Fifty years on from Richard Nixon’s great hour of triumph, winter 1973, his onetime speechwriter draws lessons for Americans today, in a Presidents Day lecture at Colorado Christian University.
As America’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine enters its second year, columnist Bill Moloney wonders if it will take another national humiliation on the scale of Vietnam to remind us what “national interest” really means.
False ideas have not only gained a hold over the minds of millions. Such ideas are now attempting to silence all dissent. Freedom of thought is at stake. We’re being asked to live by lies.
America’s historic political ethos of mutually respectful disagreement has soured into accusations of bad faith and disloyalty across the left-right divide, and columnist Bill Moloney doesn’t like where things are headed.
Can the US, as we make proxy war on Russia in Ukraine, succeed where Napoleon failed in 1812 and Hitler in 1941? Columnist Bill Moloney has his doubts.