Tevi Troy
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Round Two

March 12, 2024  •  Mishpacha Magazine

The looming rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump in the context of all the other such contests

Presidential historian and former senior Bush administration official Tevi Troy frames the looming general election rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump in the context of all the other such contests that have been fought out over the last 180 years

The rematch election shaping up in 2024 between President Biden and the man he defeated, former president Trump, is unprecedented during the lifetimes of Mishpacha's younger readers. But American history offers several prior examples of this kind of contest.

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Dan Quayle Reconsidered

March 7, 2024  •  The Washington Examiner

As Donald Trump seeks a vice president for his 2024 presidential run, he could do far worse than look at J. Danforth "Dan" Quayleas a model. Quayle deserves study for two reasons, one practical and one cautionary. First, he balanced the ticket and compensated for his running mate's weaknesses. Second, he is a warning that if the selection process and announcement are handled poorly, the decision could be needlessly damaging for all players.

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The Takeover Artists
Review of 'The Rebels' by Joshua Green

February 2024  •  Commentary

We read constantly about the changes in the GOP and how it is no longer George W. Bush's party, or even Ronald Reagan's. But what about the changes in the Democratic Party—which may, in fact, be more consequential and further-reaching? That is the subject of Joshua Green's The Rebels, a portrait of the Democratic Party's lurch to the left.

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10 years later, Obama's 'phone-and-pen' shtick is becoming a dangerous White House habit

January 12, 2024  •  New York Post

Ten years ago this week, with his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, Barack Obama created a new way to pursue his policies.

At his first Cabinet meeting of 2014, Obama stated, "I've got a pen and I've got a phone," coining a phrase and a pathway that has had deleterious implications for the presidency, and for the nation.

This was no mere rhetorical flourish. Obama was engaging in a sea-change in how to pursue his policy agenda.

By explicitly saying he'd pursue his policy agenda via executive action, Obama was rejecting the idea that his role was executing legislation duly passed by Congress.

He would skip the practice of reaching out to Congress to pass legislation he sought.

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Why Universities Target Jews

December 20, 2023  •  City Journal

Many Jewish students, parents, and donors are rethinking their allegiance to America's elite universities. They think that Jewish students are not welcome there.

That message is being sent in two ways. First, these schools aren't admitting Jewish students at the rates they once did. Harvard used to be about 20 percent Jewish; today, it's below 9 percent. At the University of Pennsylvania, long considered one of the friendliest campuses to Jewish students, the number of observant Jews admitted has dropped by about two-thirds, from 200 in the early 2000s to about 70 today, according to Inside Higher Ed. Jewish enrollment is down across much of the Ivy League.

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Books by Tevi Troy

Cover of Shall We Wake the President? Cover of What Jefferson Read, Ike Watched, and Obama Tweeted Cover of Intellectuals and the American Presidency

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