In the British television show "Doctor Who," in the episode called “The Curse of Fenric,” the local parish priest is troubled by the thought of “British bombs killing German children” in World War II. Is the vicar to be applauded for his conscientious objection to war or lambasted for being a tool of the Nazis?

A writer during the American Civil War wrote a poem called “Christmas Bells.” Almost a century later, this Longfellow poem was set to music by Johnny Marks, and called “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” It sounds to me like the writer is blaming both sides for the lack of peace.

President Abraham Lincoln famously said about Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, “I can’t spare this man; he fights.” What did Lincoln mean by this remark?

Both Lincoln and Grant understood that in order to win th

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