Kent Christopher Owen died December 5, 2015. He began his life in Owen County, Indiana, and being a seventh generation Hoosier was ideally suited to become Indiana editor of The American Spectator when it relocated to our nation’s capital thirty…

Rome 1960: The Olympics That changed the World By David Maraniss (Simon & Schuster, 478 pages, $26.95) Reviewed by Alan B. Somers In 2004, NBC presented a program titled “1960: The Last Olympics of Innocence,” and in 2008 David Maraniss…