It’s Good to Argue About Dead Presidents
New debates, especially on overlooked subjects, bring new vibrancy to our civic life. In death, even flawed politicians can do us that final service.
Is Bush’s Legacy So Different From Trump’s?
Some may mourn Bush’s more “respectable” presidency. but looking back, one sees the very race-baiting and cruelty.
How Bush’s ‘New World Order’ Became Trump’s ‘No World Order’
Successive U.S. military interventions upended the very international system the U.S. once pledged to uphold. Now the world faces the twin challenges of ISIS and Trump.
Bush Sr. and Huntsman: A Tale of Two Ambassadors to the Middle Kingdom
Though a Republican, Jon Huntsman points the way to better relations with China.
‘W’: Bush Ultra-Lite
At a time when we need Marx’s analytical abilities, Oliver Stone offers Freud.