Lobbying regulars to go easy on Charles Keating savings and loan, you can blame that unregulated for buckling under political pressure but cant blame reagan for that, thats a commonplace problem. Host ron in arlington, virginia, youre on with steven hayward. Caller great to talk to you today. I think you are exaggerating on the covid 19. The former president was the executive at that time, we should keep that in mind but my question goes to the American First Movement in the 30s and when naziism was spreading through jersey, they issued radios to every citizen and i believe our cable media, fox and msnbc and cnn are entertainment channels. What the impact of the misinformation is why wouldnt we defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic . Why wouldnt we want to do that . Thank you. I will stay on the line. Guest we do want to do that. The first part of your question, we disagree on who our enemies are. We are all making enemies of the other side to put it in simple ter
8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Dec. 24, 2020
As the end of this endless year approaches, we find ourselves in a retrospective mood: Out with the old, in with the even older! Our recommended books this week cast an eye back on the Bolshevik Revolution and the seeds of the Cold War (“The Lenin Plot,” by Barnes Carr); and on the little-known role that people fleeing slavery played in American foreign and domestic policy before the Civil War (“South to Freedom,” by Alice L. Baumgartner); and on the ways that Winston Churchill’s larger-than-life legacy continues to shape British politics to this day (“The Churchill Myths,” by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz and Richard Toye).