Week of January 17, 2011
Up Front
HNN Hot Topics: Arizona Assassination Attempt
News at Home
The Founders Cared About the Majority Principle
Joyce Appleby
Jared Lee Loughner, the Personal, and the Political
Gregory Downs
Loughner’s Terrible Violence and His Misunderstanding of Nietzsche
Warren Hynson
News Abroad
It's Still the Same Old Story—from Guns to Nukes
Lawrence A. Wittner
Historians & History
Remembering the Courage of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Michael K. Honey
Beware the Military-Industrial Complex
David Greenberg
Channelling George Washington: Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Fleming
The Faith of—and Our Faith in—George Washington
Thomas S. Kidd
History is a Real Business on the Web
Caitlin Aber
Remembrance of General Education Past
Sheldon M. Stern
Culture Watch
‘Under the Radar’ History Plays Are Over the Top and Up in the Hills
Bruce Chadwick
Books
Review of William J. Bennett's America: The Last Best Hope
David A. Johnson and Gary B. Nash
Review of Joseph Cummins's Why Some Wars Never End: The Stories of the Longest Conflicts in History
Jim Cullen