Week of October 28, 2013
 | #1
This Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network Historians have been applying the network -- the controlling metaphor of the digital age -- to everything, even the distant past. Maybe that's not such a great idea. THE NEW REPUBLIC |
 | #2 My Lai, Sexual Assault and the Black Blouse Girl Forty-five years later, one of America’s most iconic photos hides truth in plain sight. BAG NOTE NEWS |
 | #3 How Adults Stole Halloween from American Children The sexy-costume trend reveals how far we have strayed from the truly naughty roots of Halloween. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR |
 | #4 A Kind Word for Ted Cruz: America Was Built on Extremism How unpopular opinions move history forward. THE NEW REPUBLIC |
 | #5 Mexico's Theology of Oil Nationalization of oil in Mexico is an existential question. NEW YORK TIMES |
 | #6 Greek Democracy and Its Discontents Crackdown or breakdown on the streets of Athens? HUFFINGTON POST |
 | #7 Dignity’s Due Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of political ethics? THE NATION |
 | #8
How Con Artists Spammed in a Time Before Email Think the Nigerian prince email scam is new? Think again. THE ATLANTIC |
 | #9 You Don’t Need a Weatherman Jon Wiener on Bill Ayers' new autobiography, "Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident." LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
 | #10 Chinese Communism and the 70-Year Itch Authoritarian regimes tend not to last past the seventy-year mark. THE ATLANTIC |