Tag archives for Ronald Reagan

“Reagan” (2024): Dutch the Crusader (Review)

★★ Leaving the theater after viewing Reagan, I felt the opposite of how I imagine almost everyone else who liked the film probably felt.  Instead of feeling the sunny optimism emblematic of the Gipper himself, I felt an overwhelming sense of depression and disappointment. Yet I also felt the opposite of how I assume people […]

BOOK REVIEW: “Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms” (1996) – Ed Rollins

Over 21 years into the 21st century, Ed Rollins is a name only remembered by political historians, beltway swamprats, and whatever I am.  Actually, that’s a lie.  Before I picked up this book, I had never heard of Rollins.  Thanks to Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, I will spend the rest of my politically aware […]

The Wound at the Heart of the Supreme Court Confirmation Process

It hasn’t always been this way.  There is only one way to fix it.  And it ain’t pretty. The newest Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown Jackson – a former clerk of the Justice she has been chosen to replace, a federal practitioner of criminal defense, former member of the United States Sentencing Commission, and near-decade […]