Foreign policy columnist and former Republican Max Boot has written a Reagan biography, and it’s insufferable, if the essay by Northwestern University professor Daniel Immerwahr for the September 16 New Yorker, “What if Ronald Reagan’s Presidency Never Really Ended?”, is any indication.
The New Yorker is a “sophisticated” publication with a long, literary history, written for urban lefties by urban lefties, but the political articles aren’t always as knee-jerk liberal as one may expect (perhaps because they’re so lengthy that non-liberal facts have more of a chance to pop up).
But that’s not the case for this 4,000-word piece, about the re-education of Max Boot and how he lost faith in his formerly beloved Ronald Reagan. It sounds like every other hostile, condescending liberal journalistic cliché hurled at Reagan over the last half-century….
