Week of November 19, 2012
Up Front
 How True is Lincoln? |
 Just how true are the old myths? (The answer: Not very.) |
Blogs
 Class: The Missing Link in the Story of Election 2012 The Democrats risk losing the next election unless the narrative of the election is about class. |
 Petraeus's Tragedy "No room for my Merit Badges!" |
Google Questions
 How Many Women Have Served in Congress? Short answer: 277, nearly a third of whom are currently serving. |
News Abroad
 The March of Scandal from Pericles to Petraeus There's nothing new about a powerful man being brought down by sex. |
 Turkey's Islamist Turn, Ten Years Later Erdoğan is undoing the work of Atatürk. |
 Facing Another Kind of Cliff Obama and the future of U.S. strategic doctrine. |
Historians & History
 Remember: Those Notorious Anti-Semitic "Protocols" are Fiction! They continue to be an anti-Semitic canard. |
 Channelling the Spirit of 1800 This Post-Election Season Can we become friends like Adams or Jefferson, or will we stay enemies like Hamilton and Burr? |
Culture Watch
 Daniel Day-Lewis's Abe Lincoln: (Racial) Trailblazer |
 You Can’t Lose with Little Kids, Dogs or Dick Nixon Checkers at New York's Vineyard Theater. |
 A Little Fire and Brimstone And a lot of Aimee Semple McPherson in this Roaring Twenties musical |
 Dickens's "Drood" is a Winner A veritable carnival of nineteenth-century skits and spoofs. |
Books
 Review of Marguerite Bouvard's The Invisible Wounds of War |
 Review of Rape: Weapon of War and Genocide, edited by John K. Roth and Carol Rittner Not easy reading, but necessary. |