Articles by Lee Edwards

PoliticsCommentary

Anecdotes in New Reagan Book Showcase His Unique Character

Lee Edwards | February 21, 2015

As someone who has studied and written about Ronald Reagan for more than four decades, I thought I knew the 40th president pretty well. But… Read More

SocietyCommentary

Harry Jaffa and the Most Controversial Speech in Political Convention History

Lee Edwards | February 06, 2015

In academe, the late Harry Jaffa of Claremont McKenna College was most famous for his groundbreaking scholarship on the Declaration of Independence and Abraham Lincoln,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

50 Years After His Death, Churchill’s Words Continue to Inspire

Lee Edwards | January 24, 2015

A critical difference between a politician and a statesman is the ability to use the power of words not to further his own ends but… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How to Live a Good, Happy Life (and Not Be Tranquilized by Drugs, Sex and Mass Media)

Lee Edwards | January 11, 2015

These are troubling times for many Americans. The economic recovery since the Great Recession of 2008 has been the slowest in U.S. history, with millions… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Pastor Who Brought Down a Dictator

Lee Edwards | December 25, 2014

You’ve probably heard of Vaclav Havel of Czechoslovakia and Lech Walesa of Poland, both Nobel Laureates and heroes of the Cold War who precipitated the… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Why We Isolated Cuba for 53 Years

Lee Edwards | December 18, 2014

Contrary to what President Obama has asserted, U.S. sanctions have worked. Communist Cuba is so economically weak it cannot export Marxism-Leninism as in the past,… Read More

SecurityCommentary

4 Lasting Lessons of the Cold War

Lee Edwards | November 06, 2014

Today’s world would be a far different place if the United States had not waged and won—at the cost of thousands of lives and many… Read More

SocietyCommentary

How a Conservative Congress Could Make a Huge Difference in Next Two Years

Lee Edwards | November 04, 2014

If Republicans should capture the Senate and retain their majority in the House of Representatives, can they move America toward greater freedom, opportunity and prosperity… Read More

SocietyCommentary

We Need Another Great Communicator Like Reagan

Lee Edwards | November 01, 2014

Fifty years ago to the day, a political star was born in America. His name was Ronald Reagan, and he seized the national imagination with… Read More

InternationalCommentary

Will Hong Kong Be the Scene of Next Tiananmen Square?

Lee Edwards | October 03, 2014

I first visited Hong Kong in 1969 when I interviewed young Chinese “freedom swimmers” who had traversed the treacherous Hong Kong Bay—infested by sharks and… Read More

InternationalCommentary

As Russia’s Aggression Increases, Poland Becomes More Crucial

Lee Edwards | September 23, 2014

WARSAW — Quite suddenly, what Poland does and doesn’t do has become crucial to the United States and the Western alliance. As the next-door neighbor… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The 5 Most Egregious Myths About Conservatism

Lee Edwards | September 07, 2014

When it has nothing else to do, the liberal establishment will dip into its bulging bag of clichés and declare that this time, absolutely, positively,… Read More

SocietyCommentary

The Absurdity of Naming a Post Office Goldwater

Lee Edwards | July 27, 2014

What would be a fitting memorial for the founding father of the modern conservative movement? A statue in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall?  An airport?… Read More

SecurityCommentary

The Chinese People Haven’t Forgotten Tiananmen

Lee Edwards | June 07, 2014

Man does not live by bread alone. So the Bible says, and it’s the message of Tiananmen Square. Chinese students filled that space 25 years… Read More

 Society

10 Russian Historical Events The Sochi Games Totally Ignored

Lee Edwards | February 10, 2014

Russian history in the 20th century is bookended by the disastrous rise and eventual collapse of Soviet communism. And no one did a better chronicling… Read More

 

Morning Bell: The Difference One Man Makes

Lee Edwards | March 27, 2013

Who has been the most consequential conservative of the past four decades? We could say Ronald Reagan, the indomitable optimist who won two landslide presidential… Read More

 News

Do Political Conventions Matter?

Lee Edwards | August 29, 2012

Delegates have known for months (or longer) whom their parties will nominate for President. With such predictability, the national conventions have been taken for granted,… Read More

 

The Reagans at Christmas

Lee Edwards | December 23, 2011

Let us turn one more time to Ronald Reagan, in his centennial year, for some Christmas cheer. President Reagan loved America, his shining city on… Read More

 

Barry Goldwater: The Most Consequential Loser in American Politics

Lee Edwards | November 03, 2011

  This week, we celebrate two of the most important dates in modern conservative politics—presidential candidate Barry Goldwater’s crushing defeat on November 3, 1964, and… Read More

 

52 Years of Captive Nations

Lee Edwards | July 20, 2011

The presidential proclamations commemorating National Captive Nations Week—the third week of every July–are a revealing reflection of U.S. foreign policy over the past 50 years… Read More

 

A Champion of Freedom Passes

Lee Edwards | June 20, 2011

Of all those whom we at the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation have honored with the Truman-Reagan Medal of Freedom—and they include such famed defenders… Read More

 

William A. Rusher, R.I.P.

Lee Edwards | April 19, 2011

Although a man of many high talents—author, syndicated columnist, television host, college lecturer, political strategist, think tank fellow—William A. Rusher was invariably described as the… Read More

 

Estonia’s Love Affair with Ronald Reagan

Lee Edwards | February 28, 2011

While members of Congress, former cabinet members, long-time aides and assorted VIPs were celebrating Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday at the Reagan Presidential Library in sun-baked… Read More

 

Beware of Liberals Waxing Reaganesque

Lee Edwards | February 02, 2011

The buzz word to praise Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address is “Reaganesque.” Time magazine gushed that Obama’s emphasis on innovation, nod to… Read More

 

Liu Xiaobo and the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

Lee Edwards | December 10, 2010

The adamant refusal of the Chinese Communist government to allow Liu Xiaobo to travel to Oslo to receive the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize is more… Read More

 

The Stalin Bust: Why Don’t They Get It?

Lee Edwards | September 08, 2010

The national convention of the American Legion joins a long list of Americans of all political views in condemning inclusion of a bust of the… Read More

 

Obama in Japan: Not a Bow but a Kowtow

Lee Edwards | November 16, 2009

On President Obama’s trip across Asia, the major news has not been America’s policy posture, but rather our president’s personal posture. On Saturday, photo and… Read More