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Week of July 22, 2013

#1  H.R. McMaster: The Pipe Dream of Easy War

#2  Sidney Blumenthal: Romanticizing the Villains of the Civil War

#3  Matthias Strohn: Remember World War I as a Global War

#4  Stephen R. Kelly: How French Canadian Immigration Helped Build America

#5  Daniel Pipes: Islamism's Likely Doom

#6  Cindy Hahamovitch: The Lessons of Belle Glade

#7  Jeffrey Wasserstrom: A Reformist Chinese Leader? Stop Fooling Yourself

#8  Louis René Beres: What Does It Mean to Kill for a Cause?

#9  Jennifer Lind: The Limits on Nationalism in Japan

#10   Robert Zaretsky: Why the French Love a Parade