How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome. By G. W. Bowersock.

How Christianity Spread: the 1% and the 99% in Ancient Rome. By G. W. Bowersock. The New Republic, November 16, 2012. Also find it here.

The new Canadian underclass. By Chris Sorensen and Charlie Gillis.

The new Canadian underlcass. By Chris Sorensen and Charlie Gillis. Maclean’s, January 16, 2013.

Naftali Bennett: Israel’s Great Right Hope. By Michael Petrou.

Naftali Bennett: Israel’s Great Right Hope. By Michael Petrou. Maclean’s, January 20, 2013.

Bennett: I took terrorism class with Sara Netanyahu. By Moran Azulay. Ynet News, January 16, 2013.

Netanyahu’s Nightmare: How Israel’s Elections Could Surprise Us. By Ben Birnbaum. The New Republic, January 21, 2013.

More on Naftali Bennett here.

Harvard professor seeks surrogate mother for cloned Neanderthal baby. By Allan Hall and Fiona Macrae.

Wanted: “Adventurous woman” to give birth to Neanderthal man - Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby. By Allan Hall and Fiona Macrae. Daily Mail, January 20, 2013.

Can Neanderthals Be Brought Back from the Dead? Interview with George Church. Spiegel Online, January 18, 2013.

A real-life Downton Abbey dilemma. By Sam Greenhill and Rosie Taylor.

A real-life Downton dilemma: Baron with eight daughters but no sons faces his title passing to a distant cousin. By Sam Greenhill and Rosie Taylor. Daily Mail, January 20, 2013.

OMerica. By John Podhoretz.

OMerica. By John Podhoretz. New York Post, January 20, 2013.

Podhoretz:

Obama’s success or failure in the next four years will determine the course of America for generations.

As Barack Obama’s second term begins with a private swearing-in ceremony today, we know one thing: If he leaves office as a well-regarded two-termer in 2017, he will have become the most important president since Ronald Reagan and the most important liberal president since Franklin D. Roosevelt.

If the American electorate deems his eight years a success, the Obama presidency will have altered the ideological trajectory of the United States.

For decades now, since the Reagan era, the United States has been most accurately described as a center-right nation. That will not be the case if Obama does well over the next four years. By 2017, it will have moved several clicks port — for a generation at least. Due to Obama and his policies, the United States will have become a center-left nation.

If, however, Obama crashes and burns during his second term — either because the public turns on his policies, as was the case with George W. Bush, or (impossible to believe) because of personal misconduct, as was the case with Bill Clinton — Obama will leave liberalism in the same state of crisis in which conservatism now finds itself.

Rather than enshrine it as the dominating force in American politics, he will have discredited left-liberalism.

So the stakes are pretty high. The reward for success will be vast. The cost of failure will be severe. And Obama has made sure we will be able to tell which is which. There will be no doubt.

Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address: An Uncompromising Defense of Liberalism.

Barack Obama’s Second Inaugural Address. Video. New York Times. YouTube, January 21, 2013. Transcript here. Complete inauguration video here.

Bill O’Reilly: “President Obama’s Attempts to Redistribute Prosperity Will Bankrupt America.” Fox News Insider, January 21, 2013. Also find video here.

Krauthammer: Obama Speech “A Declaration That The Era Of Big Government Is Back.” Real Clear Politics, January 21, 2013. Also find video here.

Ben Shapio: How Could You Call That a Bipartisan Speech. Video. Lou Dobbs Tonight. Fox Business, January 21, 2013.

Analyzing Obama’s Inauguration Speech. Video. Monica Crowley, Judith Miller, Michael Goodwin. Lou Dobbs Tonight. Fox Business, January 21, 2013.

Obama brings more optimism, partisanship and populism to second inaugural speech. By Scott Wilson. Washington Post, January 21, 2013.

Obama’s Second Inaugural Will Stand the Test of Time. By Jonathan Cohn. The New Republic, January 21, 2013.

Obama Was Always a Liberal, But Now He’s Defending Liberalism. By Noam Scheiber. The New Republic, January 21, 2013.

I Have a Dream Speech, August 28, 1963. By Martin Luther King, Jr.

I Have a Dream Speech. By Martin Luther King, Jr. Video. August 28, 1963. YouTube. Also find it here, here, and here. Transcript here.

Listening to “I Have a Dream.” By Joshua Rothman. The New Yorker, January 21, 2013.

Rasmussen Poll: 65 Percent of Americans See Gun Rights as Protection Against Tyranny.

65% See Gun Rights as Protection Against Tyranny. Rasmussen Reports, January 18, 2013.

Poll: 65 percent of Americans see guns as protection against tyranny. By Kelsey Osterman. Red Alert Politics, January 19, 2013.

Searching for Answers After Newtown. By Scott Rasmussen. Rasmussen Reports, January 18, 2013.

Liberals Make Gun Debate About Race. Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, January 18, 2013.

The 65% of Americans in this poll who see gun rights as protection against tyranny is a good way to identify Jacksonian America.

Demystifying the American Story. By Robin Lindley.

Demystifying the American Story: Interview with Jill Lepore. By Robin Lindley. History News Network, January 21, 2013.

Why my friends are leaving Israel. By Igor Teller.

Why my friends are leaving Israel. By Igor Teller. Ynet News, January 20, 2013.

Becoming Israeli during Gaza operation. By Leign Cuen. Ynet News, December 3, 2012.

Voyager I at the Heliopause. By John Steele Gordon.

Voyager I at the Heliopause. By John Steele Gordon. The American, January 18, 2013.

We Are the 98 Percent. By Cliff Asness.

We Are the 98 Percent. By Cliff Asness. The American, January 7, 2013.