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On Other Websites: Week of October 22, 2012

  • Rick Perlstein: George McGovern, 1922-2012: Is Decency in Politics Always Doomed?
  • Linda K. Kerber: The 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: A Teachable Moment
  • Janet Golden: The U.S. Children’s Bureau: Time for a Revival?
  • David A. Bell: François Hollande’s Apology Tour—and What Americans Should Learn From It
  • Stanley Kutler: Ignore McGovern’s Message at Your Peril
  • Larry Wolff: Free to Be a Sexual Predator?
  • Joseph M. Adelman: The “Wisdom” of the Founders and Our Political Pundits
  • Michael Kazin: If Obama Proves a Failure, Liberals Have No One to Blame But Themselves
  • Michael Barone: Will Obama Be Another Woodrow Wilson?
  • Bret Stephens: Iran's Unrequited War