Week of September 17, 2012

Blogs

Registering to Vote, Then and Now Jim Loewen

The Myth of Arab (Or Is It Muslim?) Rage Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica

Who Should Make Our Foreign Policy? Steve Hochstadt

What are They Trying to Tell Us? Josh Brown's Life During Wartime

Let's Not Rush to Judge Mitt's Libyan Rush to Judgment Gil Troy

Google Questions

Why Can Paul Ryan Run for Vice President and Congress at the Same Time? David Austin Walsh

News at Home

What Nixon Wrought With the Checkers Speech ... And What Romney Can Learn Kevin Mattson

Lincoln Would Choose Obama over Romney Daniel Herman

No Julian Castro Without Mother Rosie Castro Cynthia E. Orozco

America Needs an Industrial Policy Judith Stein

Fifty Years After Silent Spring, Let's Not Roll Back Environmental Protections Nancy C. Unger

News Abroad

Judging Romney Fairly K.C. Johnson

Romney, Reagan, and Campaign Foreign Policy Chester Pach

The “Muslim” Problem Daniel Martin Varisco

Romney Jumps the Shark: Libya, Egypt and the Butterfly Effect Juan Cole

The Arab Spring and the Loss of Innocence Andrew Meyer

Historians & History

The Cuban Missile Crisis, According to Harvard Max Holland

The Grand Old Party Ain't What It Used To Be: Interview with Lewis L. Gould David Austin Walsh

Katyń: A History Written in Blood and Tears Padraic Kenney

How Trauma Shaped Renowned Writing: Interview with Doug Underwood Robin Lindley

Education

Chicago Teachers Strike a Blow Against Testing Ronald W. Evans

Culture Watch

On Jews and Baseball for the High Holidays Peter Ephross

New "Oliver Twist" Plays Takes Searing Look at London’s Criminal Class in the 1830s Bruce Chadwick

The Little Tramp, His Four Wives, Eight Children, Five Film Companies and Even J. Edgar Hoover Conquer the Stage in Chaplin Bruce Chadwick

Books

Review of Roger Peace's A Call to Conscience: The Anti-Contra War Campaign Murray Polner

Review of Eric Laursen's The People's Pension: The Struggle to Defend Social Security Since Reagan Robert D. Parmet