Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

	Up Front 1964 Report: Humanities "Equipped to Fill the 'Abyss of Leisure'" Made Possible by Forty-Hour Workweek David Austin Walsh A new report on the humanities makes rather different arguments than the one from fifty years ago. Tags: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, reports News at Home Guns and the NSA Make Strange Bedfellows Ira Chernus's MythicAmerica On the right, the resistance to NSA spying stems from the same place as resistance to gun control. Tags: guns, gun control, NSA, PRISM scandal News Abroad What Turkey's Riots Mean Daniel Pipes Keep a close eye on foreign investment. Tags: Arab Spring, Ottoman Empire, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey Historians & History LBJ Was a Great President Vaughn Davis Bornet Don't believe the naysayers -- LBJ unleashed the Great Society and kept the peace with the Soviets and Mao. Tags: 1960s, LBJ, Lyndon B. Johnson, presidents Wabash Cannonball Jim Loewen The origins of the elusive "folk" song. Tags: folklore, origins, songs, trains, Culture Watch The Man of Steel Rusts Bruce Chadwick And we're not talking about Stalin. Tags: Superman, Man of Steel, movies, Hollywood   King Kong Takes Manhattan... Yet Again. Bruce Chadwick Doesn't the world's greatest city deserve a new nemesis? Tags: King Kong, plays, coming attractions, Manhattan Books Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman's FDR and the Jews Murray Polner The dynamic duo of Breitman and Lichtman successfully defend Franklin Roosevelt's reputation. Tags: Allan Lichtman, book reviews, FDR and the Jews, Richard Breitman