USH: Reagan-Bush Years Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 27 May 2022 14:09:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Iran Contra – American Dad https://daniellazar.com/2022/05/27/the-bad-guys-are-winning/ Fri, 27 May 2022 11:49:19 +0000 https://daniellazar.com/?p=9504 The post Iran Contra – American Dad appeared first on Daniel Aaron Lazar.

]]> Lecture: The Bush 41 Administration https://daniellazar.com/2018/05/11/lecture-the-bush-41-administration/ Fri, 11 May 2018 11:37:46 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5827 Here is my lecture on the Bush 41 Years (1989-1993), including foreign and domestic policies (more focus on the former).

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]]> Lecture: The Reagan Administration https://daniellazar.com/2018/05/11/lecture-the-reagan-administration/ Fri, 11 May 2018 11:36:54 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5821 Here is my Reagan Years Lecture which includes domestic policies: Elections “Reaganomics” Culture Wars And foreign policies in: Central America: Nicaragua, Grenada, El Salvador Middle East: Lebanon, Iran-Iraq, Israel South Africa USSR

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]]> The Real Origins of the Religious Right https://daniellazar.com/2015/08/05/the-real-origins-of-the-religious-right/ Wed, 05 Aug 2015 09:59:11 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5325 “They’ll tell you it was abortion. Sorry, the historical record’s clear: It was segregation.” Randall Balmer, Dartmouth Professor in the Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College, offers this controversial and convincing assessment of the rise of the Religious Right. 

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]]> The Most Common* Job In Each State 1978-2014 https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/the-most-common-job-in-each-state-1978-2014/ Tue, 12 May 2015 07:17:22 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5260 …and the rise of truck drivers. from our friends at Planet Money

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]]> Fresh Air Interview: How Ronald Reagan Used An 'Invisible Bridge' To Win Over Americans https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/fresh-air-interview-how-ronald-reagan-used-an-invisible-bridge-to-win-over-americans/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:57:43 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5256 Between 1973 and 1976, Americans saw a president resign in disgrace, a calamitous end to the Vietnam War, gas lines at service stations, the financial collapse of New York City, two presidential assassination attempts, and the kidnapping of a publishing heiress by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Perlstein says Reagan spoke to Americans’ anxieties with a … Continue reading Fresh Air Interview: How Ronald Reagan Used An 'Invisible Bridge' To Win Over Americans →

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]]> Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. "The Equal Rights Amendment" https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/firing-line-with-william-f-buckley-jr-the-equal-rights-amendment/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:36:02 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5236 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyv5Fw0JSk&feature=youtu.be

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]]> Man Who Shot Reagan Seeks Release From Mental Hospital https://daniellazar.com/2015/05/12/man-who-shot-reagan-seeks-release-from-mental-hospital/ Tue, 12 May 2015 06:27:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5226 John Hinckley Jr. was found not guilty by reason of insanity and confined to a mental institution for shooting the president, Press Secretary James Brady and two law enforcement officers. Now he’s asking a federal judge to allow him to live full time with his mother in Virginia.

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]]> Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea https://daniellazar.com/2014/07/25/greed-is-good-a-300-year-history-of-a-dangerous-idea/ Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:12:25 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=5019 “But for the most part, I don’t think we don’t say very much about greed, not comfortably at least. Perhaps that is the inevitable price of an economic system that relies on the vigor of self-interested pursuits, that it instills a kind of moral quietism in the face of avarice, for whether out of a … Continue reading Greed Is Good: A 300-Year History of a Dangerous Idea →

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]]> Two Invasions of Afghanistan https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/two-invasions-of-afghanistan/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:06:41 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3422 ‘Monumentally bad diplomacy, worse strategy, chaotic military organisation and inept generalship’ – Invasion of Afghanistan. Penned as Soviet tanks rolled into Kabul in December 1979. (History Today)

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