Conservatives might be tempted to hold up Reagan as representative of a nobler era. They’d be wrong.

No one has been more baffled by Ronald Reagan than the scholars who have devoted their lives to making sense of his. The book still hailed as the most definitive biography, Lou Cannon’s 1991 ...

Most of the answers won’t come from looking at the 1980 GOP platform. Zombie Reaganism is a trap for the Republican Party. Even many Republican politicians who want out of the trap end up ...