Week of September 17, 2012
Blogs
 Registering to Vote, Then and Now Jim Loewen |
 The Myth of Arab (Or Is It Muslim?) Rage Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
 Who Should Make Our Foreign Policy? Steve Hochstadt |
 What are They Trying to Tell Us? Josh Brown's Life During Wartime |
 Let's Not Rush to Judge Mitt's Libyan Rush to Judgment Gil Troy |
Google Questions
 Why Can Paul Ryan Run for Vice President and Congress at the Same Time? David Austin Walsh |
News at Home
 What Nixon Wrought With the Checkers Speech ... And What Romney Can Learn Kevin Mattson |
 Lincoln Would Choose Obama over Romney Daniel Herman |
 No Julian Castro Without Mother Rosie Castro Cynthia E. Orozco |
 America Needs an Industrial Policy Judith Stein |
 Fifty Years After Silent Spring, Let's Not Roll Back Environmental Protections Nancy C. Unger |
News Abroad
 Judging Romney Fairly K.C. Johnson |
 Romney, Reagan, and Campaign Foreign Policy Chester Pach |
 The “Muslim” Problem Daniel Martin Varisco |
 Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect Juan Cole |
 The Arab Spring and the Loss of Innocence Andrew Meyer |
Historians & History
 The Cuban Missile Crisis, According to Harvard Max Holland |
 The Grand Old Party Ain't What It Used To Be: Interview with Lewis L. Gould David Austin Walsh |
 Katyń: A History Written in Blood and Tears Padraic Kenney |
 How Trauma Shaped Renowned Writing: Interview with Doug Underwood Robin Lindley |
Education
 Chicago Teachers Strike a Blow Against Testing Ronald W. Evans |
Culture Watch
 On Jews and Baseball for the High Holidays Peter Ephross |
 New "Oliver Twist" Plays Takes Searing Look at London’s Criminal Class in the 1830s Bruce Chadwick |
 The Little Tramp, His Four Wives, Eight Children, Five Film Companies and Even J. Edgar Hoover Conquer the Stage in Chaplin Bruce Chadwick |
Books
 Review of Roger Peace's A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign Murray Polner |
 Review of Eric Laursen's The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan Robert D. Parmet |