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Week of March 5, 2012

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News at Home

Is Rick Santorum's Fundamentalist Catholicism at Odds with Protestant Christianity?
Steven Conn

Pat Buchanan was Breitbart Before Breitbart
Timothy Stanley

"Obamacare": A History of the Most Effective Scareword in Politics
Robert Brent Toplin

What is True Political Wisdom? A Primer for the 2012 Election
Walter G. Moss

News Abroad

Legal Case Against Attacking Iran
Bruce Ackerman

Project Censored At Home And Abroad
Jim Loewen

Khamenei Takes Control, Forbids Nuclear Bomb
Juan Cole

Historians & History

IBM’s Role in the Holocaust? New Documents Confirm the Worst
Edwin Black

Does Mimi Alford's New Memoir Finally Mean the Death Knell for the Camelot Myth of JFK?
Vaughn Davis Bornet

The Expansion and Transformation of NATO ... The Real Clinton Doctrine
Lee Ruddin

An Interview with Ambassador David Scheffer, the Architect of the Modern War Crimes Tribunals
Robin Lindley

Should We Really Still Like Ike? Interview with Stephen Schlesinger
David A. Walsh

Culture Watch

An Iliad for the Ages Takes History Lovers Back to the Trojan Wars
Bruce Chadwick

Albee’s 1980s Lady from Dubuque Gains Ground as a History Play in 2012
Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Steven J. Ross's Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics
Andrew Feffer

Review of S. Brian Willson's Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson: A Psychohistorical Memoir
Jeremy Kuzmarov