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Week of July 11, 2011

HNN Roundtable: Do Democrats Have a Double Standard for Obama?

Liberals Need to Stop Making Excuses
Bernard A. Weisberger

Progressives Don’t Have a Double Standard—But Partisan Democratic Talking Heads Do
Michael Lind

Progressive Are Disenchanted with Obama—Abolitionists Were Disenchanted with Lincoln
Kenneth W. Mack

Republicans Are Inconsistent with Obama, But Democrats Are Hypocritical
Daniel Pipes

Is Obama So Bad at Impromptu Remarks that He Can't Handle More News Conferences?
Rick Shenkman

Obama Should Own His Continuities with the Bush White House
Gil Troy

News at Home

The Partnership of Betty and Gerald Ford
Yanek Mieczkowski

Betty Ford's Candor Hurt Gerald Ford's Presidency - but Enhanced his Historical Reputation
Gil Troy

We Need to Rethink the Morality of the Economy
James Livingston

UT-Austin Issues Strong Defense of Humanities
John Willingham

News Abroad

The U.N. May Be Dysfunctional, But It's the Kind of Dysfunction That Its Founders Intended
Adam Chapnick

Charter 08’s Qing Dynasty Precursor
Jane Leung Larson and Feng Chongyi

Culture Watch

Tyne Daly Sensational as Maria Callas, Star of Opera History
Bruce Chadwick

Analyze This: On the Eve of World War II, Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis Spar in an Intellectual Boxing Match
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Artemy M. Kalinovsky's A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Jim Cullen

Review of Cecilia Holland's Blood on the Tracks
Jim Cullen