ON THIS DAY IN 1608, JOHN MILTON WAS BORN: He wasn’t the type to sweat fake news: “Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously, by licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt here strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?”