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On Other Websites: Week of May 23, 2011

Joanna Bourke: Why is Rape So Difficult for Some to Understand?

Daniel Pipes: Fin de Régime in Syria?

Charles Lachman: America's Forgotten Presidential Sex Scandal

Michael Lind: Niall Ferguson Represents the Intellectual Paucity of the Right

Victor Davis Hanson: Back to the Pre-American World?

Alex Massie: What Special Relationship?

Julian E. Zelizer: N.Y. Race for House Seat a Preview of 2012?

Daniel Martin Varisco: Is This the Last Dance for Ali?

Lane Wallace: At What Price the Moon?

Finian O'Toole: Ireland and Britain: Ends and Beginnings