Richard Nixon

Claims about a dark “deep state” 50 years ago or now distract from addressing an always more challenging reality.

Reinhold Niebuhr would recognize the nuances that this documentary chose to ignore.  

Ronald Reagan expanded upon the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction to strengthen American nuclear deterrence

Henry Kissinger has done it again with the publication of this outstanding book on leadership. 

Presumably the consequences in Afghanistan will be tragic as in Indochina.

History may not repeat itself, as Mark Twain is credited with saying, but it does indeed rhyme sometimes. Sadly, the American people and their leaders are not interested in the rhymes or lessons of history.

Lodge was governed by a WASP devotion to American interests and to democratic fair play that drove his role toward displacing the autocratic Diem.

Paul Matzko’s The Radio Right reveals how pioneering radio fundamentalists set in motion events that would transform both American political and religious life.

Two Christian schools of thought might support covert operations and espionage: the just war tradition and a kind of “dirty hands” moralism. The dirty hands view says all those in political power must unavoidably resort to evil for the common good. The just war tradition has a different approach.