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Various opinions from SMU professors

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Originally Posted: December 7, 2017

Following are links to a sample of opinions written by SMU professors that have appeared recently in various publications. They represent the independent thoughts of their authors and appear in the order in which they were published, the most recent being at the top. READ MORE

Trump should try quiet diplomacy
Jeffrey EngelBy Jeffrey Engel
Director of the SMU Center for Presidential History at SMU

Twenty-five years ago this week, Americans rejected a far different man than the one in power today. Self-confident where Donald Trump is thin-skinned, well-mannered in a way Trump considers weak, George H.W. Bush is remembered a quarter-century out of office as an elder statesman whose call for a “kinder and gentler” nation appears quaint in retrospect.  Read the full essay from USA Today.