Tony Dolan, who died this month at age 76, was a sage to many and a friend to freedom lovers around the world.

View of a clip of President Reagan's famous 1987 Berlin Wall speech in which he asks Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall." Video courtesy of Reagan Presidential Library.

Shortly after the Berlin Wall was torn down, prominent political leaders and commentators concluded that the U.S. military buildup under President Ronald Reagan had won the Cold War. "We were ...

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.