Roundup

The Most Amazing Museums in the World

This infographic explores incredible museums that house amazing artwork and items of great historical value.

Why Teens Become Terrorists and What Schools Can Do

by Alan Singer

American young people are not immune to the attraction of Islamic fundamentalism and fighters, although the number that have joined ISIS is probably much smaller.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s Three Southern Villains

by James Reston, Jr.

Whatever happened to the Southern villains?

Despite ceasefire, Ukraine could be going the way of Yugoslavia

by Erika Harris

To stop Ukraine taking the catastrophic Yugoslav route, the outside world must take the ethno-national aspects of the conflict seriously.

Excessive Presidential War Power

by Ivan Eland

Barack Obama, after six months of fighting against the brutal group ISIS, has finally decided to ask for congressional approval of his war.

We are not a Christian nation: Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy and the eternal lie of the “city upon a hill”

by Peter Manseau

John Winthrop's "city upon a hill" dominates presidential rhetoric and our self-understanding. Here's the problem

What Actually Causes American Fear of Islam and Muslims?

by Daniel Pipes

"Maybe it's Islamists who are prompting powerful and spontaneous responses through their threatening behavior. Maybe we critics are not 'intentionally spreading lies' but honestly interpreting Islamist aggression and supremacism."

Like Many Others, Jeb Bush Put Checkered Youth Behind

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Should youthful indiscretions be held against Jeb Bush?

The Valentine’s Day Fatwa

by James D. Le Sueur

Since 1989, February 14 has been a dark anniversary for Salman Rushdie and everyone else who values freedom of expression.

Hollywood’s first hit film was an embarrassingly racist movie about the Klan

by William Loren Katz

'The Birth of a Nation': A Century Later

Weimar on the Aegean

by Paul Krugman

Greek debt and the lessons of history.

When Jim Crow Got Cut From Spring Training

by Michael Beschloss

By the time President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which desegregated public accommodations throughout the United States, every major league squad that trained in Florida was lodging its black and white players together.

George Washington, Slave Catcher

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Our first president relentlessly pursued the fugitive Ona Judge.

Why Movie ‘Facts’ Prevail

by Jeffrey M. Zacks

Studies show that if you watch a film — even one concerning historical events about which you are informed — your beliefs may be reshaped by “facts” that are not factual.

Distorting Christian History to Defend Islam

Secularism didn’t save the West from religious excesses, and it won’t save us from jihadists.

Argentina’s History of Assassinations and Suspicious Suicides

by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica

The persistence of state-connected violence and intrigue in Argentina goes way back.

Our Neanderthals, Ourselves

by Elizabeth Kolbert

It turns out, though, that the depiction of Neanderthals as hairy, club-wielding brutes—popular ever since the first Neanderthal bones were discovered, in the eighteen-fifties—says more about us than it does about them.

Roundup Top 10!

This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

How Not to Be the Next Brian Williams

by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons

Ten ways to avoid false memories.

Is it too early to start writing biographies of George W. Bush?

by David Greenberg

In a new biography James Mann largely exempts Bush’s anti-regulatory stance from culpability for the debacle of 2008, placing most of the blame on decisions made under Bill Clinton.