Roundup

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• SOURCE: The Times
  4//14/19
  

  Join my Nato or watch critical thinking die

  by Niall Ferguson

  A new red army is out to silence debate. We must rise up and resist it.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  4/15/19
  

  Niall Ferguson isn’t upset about free speech. He’s upset about being challenged

  by Dawn Foster

  Powerful people used to express their views on others unopposed. Now their targets fight back, they find it intolerable.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  4/15/19
  

  Lessons From Vietnam on Leaving Afghanistan

  by George C. Herring

  There’s No Good Way to End a Bad War, but Some Options Are Worse Than Others.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4/14/19
  

  What's behind the surging interest in Pete Buttigieg

  by Julian Zelizer

  In retrospect, his unexpected viability makes a lot of sense.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/12/19
  

  How historians got Nike to pull an ad campaign — in under six hours

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  The multinational corporation dropped its “Lost Cause” ads after historians pushed back.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/16/19
  

  When Slaveowners Got Reparations

  by Tera W. Hunter

  Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  It’s time to do away with laws enforcing triumphal national histories

  by Matthew Lenoe

  Such ‘memory laws’ have become weapons for right-wing nationalists.

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• SOURCE: LA Progressive
  4/12/19
  

  Why Democratic Presidential Candidates Should Make Climate Change Their #1 Issue

  by Walter G. Moss

  Nothing else—including medical care, the economy, income inequality, immigration, racism, or the gender or race of a candidate—is more important.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/16/19
  

  The return of ‘reefer madness’

  by Emily Dufton and Lucas Richert

  Both supporters and opponents of legalization are quick to use sensationalism to prove their points, stunting the pursuit of real research needed to determine cannabis’ social effects.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why you don’t need to be French or Catholic to mourn the Notre Dame fire

  by Kisha G. Tracy

  The cathedral is an important part of our shared cultural heritage.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/17/19
  

  Why President Trump’s hard-line approach to Cuba is a mistake

  by John Ermer

  It opens the door to increased Russian influence on the island.

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  4/16/19
  

  Immigration, Race, and Women’s Rights, 1919 and Today

  by Arnold R. Isaacs

  The comparison couldn’t, in many ways, be grimmer or more telling. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  Has Germany Forgotten the Lessons of the Nazis?

  by Paul Hockenos

  The country’s culture of remembrance is crumbling.

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• 4/12/19
  

  Roundup Top 10!

  This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editor of HNN.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/5/19
  

  How Trump finally turned Republicans against McCarthyism

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  After nearly 70 years, Republicans have stopped defending Joe McCarthy.

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• SOURCE: Middle East Forum
  4/9/19
  

  Harvard's Communist Uprising, 50 Years Later

  by Daniel Pipes

  That takeover and bust culminated my political education.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  4/7/19
  

  People Used to Hate the Electoral College for Very Different Reasons

  by Justin Fox

  A half-century ago, the House voted to replace the Electoral College with a direct vote and the Senate came close. The arguments made then are enlightening.

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• SOURCE: Politico
  4/10/19
  

  What Donald Trump Doesn’t Get About George Washington

  by Peter Canellos

  “If he was smart, he would’ve put his name on it. You’ve got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/10/19
  

  Anti-vaxxers are comparing themselves to Holocaust victims — who relied on vaccines to survive

  by Helene Sinnreich

  The comparison is offensive. It’s also historically wrong.