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On Other Websites: Weeks of December 19 & 26, 2011

  • Alan Wolfe: Evil Ain't What It Used to Be
  • Michael Lind: Hitchens, Gossip Columnist of Genius
  • Louis Hyman: How Did World War II End the Great Depression?
  • Andrew J. Bacevich: After Iraq, War is U.S.
  • Daniel Pipes: Tehran Holds Obama Re-Election Wild Card
  • Post Carbon Institute: 300 Years of Fossil Fuels in 300 Seconds
  • Rodric Braithwaite: The Myths of Russia
  • Peter Clarke: Churchill is a Poor Lodestar for Cameron’s Isolationism
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: FAMU Hazing, Robert Champion: Violent Rituals Don't Make Men Stronger
  • Melanie Kirkpatrick: The World's Most Repressive State