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…

Informed in 1960 that the Rev. Martin Luther King, Senior would be voting for the Protestant Richard Nixon, Sen. Jack Kennedy smiled and said: “We all have fathers.” It was typical of his wit. Kennedy’s own father was a notorious…

They let Joe Biden out without a leash again. He went to China this month and pronounced the Communist giant’s one child policy “repugnant.” That was, of course, after he told a Chinese audience at Chengdu University that “your policy…