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Week of April 15, 2011

#1  Niall Ferguson: The Mash of Civilizations
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138354.html

#2  Anthony Grafton: Academic Freedom After the Cronon Controversy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138380.html

#3  Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg: What They Really Mean by "American Exceptionalism"
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138309.html

#4  Julian E. Zelizer: Republicans are Winning Budget Debate
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138383.html

#5  Philip Jenkins: Mexico’s Crisis of Faith
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138376.html

#6  Amanda Foreman: The American Civil War Battles Go On
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138402.html

#7  Nezar AlSayyad: Cairo’s Roundabout Revolution
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138473.html

#8  Patrick Cockburn: Libya's Parallels With Iraq Under Saddam are Truly Ominous
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138445.html

#9  Mark LeVine: The Shifting Zeitgeist of the 'Arab Spring'
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138381.html

#10  Jon Wiener: Bob Dylan in Beijing: No Sellout
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/138480.html