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John Arquilla’s interpretation of Obama’s foreign policy goes awry early on: The other side of the debate articulates a view about the crucial need to remain fully engaged in international affairs and...
View ArticleNo, J.F.K. Wasn’t a Conservative
Matt Steinglass ably dissects the recently-revived argument that John F. Kennedy was a conservative. He concludes: Yet for Ira Stoll, the fact that Kennedy cut taxes on the rich is the most important...
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Gene Healy reviews Ira Stoll’s JFK: Conservative, and is appropriately withering in his criticism: If our 35th president—fiscally profligate, contemptuous of civil liberties, and criminally reckless...
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Rubio is trying out Kennedy nostalgia on the campaign trail: But it was a new line he began road-testing in Iowa that stood out. Rubio presented the 2016 campaign as a generational pivot point,...
View ArticleNationalists vs. Globalists in the GOP Foreign Policy Debate
Noah Millman explains how the foreign policy of Trump and Cruz differs from Rubio’s: I think the right label, for both Cruz and Trump, is “To Hell With Them Hawk,” a coinage invented by John Derbyshire...
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