by jpitney | Apr 4, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Reagan, Russia, Ukraine
At Puck, Julia Ioffe interviews Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee: Your absence was definitely felt at Munich this year and some of your colleagues in the CODEL were saying, “He can’t come, he has a primary fight.” Your...
by jpitney | Mar 5, 2024 | Congress, Dreier, Journalism, Journalists, Reagan
On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with former Member of Congress, the Honorable David Dreier who now serves as the Chairman of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation. They discuss former Rep. Dreier’s work in...
by jpitney | Feb 11, 2024 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
Ronald Reagan: As Western Europe, with help from our Marshall plan, rebuilt, all our nations began to face the nature of the Soviet threat to the democracies. And so, beginning with the Brussels treaty in 1948, which established the Western European Union, and then...
by jpitney | Feb 6, 2024 | Patriotism, Reagan
Ronald Reagan was born on this date in 1911. From his 1992 address to the Republican National Convention: And whatever else history may say about me when I’m gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears, to your...
by jpitney | Nov 5, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Reagan
William Safire discussed the “moral equivalence” arguments of 40 years ago: I checked with William F. Buckley, who helped popularize the current sense of the phrase, and the inventor of modern conservatism reports: ”Moral equivalence is a handy...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2023 | Reagan
Jonathan Swan at NYT: Disbelief flashed across Vivek Ramaswamy’s face. The Republican presidential candidates, minus the front-runner, were 42 minutes into their first debate when former Vice President Mike Pence took issue with the young businessman’s claim that...
