On Other Websites: Weeks of August 15 & August 22
- Robert Dallek: Untold Story of the Bay of Pigs
- Victor Davis Hanson: Obama is More Like Clement Attlee than Harry Truman
- Ryan Lizza: How Michelle Bachmann Really Sees Slavery
- Adam Winkler: The Secret History of Guns
- Walter Russell Mead: Dubya Gets a Third Term in the Middle East
- Niall Ferguson: Gloating China, Hidden Problems
- Robert Fisk: History Repeats Itself, With Mistakes of Iraq Rehearsed Afresh
- Timothy Snyder: A Dangerous Misreading of the Boston Tea Party from Rightwing Anarchists
- Max Hastings: The West’s Crisis of Honest Leaders
- Geoffrey Wheatcroft: Once Upon a Time in Westphalia