Book Shows Summit’s Impact on Ending Cold War
Ronald Reagan's former arms control director uses now-declassified notes to help retell the tale of the 1986 Reykjavik negotiations.
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.
Ronald Reagan's bold leadership brought about the resurgence of the American spirit and the spread of democracy.
Marc Rotterman remembers President Reagan as a unique and "decent" man who led America with his heart as well as with his mind.
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.