Week of May 18, 2009

#1 Richard Posner: Is the Conservative Movement Losing Steam?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/85691.html

#2 Noam Chomsky: The Torture Memos and Historical Amnesia
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/85898.html

#3 Louis Warren: How We Got Here ... Thoughts on the State of California
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86429.html

#4 Michael D. Lemonick: Ida: Humankind's Earliest Ancestor! (Not Really)
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86406.html

#5 Abraham Verghese: Was Lincoln Dying Before He Was Shot?
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86357.html

#6 Edwin Black: The Hostmen—The World’s First Fuel Cartel
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/85915.html

#7 Priya Satia: The shadow of history passes over Pakistan
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86264.html

#8 John Steele Gordon: Why Government Can't Run a Business
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86097.html

#9 Larry Kramer: Homo Sex in Colonial America
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86100.html

#10 Editorial in Spiegel Online: Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86041.html