by jpitney | Sep 25, 2022 | Reagan, Uncategorized
Justin Wm. Moyer at WP: Channy Laux, 60, is the granddaughter of a refugee from communist China who fled to Cambodia. She was 13 when the communist Khmer Rouge, which would eventually kill almost 2 million people, took over Cambodia in 1975. Her father and brother...
by jpitney | Sep 24, 2022 | Democracy, Russia, Ukraine
Andy Busch at Law and Liberty: The real question is whether the United States has a strategic stake in Ukraine at all. The answer is yes. Most tangibly, a quick glance at a map shows that Ukraine borders no fewer than five NATO countries. Poland, Slovakia,...
by jpitney | Sep 23, 2022 | Deliberation, Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at AEI: Fire’s 2022-23 College Free Speech Rankings samples the views of almost 45,000 currently enrolled students at more than 200 American colleges and universities, the largest study of its kind to date. Like earlier iterations, it shows that...
by jpitney | Sep 22, 2022 | Democracy
From the National Endowment for Democracy: This September, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. Since its establishment in 2001–2002, the program has hosted more than 360...
by jpitney | Sep 21, 2022 | Democracy, Insurrection, Reagan
Rep. Liz Cheney: I’ve had three people in my life tell me that it was the words of Ronald Reagan and the model of America that led them to seek freedom here. One was an immigrant who grew up in Castro’s totalitarian regime. Another was a young man who grew up behind...
