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The New Puritans the New Puritans 20150420_postal:cover61404-postal.qxd 3/31/2015 7:08 PM Page 1 April 20, 2015 $4.99 Heffernan & Wood: The Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement PONNURU on 2016 NORDLINGER on JOHN J. MILLER: RIGHT-TO-WORK ON THE MARCH Anthropology The New AND THEIR Puritans FIGHT AGAINST RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Kevin D. Williamson www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 4/1/2015 12:47 AM Page 1 e Best Two Weeks of Your Summer! Great Books • Engaging Conversations • Authentically Catholic July 19–August 1, 2015 High School Great Books Program at Thomas Aquinas College See the video: thomasaquinas.edu/summerprogram quinas A C s o a l m l e o Thomas Aquinas College g h e T C 1 Truth Maers al 7 if 19 ornia - TOC--FINAL:QXP-1127940144.qxp 4/1/2015 2:46 PM Page 1 Contents APRIL 20, 2015 | VOLUME LXVII, NO. 7 | www.nationalreview.com Charles C. W. Cooke on Jeremy Clarkson ON THE COVER Page 28 p. 26 A Place for Conscience BOOKS, ARTS That the civil-rights movement organized & MANNERS to advance the condition of black Americans 40 UPPER CRUST is a fitting and natural precedent to the move- Florence King reviews Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of ment organized to advance the condition of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice gay Americans is an exercise in question- Roosevelt Longworth, by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer. begging, one that is, given the American 42 A NEW FORM OF temperament, almost inevitable. Kevin D. Williamson GOVERNMENT Matthew Spalding reviews COVER: ROMAN GENN A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of ARTICLES American Political Corruption, by Jay Cost. 16 JEB, SCOTT, AND THE REST by Ramesh Ponnuru How fare the Republican presidential hopefuls? 44 ON THE COUCH Mona Charen reviews Admirable 18 THE TAXMAN ENDURETH by Patrick Brennan Evasions: How Psychology ted Cruz’s abolish-the-iRS idea has little merit. Undermines Morality, by Theodore Dalrymple. 20 BETTING ON INDIA’S ECONOMY by Sadanand Dhume its strength will be our strategic asset. 45 WOMEN’S LIVES Robert P. George reviews North of WHAT MUSLIMS SHOULD FEAR MOST 22 by Re ihan Salam the Tension Line, by J. F. Riordan. it isn’t american xenophobia. 50 FILM: TERROR IN THE ANTI-SCOLD 26 by Charles C. W. Cooke PLAIN SIGHT on the phenomenon of Jeremy Clarkson. Ross Douthat reviews It Follows. 51 CITY DESK: WRITING À DEUX Richard Brookhiser on a marriage FEATURES of writers. 28 A PLACE FOR CONSCIENCE by Kevin D. Williamson anti-gay discrimination is wrong, but it is not Jim Crow. 30 ANOTHER WIN FOR RIGHT-TO-WORK by John J. Miller SECTIONS Now, in half the states, you cannot be forced to join a union. 2 Letters to the Editor 33 THE WRONG BOX by Tim Heffernan and Graeme Wood 4 The Week our prisons’ use of solitary confinement is inhumane. 38 The Long View . Rob Long 39 Athwart . 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