Week of August 20, 2012
Up Front
![]() Nine Weird Facts About Presidential Conventions HNN Staff |
![]() Why Are Americans So Confused? Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
News at Home
![]() Todd Akin and Paul Ryan are American Salafis Juan Cole |
![]() Is Paul Ryan Jack Kemp, Model 2012? Nicole Hemmer |
![]() The L-Word: Libertarianism Robert Brent Toplin |
![]() Ryan's Hope: A Vice Presidency in the Tradition of Dick Cheney and Joe Biden Timothy Walch |
![]() How Does Obama's Personality Stack Up Against FDR's? Andrew M. Obritsch |
![]() The 2012 Election: Freedom, Justice, Fairness, and Opportunity Walter G. Moss |
News Abroad
![]() Wait Out the War in Syria Daniel Pipes |
![]() Impunity at Home, Rendition Abroad Alfred W. McCoy |
![]() Why Timbuktu Will Overcome Its Latest Fundamentalist Conquerors Steve Kemper |
Historians & History
![]() Niall Ferguson's Newsweek/Daily Beast Cover Story Ignites a Firestorm HNN Staff |
![]() Does David Barton's Flameout Make This a Scopes Moment for American History? Adam Laats |
![]() Rome: The Origin of Empire Greg Woolf |
Blogs
![]() In Search of New Mythology (Part One) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
![]() In Search of New Mythology (Part Two) Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica |
Culture Watch
![]() A 1950s Harvest Moon Rises Over Tragedies in a Small Texas Town Bruce Chadwick |
![]() Judge Seeks Sexual Favors from Young Woman to Save Her Brother. Is this 1604 or 2012? Bruce Chadwick |
![]() Tweets and Twitters: A Mormon Runs for President Bruce Chadwick |
![]() Summer, 1938: Parody of The Sound of Music Hits All the Right Notes Bruce Chadwick |
Books
![]() Review of Clint Hill's and Lisa McCubbin's Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir Vaughn Davis Bornet |
![]() Review of Kevin Levin's Remembering the Battle of the Crater: War as Murder Jim Cullen |