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BusinessWeek
June 21, 2004
Joyce Barnathan |
The Cowboy Who Roped In Russia Reagan repeatedly upped the ante -- and convinced Moscow he meant business.   |
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 |
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
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. |
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. |
Reason
March 2009 |
Letters Are you better off than you were 40 years ago?, what's the matter with libertarians?... |
Reason
August 2003
Bailey et al. |
Forcing Freedom Can liberalism be spread at gunpoint? |
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
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. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
Reason
October 2001
Cathy Young |
Soviet Reunion Russia's future is looking frighteningly like its past... |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Reason
July 2007
Cathy Young |
The Good Czar Every day in President Vladimir Putin's Russia is a reminder that the window of freedom the country enjoyed in the Yeltsin era (and even, in some respects, in the tail end of the Gorbachev years) is closing. |
Reason
June 2000
Kenneth Lloyd Billingsley |
Hollywood's Missing Movies Why American films have ignored life under communism. |
Mother Jones
Jan/Feb 2002
Ken Silverstein & David Isenberg |
Political Intelligence What happens when U.S. spies get the goods -- and the government won't listen? |
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. |
World War II
Sherwood S. Cordier |
Red Star vs. the Rising Sun The undeclared conflict between the Soviet Union and imperial Japan at Khalkhin Gol cast a long shadow on subsequent events in the Pacific theater and on the Russian Front. |
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. |
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... |
AskMen.com
November 12, 2003
Matthew Simpson |
Top 10: Memorable 20th Century Speeches Find out about some of the most famous 20th-century speeches that are still remembered and studied today. |
Reason
January 2009
Robert J. Samuelson |
Lessons From the Great Inflation Paul Volcker and Ronald Reagan's forgotten miracle created a quarter century of prosperity -- and a dangerous bubble of complacency. |
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... |
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. |
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 |
Mother Jones
Jul/Aug 2001
Tim Dickinson |
Going Antiballistic Five entertaining, if unscientific, takes on missile defense... |
Mother Jones
October 2000
Christopher Hitchens |
Bill of Goods On Bill Clinton: He gutted welfare, bombed Sudan, rented out the White House to the fat cats. If he were a Republican, liberals would have been appalled. |
Salon.com
November 18, 1999
Jock O'Connell |
I sold commie posters to a future Supreme Court justice Long ago His Honor paid 10 bucks for a Bolshevik broadsheet. I wonder where it's hanging now. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007 |
Secrets of Sputnik Fifty years ago this month, the Soviet Union launched the world's first device into orbit. Here are the facts long kept hidden. Place... Liftoff... etc. |
Reason
May 2008
Matt Welch |
When Coalitions Dissolve As the GOP breaks apart, some blame the vanishing breed of free market Republicans. |
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. |
Reason
May 2007 |
25 Years Ago in Reason Quotes from May 1982: Peter Samuel, "Unload the Subways"... Robert Poole, Jr., "Slash the Deficit!"... etc. |
Reason
June 2006
Tim Cavanaugh |
Sucking in the Mid-to-Late '70s Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America, by Philip Jenkins, outlines how the Carter-Reagan era set the course for contemporary America. |
Salon.com
September 19, 2002
Robert Scheer |
Iraq: The phantom menace George W. Bush's war plans in the Middle East have more to do with elections than global security. |
Reason
April 2008
Cathy Young |
Sidebar: Fun Facts About Putin's Russia Nikita Mikhalkov, filmmaker and Putin sycophant extraordinaire, is the son of a three-time lyricist of the Soviet/Russian anthem... November 7 will no longer be a Russian holiday... Russia alternates between bald and hairy leaders... etc. |
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
April 25, 2001
James Grimmelmann |
From each according to his IPO Stalin would have loved Silicon Valley's dot-communists. Too bad they got purged... |
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
Thomas W. Hazlett |
Passages A look back at the 1990s by Reason |
