Scott Horton, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, The Libertarian Institute, 318 pages. I was one of the first American officials to arrive in Kabul at the end of 2001.

The first definitive reference to April Fools’ Day came in 1561, in a Flemish poem by Eduard de Dene. The poem tells of a nobleman sending his servant on fruitless errands. The servant ...

Eventually, people found joy in this day, that they began to fool others by sending friends on ‘fool errands’ and have fun when their pranks were revealed. This custom was mostly observed in the ...