Week of February 13, 2012
Up Front
NEW Mitt Romney’s Cutting-Edge Middle East Strategy
Walid Phares
Hot Topics
Blogs
- Gil Troy: The Tsantorum Tsurge and anti-Mormon Prejudice
- Josh Brown: Disproving Whig History...
- Jonathan Jarrett: A Historian's Place in Current Politics
Questions People are Googling
- Did the Mormons Really Fight a War Against the Federal Government?
- Is It Presidents Day or President's Day or Presidents' Day?
News at Home
How to Think About Corporate Personhood
James Livingston
Conservative Populism has Burned the GOP Before
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Please Keep Your Government Hands On My University
Christopher P. Loss
Obama's No FDR, But He's Making the Case for a "New" New Deal
Ira Chernus
Pity the Poor Billionaire: Interview with Thomas Frank
David A. Walsh
News Abroad
The Dilemma over Whether to Intervene in Syria
Juan Cole
Kastelorizo—Mediterranean Flashpoint?
Daniel Pipes
Why Has Obama Been More Successful Abroad Than at Home? Three Words: No GOP Obstructionism
Robert Brent Toplin
How to Strengthen the UN’s Ability to Maintain International Peace and Security
Lawrence S. Wittner
Historians & History
NEW Rediscovering Walt Whitman's Soldiers
Lenore Barbian, Paul Sledzik, and Jeffrey S. Reznick
The Tortured History Between Israel and the Left
Colin Shindler
No Place Like Home—Interview with Historian Susan J. Matt on Homesickness in American History
Robin Lindley
Culture Watch
Meaning in 'Pure' Music: Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony
Jim Loewen
Books
Review of Robert Harris's The Fear Index: A Novel
Jim Cullen
Review of Jack Schneider's Excellence for All: How a New Breed of Reformers Is Transforming America’s Public Schools
Luther Spoehr