Week of February 6, 2012
Up Front
NEW Why Conservatives Never Cry Voter Fraud Against One of Their Own
Timothy Stanley
Hot Topics
Questions People are Googling
- How Did Marilyn Monroe Die?
- Why Did the Great Powers Lose Over and Over Again in Afghanistan?
- Why Do So Many Americans Hate Politics?
- Has Money Always Been Important in American Politics?
News at Home
Mitt Romney Channels Dan Quayle as Gaffemeister General
Gil Troy
Mitt's Verbal Gaffes Shows That When It Comes to Politics, He's Not His Father's So
Ian C. Friedman
Memo from Red-State America: We're Not Stupid!
Robert Wuthnow
How A Crackpot Theory of Education Reform Became National Policy
Mark Naison
News Abroad
Afghanistan: The Argument for Continuing America’s Longest War
Brian Glyn Williams
Has Mitt Romney's Mormonism Influenced His Views on Islam?
Timothy R. Furnish
Calling Herr Madison: The EU Needs to Take a Page from the Founding Fathers
David O. Stewart
Iran Through the Looking Glass
Tom Engelhardt
Historians & History
Rediscovering the History Uncertainty Principle
Gil Troy
A Titanic Hero Made by History: Interview with Author and Commentator Chris Matthews on the Elusive John F. Kennedy
Robin Lindley
What Happened to the Statesman?
Frank Uekoetter
Culture Watch
TV's Smash is a Winner, But It Needs More History
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of Kent Greenfield's The Cult of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits
Jim Cullen