The choice is yours, to download an 845 page PDF file, the “FINAL REPORT of the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol” or buy one of several editions at a bookstore, order it from a library or buy if from the U.S. government. It was published Dec. 22, 2022.

Start at the front, reading the forwards from former Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Ms) or Vice-Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wy).

Pelosi’s is titled “The Last Best Hope of Earth,” taken from Abraham Lincoln’s phrase, “nobly save,...