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Presidential Leadership and the Great Conflict of Ideas: A Conversation with William Inboden about the Legacy of President Ronald Reagan

Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler

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The Hindsight Bias in the Cold War

I think history potentially could have turned out some different ways. I do give Reagan a little more credit than is commonly appreciated, even for the coming to power of Gorbachev. And that hindsight bias can cloud our vision to just how fraught and terrifying and risky those, those days were.

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