Michael Ledeen, Reagan adviser in early Iran-contra outreach, dies at 83 A prominent voice in neoconservative circles, Mr. Ledeen had “a key role” in opening contacts for a covert plan by ...

Michael Ledeen, a neoconservative firebrand, historian, and strategist, lived a life that seemed ripped from the pages of a Cold War thriller, blending scholarship, spycraft, and a relentless ...

Michael Ledeen, a provocative neoconservative who advised Washington policymakers to crush Islamic terrorists, disparaged a free press and helped instigate the Iran-contra arms-for-hostages ...

Scholar and Journalist Michael Ledeen Dies at 83 After a Long Career Struggling for American Ideals at Home and Abroad A Darth Vader mask hung in his office as a testimony to the wit with which he ...

Michael Ledeen (left) stands to the right of Jean-Yves Ollivier at the 21st Annual Hamptons International Film Festival in 2013. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images for The Hamptons International Film ...

Michael Ledeen Was the Forrest Gump of American Fascism From Iran-contra to Iraq war WMD lies to Trumpism, this right-wing pundit kept subverting democracy.

Michael Ledeen The history scholar was a heroic figure in the struggles against fascism and communism and against the enemies of Zion and America. Michael Ledeen on October 13, 2013 at East Hampton, ...

When Michael Ledeen strode into a room, you felt the air shift. It wasn’t just his towering intellect or his penchant for quoting Machiavelli with the ease of a man ordering coffee — it was ...

Michael Ledeen is an American historian, philosopher, foreign-policy analyst, and writer. He is a former consultant to the National Security Council, the Department of State, and the Department of ...

Michael Ledeen, a forceful defender of interventionist-style U.S. global policies who as a historian studied Machiavelli’s theories on power and as a Reagan-era adviser helped open channels for ...