In honor of president’s day, the Spectator will be republishing this week essays and reviews on our nation’s best — and worst — leaders. George Washington: A CollectionEdited by W.B. Allen/Liberty Fund/561 pp $22.95 Brothers: I am a Warrior, My Words…

In the opening volume of his recent two-volume Catholicism, the Rev. Richard P. McBrien describes the present state of the Catholic Church as one of crisis. Though I should prefer the term confusion, and others would speak even more strongly,…