McClellan, And Other Leaders Who Got It Wrong

American history is replete with examples of military leaders making foolish and erroneous declarations. Perhaps none did so more frequently and with such significant consequences than George B. McClellan, arguably the worst commander in U.S. military history, a man who never missed an opportunity to be wrong with a spectacular inability to

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Pedophiles, Satanists, and the Stories that Haunt Us

My teacher had enough and turned off the VCR. The room was dead silent. For the previous three minutes, our 11th grade class had watched a scene from Helter Skelter, a film based on former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi’s (now largely discredited) account of the Manson Family murders.1 Actor Steve Railsback, portraying Charles

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