If I Were the Devil

Today most Americans get their news through a website or app, streamed directly to their phones. A generation or two ago, most Americans got their news from the radio. One of the most respected radio broadcasters was Paul Harvey. Engaging, emphatic, personal, and charming, Paul Harvey was known for his weekday broadcast entitled The Rest of the Story. In 1965, he read a two-minute speech entitled “If I Were the Devil.”1 Thirty-one years later, he edited the speech and rebroadcast it as both a...