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Week of January 23, 2012

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News at Home

Was Benjamin Harrison a More Significant President than Bill Clinton and Barack Obama?
Leo Ribuffo

Obama's Osawatamie Speech Proves He's the Anti-TR
Ira Chernus

Keynes and Hayek, Obama and the Republicans
Walter Moss

A Referendum on the Republican Party—Not Just its Leaders
Gil Troy

Social Conservatism Isn’t “White”
Jim Sleeper

News Abroad

What’s Japanese for “Locavore?” Oh, Never Mind.
Jonathan Dresner

Ending the Palestinian "Right of Return"
Daniel Pipes

Historians & History

1876: The Year When Things Went from Bad to Worse for Indians and Blacks
William Loren Katz

Culture Watch

Horatio Alger Theater Festival Explores Ninteenth-Century Rags-to-Riches Theme
Bruce Chadwick

Chilling New Play Oswald in Los Angeles Tackles the Kennedy Assassination
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Revew of Roger Ebert's Life Itself: A Memoir
Jim Cullen

Review of John M. Barry's Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State and the Birth of Liberty
J. Stanley Lemons