In a time when the chaos of news-by-the-minute assaults the senses of those who yearn for perspective and analysis, it can be instructive to look back to April 1945, a month that gave the world 30 ...

The objective was to make the enemy decide that Hitler and Hirohito weren’t worth fighting for anymore—to cause soldiers to surrender and civilians to despair or even resist. Verisimilitude ...

Let history not repeat itself. We once fought to end the fascist regimes of Mussolini, Hitler, and Hirohito. Why are we heading in that direction now? Remember Acton’s quote: “Power tends to ...