Roundup

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• 1/17/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  Accessed 1/17/19
  

  Video of the Week: ‘What Is Democracy?’ Review: Going Back to Greece, Documentary Asks Who Rules

  Like democracy itself, the movie assumes such a broad mandate and has such noble intentions that indicating its shortcomings seems almost beside the point.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/14/19
  

  Teacher strikes can’t fix the core problems with our schools

  by Diana D'Amico

  The forces that once led to the growth of suburban schools have led to the decay of their urban counterparts.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/17/19
  

  Why Americans trust technology but not science

  by Joyce Chaplin

  Benjamin Franklin understood that the two go hand-in-hand.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/16/19
  

  State of the Union: What would Jefferson do?

  by Karen Tumulty

  Pelosi's proposal was not as radical as it might sound.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/16/19
  

  How the Klan Fueled Prohibition

  by Lisa McGirr

  The 1920s weren’t just gin joints and jazz. Anti-immigrant racism was all the rage.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  1/16/19
  

  Here’s How Democratic Presidential Contenders Should (Not) Talk About Russia

  by David S. Fogleson

  Candidates gearing up for 2020 may be blazing new trails on domestic issues, but when it comes to engagement with Russia, they haven’t moved beyond the counterproductive status quo.

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/15/19
  

  What We Can Still Learn From American History's First Special Prosecutor

  by Andrew Coan

  The Mueller investigation grew out of a rich, complicated and not always edifying history that even most legal scholars and historians have largely forgotten. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/16/19
  

  "The End of History" and Francis Fukuyama's Shrinking Idea

  by Alan Wolfe

  He famously hailed the triumph of liberal democracy. Now, he struggles to see a future for it. 

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  1/13/19
  

  Math And Science Can't Take Priority Over History And Civics

  by Natalie Wexler

  In our rush to prioritize STEM subjects, we’re overlooking other fields that are even more important.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  1/9/19
  

  Why Study History?

  by Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt

  To answer that question, Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt tells a pedagogical story in two parts.

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• SOURCE: Oxford University Press Blog
  1/15/19
  

  Music in history: overcoming historians’ reluctance to tackle music as a source

  by Matt Karush

  What explains historians' aversion to using music as a source?

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• SOURCE: Telegram
  1/15/19
  

  Trump’s Trade Policy Threatens US Consumer as Much as China

  by Paul Ropp

  Trump’s China policy ignores the complete interdependence of the US and Chinese economies. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  1/15/19
  

  The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

  by Mike Jirik

  The student protests against anti-black racism at UNC Chapel Hill are part of a long history of student protest against racism that includes individuals like John Brown Russwurm. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  1/14/19
  

  Barr memo suggests: To understand the Trump administration, read Hobbes

  by Eric Terzuolo

  To the extent that there is a Trump administration philosophy of the state, the Kavanaugh article and Barr memo are foundational documents.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/12/19
  

  If Trump declares a national emergency, could Congress or the courts reverse it?

  by Chris Edelson

  If President Trump does declare an emergency, the question is: Will Congress use the power available to it, or will it play the role of passive spectator?

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• SOURCE: Mondoweiss
  1/13/19
  

  Angela Davis and the Jewish Civil War

  by Marc H. Ellis

  The Black-Jewish alliance, at least what’s left of it, faces a common challenge of how memorialization works and for whom. 

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• SOURCE: Daily News
  1/13/19
  

  Kruse and Zelizer: It's 'Network' nation: How our media became overrun by polarization, outrage and attitude

  by Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer

  While contemporary commentators have noted the ways in which the news industry has become increasingly partisan, they have not given enough weight to another, equally important aspect of the industry’s modern history — the ways in which news has become sensationalized.

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  1/11/19
  

  When Historians Get Hysterical

  by Douglas MacKinnon

  A conservative pundit critques liberal historians. 

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• SOURCE: Time
  1/11/19
  

  This Shutdown Isn’t the First Time the U.S. Government Has Broken Down. The History Doesn't Bode Well for Trump

  by David Kaiser

  Have comparable breakdowns ever happened before? Yes, a few times. The earlier episodes shed some light on what has caused our current crisis, and give us some idea of how it is likely to be resolved.