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Revisionist Reaganomics
Academics trying to rewrite the Reagan years may need magicians’ mirrors because the actual data don’t support the spin that these “public scholars” would dearly like to put on the 80s.
Liberal Academic Reconsiders Reagan
News flash: a tenured professor at a state university rates Ronald Reagan as one of the five greatest presidents of all time.
Immortal Reagan Bests Campus Radicals Again
Maybe one of the reasons our fortieth president gets such short shrift in textbooks is because he had the academic left’s number, as we used to say.
Penn State Trustee Compares Reagan to Hitler
A Penn State trustee draws fire for comparing Reagan and Hitler and attacking YAF group; yet another example of university problems in Pennsylvania.
Reagan for the Book
Ronald Reagan’s two landslide victories in presidential elections obscure the road he traveled to become the Republican nominee. His failed bid for the 1976 Republican nomination would propel him four years later to the nomination and ultimately the presidency.
The Reagan Textbooks Miss
Though opinions of Ronald Reagan tempered after his death in August, many historians and textbooks continue to diminish his legacy.
There He Goes Again
In this midst of nostalgia for him, it is worth noting that during his lifetime, elites claimed that Ronald Reagan was factually challenged. Just as frequently, he proved them wrong.
No Love For 70s
“I’m looking for a Ronald Reagan in 2012. I’ve lived through the 1970s.”—
George Washington University professor Henry Nau at the Heritage Foundation on September 30, 2010.
Governing Like Jimmy Carter
“Too many Republicans ran like Ronald Reagan but governed like Jimmy Carter.”
—Ken Blackwell at a June 21, 2010 AIA authors’ night explaining the GOP’s recent reversal of electoral fortunes