Week of March 19, 2012
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Questions People are Googling
- Where Did the Term "The West" Originate?
- What Qualifies as Demagoguery?
- How Did the Atomic Bomb Get Built?
News at Home
 Memo to Pundits: Stop Calling Rick Santorum a Fascist Michelle Nickerson |
 I Studied Savonarola, I Wrote About Savonarola, and Rick Santorum, Sir, You are No Savonarola Donald Weinstein |
 The Value of Shaming the Banks? Around $2 Billion. Joe Krudler |
 Why Drug Companies Can Take Your Body Tissue Without Your Consent: Interview with Bioethicist Harriet A. Washington Robin Lindley |
News Abroad
 Try a Little Nuclear Sanity Lawrence S. Wittner |
Historians & History
 Did France Cause the Great Depression? Douglas Irwin |
 March is Texas History Month -- So Let's Remember the Alamo Through a New Lens John Willingham |
Culture Watch
 Could HBO's Game Change Change the Game of Politics? Robert Brent Toplin |
 Little Known World War II Court-Martial Gets Vibrant New Hearing Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Thomas Mallon's Watergate: A Novel Jim Cullen |
 Review of Craig L. Symonds's The Battle of Midway Luther Spoehr |