When he died, at the age of 100, in 2021, George P. Shultz was widely hailed as a consummate pragmatist who represented a type of sober conservatism that has been almost entirely eradicated in the modern Republican Party. A charter member of the foreign policy establishment, he occupied four cabinet positions, including secretary of labor […]
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of The National Interest.
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Trumpism Before Trump
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