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On Other Websites: Week of January 30, 2012

  • Harold Holzer: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates Weren’t As Great As Gingrich Thinks
  • Niall Ferguson: How the Rising Bottom Billion Could Explode Inequality at Home
  • Steve Gillon: How Newt Gingrich, the Ultimate Washington Insider, Plays the Part of Outsider
  • Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp: Mormons’ Double Legacy
  • Fouad Ajami: The Last Battle of the Cold War
  • Dmitry Shlapentokh: Imperial Errors Cost U.S. the Middle East
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Are College Students Learning?
  • Uri Friedman: 2012 ... The Darkest Falklands Anniversary Yet?
  • Reza Kahlili: History of Failed Negotiations Shows Iran Won't Deal
  • Piers Paul Read: France is Still Fractured by the Dreyfus Affair