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American History October 2003 Dinesh D'Souza |
President Ronald Reagan: Winning the Cold War With the invasion of Grenada, Cold War history began a dramatic turn that would lead to the demise of an empire. Ronald Reagan's clarity of vision and unwavering beliefs led to the dismantling of America's most formidable foe. |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Joyce Barnathan |
Inside The Great Thaw The education of Ronald Reagan is one of many absorbing recollections in Jack F. Matlock Jr.'s book, Reagan and Gorbachev: How the Cold War Ended. |
Reason November 2003 Glenn Garvin |
The Gipper and the Hedgehog How an "amiable dunce" outsmarted the world -- a review of Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism, by Peter Schweizer |
Reason June 2007 Daniel McCarthy |
Revising Ronald Reagan Ronald Reagan: Fate, Freedom, and the Making of History, by John Patrick Diggins, poses the question: Was the 40th president a peace-loving moderate? |
Salon.com October 15, 2002 Andrew Sullivan |
Idiocy of the week A leading thinker on the left finds strange inspiration from Ronald Reagan. |
Wired Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
Reason March 2009 |
Letters Are you better off than you were 40 years ago?, what's the matter with libertarians?... |
InternetNews April 12, 2005 Colin C. Haley |
Gorbachev Urges Russian-U.S. IT Ties The reformer and Nobel Prize winner pitches Russia as an IT hub and urges partnerships to benefit both countries. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2004 John Keller |
What President Reagan Meant to the Military The passing of former President Ronald Reagan and the solemn ceremonies marking the event are pivotal milestones in our nation's recent history -- particularly for the U.S. military forces. |
Salon.com December 13, 2002 Andrew Sullivan |
Booby prize Idiocy of the week: Jimmy Carter, Nobel laureate, defender of dictators. |
Salon.com June 26, 2000 David Horowitz |
Al Gore's missile-defense dodge The vice president cares more about reassuring the Russians than protecting Americans, and that's why George W. Bush should be president. |
Wired February 25, 2008 Jeremi Suri |
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam New documents offer additional proof that Richard Nixon planned to end the Vietnam war with a fake nuclear strike on the USSR. |
Reason August 2003 Bailey et al. |
Forcing Freedom Can liberalism be spread at gunpoint? |
Parameters Spring 2005 |
Editor's Shelf Bob Greene's Fraternity: A Journey in Search of Five Presidents provides readers with reflections and profiles on the lives-after-office of five former US Presidents... Continuing on the theme of historical reflections on the lives of five Presidents is James M. Perry's Touched with Fire... etc. |
Reason October 2001 Cathy Young |
Soviet Reunion Russia's future is looking frighteningly like its past... |
Reason April 2004 Glenn Garvin |
Fools for Communism In Denial: Historians, Communism and Espionage, by John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr. Chilling and often perversely funny, it details the intellectual sleight of hand to which many American historians of communism and the Soviet Union have resorted as newly revealed archives in Moscow and Washington suggest they were, well, fools. |
Salon.com September 22, 2001 Ken Silverstein |
Blasts from the past The weaponry the Taliban could turn on us may be our own, the relics of a $7 billion Cold War campaign... |
American History February 2008 Yanek Mieczkowski |
Gerald Ford's Near Miracle of 1976 Watergate, the Nixon pardon, the Reagan challenge, a sick economy and a debate debacle left the incumbent Ford in a huge hole -- yet he nearly pulled off the greatest presidential election comeback in history. |
AskMen.com Ross Bonander |
5 Things You Didn't Know: The Cold War To bring you up to speed, we present five things you didn't know about the only war that categorically could have ended all wars through total and complete annihilation -- the Cold War. |
Inc. April 2007 Mike Hofman |
How I Did It: Howard Dahl, President and CEO, Amity Technology Negotiating with commissars. Bartering for payment. Surviving the crash of the ruble. Howard Dahl has found doing business in the former Soviet Union to be intellectually exhilarating and spiritually rewarding. |
Fast Company September 2004 James O'Toole |
The Realist-Idealist Dilemma Is President Bush a man of principle or pragmatism? So far, he has vacillated between the two. But leaders can't have it both ways. |
BusinessWeek May 26, 2011 Christopher Buckley |
Book Review: The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom A new book edited by Douglas Brinkley on the Gipper's private scribbles, which reveal some unlikely influences |
Scientific American March 2007 Jeffrey D. Sachs |
Threats of War, Chances for Peace Preventing the spread of war will depend on strategies that recognize the shared interests of adversaries. |
Reason December 2001 Nick Gillespie |
The New Cold War More and more parallels emerge between the war on terrorism and the Cold War... |
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Michael J. Mandel |
Reagan's Economic Legacy His policies helped spur the 1980s boom and were integral to the high-tech revolution. But the poor paid a price. |
Salon.com September 7, 2000 Mark Hertsgaard |
Mikhail Gorbachev explains what's rotten in Russia In a rare interview, the former Soviet leader says glasnost is working, but globalization isn't. |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2007 Eamon Javers |
I Spy--For Capitalism Trident may be the only U.S. corporate-intelligence firm staffed by ex-KGB agents. |
Scientific American October 2007 |
Rapturous Sociability -- Armageddon Avoided -- The Allure of Venus Christopher Lane's new book warns readers of drug industry influence in psychiatry... Richard Rhodes' latest book details the making and unmaking of nuclear arms... Richard Corfield's wonderfully written exploration of the solar system... |
Investment Advisor April 1, 2011 James J. Green |
Nixon and China, Obama and Retirement? Can Barack Obama solve the most pressing problem that America faces not just right now, but for decades to come -- namely Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. |
Salon.com January 23, 2001 Suzy Hansen |
Secret weapons Frances FitzGerald talks about the Bush administration's commitment to national missile defense, the "son of Star Wars" scheme no one seems to understand... |
Reason May 2007 |
25 Years Ago in Reason Quotes from May 1982: Peter Samuel, "Unload the Subways"... Robert Poole, Jr., "Slash the Deficit!"... etc. |
Parameters Summer 2007 |
Editor's Shelf Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick is an epic tale of the Pilgrims journey to North America... Charles Bracelen Flood's Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War... etc. |
Wired September 2003 Douglas McGray |
The Best Defense Is a Good Upgrade This $4.5 billion piece of next-gen naval hardware is already obsolete -- by design. Welcome aboard the flexible technology platform called the USS Ronald Reagan. |
Reason June 2000 Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley |
Hollywood's Missing Movies Why American films have ignored life under communism. |