Week of July 11, 2011
HNN Roundtable: Do Democrats Have a Double Standard for Obama?
Liberals Need to Stop Making Excuses
Bernard A. Weisberger
Progressives Don’t Have a Double Standard—But Partisan Democratic Talking Heads Do
Michael Lind
Progressive Are Disenchanted with Obama—Abolitionists Were Disenchanted with Lincoln
Kenneth W. Mack
Republicans Are Inconsistent with Obama, But Democrats Are Hypocritical
Daniel Pipes
Is Obama So Bad at Impromptu Remarks that He Can't Handle More News Conferences?
Rick Shenkman
Obama Should Own His Continuities with the Bush White House
Gil Troy
News at Home
The Partnership of Betty and Gerald Ford
Yanek Mieczkowski
Betty Ford's Candor Hurt Gerald Ford's Presidency - but Enhanced his Historical Reputation
Gil Troy
We Need to Rethink the Morality of the Economy
James Livingston
UT-Austin Issues Strong Defense of Humanities
John Willingham
News Abroad
The U.N. May Be Dysfunctional, But It's the Kind of Dysfunction That Its Founders Intended
Adam Chapnick
Charter 08’s Qing Dynasty Precursor
Jane Leung Larson and Feng Chongyi
Culture Watch
Tyne Daly Sensational as Maria Callas, Star of Opera History
Bruce Chadwick
Analyze This: On the Eve of World War II, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis Spar in an Intellectual Boxing Match
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Artemy M. Kalinovsky's A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Jim Cullen