The Trump Analogy Everybody’s Overlooked
By Frank Palmeri
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The GOP Shouldn’t Be Shocked that Its Voters Are in the Tank for Trump
Donne Levy
He’s making the same race-based appeals the party’s candidates have made for decades.
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Perhaps Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Should Not Have Dropped Out of Harvard
Fred Zilian
The message he should be sending out to Facebook users is that the humanities can help them detect phony news stories.
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New Zealand Is Giving Environmentalists a Reason to Be Hopeful
Catherine Knight
The country’s politics are changing as voters on both the left and the right acknowledge the need for an independent Climate Commission, which would make recommendations on carbon reduction targets.
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Want to Understand American Slavery?
Roy E. Finkenbine
As this historian discovered, it helps to visit Brazil and see how slavery developed there.
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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Renaissance Historian Stefano Dall’Aglio
Erik Moshe
“It is not easy to look at the future when your head is plunged into the past!”
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Review of Chris Wickham’s “Medieval Europe”
Daniel Lazare
A history of Medieval Europe written by a former Marxist who’s given up not only on Marxism, but on any theory or mode of analysis whatsoever.
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Mexicans Made America—Why Do We Treat Them Like Alien Invaders?
John Tutino
If we knew the history of Mexico better, we wouldn’t.
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Mr. Trump goes to Helsinki
William R. Polk
Hard truths we need to face. One of which is this: Mr. Trump’s boorishness is not the issue.
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If We’re Going to Use Fire as a Metaphor in Politics, Let’s Get It Right
Stephen J. Pyne
A fire historian sets the record straight.
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Roundup Top 10!
This week's broad sampling of opinion pieces found on the Internet, as selected by the editors of HNN.
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Canada's Advantage Over the USA
There's No There There
Canada would never lecture another country on how they choose to govern themselves.
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Abolishing ICE Doesn’t Go Far Enough
Elliott Young
Abolishing ICE is like a demand to abolish fugitive slave catching. It’s a good move, but it’s not the same as abolishing slavery.
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The Overlooked Irony of the Red Hen Restaurant Incident
Wallace Hettle
It’s across the street from the home of Confederate General Stonewall Jackson, where the myth of the Lost Cause is still celebrated.
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(Dis)Trust in Science: What Can We Do About the Scourge of Misinformation?
Intentional Insights
See how science can help with management of misinformation.
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Did His Wife Doom His Monarchy?
C.W. Gortner
100 years later we can see more clearly how the Romanov dynasty came to an end 100 years ago.
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India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis. A Historian Knows How They Got There.
Harini Nagendra
It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).
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Remember the Berlin Airlift?
William Lambers
We should in this hour of desperation when so many people around the world need our help to survive.
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Review of Beverly Gray's “Seduced by Mrs. Robinson: How ‘The Graduate’ Became the Touchstone of a Generation”
Luther Spoehr
No counterculture? No Vietnam War? No racial tensions? No problem. How “The Graduate” connected to its audience.
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A Play About Senior Citizens Coming to Terms with Their Pasts
Bruce Chadwick
"Good Morning After Grace," by Carey Crim, is one of the funniest and most charming plays our reviewer says he's seen in years.
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Ibsen's "A Doll’s House" Gets New Lease
Bruce Chadwick
Do these spouses need a new Norwegian marriage manual or a chat with Dr. Phil?
News
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- "Never underestimate human stupidity," says historian Yuval Harari whose fans include Bill Gates and Barack Obama
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