On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Gavin Wilde who serves as a Senior Fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. They discuss Russian interference in U.S. elections, continued Russian cyber espionage and attacks on American institutions of democracy, and the outlook on the 2024 election and its security.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with former Member of Congress, the Honorable David Dreier who now serves as the Chairman of the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation. They discuss former Rep. Dreier’s work in founding and leading the new Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation which seeks to construct a permanent memorial on the National Mall to honor fallen journalists. They also look back on Rep. Dreier’s time serving in Congress, in...

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Dr. Edward Keefer who is a Historian in the Historical Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense. They discuss Dr. Keefer’s newest volume, in a 10-part series documenting America’s Secretaries of Defense, which focuses on Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger who played a pivotal role in the military buildup during the Reagan Administration.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Robert Greenway who serves as the Director of the Allison Center for National Security at the Heritage Foundation. They discuss the Heritage Foundation’s 2024 Index of U.S. Military Strength and the findings’ implications on U.S. foreign policy, defense spending and military readiness.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Congressman Carlos A. Giménez who represents Florida’s 28th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. They discuss his origins as a firefighter in South Florida, his pathway to public service in Congress and how the U.S. House is approaching the most pressing national security and foreign affairs challenges facing American today.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with the 33rd Under Secretary of the Navy, and former Acting Secretary of the Navy, the Honorable Thomas Modly. They discuss the overall U.S. naval force structure including the 355 ship fleet, and what we need for today’s challenges. They also touch on Modly’s career in the navy and his new book entitled, “Vectors: Heroes, Villains, and Heartbreak on the Bridge of the U.S. Navy.”

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff sits down with Pro-Democracy Hong Kong dissident Frances Hui who serves as the Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at The Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. Frances discusses her democracy activism which she has been involved in since her teenage years and what the ongoing fight for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong entails.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff sits down with Dr. Rana Siu Inboden who is a senior fellow with the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at The University of Texas at Austin. They discuss China and its human rights abuses, and China’s attempt to co-opt US liberal international human rights regimes and institutions to promote its illiberal human rights agenda.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with with Senator Ted Budd who represents North Carolina in the U.S. Senate. They discuss the Israel-Hamas War and Congress’s leadership role in national security.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff sits down with Venezuelan democracy activist and dissident Leopoldo López who serves as the National Coordinator for Voluntad Popular. They discuss the autocratic Maduro regime in Venezuela, the global network that helps support dictatorial regimes around the world, and the ongoing fight for freedom and democracy in Venezuela.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down  with Congressman Seth Moulton who represents Massachusetts’s 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. They discuss the Israel-Hamas War and other national defense and security challenges facing the United States.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Yonah Jeremy Bob who serves as the senior military correspondent, intelligence analyst and Literary Editor for The Jerusalem Post. They discuss the the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, Iran-Israel competition in the Middle East, and Iran’s ongoing nuclear aspirations.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Matthew Waxman who serves as an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. They discuss the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, the rise of antisemitism on America’s college campuses, and the impact of social media on the national conversation surrounding antisemitism and the war against Hamas.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Dr. Jerry Hendrix who serves as a Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute. They discuss the current state of America’s naval supremacy in the Indo-Pacific in contrast to the mounting challenges posed by Communist China.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Kate Odell who is a member of the Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal. They discuss the changing environment on the political right including substantive policy shifts happening at the Heritage Foundation and other centers of political thought and advocacy.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with national security expert Michael Allen who serves as the Managing Director and Partner at Beacon Global Strategies. They discuss the ongoing war in Israel, the renewed struggle against global terrorism, and how America’s national security and defense posture is affected by this conflict.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with his colleague, and the director of the Reagan Institute’s Scholarly Initiatives, Dr. Anthony Eames. They discuss Dr. Eames’ latest book entitled, “A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980s.” Topics covered include Soviet totalitarianism, public diplomacy, the Reagan-Thatcher relationship, and Nuclear policy in the 1980's.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute’s Dr. Janet Tran sits down with Virginia’s Secretary of Education Aimee Guidera. They discuss the Commonwealth of Virginia’s honest assessment of their education system and what these lessons mean for education policy across the country. They also discuss the quest for excellence and equal opportunity, data informed decision-making, innovation and student achievement in education.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff sits down with Sebastien Lai and Jonathan Price. Sebastien Lai is the son of Jimmy Lai, a renowned Hong Kong media entrepreneur, writer, and pro-democracy campaigner, who founded Next Digital and Apple Daily, the popular independent Chinese language newspaper in Hong Kong which was forcibly shut down in 2021. Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned in Hong Kong since December 2020 and now awaits trial this month. Sebastien is...

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director Roger Zakheim sits down with Richard Goldberg who serves as a senior advisor for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). They discuss Saudi Arabia-Israel relations, ongoing challenges posed by Iranian aggression in the Middle East, and the future of the Abraham Accords.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff sits down with Dr. Jerry McGinn who serves as the Executive Director of the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting in the School of Business at George Mason University. They discussed the defense industrial base, working with allies on transnational industrial cooperation to alleviate global supply issues like those seen in Ukraine, and ongoing hurdles faced by America’s defense industry.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Policy Director Rachel Hoff sits down with The Honorable Alicia Kearns who serves as a Member of Parliament for Rutland and Melton, and as the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the UK House of Commons. They discussed MP Kearns’ early political influences including President Reagan, her work at the Ministry of Defense, and her role as the first woman to Chair the Foreign Affairs Select Committee and its subsequent policy goals.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director, Roger Zakheim, sits down with Dr. Peter Feaver who is a Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and who runs their Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, Duke University. They discussed Dr. Feaver’s new book, “Thanks For Your Service,” which analyzes the public confidence in the US military, the implications on public policy, national defense, and the ongoing politicization of the armed forces.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director, Roger Zakheim, sits down with former Representative Mike Rogers who previously served as the Chair of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. They discussed the ongoing national security challenge posed by the People’s Republic of China, the ongoing intelligence and cyber security threat that China poses, the latest on the Chinese spy balloon, and much more.

On this episode of Reaganism, Reagan Institute Director, Roger Zakheim, sits down with Daniel Runde who is a Senior Vice President at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and director of the Project on Prosperity and Development. They discuss Mr. Runde’s new book entitled, “The American Imperative: Reclaiming Global Leadership through Soft Power.” They also discuss the ongoing global challenges posed by China, the war in Ukraine, and how these conflicts call for greater American...