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Week of August 19, 2013

#1  Mark Lawrence Schrad: Boycotting Vodka Won’t Help Russia’s Gays

#2  Walter Laqueur: The Myth of German Jewish Guilt

#3  Ron Radosh: The Nation’s Continuing Denial of Soviet Espionage

#4  Zheng Wang: It’s All About Mao

#5  Juan Cole: Bradley Manning in a World of Cheneys, Hadithas, and NSA Domestic Surveillance

#6  Daniel Pipes: Obama's Foreign Fiasco

#7  Angela Y. Davis: Indefinite Solitary Confinement Violates Human Rights

#8  Stephen Mihm: How Computers Took Over Trading

#9  Claire Potter: The Ten Commandments of Graduate School

#10  Andrew Delbanco: Lincoln's Long Game