Week of January 20, 2014
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The Horrors "12 Years a Slave" Couldn't Tell What a Civil War soldier’s diary tells us about Solomon Northup’s ordeal. AL JAZEERA AMERICA |
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#2 Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True The perils of an accidental nuclear war were perilously high in the 1950s and 1960s. THE NEW YORKER |
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Demonization and Hatred The ASA's continued boneheaded decision to support BDS. TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION |
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#4 The Illusions of Net Neutrality It's time to abandon inaccurate assumptions about how the digital economy works. AL JAZEERA AMERICA |
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"Duty" and the Taint of the Tell-All Robert Gates’s insider memoir is the latest in a dishonorable genre. NATIONAL REVIEW |
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#6 The Racially Fraught History of the American Beard “Washes and razors for foofoos," scoffed Walt Whitman. But the story of nineteenth-century facial hair is more tangled than modern nostalgists may realize. THE ATLANTIC |
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#7 U.S. Should Speak Truth to Japan It’s time for the U.S. to get serious about reining in Japan. CNN |
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#8 Slavery Is Having a Hollywood Moment. What About the Rest of Black History in America? A steady diet of slavery movies misses the long-term oppression -- and resistance -- of black Americans. THE NEW REPUBLIC |
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#9 Is the Fifth Republic Burning? Future historians may well decide the Fifth Republic died as it was born: in a traffic accident. NEW YORK TIMES |
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#10 Nelson Mandela Was A Committed Communist South African journalist Rian Malan has new revelations about Mandela's relationship with the Communist Party. PJ MEDIA |