I’ve been fussing in the office this week about “popular historian” Douglas Brinkley trying to wipe off the stain of his Kerry-campaign hack book Tour of Duty (which should have been called “Tour of Corrections”) by doing a book boosting the boys of Pointe Du Hoc, and praising Reagan’s D-Day speech honoring them in 1984. Reagan’s on the cover of U.S. News this week, and Jay Nordlinger put the lie to Brinkley’s centering pose today by quoting this sentence: “Even though Reaganites tried to pretend for political purposes that the Vietnam War was a morally justified crusade, in their heads and hearts they knew better.” Bravo, Jay!