E New Class Warfare French Economist Omas Piketty’S Intellectual Cover for Con Scation
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Consciousness Reconsidered Trey Gowdy: The Prosecutor The Ad Man Goes to War Stop Looking for Reagans JOHN DERBYSHIRE AMANDA C. ELLIOTT JAMES LILEKS NEAL B. FREEMAN JUNE 2014 A MONTHLY REVIEW EDITED BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. e New Class Warfare French economist omas Piketty’s intellectual cover for con scation. By James Piereson PLUS: The Gipper in Iceland Ken Adelman Lessons from Mozilla? Lachlan Markay & Matt Cover Colbert Wins Late Night Bill Zeiser Back to Basics Sportswriters William McMorris sarkes.qxd 11/13/06 9:53 AM Page 84 Long-range radar protection you can trust: “Pure range is the Valentine’s domain.” — Autoweek Now Valentine One comes to a touchscreen near you. Three screens: analyze every threat three ways. You can see the arrows at work on the screen of any compatible iPhone® or AndroidTM device. Frequency and Direction of Priority Alert Profi les Menu V1 Dark Mode Mute Computer Modes Bogey Counter V1 Screen—shows Picture Screen—the List Screen—the all warnings including Threat Picture shows Threat List shows all arrows, Bogey Counter, the full width of all signals in range by and signal strength. activated bands and numerical frequency, Band ID Touch icons for Mute, arrows mark all signal each with an arrow Modes and V1 Dark. activity on them. showing Direction. Threat Swipe for Check it out… The app is free! Strength V1, Picture You can download V1connection, the app for free. and List Screens Go to the app store on your device. When installed, the app automatically runs a Demo Mode. No Beyond Situation Awareness need to link to V1. You can analyze preloaded threat situations Think of V1connection™ as the Master on three different screens: the V1 Screen, Picture, and List. See Controller for your V1 system. You can how they work together to give a complete Threat Picture. Then adjust SAVVY® settings, change muting, when you’re ready to put advanced Situation Awareness on ® activate dark mode, revise programming, duty in your car, order the Bluetooth communication module, save custom programming profi les for V1connection, directly from us. different trips, and more, all from Ī For compatible Android devices...choose V1connection. your handheld. Ī For iPhone/iPad®/iPod touch...choose® V1connection™ LE. SEE at valentine1.com/mobile Call toll-free 1-800-331-3030 { Valentine One Radar Locator with Laser Detection - $399 © 2014 VRI { Carrying Case - $29 { Concealed Display - $39 { SAVVY - $69 { V1connection - $49 { V1connection LE - $49 Valentine Research, Inc. Ph 513-984-8900 Plus Shipping / Ohio residents add sales tax Department No. YJ74 Fx 513-984-8976 Mike Valentine 10280 Alliance Road Radar Fanatic 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee Cincinnati, Ohio 45242 Valentine One is a registered trademark of Valentine Research, Inc. Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc. • iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc. • Android is a trademark of Google Inc. 1072967 • American Spectator - July/Aug14 • 10 x 12 table of CONTENTS June 2014 • VOL. 47, NO. 5 2 About This Month 35 Constitutional Opinions 48 Ben Stein’s Diary Coarse Correction Dis-United Kingdom? Making Friends and Enemies . 4 The Continuing Crisis 36 Economics 50 Conservative Tastes . , . e Growth Gap Requiem for the Chatterley Classes 6 Odds & Ends 38 Presswatch 8 The Bootblack Stand All You Need to Know ARTS & LETTERS 52 Le Capital 10 In the Colosseum Capital in the Twenty-First Century e Prosecutor By omas Piketty . 12 Ten Paces 54 Flash Noise Is donor disclosure good for the Right? Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt By Michael Lewis FEATURES 56 Till Death Us Do Part Marriage and Civilization: 14 The GOP Needs Real Heroes How Monogamy Made Us Human Stop looking for redux Reagans. By William Tucker . 16 When the Cold War 58 Arguably Rides Again Cooled Down A Literary Education and Other Essays Reagan, Gorbachev, and a haunted house By Joseph Epstein in the Land of Fire and Ice. p. 30 20 Chasing Down the 39 The Nation’s Pulse 60 Public Nuisances Ghost in the Machine Saving Sportswriting e Press Never Calls / Up From Racism Losing consciousness in Arizona. . , . 41 Commie Watch 61 Current Wisdom 26 The Ad Man Goes to War Communist Day in New Haven Learning from the Life archives. 64 Last Call 42 Politics Music of the Trilobites Defunding the Democratic Party DEPARTMENTS . COVER ART: ANDY WATT The American Spectator is published monthly, except for 30 Culture Vultures 44 The Great American Saloon Series combined July/Aug and Jan/Feb issues, by The American Spectator, LLC at 1611 N. Kent St., Suite 901, A Fake Newsman in Late Night? Burning Ring of Fryer Arlington, VA 22209. Printed in the U.S. Periodicals post- age paid at Arlington, VA, and additional mailing offices. One-year subscription is $39 (new subscribers only). Publication number: 0148-8414. Vol. 47, No. 5. 33 Letter From Paris 45 High Spirits POSTMASTER: send address changes to The American Spectator, P.O. Box 171, Congers, NY 10920-0171. e Shocking Monsieur Shakespeare India’s Jekyll and Hyde © 2014 The American Spectator, LLC. All rights . reserved. Reproductions without permission are express- ly prohibited. To request permission to republish an arti- cle or for reprint information call 703-807-2011 ext. 32. www.spectator.org THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 1 about this MONTH VOLUME 47, NO. 5 Editor-in-Chief R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. Editorial Director WLADYSLAW PLESZCZYNSKI Managing Editor K P by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Assistant Managing Editor M P Assistant Editor M W Senior Editors W. JAMES ANTLE III, TOM BETHELL, F.H. BUCKLEY, H.W. CROCKER III, JOHN H. FUND, QUIN HILLYER, Coarse Correction NED RYUN, ROGER SCRUTON, BEN STEIN Chief Saloon Correspondent A B, J. Economics Editor S M Paris Bureau J A. H Movie and Culture Critic J B , anoth- Which is ne with him. He has other Senior Editorial Advisor R L. B ( - ) Kapellmeister er step in our public de- sanctions in mind, but of a domestic na- B V K generation. In his listless ture, even if buttressed by the nest French Contributing Editors performance before the intellectualism (see James Piereson’s sober DAVID AIKMAN, JED BABBIN, FLORENCE KING, HERBERT LONDON, JEFFREY LORD, White House Corre- assessment of omas Piketty—or “our lit- SHAWN MACOMBER, GEORGE NEUMAYR, spondents’ Association, tle Piketty,” as adoring progressives might GROVER G. NORQUIST, JOHN TRAIN, B S. W our president casually as well be calling him; p. 52). Presumably Art Direction/Production J P. M uses the verb “piss o ” without a moment’s our president won’t include his millionaire Advertising D M hesitation. No one notices, not that anyone brother-in-law among those designated for Lester Communications Inc. A 866-954-8168 would object. As the evening’s comedian con scatory treatment—after all, he’s un- F 877-565-8557 observed, he remains in the top fty of our employed now, a feature of our daily life www.lesterpublications.com nation’s greatest presidents. best led away under “the new normal.” Circulation C S, I. Is his power waning? One sign it just Back in Cold War days, our progressives Editorial Interns might be is that his brother-in-law has been often spoke of convergence, as if the U.S. N M, R B-E red as head basketball coach at Oregon and USSR were becoming alike not just Editorial Office State University, a public institution reliant military but economically, socially, and The American Spectator on federal funds. ough he had a losing above all politically. Ronald Reagan put 1611 North Kent Street, Suite 901 record in a six-season run that coincided an end to such talk but under his current Arlington, Virginia 22209 703-807-2011 with this president’s tenure, the AP report successor it seems to be resurfacing if not editor@spectator.org made sure to note that at 94-105 he is the yet articulated. But consider. Everyone www.spectator.org “fourth-winningest coach in school history.” knows who the oligarchs are in Russia, The American Spectator LLC e rest of his contract has been bought out and how they thrive so long as they kiss is a subsidiary of for $4 million. Good news for the taxman, Putin’s rings and worship at his feet. Now T A S F but can such buyouts also be applied to the left has taken to using the same term President S R winning politicians with losing records? in reference to America’s lthy rich, or at New Media and Visuals B B Our president took some cheap shots in least those who haven’t reached an accom- Office Manager P G New Media Associate P R his correspondents’ dinner remarks, includ- modation with the current administration. New Media Associate A H ing one at Pat Buchanan for saying some- In Russia, Putin has turned the media into thing nice about Vladimir Putin. is from his errand boys and he’s just honored those Legal Counsel S, P, N, the starry old droog who promised Vladimir who’ve spread his Big Lie campaign against B S he’d have “more exibility” in his second Ukraine. Our president meanwhile has SUBSCRIPTION REPRINTS BACK ISSUES term. Excuse the French, but it appears that launched his own campaign on behalf of an QUERIES: 703-807-2011 800-524-3469 exibility has become a carte blanche for Mr. administration climate change report that 800-524-3469 Putin. Were he more adept at holding a knife puts the UN’s to shame. Its launch includ- * * * ADVERTISING DEVELOPMENT and fork, Ukraine would already be carved to ed his meeting with national and local TV P.O.