumulate. So what gives?
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Zionism Should Not Be a Conservative Sine Qua Non
The Zionist litmus test that the conservative establishment imposes on its members is improper and harmful. It's time the right end its Israel obsession.
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Michael Ledeen, RIP
Even though I vociferously opposed his neoconservative foreign policy projects, Michael Ledeen and I became friends later in life. I came to appreciate him as a gentleman, scholar, and patriot of the first order.
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Art, Religion, and Culture in the ’80s
A new book examines the impact of the decade with engaging prose but less than honest assessments of the moral costs.
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Voodoo Trumponomics
Ironically, by following the world instead of leading it, America may replace the prevailing free trade orthodoxy and spur an industrial renaissance.
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Trump’s Life’s Work Culminates in Confronting Communist China
Trump has not just been outspoken on the issue of trade with China—he has been proven correct.
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The Dismal Science and the Trumpian Tariff Hullabaloo
Americans don’t elect economists to pursue the most “efficient” policies but leaders to pursue the common good.
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Let It Burn: CIA Revelations Unclassified
Former CIA Chief James Angleton was right: The best prescription for the agency is to let it burn, “let it all come out and let people take the consequences.”
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Can Donald Trump Win a Trade War?
Good economic policy calls for a cool head, and Wall Street fears the president is letting his passions set the nation on a dangerous course.
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Henry Hyde’s Monuments
The decision to remove the late congressman’s name from a judicial building in his home state can’t touch Hyde’s most lasting legacy.
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Farewell to the Ideology of ‘Development’?
Can Trump finally succeed in the 60-plus year struggle to overcome the failed and misguided ideology of “Developmentalism” at USAID?
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Up in Smoke
As so much of California lies in ruin many wonder whether the Golden State has finally had enough of the ideological incontinence that has brought it so low. Anything is possible in the Trump era!
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The Cold Civil War Is Over. We Won.
Trump is taking a sledgehammer to the entire Obama-Biden agenda.
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We Were Right About the Managerial State
In the '80s, Chronicles emerged as the sole voice within the conservative movement questioning the ever-growing managerial state.
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When Enough Isn’t Enough: Carter’s True Legacy
The embarrassing fawning over Carter’s legacy from establishment conservatives reveals their abiding desire for social respectability at the expense of truth.
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Remembering Lee Edwards: Chronicler of Conservatism
Lee Edwards was present at the creation of the conservative movement.
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Democrats Are at a Dead End, Unless They Learn From Trump
Democrats who hope to revitalize their party need to accept that wokeism is a dead end and learn from Trump in the same way they once learned from Reagan.
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The Swan Song of the Arch Neocon
Condoleezza Rice presents a dangerous mixture of militarism and liberal universalism. She is the last Bush-era neocon enjoying relevancy, which makes her even more dangerous.
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New Reagan Biopic Falls Short
The film does very little to resolve Ronald Reagan’s disputed legacy and may, unwittingly, reinforce many of the left’s false caricatures.
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Nursing the Nation’s Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but it’s not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
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A Tale of Two Assassination Attempts
Reagan had many Democratic detractors but the hatred for Donald Trump is on a different level.
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Donald Trump Is Reagan’s Heir
The future of all Reagan secured for the country now hinges on what happens in this election.
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NeverVancers Are the New NeverTrumpers
The usual suspects are out in force to undermine J. D. Vance as antithetical to Reagan’s realism merely because he repudiates George W. Bush’s disasters.
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Limits and Hope: Against the Anti-Tragedy Agenda of the Left
Once the right allowed the left to frame politics as the avoidance of tragedy, they lost the game. We’d do well to reconsider what Christopher Lasch called the “limits and hope” of politics.
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What Trump Sees in Doug Burgum
Trump’s VP contest isn’t really about the contestants; it’s about investing the audience in the drama of choosing and the man making the choice. Burgum is just plausible enough to extend that drama.
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Kayfabe U.S.A.
Donald Trump continues an American political tradition that appears tough and adversarial, but is strictly theatrical. Wrestlers call it "kayfabe."
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PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr.
In failing to mention Communism, the makers of a PBS documentary about William F. Buckley unintentionally remind viewers of why Buckley was needed in the first place—and why he still is.
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Who Wants to Be House Speaker?
Weakening House committees had the paradoxical effect of concentrating power in leadership and making the speaker more important in setting the majority’s policy direction—which only turned the speaker into the focus of every member’s discontent and created stronger opposition to him within the party.
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Archie Bunker Back Stories
Carl Reiner’s son, Rob, takes part in a grand tradition on the left of demonizing normal, religious people after being advanced, personally, by powerful relationships. On the left, it’s all relative and “all in the family.”
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Great American Musical Artists in their Roaring Nineties
Great musical artists approach the coda, without the recognition they deserve. As the year closes, we’d do well to remember (or discover) their work.
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What Happened to Ron DeSantis?
When a politician stakes his campaign on a demonstration of how thorough, consistent and philosophically pure he is, he might impress conservative journalists and policy wonks, but they don't pick the nominee.
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Konstantin Chernenko Lives Here
The last thing Middle America needs is an American Chernenko. America cannot afford a dying leader at this time.
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The Missed GOP Debate Opportunity
The Republican Party keeps looking back at Reagan without considering what has changed since Reagan. This results in missed opportunities for the GOP.
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All the Conspiracy That’s Fit to Print
Conspiracy theories against the right don't need much proof to make it into the pages of The New York Times.