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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 Fragility of the Soviet Union

CNN's John Avlon asks how Ronald Reagan saw the Soviet Union as weak and vulnerable. He says many experts at the time said it would last for generations, but they were wrong. The former president was a "conviction leader" who didn't get trapped by establishment wisdom, Avlon writes.Avlon: I want to push forward on this more fragile system than expert opinion is telling me.

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