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On Other Websites: Week of October 8, 2012

  • Benjamin Schwarz: A Tragic Sense of Life: Remembering Two Great Historians
  • Fouad Ajami: Echoes of Spanish Civil War in Syria
  • Niall Ferguson: Europe’s New Fascists
  • Svetlana Savranskaya: Cuba Almost Became a Nuclear Power in 1962
  • Yoni Appelbaum: How Columbus Day Fell Victim to Its Own Success
  • Fred Kaplan: What the Cuban Missile Crisis Should Teach Us
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: You Can't Say That at School
  • Kevin Baker: How the G.O.P. Became the Anti-Urban Party
  • Clinton Yates: 'Columbusing' Black Washington
  • Armin Rosen: What the Future of Africa Looked Like in 1959