Week of September 12, 2011
Up Front
NEW BLOG Jim Loewen
9/11
Ten Years After 9/11, Jihadis are Winning the War
Walid Phares
One Day, We'll Commemorate 9/11 Like the Civil War—Heart-Felt, but Detached and Reflective
Kevin M. Levin
Still Smoldering Ten Years after 9/11 -- Yet Still Hopeful
Gil Troy
"What If It Had Rained on September 11?" and Three Other Questions about 9/11
Jesse Lemisch
How to Teach about 9/11
Bruce Craig
Did 9/11 Really Change Everything?
Mary L. Dudziak
News at Home
Finally, Bill Keller, the New York Times's Liberal Hawk, Repents
Ruth Rosen
The War on Higher Education
John T. McNay
Uncle Sam Does(n’t) Want You: America's Reserve Army of the Unemployed
Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman
How Big Government Enables Big Religion
Benjamin E. Zeller
Florida's Bloody Election History Casts a Long Shadow over Voter Suppression Efforts
Karl Shepard
News Abroad
Anna Hazare Isn't Gandhi, But His Movement is What India Needs
Vidyadhar Date
Historians & History
Jane Fonda and Her Friendly North Vietnamese Intelligence Officer
Merle L. Pribbenow
New York Banned Handguns 100 Years Ago ... Will We Ever See that Kind of Gun Control Again?
Daniel Platt
Volcanoes Can Seriously Ruin Our Day ... So Let's Look to History for Clues on How to Deal with Catastrophic Eruptions
Clive Oppenheimer
Don't Thank LBJ and FDR for the Welfare State—Thank Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln
Bill Nichols
Culture Watch
Othello’s Wars, Wives and Wickedness Heat Up Sixteenth-Century Venice
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Deepak Tripathi's Breeding Ground: Afghanistan and the Origins of Islamist Terrorism
Majorie Cohn
Review of Daniel Rasmussen's American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt
Alan Singer