Roundup Top 10!

February 10, 2012

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?

February 3, 2012

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

January 30, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of January 23, 2012

Julian Zelizer: It Took a Scandal to Get Real Campaign Finance Reform Juan Cole: South Carolina and Gingrich; Egypt and the Muslim Brotherhood Walter Russell Mead: The Once and Future Liberalism Paul Gillespie: Obama Channels Nixon in Asia Pivot Elliott Abrams: Gingrich is No Reagan Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman: How Slavery Led to Modern Capitalism Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Reading about Moscow (With Beijing on My Mind) Michael Dobbs: Could Bill Clinton Have Prevented The Srebrenica Massacre? Michael Lind: How Conservatives Lie About Government William Boyd: Why World War I Resonates

January 20, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of January 16, 2012

Stephen Tuck: King of All Nations Julian Zelizer: Gingrich's Attacks Now Could Help Obama Later Niall Ferguson: Rich America, Poor America Simon Schama: Why Americans Have Fallen for Snobby "Downton Abbey" Hendrik Hartog: Bargaining for a Child’s Love Jonathan Zimmerman: How Rick Santorum and America can be 'Exceptional': Avoid Empire Sol Stern: Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Israelophobia Michael Kazin: The End of the Christian Right Praveen Swami: America Embracing the Taliban, Again Michael Wahid Hanna: The Iraqi Revolution We’ll Never Know

January 13, 2012

On Other Websites: Week of January 9, 2012

Gil Troy: Not Set in Granite B. R. Myers: Dynasty, North Korean-Style Philip Zelikow: Obama's Foreign Policy is Reminiscent of Eisenhower’s Burton Folsom, Jr. and Anita Folsom: Washington Shouldn't Be Responsible for Infrastructure Rick Perlstein: Santorum's 'Freedom' is Pretty Much Slavery Richard Vinen: Britain Needs to Forgive and Forget the Iron Lady Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper: How Empire Ruled the World Geoffrey Kabaservice: “Moderate” is an Obscenity for Conservatives Max Boot: Overspending the Peace Dividend Jonathan M. Hansen: Give Guantánamo Back to Cuba

December 23, 2011

On Other Websites: Weeks of December 19 & 26, 2011

Alan Wolfe: Evil Ain't What It Used to Be Michael Lind: Hitchens, Gossip Columnist of Genius Louis Hyman: How Did World War II End the Great Depression? Andrew J. Bacevich: After Iraq, War is U.S. Daniel Pipes: Tehran Holds Obama Re-Election Wild Card Post Carbon Institute: 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds Rodric Braithwaite: The Myths of Russia Peter Clarke: Churchill is a Poor Lodestar for Cameron’s Isolationism Jonathan Zimmerman: FAMU Hazing, Robert Champion: Violent Rituals Don't Make Men Stronger Melanie Kirkpatrick: The World's Most Repressive State

December 16, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of December 12, 2011

Niall Ferguson: Putin's Russia on Its Way to Global Irrelevance Harold James: The British 'Non' John Sainsbury: In the Afterglow, a Balanced View of Empire Scott Farris: It’s Almost-Presidents’ Day! Robert A. Slayton: When a Catholic Terrified the Heartland Benny Morris: Israel's Endangered Left Caroline Glick: Yes, Palestinians Are an Invented People David Wise: China’s Spies Are Catching Up Tim Padgett: Panama Hasn't Overcome Strong-Man Past Gar Alperovitz: Worker-Owners of America, Unite!

December 14, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of December 5, 2012

Simon Schama: Why America Should Care About the Collapse of European Unity Adam Hochschild: What Gingrich Didn’t Learn in Congo Benjamin Soskis: How Pundits are Misreading Obama's Speech—and Teddy Roosevelt's Michael Kazin: Why a Gingrich vs. Obama Matchup Would Be Good For the Country Walter Russell Mead: Mission Sort of Accomplished in Iraq Steven F. Hayward: Is Newt Like Churchill? Arthur Herman: A New Pearl Harbor? Paul R Pillar: Debasing Nazism Craig Shirley: Five Myths About Pearl Harbor Robert J. Samuelson: The Welfare State's Reckoning

December 2, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of November 28, 2011

Robert Dallek: Kennedy, Reagan, Loved for All the Wrong Reasons Jonathan Zimmerman: Newt Gingrich, Pseudo-Historian Max Boot: The Iran Threat Gideon Rachman: Will Europe Relive 1930s Nightmare? James Livingston: It's Black Friday: Spend for Your Soul Timothy Garton Ash: And Now, Bang Go Britain's Tabloids Lawrence Downes: Of Poor Farmers and ‘Famous Men’ Walter Russell Mead: Cairo ... Paris of the East? Fouad Ajami: Egypt and the Fruits of the Pharaohs Ed Pilkington: Being Stalin's Daughter

November 30, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of November 21, 2011

Errol Morris: The Umbrella ManJohn Fea: Is a Historian Worth $1.6 Million?Niall Ferguson: The European Union Is DoomedDavid Gilmour: The End of ItalyJeff Madrick: America’s New Robber BaronsDaniel Amsterdam: Down and Out (Again): America's Long Struggle with Mass UnemploymentFouad Ajami: Why Are We Still Backing Hamid Karzai?Victor Davis Hanson: Why Does America Defend the Weak and Small?Robert Fisk: Ukraine, 1942. What Are We Seeing?Lisa Pease: The Other Kennedy Conspiracy

November 18, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of November 14, 2011

Maurizio Viroli: Can Italy Put Berlusconi Behind It? Walter Russell Mead: Listen Up, Boomers: The Backlash Has Begun Niall Ferguson: Europe’s Disaster Is Headed Our Way Jonathan Zimmerman: Penn State, Sandusky, and Paterno Andrew Hartman: Occupy Wall Street: a New Culture War? Robert K. Massie: Catherine the Great's Lessons for Despots Michael Lind: America Needs More Powerful Bureaucrats Victor Davis Hanson: What America Does Best Ramesh Ponnuru: Republicans Lose Way by Misreading Bush History Tom Engelhardt: How the Movies Saved My Life

November 14, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of November 7, 2011

Jonathan Zimmerman: Of Boys and Big-Time Sports Niall Ferguson: Why the West is Losing Out to the Rest Joyce Appleby: The Wealth Divide Gil Troy: Nasty, Brutish and Long: The Brilliance of the Modern Campaign Michael Kazin: Anarchism Now: Occupy Wall Street Revives an Ideology Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman: Wanted: Worldly Economists Jefferson Cowie: Beyond Ohio: Why Public Sector Unions Need to Show Solidarity for Private Sector Workers Juan Cole: Iran Looks to China, Russia to Break Out of U.S. Sanctions Brian Domitrovic: How Historians Boot the Reagan Revolution Jason Scott Smith: Remember the CWA, A Government Jobs Program That Worked: Echoes

November 7, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of October 31, 2011

Sean Wilentz: The Long and Tragical History of Post-PartisanshipRuth Rosen: Are Male Baby Boomers Doomed To Become Lonely Seniors? Norman Davies: How Historians Will Look Back on Euroland's Demise Niall Ferguson: America's 'Oh Sh*T!' Moment Bruce J. Schulman: The “Smoke-Filled Room” Never Looked So Good Matthew D. Lassiter: Who Speaks for the Silent Majority? Richard Lowry: Europe ... From Colonial Powers to Supplicants David A. Bell: The Case Against Referendums: From Greece to California, They Always End Up Undermining Democracy Walter Isaacson: The Genius of Jobs Paul R. Pillar: Apartheid, Then and Now

October 30, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of October 24, 2011

Andrew Roberts: How Dictators Die James Livingston: It’s Consumer Spending, Stupid Niall Ferguson: Yes, Wall Street Helps the Poor Simon Sebag Montefiore: Dictators Get the Deaths They Deserve Sam Wineburg: Testing Students' Knowledge of the Civil Rights Movement Walter Laqueur: The End of Europe As We Know It Leslie H. Gelb: We Bow to the God Bipartisanship Paul Moreno: Obama's Re-Election Model Is FDRJeremi Suri: Is America Really an Empire? Ivan Katchanovski: Owning A Massacre ... 'Ukraine's Katyn'

October 24, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of October 17, 2011

Thomas Fleming: Wall Street Protesters Channel Thomas Jefferson Amity Shlaes: Three Policies That Gave Us the Jobs Economy Kim Phillips-Fein: In Bleak ’70s, Salvo of Protest Jill Lepore: Forget 9-9-9. Here’s a Simple Plan: 1 Alan Brinkley: Bonus March and Occupy Wall Street David Pilling: China Fears the Spirit of 1911 Andrew J. Bacevich: America ... With God On Our Side David Greenberg: Why Liberals Need Occupy Wall Street, and Vice-Versa Michael Kazin: How Occupy Wall Street Offers a Promising New Model for the Left Michael Medved: Romney’s Nixon Problem

October 14, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of October 10, 2011

Yoni Appelbaum: Can Rhetoric Create a Recession? It Has Before Niall Ferguson: The Geniuses We'll Never Know Max Boot: The War Over the Vietnam WarAlexander J. Field: The Great Depression Was Good for the Economy Steven F. Hayward: The Liberal Misappropriation of a Conservative President Julian E. Zelizer: Why 'Obama the Populist' is Not a Winning Re-Election Theme Wenran Jiang: 100 Years of Revolution in China Eric Alterman: The Era of the 'One Percent' Robert A. Slayton: Reenacting Evil Con Coughlin: Islam's War on the Cross

October 8, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of October 3, 2011

Anthony Grafton and Jim Grossman: No More Plan B: A Very Modest Proposal for Graduate Programs in History H.W. Brands: The End of the Dollar Standard Sidney Blumenthal: Celebrating Bill Clinton's Candidacy Michael Kazin: What the Temperance Movement and the Anti-Abortion Movement Have in Common Martin Kramer: The Middle East Circa 2016 Kevin A. Sabet: Prohibition's Real Lessons for Drug Policy Charles Clover: Putin's Grand Vision and Echoes of ‘1984’ Jonathan Zimmerman: Occupy Wall Street: An American Tradition Since 1776 Doug Saunders: We Live in the Most Peaceful Age Ever Victor Davis Hanson: Democracy’s New Discontents

September 23, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of September 19, 2011

Ron Augustine: The History Education Our Economy Needs Samuel Moyn: Face the Nations Victor Davis Hanson: Can Israel Survive? Michael Kazin: If Republicans Love States’ Rights So Much, Why Do They Want to Be President? Tim Stanley: The Tea Party Isn't Anti-Intellectual -- They Just Don't Like Disasterous Ivy-League Policies Gareth Evans: Israel and America on the Wrong Side of History Max Hastings: There’s No Romance Left in Espionage Joyce S. Goldberg: Why I Can No Longer Teach U.S. Military History James Renton: Palestine's UN Bid: Lessons from the History of Zionism Robert Fisk: German U-Boats Refuelled in Ireland? Surely Not

September 16, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of September 12, 2011

Julian E. Zelizer: If Obama Is a One-Term President Benny Morris: Is Israel Over? Juan Cole: Ten Years After 9/11, Do the Arabs Value Democracy More than We Do? Niall Ferguson: Texting Makes U Stupid Jon Wiener: Pearl Harbor and 9/11 ... A Fleeting Day of Infamy Susan Matt: Are Today's Young Adults Too Emotionally Dependent on Parents? Michael Lind: Pax Americana is Collapsing -- Here's the Debate We Need to Have John Barry: The Ghosts of Israel’s Past Michael Gerson: Obama Fails the Lincoln Test Eric Dezenhall: Operation Underworld ... An Offer An Obama Predecessor Couldn't Refuse

September 14, 2011

On Other Websites: Week of September 5, 2011

Victor Davis Hanson: Post-9/11 Mysteries Niall Ferguson: What If 9/11 Had Never Happened? Tom Engelhardt: Let’s Cancel 9/11 and Bury the War State's Blank Check at Sea Jonathan Zimmerman: For Teachers, No Freedom to Teach about 9/11 Michael Kazin: What Happened to Labor?Stanley Kutler: How Not to Commemorate 9/11 Judith Stein: Wanted: A New Economy Andrew Sullivan: Did Osama Win? Timothy Garton Ash: The Years Since 9/11 Already Look Like A Detour, Not the Main Road of History Fouad Ajami: From 9/11 to the Arab Spring