What Deng Xiaoping, Pope John Paul, the Ayatollah Khomeini, and Margaret Thatcher had in common.
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is editor of the National Interest and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2012
Brass Backwards
Thomas Ricks explains the declining competence of America’s senior military commanders.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2012, Magazine, Politics
The GOP’s Reality-Based Community
The fall of moderate Republicans wasn’t inevitable. But their resurrection is hard to imagine.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2011, Magazine, Politics
From William Lloyd Garrison to Barry Commoner
Why the left’s despair over Barack Obama has deep historical roots.
Posted inMagazine
The Roots of W.
s George W. Bush’s presidency lurches to its dolorous conclusion, even the most hardened Bush hater might be forgiven for quailing at the sight of another book examining it. Despite Bush’s own professed contempt for second thoughts, his presidency has spawned an entire subgenre of accounts detailing his failings, written by administration insiders and journalists, […]
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Norman’s Conquest
hen Norman Mailer died in November, it was hard not to feel a twinge of melancholy and nostalgia for the vanished world of the New York Family of intellectuals. In the past decade, many of its most colorful members have passed awayamong them Leslie Fiedler, Saul Bellow, and Seymour Martin Lipset. A surviving neoconservative remnant […]
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Those Weren’t the Days
iberal historians have begun waxing nostalgic about past Republican presidents, extolling them as presenting a stark contrast to the current occupant of the White House. Consider Ronald Reagan. Deemed a heartless and dangerous conservative in the 1980s, he is now being lionized by progressive scholars like John Patrick Diggins, who depicts him as a worthy […]
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An historian’s tale
Somehow David S. Brown has surmounted these obstacles to produce a biography of Richard Hofstadter, the historian and author (The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life), that is not only a revelation, but also a fascinating read. Brown, an associate professor of history at Elizabethtown College, has written an account worthy of […]
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An historians tale ‘
Somehow David S. Brown has surmounted these obstacles to produce a biography of Richard Hofstadter, the historian and author (The Paranoid Style in American Politics, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life), that is not only a revelation, but also a fascinating read. Brown, an associate professor of history at Elizabethtown College, has written an account worthy of […]
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The Great Conservative Crackup
Hart, a professor of English at Dartmouth College and former speechwriter for Richard Nixon, has unimpeachable conservative credentials. He has been a regular contributor to National Review since the 1960s. His son Ben Hart was an editor at The Dartmouth Review and a leader of what the Heritage Foundation billed as a “Third Generation” of […]
