Mr. Honan, a journalist, is working on "Stealing the Fire," a forthcoming documentary about the black market for nuclear weapons technology. "For a great building project I would, like Faust, have ...

Mr. Walch is an independent historian who has written extensively on the Hoover presidency and is a writer for the History News Service. Herbert Hoover, where are you now that we need you? Hurricane ...

Mr. Lazere is professor emeritus of English at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. A second, shorter edition of his Reading and Writing for Civic Literacy: The Critical Citizen’s Guide to Argumentative ...