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  • Deadbeats
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  • Nanny Alert
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  • A Little Knowledge in the Hands of a Journalist
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  • Johnny, We Know Ye All Too Well
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  • Good News
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  • This just in...
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  • Niall Ferguson: Kerry's Going and Coming on Both Iraq and Vietnam
  • Why Is the Space Station a Flop?
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  • First Ladies: They Need to Complement Their Husbands
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  • Mike Davis: Are We in for Another Pandemic Like 1918?
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  • Ferguson's Sloppy Counterfactual
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  • Faulty Intelligence Has Misled America in a String of Wars
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  • Chicken Hawk Politics
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  • A Bloated Budget
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  • PERHAPS THIS IS THE TENURE ISSUE?
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  • Juan Cole on Black Holes ...
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  • Cohen, and why we went to war.
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  • HAS TENURE BEEN ELIMINATED?
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  • ANOTHER MEDDLING FIRST LADY
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  • Electability
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  • Why Jamestown Is at the Crossroads of Black & White History
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  • Carter Woodson: Founder of Black History Month
  • Why Do So Many People Believe in So Many Conspiracies?
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  • The "Baywatch" Star Who Wants Credit for Helping Bring Down the Berlin Wall
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  • Gary E. Moulton: The Historian Who Edited the Journals of Lewis & Clark--All 13 Volumes
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  • John Hope Franklin: Writing His Autobiography
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  • The New Approach in Biography
  • The "Arabs" Who Aren't Really Arabs at All
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  • Was Kerry Brainwashed About Iraq?
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  • Big as the Deficit Is, It's Not the Biggest Ever
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  • Roger Daniels: Bush's New Immigration Policy Is as Unlikely to Succeed as Those in the Past
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  • Bye-Bye to Tenure
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  • BREAKFAST WITH AN IRAQI AND A NORTH KOREAN
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  • NYT BURIES KIDDNAPPING BY "INSUGENTS" IN IRAQ
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  • JSTOR and Chicago
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  • Penn and Academic Freedom
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  • This Side of Madness ...
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  • Digitizing Stanford ...
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  • OH BE-HAVE!
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  • THE ERA OF BIG GOVERNMENT CONSERVATISM
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  • COMMUNIST PARASITES
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  • IT'S GETTING HOT IN HERE!
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  • Google <i>every page</i> of the Stanford Library, pre-1923
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  • War, Murder, History
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  • Two Things
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  • OOZING TOWARDS DEPRAVITY
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  • WILL DEMOCRACY WORK IN IRAN THE WAY IT WORKS IN INDIA, PAKISTAN AND TURKEY
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  • MUDDLED THINKING ON CIVIL RIGHTS
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  • Saffron Infusion
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  • GEORGE W. BUSH -- TRAITOR
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  • NEW BLOG
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  • Sean Wilentz: The Republican Plan to Subvert American Democracy
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  • Eric Rauchway: How the Democrats Can Win the South Back
  • THIS WEEK'S WISDOM
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  • The Big Wolowski
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  • Should You Read the Koran to Understand Muslim Terrorism?
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  • Iraq: A Short History of What Went Wrong
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  • Nixon and Kissinger Obfuscations About Vietnam: What the Documents Show
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  • H. L. Mencken
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  • Hello
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  • Is Howard Dean the Goldwater of the Democratic Party?
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  • A Great Economy If You're Rich
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  • Does Daniel Pipes's Campus Watch Really Offer Students Helpful Guidance?
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  • If Only the Hero of the <I>Lord of the Rings</i> Were a Candidate in '04
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  • BARELY A SCIENCE, "IF IT IS A SCIENCE AT ALL"
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  • Trade and Terror
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  • JAPAN'S CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED IMAGE
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  • The Two Things Rule
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  • ON GRAVE AND GATHERING THREATS
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  • NOTED HERE AND THERE ...
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  • BIOGRAPHIES
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  • So the Number of Jews Is Small? We'll Survive: Size Isn't All
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  • QUESTIONS FOR JOHN KERRY
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  • Obituary of Military Historian John Terraine
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  • Candidates' Wives Didn't Use to Campaign This Early in the Election Year
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  • With the Internet, Every Man's His Own Historian
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  • Why Palestinians May Not Favor a 2-State Solution
  • Remembering Juergen Sielemann, the German Archivist Who Helped Jews Find Out About Their Lost Ancestors
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  • The Last Time Intelligence Was at the Center of a Presidential Election the Result Was Near-Disaster (You Do Remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, Don't You?)
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  • On the 100th Anniversary of the Japanese Attack on Russia, Japan Still Wondering If War Was Defensible
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  • Is Bush Counting on Fear to Win?
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  • Frank Rich: McNamara Was the One of the Cool, Rational CEO Cabinet Secretaries (Like Cheney, Rumsfeld and O'Neill?)
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  • Churchill and Thatcher Were Thrown Out of Office ... How About Blair?
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  • Robert Kagan: Europe and the U.S. See the World in Vastly Different Ways
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  • Why Is France So Upset About Muslim Head Scarves?
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  • Samantha Power Takes the NYT to Task over Its Supposedly Evenhanded Account of the Armenian Massacre
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  • Bush's State of the Union Address: A Speechwriter's Take (Positive)
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  • Pro and Con: Mel Gibson's <I>The Passion of the Christ </i>
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  • Douglas Brinkley on John Kerry
  • Douglas Brinkley's Lucky Break: His Book on John Kerry Appears Just as Kerry Suddenly Leaps to the Front of the Presidential Pack
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  • Democrats Are in Trouble Because They Seem Irreligious
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  • Egregious Examples of Sloppy Thinking Mar Georgia's New History Standards
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  • MY MEETING WITH JOHN KERRY
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  • Notoriously Unreliable
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  • INSIDE IRAN: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AFTER THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION
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  • Ain't Irony Grand?
  • INTRODUCING MYSELF
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  • FOREIGN POLICY AND THE CASH NEXUS
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  • HEADS ROLL AT THE BBC WHILE BLAIR IS WHITEWASHED
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  • Why Does Dean Have More Delegates If Kerry Won Iowa and NH?
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  • Conservative Historians (and Others) Are Being Prevented from Speaking on College Campuses
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  • Is it Over Already?
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  • New Hampshire Non Sequitur
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  • In local government
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  • NASA-Northwest redux
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  • REMEMBER TUCHMAN'S WARNING: "BAD INTELLIGENCE" DIDN'T MAKE ANYONE DO ANYTHING
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  • DUBYA'S PRO-WAR CRITICS: A HOLLOW REBELLION
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  • DEAR MS. NOONAN AND MR. GIBSON (AND ASSORTED OTHERS)
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  • Does It Ever Stop?
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  • A Portion of Egg on My Face
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  • Yo, Democrats, Y'all ...
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  • QUOTE OF THE DAY
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  • The Failure of American Academics to Speak the Truth About the Middle East
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  • The Bloodletting Begins
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  • Is Iraq a Fourth Generation War?
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  • Big Government Abroad = Big Government at Home
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  • THE HUTTON REPORT AND THE BBC
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  • REACTION TO THE HUTTON REPORT
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  • New Hampshire and Historical Analogies
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  • Denial, and then more denial
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  • EYES WIDE SHUT
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  • THE HUTTON REPORT
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  • WAS THE UNITED STATES "A GRAVE AND GATHERING THREAT TO IRAQ AND THE WORLD"?
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  • BETTY ANN ONG AND THE 9/11 COMMISSION
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  • NOTED HERE AND THERE ...
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  • MORE NOTED ...
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  • ON SHARPTON, SILVER SCREENS, AND SILBER
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  • Joshua Brown: Stay the Course?
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  • IF YOU REELECT BUSH, YOU DESERVE WHATEVER THE HELL YOU GET
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  • SIX MORE SOLDIERS, WHERE IS THE CONCERN?
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  • How Queer-Friendly Are U.S. History Textbooks?
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  • ON THE NANNY STATE AND BEATING PRESIDENTIAL DEAD HORSES
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  • Benny Morris: In '48, Israel Did What It Had to Do
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  • McNamara Reveals Himself in New Documentary
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  • Joshua Brown: So Iraq Didn't Have WMD? So What
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  • Bad Idea Department
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  • Nanny State Update
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  • ZERO GRAVITY
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  • Francis Fukuyama: America Is an "Assimilation Powerhouse"
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  • THE RELATIVE SUPERIORITY OF U.S. UNIVERSITIES
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  • NEW ARTICLE BY BOB HIGGS
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  • WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION ARE OVERATED AS A THREAT TO AMERICA
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  • Benny Morris's Shocking Interview
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  • Column: Why We'll Pay a Price for Bush's Fibs About Iraq's WMD
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  • The Danger of Scaring Voters
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  • DIRTY HARRY IS A LIBERTARIAN
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  • A NEW KIND OF US DIPLOMAT
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  • ASSAD = SADDAM
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  • LET EAST EUROPEAN TEACH IRAQIS HOW TO PRIVATIZE
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  • Nixon Papers
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  • SULLIVAN DOESN'T GET IT. BUSH IS CONSISTENT
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  • OBITUARIES
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  • MARK SHIELDS
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  • AL FRANKEN: TOO OLD TO CARE
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  • Funny. I Don't <i>Feel</i> Insulted.
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  • Sometimes It Really Is All About Oil
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  • The New French
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