Week of July 7, 2008
Up Front
History Buzz
Bonnie Goodman
News at Home
Is it Safe Now to Admit Jimmy Carter Was Right?
Joseph Wheelan
Memo to Arianna Huffington: The Middle is Good for Obama -- and America
Gil Troy
How Obama Might Change the Politics of Race in Unexpected Ways
James C. Cobb
Rumsfeld's Legacy: How Not to Run the Pentagon
Dale R. Herspring
Before We Send a Man to Mars We Should Remember the Wasted Efforts Spent Finding the North Pole
Michael Robinson
The Voters Choose… but on the Basis of What?
Rick Shenkman
News Abroad
The Islamist-Leftist Allied Menace
Daniel Pipes
Torture in Democratic Societies: Interview with Darius Rejali
Robin Lindley
The Myth of American Diplomacy
Walter L. Hixson
Books
Review of Richard Sennett's The Craftsman
James Livingston
Review of Recent Books on Reconstruction
Edward J. Blum