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Charles Cw Cooke Victor Davis Hanson 20151207 upc_cover61404-postal.qxd 11/17/2015 6:46 PM Page 1 December 7, 2015 $4.99 VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: HELEN ANDREWS: The Islamic War The Campus Revival LIKE A THE RETURN OF PREROGATIVE ROYAL POWER CHARLES C. W. COOKE www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/16/2015 1:40 PM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/16/2015 1:45 PM Page 3 TOC_QXP-1127940144.qxp 11/18/2015 2:47 PM Page 1 Contents DECEMBER 7, 2015 | VOLUME LXVII, NO. 22 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 30 Shall We Have a King? Victor Davis Hanson on war and terrorism If, as the American system presumes, we all have a right to p. 18 a voice in making the laws that limit our freedom—and if there is a BOOKS, ARTS branch for which we vote that & MANNERS is charged with determining REDISCOVERING KIRK those laws—it is nothing short 42 Wilfred McClay reviews Russell of tyrannical for the state to deny Kirk: American Conservative, by Bradley J. Birzer. us that right, regardless of whether we approve of what is being 43 NOT ENOUGH TO SUCCEED Terry Teachout reviews done in our na me. Charles C. W. Cooke Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal, by Jay Parini. COVER: THOMAS REIS 46 GETTING A GRIP ON ARTICLES THE GIPPER Steven F. Hayward reviews Finale: 18 THE ISLAMIC WAR by Victor Davis Hanson A Novel of the Reagan Years, Was Thucydides right about democracies in peril? by Thomas Mallon. FLORIDIANS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE 21 by Tim Alberta 47 HOLDING UP A MIRROR Jeb and Marco compete. Jonathan Leaf reviews Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare, 24 QUESTIONS FOR THE CANDIDATES by Ramesh Ponnuru by Michael Ramirez. What the nominee should have to commit to. 50 FILM: NO DEAL, MR. BOND 26 THANK GOD AND THE GOP FOR THE 13TH AMENDMENT by Theodore R. Johnson Ross Douthat reviews Spectre. One hundred fifty years have passed since the abolition of slavery. 51 CITY DESK: TALK OF 28 UNDERGROUND AT BROWN by Jay Nordlinger MANY THINGS A secret forum in which people can talk. Richard Brookhiser listens to Beethoven’s Op. 111. FEATURES 30 SHALL WE HAVE A KING? by Charles C. W. Cooke SECTIONS The Founders said no, but today Congress and the courts aren’t so sure. 4 Letters to the Editor THE HOLY SPIRIT COMES TO CAMPUS by Helen Andrews 6 The Week 33 Athwart . James Lileks Social justice and the revivalist tradition. 39 40 The Long View . Rob Long 36 UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY by Stuart Taylor Jr. & KC Johnson 48 Poetry . Daniel Mark Epstein The vanishing of due process in campus rape tribunals. 52 Happy Warrior . Daniel Foster NATIONAL REVIEW (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by N ATIONAL REVIEW, Inc., at 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. 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Visit SavetheInventor.com Brought to you by the Innovation Alliance letters_QXP-1127940387.qxp 11/18/2015 3:23 PM Page 4 Letters DECEMBER 7 ISSUE; PRINTED NOVEMBER 19 EDITOR Richard Lowry Senior Editors Where Have You Gone, Yogi Berra? Richard Brookhiser / Jonah Goldberg / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra I take issue with the editors’ comment that “Berra’s personal career statis- Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy Washington Editor Eliana Johnson tics—batting average, home runs, wins above replacement value—were Executive Editor Reihan Salam Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson strong but not world-beating” (the Week, October 19). Are you kidding me? National Correspondent John J. Miller He’s top five or six in virtually all career batting statistics for catchers. He’s Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty Art Director Luba Kolomytseva ahead of Bench in RBI, batting average, runs, hits, OPS, MVPs, all-star, Deputy Managing Editors Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz World Series appearances, and world championships. His WAR statistic is Production Editor Katie Hosmer Assistant to the Editor Rachel Ogden distorted because defensive stats pre-1955 (so, the first eight years of his Research Associate Alessandra Trouwborst career) are missing. Bench has a few more HRs (389, No. 2 all-time catcher, Contributing Editors while Berra had 358, No. 4 all-time). Clearly his batting stats are “world Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Roman Genn Arthur L. Herman / Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow beating.” R.I.P., Yogi! Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Mario Lo yola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. 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His personal statistics were not. “World-beating” Nat Brown / Molly Powell / Nick Tell Digital Director Ericka Anderson means “better than everyone else,” not “up there with the lead pack.” In Assistant Editor Mark Antonio Wright WAR (wins above replacement), the metric that comes closest to capturing Editorial Associate Christine Sisto Technical Services Russell Jenkins in one number a player’s overall value to his team, Berra ranks fifth among Web Editorial Assistant Grant DeArmitt Web Developer Wendy Weihs catchers—slightly ahead of Joe Torre and Mike Piazza and slightly behind Web Producer Scott McKim Gary Carter, Ivan Rodriguez, Carlton Fisk, and Johnny Bench. Alas, the EDITORS- AT- L A RG E contribution that Berra made by calling and framing pitches is hard for sta- Linda Bridges / Kathryn Jean Lopez / John O’Sullivan tisticians to measure. 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