Claims about a dark “deep state” 50 years ago or now distract from addressing an always more challenging reality.
Mark TooleyApril 21, 2023
Reinhold Niebuhr would recognize the nuances that this documentary chose to ignore.
Mark TooleyMarch 31, 2023
Ronald Reagan expanded upon the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction to strengthen American nuclear deterrence
Rebeccah HeinrichsMarch 31, 2023
Henry Kissinger has done it again with the publication of this outstanding book on leadership.
Mark AmstutzJanuary 26, 2023
Presumably the consequences in Afghanistan will be tragic as in Indochina.
Mark TooleyAugust 11, 2021
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.
Alan DowdJuly 12, 2021
Lodge was governed by a WASP devotion to American interests and to democratic fair play that drove his role toward displacing the autocratic Diem.
Mark TooleyFebruary 24, 2021
Paul Matzko’s The Radio Right reveals how pioneering radio fundamentalists set in motion events that would transform both American political and religious life.
Dean C. CurryJanuary 29, 2021
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.
Darrell ColeOctober 24, 2018