Birthdays are important to celebrate – yes, as milestones, but also as markers of significance. And consequence. One hundred and twelve years ago Monday, on February 6, 1911, Ronald Wilson ...

Secret Services agents and police swarm a gunman, obscured from view, after he attempted an assassination on President Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton hotel on Monday, March 30, 1981.

It takes a heart of stone, for instance, not to be moved by Reagan’s 1987 “tear down this wall” in Berlin every time you hear it. Like Lincoln or Truman, Reagan belongs to all of us now, and ...

Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan That Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America. The Free Press, $30 (549pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-0123-0.