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On Other Websites: Week of June 3, 2013

  • Stephanie Meeks: Preserving the History of the Manhattan Project
  • Michael Kazin: The Forgotten President
  • Niall Ferguson and Pierpaolo Barbieri: The E.U.’s Feeble War on Unemployment
  • Jim Downs: The History of Mrs. Obama's Heckler
  • Jay Winter: Raphael Lemkin, a Prophet Without Honors
  • Jeffrey Wasserstorm: Looking Back at the June 4 Massacre, Twenty-Four Years On
  • Brent Budowsky: JFK Then, Obama Now
  • Conrad Black: A Weak U.S.
  • Jonathan Zimmerman: Protect the Watchdog Press – from Obama
  • Victor Davis Hanson: The Stagnant Mediterranean