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Friday Interview: Reagan’s Impact on American Politics

RALEIGH — He left office more than 20 years ago, but the late President Ronald Reagan still exercises a major influence over American politics and public policy. Steven Hayward examines that influence in his two-volume narrative history of the 40th president, The Age of Reagan. Hayward, F.K. Weyerhauser Fellow in law and economics at the American Enterprise Institute and senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, discussed Reagan’s impact with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.

CJ Staff
Opinion

No. 104: Fool’s Errands: Blueprint for Disaster in Afghanistan

The destruction of the Taliban government in Afghanistan and its replacement by a new regime that is at least not certifiably lunatic has led to discussions on the role that the United States should play in that country’s future. Some advocate a big “nation-building” program designed to create a model democracy. Fool’s Errands, however, counsels that “nation-building” has in the past been a costly failure that we should stay away from in Afghanistan and everywhere else.

George Leef

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