Roundup
This page features brief excerpts of stories published by the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media, and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
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SOURCE: Norwich University
9-20-17 (date accessed)
Infographic of the Week: The Do's & Don'ts of Peace Negotiation
Norwich University’s guide to understanding when peace negotiations succeed.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
9-19-17
The Worst 1st Year of Foreign Policy Ever
by Melvyn P. Leffler
Most presidents struggle in their first year as commander in chief. But Donald Trump got tired of winning before he started.
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SOURCE: Politico
9-17-17
Mark Lilla Is Getting Identity Politics All Wrong
by Joshua Zeitz
Appealing to voters' tribal instincts is a time-honored American tradition. Because it works.
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SOURCE: New York Magazine
9-19-17
America Wasn’t Built for Humans
by Andrew Sullivan
Tribalism was an urge our Founding Fathers assumed we could overcome. And so it has become our greatest vulnerability.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-18-17
America has forgotten the value of the humanities at the moment it needs them most
by Katherine Pickering Antonova
The challenges this country faces are a direct result of abandoning the humanities — and only the humanities can help us solve them.
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SOURCE: Time Magazine
9-18-17
There are women who back the KKK and Neo-Nazis, too
by Arica L. Coleman
Blaming 'Bad Dudes' Masks the Role of Women in the History of White Nationalism
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SOURCE: NYT
9-28-17
The Making and the Breaking of the Legend of Robert E. Lee
by Eric Foner
Whatever the fate of his statues and memorials, so long as the legacy of slavery continues to bedevil American society, it seems unlikely that historians will return Lee, metaphorically speaking, to his pedestal.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
9-15-17
James Burnham mutated from firebrand revolutionary to National Review co-editor
by Alan Wald
Today he is getting a second life all over the conservative press.
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SOURCE: Dissent Magazine
9-18-17 (accessed)
Give Peace a Chance
by Maurice Isserman
A review of the Ken Burns/Lynn Novick documentary. Conclusion: It's anti-revisionist (the war was wrongheaded). But it's also anti anti-war.
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SOURCE: Newsday
9-18-17
All-or-nothing politics belittles us all
by Jonathan Zimmerman
Its hallmarks are the complete denigration of your foes and a refusal to give any ground even when confronted by facts that don’t fit your point of view.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
9-18-17 (accessed)
How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency
by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.
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SOURCE: Newsweek
9-14-17
Is Diversity Tearing the United States Apart?
by Victor Davis Hanson
If America’s set of values becomes a pick-and-choose potpourri, there is no unity. And then America will certainly become yet another one of history’s casualties of diversity.
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SOURCE: The Nation
9-14-17
The United States Was Responsible for the 1982 Massacre of Palestinians in Beirut
by Rashid Khalidi
Washington had explicitly guaranteed their safety—and recently declassified documents reveal that US diplomats were told by the Israelis what they and their allies might be up to.
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SOURCE: BBC
9-14-17
Video of the Week: An interview with the photographer who took the picture of the Sharpeville massacre that changed history
by Fiona Macdonald
Sixty-nine men, women and children died and at least 180 were injured when police fired at a crowd of protestors in a township in South Africa.
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9-14-17
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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SOURCE: Politico
9-13-17
Is America Still a ‘Nation of Ideas’?
by Jedediah Purdy
Warring tribes or united by principle: Donald Trump’s presidency forces a question we haven’t had to answer in generations.
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SOURCE: Vietnam Full Disclosure
9-11-17
Video of the Week: Dick Cavett’s Vietnam
Examine the Vietnam War and its impact through interviews on “The Dick Cavett Show.”
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SOURCE: Politico
9-11-17
The Man the Presidency Changed
by Scott S. Greenberger
What a forgotten commander in chief can teach Donald Trump.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-11-17
How 9/11 triggered democracy’s decline
by Jeremi Suri
The attack spawned wars to export democracy abroad, while degrading it at home.
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SOURCE: The Washington Post
9-12-17
The cost of coastal capitalism: How greedy developers left Miami ripe for destruction
by Andrew W. Kahrl
Building on vulnerable coastlines isn't about ignorance or hubris — it's about profit.
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