Week of Dec. 3, 2007

#1 Peter Watson: Our priorities in the West are wrong. Secularism is what we should be spreading across the globe
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45268.html

#2 Ralph Harrington: China's future is not Europe's past
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45381.html

#3 Eric Foner: Reading Lincoln in Pakistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45318.html

#4 Juan Cole: Can a secular person even win the Republican nomination?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45382.html

#5 David Brooks: Faith vs. the Faithless
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45343.html

#6 Peggy Noonan: How Mitt Romney came to give The Speech--and how he did
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45345.html .

#7 Emily Bazelon: The Bush administration's bogus use of history to defend its position on the Gitmo detainees
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45347.html

#8 Philip Dray: Noose ... The true history of a resurgent symbol of hate
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45328.html

#9 Gregory Rodriguez: The Puritanical roots of our fatalism and anxiety over American exceptionalism.
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45302.html

#10 William Hogeland: Critics are misreading Hamilton's legacy to suit their own purposes
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/45327.html