Week of October 12, 2009

#1 David Greenberg: Forget about McChrystal; Obama's real problem is MacArthurism
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#118371

#2 Dagobert L. Brito and Michael D. Intriligator: For a Solution in Afghanistan, Look South...and In the Past
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118464.html

#3 David Cesarani: Stephen Fry's Auschwitz blunder: history is too serious a matter to be left to comedians and politicians
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#118400

#4 Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Michelle's Great-Great-Great-Granddaddy—and Yours
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118292.html

#5 Lewis Sorley: The Real Afghan Lessons From Vietnam
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118298.html

#6 Matt Welch: 1989 ... Ignoring the Most Liberating Moment in History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118324.html

#7 Richard Bennet: Somalia ... How Not to Win in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118379.html

#8 Julian E. Zelizer: When Nobel Prize rewarded failure
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118308.html

#9 Charles Krauthammer: On the loss of American hegemony
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118297.html

#10 Zachary Karabell: Deficits and the Chinese Challenge
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/118352.html