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 ...

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 ...

Michael sprung into action. Ledeen persuaded the George W. Bush White House to grant him asylum. “I came to the United States without a passport or any ID,” Mr. Batebi told me. “For years, I didn’t ...

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’s passing on May 18 marks the end of an era in which ideas were not just debated but lived, tested, and acted upon. The list of problems Michael solved over his 83 years was ...

Michael Ledeen, a key figure in launching the sale of US-made weapons to Iran, is pictured in his Chevy Chase, Maryland, home, August 13, 1987. (Scott Stewart / AP Photo) ...

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. 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, ...

Born on Aug. 1, 1941, in Los Angeles, Michael Arthur Ledeen came of age in a world shadowed by totalitarianism.His academic journey began at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where, under the ...

Michael Ledeen, who died on May 17 at age 83, was a prominent figure on the American right since the 1970s. He is most famous, or notorious, as one of the instigators of the Iran/Contra scandal ...

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 ...