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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 Decrepitude of the Soviet Union

I think the average person not only has hindsight bias, has hindsight ignorance. You know, you look at the Soviet Union. It's an ideological force. But it is gerontological in its leadership, especially in the Politburo. And Gorbachev came to the top of the Soviet leadership largely out of desperation. They just didn't have anybody else.

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