Week of October 22, 2012
News at Home
 The Curious Creation (and Unintended Consequences) of the Electoral College The Framers would be aghast at our electoral politics today. |
 Presidential “Czars”: A Constitutional Aberration Obama has appointed more executive branch czars than any other president. |
 Barack D. Eisenhower Why Obama is like Ike. |
 Hetch Hetchy Redux: An Effort to Turn Back the Environmental Clock Inside the efforts to drain the San Francisco reservoir. |
News Abroad
 Face/Off: The Last 2012 Presidential Debate On foreign policy, the candidates are practically identical. |
 Big Maps, Big Dreams, and the Failure of the Obama Doctrine Don't count on the Pentagon ever changing its first principles. |
 Why the Only Solution is the Two-State Solution A one-state solution means the end of a Jewish Israel. |
Historians & History
 The Importance of Doing Recent History Navigating a bewildering world of new sources, new media, and information overload. |
 The Inevitability of the Cold War Six months in 1945 determined the course of the next half-century. |
Blogs
High Speed Amtrak: Part II Amtrak's Quik-Trip from Chicago to St. Louis. |
With Apologies to Browning... The GOP's rape problem. |
Books
 Review of Emily Bernard's Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance |
 Review of Paul S. Boyer's American History: A Very Short Introduction A solid, workmanlike, and inexpensive approach to U.S. history for students. |