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Crazy, Fascinating & Horrifying:  Latest Edition

This Edition:  NRA, Hillary, Mussolini, French Kissing, beer, and lots more.

A Tale of Two Conventions

by Jill Lepore

The spectacles in Cleveland and Philadelphia both came down to a question as old as the Republic: who are the people and who speaks for them?

Trump Versus Hitler: What We Can Learn From Weimar Germany

by Nathan Stoltzfus

The US is not facing a ‘Weimar Moment’ as the Germans did when they first elected Hitler, but the comparisons between the Fuhrer and Trump warrant thought.

Hillary Clinton: Victim of Her Own Success

by Ellen Fitzpatrick

She’s a great fund-raiser and a decisive leader. Why are these suddenly negatives?

Tim LaHaye's sex-ed legacy

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Before he wrote novels about the apocalypse, he and his wife opened right-wing Christian married couples’ eyes.

Roundup Top 10!

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

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About

This Week ... Annette Gordon-Reed, Peter Onuf, Simon Schama, Jon Wiener, Jelani Cobb, Ron Radosh and more!

The Terrorist Past Has a Message for the Terrorist Present

by Max Boot

History suggests that Europe’s current wave of terror can be ameliorated, if not entirely stopped.

Tell Me Again. Why Should a Party Leader Be Above Politics?

by Gil Troy

The 19th-century humorist Finley Peter Dunne famously insisted that “politics ain’t beanbag.” Remember?

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This Week ... The London Underground, Pokemon, Hitler and art, Black Lives Matter and more. 

Taking the Nostalgia of Trump Supporters Seriously

by Stephanie Coontz

Nostalgia often arises out of a real experience of loss. It needs to be addressed and redirected, not ridiculed or denounced. And that applies to the nostalgia that motivates a considerable number of Trump supporters.

Five Things About Trump’s Rise That Would Make Xi Jinping Smile

by Jeffrey Wasserstrom

Trump’s dystopian oration, was music to the ears of someone hoping, like Xi, to see global admiration for the United States lessen.

Why Countries Never Thrive Without Activist Government Investment

by William Berkson

History shows that economies have never grown through minimizing government involvement in the economy.

Paranoid Republidents for Trump

by Niall Ferguson

Trump's movement rests on what Richard Hofstadter called the "paranoid style of American politics."

Video of the Week: The Media's Years Of Sexist Attacks On Hillary Clinton

The media has spent years hurling sexist attacks at presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

The theory of political leadership that Donald Trump shares with Adolf Hitler

by Peter Ross Range

"I alone can fix it" and the personalization of a political movement.

The revenge of unrealistic expectations

by Robert J. Samuelson

It’s the revolution of rising expectations again.

History tells us what will happen next with Brexit & Trump

by Tobias Stone

It seems we’re entering another of those stupid seasons humans impose on themselves at fairly regular intervals.

Is Donald Trump a Racist?

by Nicholas Kristof

Clues come from decades of words and actions.

Polls show evangelicals support Trump. But the term ‘evangelical’ has become meaningless.

by Thomas S. Kidd

Early evangelical leaders such as George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards would be utterly perplexed by the way we use the word “evangelical.”