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Roundup Top 10!

This page provides a weekly list of the Top 10 excerpts from our Roundup Department. The list is emailed to HNN subscribers every Friday. Click here to subscribe to our free newsletter.

  • Week of October 25, 2010
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  • Week of October 11, 2010
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    Week of October 25, 2010

    #1  Simon Schama: Time for the Great Orator to Talk Back

    #2  Daniel Ellsberg: Like My Pentagon Papers, These Iraq War Logs Can't Be Buried

    #3  Andrew J. Bacevich: Can Wikileaks Actually Make Americans Care About Iraq Again?

    #4  Max Hastings: British Military Thinking Must Get Cleverer

    #5  Douglas Feith: Can Israel Be Jewish and Democratic?

    #6  Rick Perlstein: That Seventies Show

    #7  Stanley Kutler: Tea Party Robber Barons

    #8  David Greenberg: Hating Woodrow Wilson

    #9  Victor Davis Hanson: Three Wars, Little News

    #10  Terry Smith: Why We Have, and Should Keep, the 17th Amendment

    Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 - 10:46
    Week of October 18, 2010

    #1  Diane Ravitch: The Myth of Charter Schools

    #2  Thaddeus Russell: Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History

    #3  Max Boot: Britain Bows Out of the Security Game

    #4  Russell J. Rickford: Are We Commodities?

    #5  Ron Radosh: The Dangers of Politicized Conservative History

    #6  Marc Stein: Gay Rights and the Supreme Court: The Early Years

    #7  Guy Sorman: France's Perpetual Revolution

    #8  Julian E. Zelizer: Obama Dropped Ball on Campaign Reform

    #9  Charles Dorn: Disappointed Obama Isn't FDR?

    #10  Piers Brendon: Will China Seek Revenge for Its Century of Humiliation at the Hands of the West?

    Posted on Thursday, October 21, 2010 - 23:32
    Week of October 11, 2010

    #1  Robert Dallek: The Tyranny of Metaphor in U.S. Foreign Policy

    #2  Sean Wilentz: The Tea Party’s Cold War Roots

    #3  Victor Davis Hanson: Deficits and Depression

    #4  Stanley Kutler: The Bipartisan Politics of Fear

    #5  Stephanie Coontz: Why 'Mad Men' is TV's Most Feminist Show<

    #6  Timothy Garton Ash: This Nobel Prize was Bold and Right – But Hits China's Most Sensitive Nerve

    #7  Julian E. Zelizer: 'Big Tent' Already Thing of the Past

    #8  Juan Cole: Ahmadinejad and the Limits of American and Israeli Power

    #9  Barbara Ransby: The Rot of D’Souza’s Rant

    #10  Jon Wiener: John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Deportation Battle

    Posted on Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 20:47
    Week of October 4, 2010

    #1 Julian E. Zelizer:"Facebook Politics" is Fleeting
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132154.html

    #2 Victor Davis Hanson: The Gift of Obama’s Foreign Policy
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132187.html

    #3 Jack Carlson: Obama as Roman Emperor
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132176.html

    #4 Kevin Drum: Tea Party: Old Whine in New Bottles
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132055.html

    #5 Jonathan Zimmerman: Homophobia Hurts Straight Men, Too
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132217.html

    #6 Gary Schmitt: The Demilitarization of Europe
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132211.html

    #7 James M. Fly and John Noonan: Iraq's Post-War Stability Is Crucial
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132214.html

    #8 Andrew J. Bacevich: Obama Can't Stand Up to His Generals—And That's Dangerous
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132126.html

    #9 Steven Pearlstein: The Cost of Rising Income Inequality
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132198.html

    #10 Jay Bookman: Gingrich Cheats as a Historian, Too
    http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/132226.html

    Posted on Monday, October 11, 2010 - 16:25