Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it..

We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One rea….

Coolidge's preference for experience over ideas was a deeply rooted trait..

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose resp….

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist..

I'm hard pressed to give an example on the spot of a president who explicitly spoke of the vindication of history, but I'm confident that there are m….

One thing that does seem to me to be fairly consistent is that presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly f….

It's actually quite common for presidents to believe that future generations will render a verdict on their presidencies that is more lasting or defi….

I find it hard to imagine that future historians will see the Iraq War as a big plus in Bush's ledger, but we have to admit that we simply don't know….