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Reason
March 2007
Matt Welch |
Be Afraid of President McCain The John McCain presidency effectively began on January 10, 2007, when George W. Bush announced the deployment of five more combat brigades to Iraq. Here is some insight into the frightening mind of an authoritarian maverick.   |
Reason
January 2006
Gene Healy |
Geena Davis Is Not My President The bipartisan romance with the imperial presidency comes to prime time. If Commander in Chief is worth watching at all, it's for what it tells us about modern, popular views of presidential power. |
Reason
November 2008
Mangu-Ward et al. |
Is There Any Hope For This Man? Assessments of Barack Obama from several libertarians. |
Reason
November 2004 |
Who's Getting Your Vote? A revealing poll of who is voting for whom this presidential election: Peter Bagge, editor and comic book author: Kerry or Badnarik... John Perry Barlow, songwriter for the Grateful Dead: Kerry... etc. |
HBS Working Knowledge
October 27, 2003
David Gergen |
Leadership in the Bush White House What kind of leader is George W. Bush? The author assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the President's command-and-control style. |
Reason
June 2007
Gillespie et al. |
Presidential Scouting Reports A libertarian fan's guide to the World Series of politics |
Parameters
Summer 2005 |
Book Reviews Vietnam Chronicles: The Abrams Tapes, 1968-1972... Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror... Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism... etc. |
Salon.com
January 3, 2002
David Talbot |
The making of a hawk From Kuwait to Kosovo to Kabul, American firepower has been on the right side of history. The odyssey of a former dove... |
Reason
February 2007 |
Divided We Stand What sort of legislation and political theater should the friends of "Free Minds and Free Markets" expect during the next two years? Is the new situation an improvement or disaster? |
Reason
November 2000
Charles Paul Freund |
The New Presidential Identity Nobody ever accused American presidential politics of suffering from too much dignity, but the 2000 election has been a singularly post-labial affair... |
Reason
November 2008
David Weigel |
Bob Barr Talks The best-known nominee in Libertarian Party history talks to reason about war, drugs, pornography, Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ayn Rand. |
Salon.com
September 29, 2001
David Talbot |
Democracy held hostage We are fighting for freedom -- including the right to vigorously debate. But the war fever crowd wants us all to march in step... |
Parameters
Autumn 2004 |
Book Reviews In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. By Rick Atkinson... America's Inadvertent Empire. By William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric... The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. By James Mann... The Iraq War. By John Keegan... etc. |
Parameters
Spring 2007 |
Book Reviews The new book, Fiasco, wastes no time in cutting a wide swath through Washington and Baghdad in this critique on the war in Iraq... State of Denial is the third book by Bob Woodward on the war in Iraq... etc. |
Parameters
November 2004 |
Book Reviews Surprise, Security and the American Experience... Arguing About War... The Regulars: The American Army 1898-1941... etc. |
Reason
February 2005 |
Four More Years!?!?! Seven high hopes and seven big fears for Bush's second term. |
BusinessWeek
February 10, 2011
Paul M. Barrett |
Attack of the Commerce Clause A new assault on regulation is gathering force -- and it's deploying a constitutional weapon |
Parameters
Autumn 2006 |
Book Reviews The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq. By George Packer... On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom... Rein In at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations. By Alan D. Romberg... etc. |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006 |
Book Reviews The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War by Andrew J. Bacevich... 1776 by David McCullough... West Point: Two Centuries and Beyond edited by Lance Betros... What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building by Noah Feldman... etc. |
Salon.com
December 14, 2000 |
Now what? Bianca Jagger, Todd Gitlin, David Horowitz, Andrew Sullivan and other Salon panelists respond to the speeches by Vice President Al Gore and President-elect George W. Bush... |
Reason
November 2008
Jim Henley |
Between Iraq and a Soft Place In Heads in the Sand: How the Republicans Screw Up Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Screws Up the Democrats, by Matthew Yglesias, discusses the role Iraq played in Obama's success. |
American History
December 14, 2004
David J. Garrow |
The Once and Future Supreme Court The last four decades have witnessed a fundamental transformation in the types of men, and now women, who exercise the broad and untrammeled judicial power of the U.S. Supreme Court. |
Salon.com
December 6, 2002
Bill Clinton |
Clinton: Democrats "were missing in action" In a major political address this week, former President Bill Clinton bluntly dissected the Democrats' recent electoral losses. Moving to the left, he said, is not a solution -- but fighting back is. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
W. James Antle |
Conservatives Against Empire The forgotten tradition of the antiwar right is remembered in Bill Kauffman's latest book. |
Reason
December 2001 |
Guarding the Home Front Will civil liberties be a casualty in the War on Terrorism? A panel of experts discuss which civil liberties they think are most at risk in what has been called America's first 21st century war... |
Reason
September 2004
Matt Welch |
Watergate Blowback Watergate taught millions of Americans about the dangers of government operating without sunshine. But Bush administration officials, especially those who lived through the scandal, learned an altogether different lesson -- that checks and balances can be distractions and handcuffs. |
Parameters
Spring 2007
Richard Swain |
Reflection on an Ethic of Officership Reminder that America's Army has operated for over 200 years without an officer's creed to govern the actions of its leaders. |
Reason
October 2007
Gene Healy |
Rant: Learning to Love the Imperial Presidency How conservatives made peace with executive power. |
Salon.com
April 17, 2002
David Talbot |
Fight or flight? David Brock's expose of the Republican attack machine shows that Democrats have to get serious about fighting back. And that doesn't mean Al Gore's Florida-style fisticuffs... |
CIO
January 15, 2004 |
Where the Candidates Stand - position of 2004 US presidential candidates regarding information technology The president of the United States should understand IT and why it's important to running the country. Let's see if these men and women do. The positions of 2004 US presidential candidates regarding information technology |
Reason
November 2008
Veronique de Rugy |
Fear of a Unified Government What happens to federal spending when the Democrats control both Congress and the presidency? |
Salon.com
November 22, 2000
Andrew O'Hehir |
It's your party and you can cry if you want to Will Gore lose Florida? Who cares. The Democrats are beyond redemption... |
Reason
December 2008
Matt Welch |
Back to the Barricades Free markets are under attack again. |
Reason
March 2002
Glenn Garvin |
He Was Right Looking back at the Goldwater moment... |
Salon.com
July 7, 2000
Jake Tapper |
God is their copilot Both born-again, Bush and Gore have made this the most God-fearing presidential race in 100 years. But their faiths have led these men in two completely different directions. |
Salon.com
December 3, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Pat Buchanan: America first In this in-depth conversation, the one-time presidential candidate discusses Arafat's failings as a leader, President Bush's dilemma in the Mideast (his mission is "somewhat hopeless"), Clinton's near success and the controversy surrounding Buchanan's views of World War II... |
Reason
January 2009
David Weigel |
Beat the New Boss D.C. libertarians plot their Obama administration strategies. |
American History
August 9, 2004
John Ferling |
1796: The First Real Election When George Washington announced that he would retire from office, he set the stage for the nation's first two-party presidential campaign. |
Reason
May 2004
Charles Paul Freund |
Backstage Passes What it takes to run for president in the age of media intimacy. |
Salon.com
January 13, 2001
Charles Taylor |
Farewell, charming pragmatist President Clinton took the political virginity we claimed to have, and damn did it feel good to be rid of it... |
American History
August 9, 2004
William F. B. Vodrey |
George Washington: Hero of the Confederacy? The cost of political greatness, it's been said, is to be forced to campaign long after your death. That's certainly true of George Washington, whose name, image and legacy were appropriated by the Confederacy. |
Parameters
Winter 2003/2004
Richard D. Hooker, Jr. |
Soldiers of the State: Reconsidering American Civil-Military Relations Far from overstepping its bounds, America's military operates comfortably within constitutional notions of separated powers, participating appropriately in defense and national security policymaking with due deference to the principle of civilian control. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2010
Jon Meacham |
Election Aftermath: Beyond the Extremes Toward a politics in which the central truths of conservatism and liberalism can interact rather than collide. |
Reason
December 2000 |
Feed His Head Reason's presidential reading list |
Salon.com
October 12, 2000 |
Big night for Bush Christopher Buckley, Norman Lear, Al Franken, Joe Eszterhas and other critics review Debate 2... |
Salon.com
October 4, 2000
Camille Paglia |
Of dubious debates, kisses and divas Must we choose between a pretentious jackass and a man who lacks the basic skills? |
Salon.com
January 13, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Clinton's final days As the newly liberated president travels the country to cement his legacy, he reminds us we'll miss him as much as he'll miss us... |
Salon.com
August 18, 2000
Steve Erickson |
The New Sanctimony Down with Jefferson, Clinton and '60s hedonism! American politics has declared war on the pursuit of pleasure. |
Salon.com
October 11, 2002
William M. Arkin |
Sept. 11 and wars of the world Osama and Saddam pose real threats, but the Bush administration may be too incompetent -- and too arrogant -- to stop them. |
Salon.com
April 10, 2002
Christopher Dreher |
Hobbling history Scholars, authors and publishers go to court to fight the Bush administration's efforts to keep key presidential papers under lock and key... |
