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Roundup Top 10!

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  • Willard Sterne Randall: Our Founding Fathers Were Broke
  • Julian Zelizer: Many Wild Cards Could Swing the 2012 Presidential Race
  • Tom Switzer: Not Only Nixon Could Go to China
  • Andrew Roberts: The Greek Crisis ... Europe's 'Proud Empire' is Entering a Cul de Sac of History
  • Andrew J. Bacevich: The American Century Is Over— Good Riddance
  • Victor Davis Hanson: Why States Like Iran Can't Have Nukes
  • Geoffrey Kabaservice: How the GOP’s Looming Election Disaster Is, And Isn’t, Like 1964
  • Jeremy Diamond and Davida Aronovitch: The War of 1812 ... Stupid but Important
  • Sarah Mousa: How Nasser Shaped the Arab Spring
  • Lewis L. Gould: Teddy, Teddy, Enough Already

    • Posted on Friday, February 24, 2012 - 11:40
    On Other Websites: Week of February 13, 2012

     

  • Mary L. Dudziak: This War Is Not Over Yet

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  • Niall Ferguson: We're All State Capitalists Now

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  • Beverly Gage: The Government Had a Better Idea for Fixing Income Inquality 100 Years Ago

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  • Tim Stanley: God Save the Queen ... Why the British Monarchy May Not Outlive Elizabeth

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  • Jeremy Paxman: British Empire was an Amazing Thing

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  • Thomas Bender: What's Been Lost in History

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  • Thomas Sowell: The ‘Progressive’ Legacy ... In the Footsteps of TR and Wilson

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  • Benny Morris: On Iran, Israel Faces a Stark Choice

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  • Robert W. Merry: Obama and the War Decision

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  • John Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr: J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Spy? No. But a Communist Once? Yes.

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    Posted on Friday, February 17, 2012 - 11:55
    On Other Websites ... Week of February 6, 2012
  • Elizabeth Tandy Shermer: The Long War Between the States (for Business)
  • Niall Ferguson: Israel and Iran on the Eve of Destruction in a New Six-Day War
  • Rick Perlstein: What Mitt Romney Learned From His Dad
  • Simon Schama: Dickens Made Masterpieces Out of Modern Cruelties
  • Susana Ferreira: The Rebranding of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier
  • Judith Stein: Where Recessions Don't Matter -- At the Fed
  • Thomas J. Sugrue: Saul Alinsky -- The Activist Who Terrifies the Right
  • Andrew Roberts: How the Queen Saved and Soothed Britain
  • Mark N. Katz: The Moscow-Damascus Alliance: A Tangled Tale
  • Paul Bew: What Did Churchill Really Think About Ireland?

    • Posted on Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 20:01
    On Other Websites: Week of January 30, 2012
  • Harold Holzer: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Weren’t As Great As Gingrich Thinks
  • Niall Ferguson: How the Rising Bottom Billion Could Explode Inequality at Home
  • Steve Gillon: How Newt Gingrich, the Ultimate Washington Insider, Plays the Part of Outsider
  • Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp: Mormons’ Double Legacy
  • Fouad Ajami: The Last Battle of the Cold War
  • Dmitry Shlapentokh: Imperial Errors Cost U.S. the Middle East
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Are College Students Learning?
  • Uri Friedman: 2012 ... The Darkest Falklands Anniversary Yet?
  • Reza Kahlili: History of Failed Negotiations Shows Iran Won't Deal
  • Piers Paul Read: France is Still Fractured by the Dreyfus Affair

    • Posted on Friday, February 3, 2012 - 11:24