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By Duncan Currie There Are Lessons to Learn and Not to Learn from the Old Country 2010_8_30 postal_cover61404-postal.qxd 8/10/2010 5:44 PM Page 1 August 30, 2010 49145 $3.95 ReconsideRed A Greatness Stunted by $3.95 Hate 35 JASON STEORTS 0 74851 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 8/6/2010 3:18 PM Page 1 toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 8/11/2010 1:36 PM Page 1 Contents AUGUST 30, 2010 | VOLUME LXII, NO. 16 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 43 The Greatly Ghastly Rand In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand looked out and showed us Reihan Salam & Scott Winship on the world of men as she sees American Competitiveness . p. 26 them. And she sees them viciously. Jason Lee Steorts BOOKS, ARTS COVER: MARK WILSON/GETTY & MANNERS ARTICLES 41 A COMPLICATED REBEL Ronald Radosh reviews Radical: 16 COPS, AND ROBBERS by Daniel Foster A Portrait of Saul Alinsky, The public requires protection from public-safety unions. by Nicholas von Hoffman. 20 PRIME MINISTER CAMERON AT 100 DAYS by John O’Sullivan 43 THE GREATLY GHASTLY RAND In the Tory–Lib Dem coalition, the junior partner is running the firm. Jason Lee Steorts revisits Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. 22 THE MANY MEANINGS OF ‘EUROPEANIZE’ by Duncan Currie There are lessons to learn and not to learn from the Old Country. 48 PETRONOIA Iain Murray reviews Oil: Money, Politics, and Power in the 21st 24 ‘BARACK AND I’ by Jay Nordlinger Century, by Tom Bower. What’s in a first name? 49 ON THIN ICE Mario Loyola reviews Skating on FEATURES Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism, 26 THE LEANER WELFARE STATE by Reihan Salam & Scott Winship by Stewart A. Baker. New ‘citizen benefits’ could help restore American competitiveness. 51 CITY DESK: CANCERLAND Richard Brookhiser probes our 30 OUR REAL GULF DISASTER by Lou Dolinar relationship with cancer. The conventional wisdom was wrong, wrong, wrong. 32 THE ROAD TO CHARIKAR by J. D. Johannes SECTIONS Afghans have noticed that we are not the Soviet Union. 2 Letters to the Editor 35 ELEVENTH-HOUR COUNTERINSURGENCY by Bing West 4 The Week We must quickly prepare the Kabul government to win its own war. 39 The Bent Pin . Florence King 40 The Long View . Rob Long 37 FATAL CONCEIT by Justin Logan & Christopher Preble 42 Poetry . Lawrence Dugan What’s wrong with nation building. 52 Athwart . James Lileks NATIONAL RevIeW (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by NATIONAL RevIeW, Inc., at 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. © National Review, Inc., 2010. 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Williamson Associate Editors Helen Rittelmeyer / Robert VerBruggen As a sympathetic reader of your generally fine journal, it pains me to write in Research Director Katherine Connell complaint about Claire Berlinski’s argument in “Ban the Burqa.” She abandons Research Manager Dorothy McCartney Executive Secretary Frances Bronson the core conservative principle of religious liberty in the name of a politically Assistant to the Editor Christeleny Frangos expedient but ill-conceived reaction to a current political moment. Contributing Editors On what grounds does Berlinski say we should ban the burqa? Ostensibly, Robert H. Bork / John Derbyshire Ross Douthat / Rod Dreher / David Frum because women who remain uncovered will become increasingly harassed by Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty / Jonah Goldberg Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin Muslim men. But do we ban miniskirts because a few men might respond boor- Yuval Levin / Rob Long / Jim Manzi ishly, and, even fewer, aggressively? No. And why? Because to do so is co ercive Andrew C. McCarthy / Kate O’Beirne David B. Rivkin Jr. and reduces the liberty of the woman in question. NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE I thought conservatives were not only for religious liberty but against govern - Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez AtIONAl evIew Managing Editor Edward John Craig mental social engineering. Apparently not at N R . Deputy Managing Editor Duncan Currie Berlinski may assume that the burqa reduces the liberty of Muslim women, Staff Reporter Stephen Spruiell News Editor Daniel Foster but what of those who choose to wear it as an expression of their faith? She Web Developer Nathan Goulding broaches but eschews this very topic. If it is wrong for Muslim men to coerce Technical Services Russell Jenkins Muslim women, why is it fine for the government to do so? 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