Tag: Ronald Reagan

• Can’t Historians Predict the Future?

  

  Nostradamus could have been a policy wonk. My favorite not-so-witty quip during my public talks is “historians are always asked to predict the future.”  It usually gets a chuckle.  I say it as a cop-out when someone asks me about anything controversial: the future of nuclear power, the future face of warfare, or whether Iran…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  February 4, 2013

  Commentary

  arming mother nature, Cold War, environment, Henry Kissinger, history, IAEA, Iran, Naval Historical Center, NPT, nuclear power, nuclear weapons, public policy, Richard Armitage, Ronald Reagan, State Department Office of the Historian

• The Last Republican Tree-Hugger

  Although it was covered in the New York Times, the passing of Russell Train last Monday (Sep 17, 2012) went without much notice in the media. It’s easy to imagine why: the man has no natural allies in the present political landscape.  For Republicans, he was just another nutty environmentalist who believed that regulations and…

  Jacob Darwin Hamblin

  September 25, 2012

  Commentary

  environment, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Russell Train, UN Conference on the Human Environment