Week of May 25, 2009

#1 Political Math (blogger): Obama's wracking up debt much faster than any previous president
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87204.html

#2 Tom Palaima: Remember the costs of war
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87208.html

#3 Alain de Botton: The Consolations of Pessimism: In our Age as in Seneca’s the worst is always possible
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/86598.html

#4 Walter Berns: Interrogations and Presidential Prerogative
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87176.html

#5 Clive Hamilton: Bush's Shocking Biblical Prophecy Emerges: God Wants to "Erase" Mid-East Enemies "Before a New Age Begins" http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87247.html

#6 Vladimir Ryzhkov: The Kremlin's War on History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87846.html

#7 Jack Cashill: Who Wrote [Obama's Book] Dreams and Why It Matters
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87431.html

#8 Garry Wills: Lincoln's Black History
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87463.html

#9 Niall Ferguson: The Crisis and How to Deal with It
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87464.html

#10 Noemie Emery: Reagan in Opposition ... The lessons of 1977
http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/87466.html