Ronald Reagan

The Iran War’s “Bad Theology”?

Arguably the Iran War is America’s first post-Christian war, heralded with brutalist rhetoric, not a moral vision. The problem is not so much “bad theology,” but no theology.

The Geopolitical Realism of James Burnham

The 70th anniversary of National Review is a good time to reflect on one of the conservative magazine’s most important and influential writer—James Burnham

From Reagan to Trump: Strategic Trade in US Foreign Policy

While there are many reasons to be for or against the current administration’s tariffs, this impulse to invoke Reagan to criticize Trump can obscure significant overlap in each president’s strategic use of trade as a geopolitical tool

How Conservatives Learned to Love the Soviet Union

The right-wing embrace of Vladimir Putin as a dictator and enemy of the freedoms Americans hold dear is a stunning rebuke to decades of struggle against Soviet tyranny

Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan & Providential Statecraft

Carter and Reagan were both providential instruments, their destinies linked to each other and to the nation.

We Shape Our Words, Then They Shape Us: The Role of Metaphor in US Foreign Policy

A new book explores the dynamic relationship between presidential rhetoric on foreign policy and the goals America seeks to accomplish abroad

Conventional Wisdom on NATO

Those who emphasize an ‘America first’ mentality would do well to recall the many benefits NATO has accrued to the United States

Reagan the Wizard

The Wizard is inexplicable, which was his power. And the whole world was a beneficiary.

Liberal Ideology is Not Enough to Save the West 

Conservatism as a way of life, not liberalism as an ideology, is necessary for preserving Western civilization