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In office, Reagan typically governed the high-rung way: steadfast about principles but flexible about policies.
Tim Urban • What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
The Reagan strategy mandated staffing reduction targets to force process changes in the bureaucracy. This was a different approach than the REGO I strategy, and apparently more effective. The Reagan priorities called for strengthening the defense and foreign policy establishments. It is interesting that HUD appears on both the Reagan and Clinton li
... See moreReagan was right: Freedom really is a fragile thing.
Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies
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Reagan cared more about the functions of self-government than his most ideological supporters. He knew how to persuade and when to compromise. But after he was gone, and the Soviet Union not long after him, Free America lost the narrative thread. Without Reagan’s smile and the Cold War’s clarity, its vision grew darker and more extreme. Its spirit
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
The oldest conflict in American politics is the one between individualism and centralism. Reagan changed the terms by inverting them: the descendants of Jefferson’s yeoman farmers, with their desire for independence, became sturdy car-company executives and investment bankers yearning to breathe free of big government. The heirs of Hamilton’s arist
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