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Week of August 12, 2013

#1  Elizabeth Castelli: Reza Aslan—Historian?

#2  Paul Kennedy: The Great Powers, Then and Now

#3  Christian Donath: Egypt -- Making Sense of the Senseless

#4  Stephen Mihm: New York Had a Hyperloop First, Elon Musk

#5  Shihoko Goto: Japan's Self-Inflicted Wounds

#6  Catherine O’Donnell: History is Useful Tool, Not Answer to Every Problem

#7  Lincoln Mullen: How to Make Prudent Choices About Your Digital Tools

#8  L. Maren Wood: ‘The Afternoon I Decided to Leave Academe’–and What Happened Next

#9  Ronald Radosh: History as Ideology: Further Thoughts on "American Betrayal"

#10  David J. Bobb: Howard Zinn and the Art of Anti-Americanism