Week of August 20, 2012
Up Front
 Nine Weird Facts About Presidential Conventions HNN Staff |
 Why Are Americans So Confused? Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
News at Home
 Todd Akin and Paul Ryan are American Salafis Juan Cole |
 Is Paul Ryan Jack Kemp, Model 2012? Nicole Hemmer |
 The L-Word: Libertarianism Robert Brent Toplin |
 Ryan's Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden Timothy Walch |
 How Does Obama's Personality Stack Up Against FDR's? Andrew M. Obritsch |
 The 2012 Election: Freedom, Justice, Fairness, and Opportunity Walter G. Moss |
News Abroad
 Wait Out the War in Syria Daniel Pipes |
 Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad Alfred W. McCoy |
 Why Timbuktu Will Overcome Its Latest Fundamentalist Conquerors Steve Kemper |
Historians & History
 Niall Ferguson's Newsweek/Daily Beast Cover Story Ignites a Firestorm HNN Staff |
 Does David Barton's Flameout Make This a Scopes Moment for American History? Adam Laats |
 Rome: The Origin of Empire Greg Woolf |
Blogs
 In Search of New Mythology (Part One) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 In Search of New Mythology (Part Two) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
Culture Watch
 A 1950s Harvest Moon Rises Over Tragedies in a Small Texas Town Bruce Chadwick |
 Judge Seeks Sexual Favors from Young Woman to Save Her Brother. Is this 1604 or 2012? Bruce Chadwick |
 Tweets and Twitters: A Mormon Runs for President Bruce Chadwick |
 Summer, 1938: Parody of The Sound of Music Hits All the Right Notes Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Clint Hill's and Lisa McCubbin's Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir Vaughn Davis Bornet |
 Review of Kevin Levin's Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder Jim Cullen |