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20170123_cover61404-postal.qxd 1/3/2017 7:40 PM Page 1 January 23, 2017 $4.99 THE EDITORS DAVID PRYCE-JONES MATTHEW WALTHER The D.C. Circuit’s Mistake The Maligning of Israel Winnie-the-Pooh at 90 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN OuttaOuttaTHOMAS C. DONNELLYHereHere RICHARD FONTAINE $4.99 HENRY OLSEN 04 RAMESH PONNURU LUKE THOMPSON 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_new_milliken-mar 22.qxd 1/3/2017 12:59 PM Page 1 ARE YOU PREPARED TO REBUILD? This highly anticipated follow-up to William R. Forstchen’s New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, immerses readers once more in the story of our nation’s struggle to rebuild after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror. Also Available “Forstchen is the prophet of a new Dark Age. The wise will listen.” Tackling an issue so important it has become —STEPHEN COONTS the topic of a congressional debate, this series asks what if the US was struck by an EMP thefi naldaynovel.com and how would we rebuild. TOC--ready_QXP-1127940144.qxp 1/4/2017 2:01 PM Page 1 Contents JANUARY 23, 2017 | VOLUME LXIX, NO. 1 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 24 Obama’s Young Garden Obama planted a number of political Matthew Walther on Winnie-the-Pooh seeds during his tenure, seeds that p. 22 could, in the hands of a skilled gardener, blossom quickly if Donald Trump and the BOOKS, ARTS Republican Congress don’t govern & MANNERS wisely. If Obama’s strategy played poorly 35 THE SOUL OF MENCKEN in the short term, we cannot yet dismiss Lauren Weiner reviews Damning Words: The Life and Religious the possibility that it will play out quite Times of H. L. Mencken, well over the coming years. Henry Olsen by D. G. Hart. 36 THE FEMINIST ECONOMY COVER: ROMAN GENN George Gilder reviews Men without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis, by Nicholas Eberstadt. ARTICLES 38 INDIAN COUNTRY 16 A NON-TRANSFORMATIONAL PRESIDENT by Ramesh Ponnuru Travis Kavulla reviews The Earth Obama was not the Left’s Reagan. Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the DOCTRINE OF DECLINE by Thomas C. Donnelly 17 American West, by Peter Cozzens. Obama has done lasting damage to the military. IT DIDN’T HAPPEN HERE AFTER THE FALL by Michael Knox Beran 40 19 John J. Miller discusses Sinclair Lewis. Obama’s last sermon. GOING ROGUE THE MALIGNING OF ISRAEL by David Pryce-Jones 42 20 Ross Douthat reviews Rogue One: Obama’s simplistic reversal of American diplomatic tradition. A Star Wars Story. WINNIE-THE-POOH AT 90 by Matthew Walther 22 43 BIRD’S-EYE VIEW Judging Milne’s famous novels as literature. Richard Brookhiser watches pigeons and sparrows. 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