What to read

Mary Beth Sullivan, "Moving from a War Economy to a Peace Economy"

Tim Lacy on the US Intellectual History blog Now What? Reflections On Historicizing American "Conservatism"

Matthew Lyons on the Three Way Fight blog Conservatism studies: on the value and limits of academic history

 First a blog post summarizing the December 2011 Journal of American History roundtable , titled "Conservatism: A State of the Field" and an activists take on the same roundtable.

Harold Meyerson, "No Longer the Land of Opportunity"

Jeff Madrick "How Austerity is Killing Europe"

Russell Fox likes a Montana Supreme Court decision upholding state's ban on corporate spending on elections.

Adam Holland returns to active blogging with a damning look at Ron Paul's campaign. 

the Campaign for Liberty, an internet forum associated with the Ron Paul campaign, has for the past four years advertised an edition of the notorious anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion