Ronald Reagan

The Political Virtue of Moral Clarity: Reagan’s “Evil Empire” Address at 40

There is a power in moral clarity that Reagan understood well.

President Reagan’s Fight Against Religious Persecution & Other Evils in the Soviet Empire

Ronald Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech gave hope to the oppressed in the Soviet Union

Reagan Still Speaks the Truth About Evil

Ronald Reagan’s “Remarks at the Annual Convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida” of March 8, 1983, were plain speaking and straight truth about the Soviet Union.

The Power of Truth Telling in the Evil Empire Speech

40 years ago today in 1983, Ronald Reagan delivered his famous “Evil Empire” speech.

Reagan, Religion, and the Evil Empire

Historian Paul Johnson once observed that one of the most important qualities of a statesman is the capacity to make moral distinctions.

Defending the Liberal International Order

From Kabul to Kiev, from the South China Sea to the Persian Gulf, from space to cyberspace, the U.S.-led international…

Economists as the High Priests of Liberalism

We have to be far, far more critical of which measurements we can take as proxies for a healthy nation. Economists can’t make these distinctions and libertarians don’t want to.

The Man Who Tore Down the Wall

Gorbachev was different from all his predecessors. He knew how cruel the Soviet system was.

A Mothers’ March on Moscow! - Bloody Sunday
A Mothers’ March on Moscow!

We should call for a “Mothers’ March on Moscow.” We should urge no violence, nothing radical, nothing revolutionary. But the idea just might take root among women in the vast Russian heartland.