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April 1, 2004
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Week of March 8, 2004

The Messages You May Have Missed Reading Dr. Seuss by John Fea

Why Gibson's Movie Deserves an Academy Award for Bigotry by Mike Davis

Week of March 1, 2004

The Wider Significance of the Fight Over Mel Gibson's Movie by Juan Cole

Mel Gibson Has a Right to His View of History by William C. Kashatus

Week of February 16, 2004

What We Can Learn from James Bond by Jeremy Black

Week of February 9, 2004

Super Bowl Patriots: A New Dynasty? by Derek Catsam

Week of January 26, 2004

Is the Super Bowl Un-American? Too Bad We Can't Ask TR

Week of January 19, 2004

How Complicated Was MLK? Far More than Time Magazine Thought When It Chose Him as Man of the Year in 1963 by Ralph Luker

Week of January 5, 2004

James Wechsler: The Editor Who Dared Challenge J. Edgar Hoover by Murray Polner

Week of December 8, 2003

Why It Hurts to Watch Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life by Vince Nobile

Will Wal-Mart Last Forever? by Bob Batchelor

Week of October 20, 2003

How Hollywood Imagines American Presidents by Rick Shenkman

Week of September 22, 2003

The Artist Who Asked About the Contribution of Strategic Bombing to the American Way of Life by Mike Davis

Week of September 8, 2003

Breaking the Cubs' Curse by George Beres

Week of September 1, 2003

College Isn't for Everybody and It's a Scandal that We Think It Is by Thomas Reeves

Week of August 25, 2003

The Man Who Brought Us Cadillac and Lincoln by Yanek Mieczkowski

Week of August 18, 2003

Books: Review of William Salatan's Bearing Right: How Conservatives Won the Abortion War (University of California Press) by Stanley I. Kutler

Hillary's History: What the Media Overlooked by Ruth Rosen

Week of August 11, 2003

An Open Letter to John Burroughs Concerning the Brevity of Fame by Edward J. Renehan Jr.

Week of August 4, 2003

Red Sox Blues by Derek Catsam

Week of July 7, 2003

Hillary's History by Lewis Gould

Week of June 23, 2003

The Last Days of Publishing? by Tom Engelhardt

The Question Students Flunked

Why Have So Many Presidents' Kids Gone Wrong? by Noemie Emery

Week of June 16, 2003

Representative Ike Skelton's Book List by Ike Skelton

Week of June 2, 2003

Review of Robert Dallek's An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Edward J. Renehan Jr.

The Journalist Who Helped Jackie Robinson Break the Color Bar by George Beres

Week of May 26, 2003

The Iraq War: The Movie (And Why It Is Such a Dud) by Tom Engelhardt

Week of May 5, 2003

Was Bill Douglas as Bad as Bruce Murphy's New Biography Makes Him Out to Be? by Rodger D. Citron

Week of April 14, 2003

The Sports Hero Who Was a Real Hero by William C. Kashatus

Week of April 7, 2003

Joseph Heller Moments

Has Something Gone Terribly Wrong at Columbia University? by Daniel Pipes

Is Embedded Journalism Really New? by Tom Engelhardt

Week of March 24, 2003

Should We Be Worried About Anti-Semitism on the Left? by Norman Markowitz

The Difference Between TV Coverage of the War in Vietnam and the War in Iraq by HNN Staff

Week of March 10, 2003

Why Gangs of New York Doesn't Deserve an Oscar by Robert Brent Toplin

Week of March 3, 2003

The Way the Defense Industry Really Operates by Thomas Fleming

Week of February 24, 2003

Gods and Generals is Good Hollywood -- Don't Go See It by Patrick Rael

A Consumers' Republic by Lizabeth Cohen

Why Booker T. Washington Is Still Relevant by Carol M. Swain

Week of January 20, 2003

"Red Emma" and Free Speech at Berkeley by Norman Markowitz

Why Are Arch Conservatives Ganging Up on the Middle East Studies Association? by Juan Cole

Week of January 13, 2003

So Emma Goldman's Still a Threat? by Ronald Radosh

Week of January 6, 2003

Why is the Weather Underground Still Making News? by John McMillian

Week of December 30, 2002

Larry King Interviews Bob Jones: We Don't Have to Make the Future Ugly by Dragging in History

Peace on Earth? Why Not? by Ruth Rosen

Rejoinder to Daniel Pipes: Fighting for Freedom of Speech by Eric Foner and Glenda Gilmore

Week of December 23, 2002

Review of Tona Hangen's Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America by Kenneth Heineman

Week of December 16, 2002

Roots of a Rhodes Scholar Radical by Edward J. Renehan Jr.

Sidney Hook Was Right, Arthur Schlesinger Is Wrong by Ronald Radosh

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