Week of March 12, 2012
Up Front
 Editor's Desk: Ireland's Abortionist Saint (and Other Saint Patrick's Day Musings) |
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 It's Been Fifty Years Since We "Discovered" Poverty -- Has Anything Really Changed? Barbara Ehrenreich |
 Damn Yankees Musical about 1950s Hits Home Run Bruce Chadwick |
 The Moral Crusade Against Contraception Won't Work John W. Johnson |
Polls
Questions People are Googling
- Who are the Afghans?
- When Did the Killing of Civilians in War Become Illegal?
- Why Do Historians Write About Race, Class & Gender?
News at Home
 The Georgia Senate Tries to Whitewash the Founding Fathers James C. Cobb |
 What the War over Contraception is Really About: Control over Women's Bodies Ruth Rosen |
 Does Barack Obama Have True Political Wisdom? (Yes, He Does.) Walter G. Moss |
News Abroad
 Obama Breaks New Ground When It Comes to War With Iran Tom Engelhardt |
 The Arab World As It Was Seen Fifty Years Ago Daniel Pipes |
Historians & History
 Corroborating MLK's Quote on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism Martin Kramer |
 Comparing the British Giants: Niall Ferguson and Tony Judt Nick Shepley |
 Postcard from Potsdam: Frederick the Great Gets the Full Museum Treatment Kevin Kennedy |
 How to Write a Good Memoir (It Helps If You Were Once Targeted by the Unabomber) Lawrence S. Wittner |
 The Solution for Rising Textbook Costs? Free Peer-Reviewed Textbooks. David J. Trowbridge |
Culture Watch
 I Love Downton Abbey, Because the Granthams are (Essentially) My Ancestors Pearl Duncan |
Books
 Review of Dave Zirin's Bad Sports: How Owners are Ruining the Games We Love Jim Cullen |
 Review of Robert K. Massie's Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman Jim Cullen |