Week of December 28, 2009

#1 Niall Ferguson: The decade the world tilted east
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121675.html

#2 George Walden: Before Preaching, Remember the Opium Wars
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121721.html

#3 Paul Kennedy: Rome offers Obama a lesson in limits
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121723.html

#4 Daniel Pipes & Wafa Sultan: Moderate Islam: Western Ally or Western Myth
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#121687

#5 Daniel Laskin: Jimmy Carter and the Politics of
Apology http://hnn.us/roundup/12.html#121688

#6 David Swanson: An Avatar Awakening
http://hnn.us/roundup/58.html#121686

#7 Juan Cole: Top Ten Middle East Crises,2009
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/121693.html

#8 Martin Wolf: How the noughties were a hinge of history
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#121611

#9 Victor Davis Hanson: The Origins of Obamism
http://hnn.us/roundup/1.html#121719

#10 Jordan Michael: What the Soviets Learned in Afghanistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/11.html#121633