Either Donald Trump or Ted Cruz would fail the Alamogordo Test. This could spell disastrous defeat in any general election. What is the Alamogordo Test? I hadn’t realized it myself until I watched — with my Advanced Placement History students…

The Peace That Almost Was: The Forgotten Story of the 1861 Washington Peace Conference and the Final Attempt to Avert the Civil War.By Mark Tooley(Thomas Nelson Press, 297 pages, $26.99) Thucydides begins his immortal Peloponnesian War with the embassies of…