Max Boot
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Oct 30, 2026
Seth LeibsohnHOST
If you want to be Bill Kristol or for that matter Mona Charan or for that matter any number, any number of former conservative columnists, many of them have been honest.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
They are saying they are no – Max Boot.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
Be Max Boot.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
Just be honest about it.
Seth LeibsohnHOST
All right.
Scott HortonGUEST
like real facts in the world that complicate your story.
Scott HortonGUEST
Yeah, well, I mean, first of all, what I was going to say was a lot of hawks like Robert Kagan and Max Boot are disavowing this policy and saying, we don't need to do this.
Scott HortonGUEST
Wait, not Boot, Kagan, Victoria Nuland's husband.
Scott HortonGUEST
said, you know what? Now that I think about it, screw Ukraine.
Jim FalkHOST
Let's spend a few minutes talking about where we are now, because last week we pulled out 1,500 troops, and I don't know how many contractors or others, but everyone's focused on the 1,500.
Jim FalkHOST
And Max Boot wrote a really interesting column just a few days ago in the Washington Post, where he says, you know, we're really giving Iran an opportunity to exert its influence again.
Jim FalkHOST
And to underscore this, I think it was Monday or Tuesday of this week, and Kirk Cook said A policeman was killed and several of his colleagues were injured.
Jim FalkHOST
How worried should we be that Iran is going to be able to stir things up and we may find ourselves, I hate to use the term, but a civil war or certainly a lot of violence and instability in Iraq?
Tom NicholsGUEST
He's a Russian agent, et cetera.
Tom NicholsGUEST
You know, I think Max Boot might be.
Tom NicholsGUEST
My longtime friend Max Boot made a good point today when he said, look, it's been a lot of years, including four years of democratic control of the government.
Tom NicholsGUEST
If that were true, we would know something by
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
now.
Craig UngerGUEST
But no one seemed to notice.
John BatchelorHOST
These many decades later, I report to Craig that recently I've had a happy conversation with the biographer Max Booth, who writes a column for the Washington Post, but he's written a massively, carefully researched biography of Ronald Reagan, and it's happy to have that because Reagan lived many lives before he arrived at the White House.
John BatchelorHOST
But in there, when we come to the...
John BatchelorHOST
the story of the campaign in 1980, Max Boot, as a biographer, acknowledges the October surprise, acknowledges that the information gathered today is sufficient to say that it happened.
Darren GerdesHOST
On top of a week of not good things.
Darren GerdesHOST
Okay, so this is why I wrote, Max Boot says, this is why I wrote that the Lindsey Graham Act was a bad idea.
Darren GerdesHOST
It gives the president the power to waive its sanctions on Russia, which Trump is predictably doing.
Darren GerdesHOST
Now, it's not that the Lindsey Graham Act is a bad idea.
Matt ScottUNKNOWN
... yeah.
Matt ScottUNKNOWN
Chris Luxon, he, he talked about he'd been reading Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot, which I thought was, uh, predictable maybe.
Matt ScottUNKNOWN
I don't know.
Wallace ChapmanGUEST
[laughs]
Emile DonovanHOST
Ryan Bridge, the host of the debate, asked, uh, the respective Christophers what the last book they read was.
Emile DonovanHOST
Christopher Luxon said it was Reagan, which is a biography about the US President Ronald Reagan by Max Boot.
Emile DonovanHOST
Christopher Hipkins said it was, uh, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which he described as, uh, quote, "A little depressing." Anyone who's read that book knows that that is a bit like describing the sun as pretty hot.
Emile DonovanHOST
But it got us thinking here on Nights, what, if anything, our politicians' reading habits, and not even just politicians, just people more generally, what, if anything, one's reading habits can tell us about people? And whether this is an interesting question for politicians as well.
David RubensteinGUEST
and put them in a book recently.
David RubensteinGUEST
And the authors that I interviewed are people like Ken Burns, Michael Beschloss, Chris Wallace, Max Boot, David Marinus, Beverly Gage, Admiral McRaven, David McCullough.
David RubensteinGUEST
So American heroes like Admiral McRaven, who captured Osama bin Laden, were great authors.
David RubensteinGUEST
you know, on subjects of history, or people like David Grand, who's written a lot of bestsellers, or Arthur Brooks, who's written a book about happiness, or Eric Smith about artificial intelligence.
Matthew ScottPANELIST
Oh, that's a good idea.
Matthew ScottPANELIST
Chris Luxen, he'd been reading Reagan, His Life and Legend by Max Boot, which I thought was... uh predictable maybe i don't know and hipkins he he had an interesting choice he'd been he's been reading cormac mccarthy's the road which if you don't know it's an incredibly bleak sort of post-apocalyptic tale happy days yeah so i was just looking up um you know a few what some other politicians better starts now love to read better starts now well there's only one way to go um there's only up when you're in the uh in cormac mccarthy's world there yeah And, yeah, Reagan himself was a big fan of Tom Clancy and Ayn Rand.
Matthew ScottPANELIST
Bill Clinton had a list of favorites where he included Living History by one Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Matthew ScottPANELIST
That was her 2003 memoir.
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