Week of February 18, 2013
Blogs
 The "War on Terror": A Ticking Time Bomb |
 Why Gender Equality StalledStephanie Coontz The main barriers today are not social, but economic. Tags: Betty Friedan, Feminine Mystique, feminism, NYT |
News at Home
 Where Have All the Real Conservatives Gone?Scot Faulkner and Jonathan Riehl Conservatives could boast of Bill Buckley and Russell Kirk as intellectual leaders; now it's Dick Morris and Sean Hannity. Tags: conservatism, Republican Party, Russell Kirk, William F. Buckley |
 Social Security: A Right or a Privilege?Eric Laursen Or, how to undermine the welfare state. Tags: nation-building, rights, Social Security Act, welfare |
News Abroad
 Washington Tortures Everywhere ... Except Latin AmericaGreg Grandin The continent seems to have learned from the terror of the CIA-backed Pinochet. Tags: Latin America, Pinochet, torture, war on terror |
 Even the Israeli Center is RacistNeve Gordon Centrist party Yesh Atid justifies the two-state solution because of the "Palestinian demographic threat." Tags: Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Yair Lapid, Yesh Atid |
 Ordering Off the Menu in China DebatesJeffrey Wasserstrom China is facing neither imminent collapse nor hyperpower status. Tags: Gordon G. Chang, Martin Jacques, Mo Yan, Xi Jinping |
 Russia's Other Meteor ExplosionsDavid Austin Walsh In 1908 and again in 1947, meteors detonated high above the Siberian taiga. Tags: meteorites, Russia, Sikhote-Alin meteorite, Tunguska event |
Historians & History
 The Afterlife of the British EmpireRobin Lindley Interview with Jordanna Bailkin on the end of the British Empire and the beginning of the British welfare state. Tags: Africa, British Empire, welfare state, postcolonialism |
Culture Watch
 The Ten Best Lincoln Moments in Film HistoryThomas Doherty From Henry Fonda and Raymond Massey to Nick Cage's weird obsession with Abe, for this Oscar season Tom Doherty selects the highlights of Lincoln on celluloid. Tags: Abraham Lincoln, film history, Hollywood, movies |
 A Mediocre Evening with Sir Isaac NewtonBruce Chadwick Isaac's Eye can't surmount poor writing and a miscast lead. Tags: Isaac Newton, Isaac's Eye, plays, theater reviews |
Books
 Review of Robert Sullivan's My American RevolutionLuther Spoehr A delightfully eccentric travelogue of the Revolutionary War. Tags: book reviews, My American Revolution, Robert Sullivan, American Revolution |
 Review of Richard Lingeman's The Noir FortiesRon Briley A solid cultural history of post-World War II America, filtered through the lens of Hollywood. Tags: 1940s, book reviews, movies, Hollywood |