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Pop Culture Roundup: This Week by Rick Shenkman This week ... "Bridge of Spies," technology and "Censored Voices."

Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking About This week ... Simon Schama, Paris, Trump.

Ignoring the Lessons of 9/11 by Ryan Lizza The 9/11 Commission Report warned that no terror group should ever be allowed a sanctuary. ISIS is now safely operating in one the size of Indiana.

Woodrow Wilson, Princeton University, and the Battles We Choose to Fight by Geoffrey R. Stone Scrubbing Wilson's name from Princeton would distract attention from the real issues of deeply-rooted injustice in our contemporary society that we need to take seriously today.

Race, Yale, p.c. and a nation spinning apart on Thanksgiving by Jim Sleeper The noise machine of conservative media and partisanship gone amok has machine-gunned and closed the American mind.

Close the mosques, lock up the immigrants and pass the “Liberty cabbage” by Andrew O'Hehir A brief history of our bigotry and ignorance, from John Adams to Donald Trump

What Woodrow Wilson Did For Black America by Jonathan Zimmerman Yes, he was a racist. Does that mean we should banish him from the rolls of Progressive history?

When America Was Overcome with Anti-Japanese Xenophobia During WWII, One Union Fought Back by Peter Cole That union was the International Longshoremen’s & Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU), an amalgam of communists, socialists and radicals.

Don’t Repress the Past by James Livingston Students at Yale U. want to rename one of its residential houses, Calhoun College, to avoid honoring John C. Calhoun, a 19th-century proponent of slavery and secession.

Hong Kong is changing by Jeffrey Wasserstrom What a historian found when he resisted the city in the wake of the Umbrella Movement

Take a cue from Ralph Ellison: Don't demean minority students by overprotecting them by Jonathan Zimmerman Ellison would be appalled by our current moment on American campuses, where the damage thesis has returned with a vengeance.