Week of August 17, 2009

#1 Rick Perlstein: Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115300.html

#2 Daniel Pipes: Counterterrorism in Obama's Washington
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115605.html

#3 Juan Cole: Obama Defends Afghanistan War
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115570.html

#4 Martin Kramer: Fear-mongering at Yale
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115610.html

#5 Larry Allen Brown: A Rebuttal to Dick Armey's OpEd in the Wall Street Journal
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/114776.html

#6 Richard Cohen: Sarah Palin ... a Modern Day McCarthy
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115548.html

#7 Jonathan Steele: History is much too important to be left to politicians
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115619.html

#8 Gregory McNamee: The Death of Federico Garcia Lorca (Time for Spain to Face History)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115587.html

#9 Roger Simon: The birth of political television
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115671.html

#10 Simon Jenkins: Today's Afghan election is a moment of truth for zealous liberal aggressors
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/115647.html