"The truth … is that American liberals lost effective control of the Johnson administration and its agenda in or about 1966, when Johnson's Great...
Media and Liberal Realignment
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Policy
Limits of Social Conservatism
"Social conservatism, like economic conservatism, can at times become an offensive caricature of its best self. Cultural pride can freeze into...
Soviet System’s Unsustainability
"Soviet society is simply too incongruent with the realities of human nature and the laws of economics to survive indefinitely … As the noose of...
Nixon’s China Policy Skepticism
"Reportedly Nixon … regards the détente with Peking as the principal jewel in the notoriously underdecorated diadem of his administration, but the...
UN and Lost Hopes
"Most of the hopes vested in the UN were absurd from the start; virtually all of the rest have been destroyed, one by one, as it has increasingly...
Generational Mandate
"In the great systole and diastole of events, we are about to witness … a profound surge forward and upward, deriving its impetus from ancient and...
Reforming Without Experience
"How can you have a reasonable agenda for redesigning the Environmental Protection Agency, when no conservative has ever served there? Reagan has...
Motives Behind Foreign Aid
"Certainly the motive cannot be frugality; Congress is capable of squandering ten times $222 million in a single afternoon. Nor is there even any...
Communists in U.S. Government
"Certainly it is possible to overstate the role that Communists in government have played in perverting America's policy during the past thirty-five...
Government Response to Downturns
"... The auto industry is a critical part of the nation's economy. But ... by no means the only critical part. If we undertake to guarantee its...
Bailouts and Economic Pragmatism
"... the recent worldwide economic downturn will, predictably, generate a demand that Washington “do something,” and Washington will respond with a...
Rendition Issue is Resolved, For Now
There has been a good deal of controversy over renditions -- moving captured terrorists to countries where they might be tortured. Human-rights...