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HNN Rundowns

Week of July 25, 2011

Up Front

HNN Hot Topics: Terrorism

HNN Hot Topics: Debt Ceiling

News at Home

Did Beer End Minnesota's State Shutdown?
Christine Sismondo

Whatever Happened to Rational Conservatism?
Caroline Hamilton

News Abroad

Empower Iranians vs. Tehran
Daniel Pipes

We Live in an Age of Violence
Deepak Tripathi

How Not to Make Friends in the Greater Middle East
Tom Engelhardt

Historians & History

James Bradley's The Imperial Cruise is an Outrage, Pure and Simple
William N. Tilchin

America Fought Hunger as Well as Communists in Korea
William Lambers

Culture Watch

How Real is the History in Historical Dramas? It May Not Matter
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Benjamin H. Irvin's Clothed in the Robes of Sovereignty: The Continental Congress and the People Out of Doors
Jim Cullen

Review of David Browne’s Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
Luther Spoehr