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Though it has been a long 53 years since former President Harry S. Truman was in office, he was the hot topic of conversation at The Hudson Institute on Monday, July 17, where a panel discussed his legacy and influence on current policies.

What do Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, William Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all have in common?

The political science professors who run an annual poll rating all the American presidents just released their yearly survey and rated the current president dead last. The part of the study that has garnered the most attention is the following passage: “In the current polarized political climate, we thought it would be interesting to ask […]

To realize the devolution that has taken place in America for about three-quarters of a century, look at the emphasis a famous Democratic president placed on liberty.

On President’s Day, we not only remember George Washington and Abraham Lincoln but also another president born in February. American presidents of both parties, all too often, need to be appreciated at a distance. Of the 20th Century chief executives, perhaps only Ronald Reagan holds up well under scrutiny. Truly, the more you know about […]

Before President-elect Trump’s recent exchange of greetings with Taiwanese leaders, Gordon G. Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, spoke at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation , giving his take the incoming administration and the two Chinas. Chang reminded the audience of Trump’s campaign statements, “He famously questioned the post-war international system” (i.e. NATO […]

From George Will’s op-ed in the Washington Post, which is a worthwhile read: Notice the Newtonian physics of America’s Madisonian system. Barack Obama’s Wilsonian hostility to the separation of powers, expressed in his executive authoritarianism, is provoking equal and opposite reactions from the judicial and legislative branches. The Supreme Court has inflicted on Obama a […]

Since everybody else is rating presidents, we thought we’d give it a shot too, since we’ve covered many of them, especially those who served in the last century. The root of the word president, eminent historian Steve Hayward reminds us, is preside. Thus, we looked at the economies and foreign policies that these leaders presided […]

Those of us who track academic bias have long been plagued by a nagging question: when did it start?

Did the National Security Agency scandal have its roots in academia?

This week marks 65 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb.

The history of the Progressive Party explains the current direction of the Democratic Party.