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Trump Wrongs the Right 1965 Mayoral Campaign Trump Is Unlikely to Be the Republican Nominee and Will Prob- P 20150921d_cover61404-postal.qxd 9/29/2015 8:59 PM Page 1 October 19, 2015 $4.99 SPECIAL SECTION ON EDUCATION BOOT on Kissinger FREEMAN: WFB for Mayor, 50 Years Later HANSON on FDR TRUMPTRUMP THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY Richard Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 9/28/2015 12:23 PM Page 1 TOC_QXP-1127940144.qxp 9/30/2015 2:44 PM Page 1 Contents OCTOBER 19, 2015 | VOLUME LXVII, NO. 19 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 28 Neal B. Freeman on WFB’s Trump Wrongs the Right 1965 mayoral campaign Trump is unlikely to be the Republican nominee and will prob- p. 32 ably not even be a serious threat to Republicans as a third- party candidate next year. But he has exposed and widened BOOKS, ARTS the fissures on the American right. Richard Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru & MANNERS SUPER K, REVISITED COVER: ROMAN GENN 51 Max Boot reviews Kissinger: 1923–1968: The Idealist, ARTICLES by Niall Ferguson. LABOUR’S LEFTWARD LURCH by Charles C. W. Cooke 16 52 FDR IN DECLINE Jeremy Corbyn, British-political throwback. Victor Davis Hanson reviews HOPELESSLY HACKABLE FEDS by Kevin D. Williamson 1944: FDR and the Year That 18 Changed History, by Jay Winik. What a data breach tells us about our government. PAPAL ESPIONAGE AND THE OPEN BORDERS, OPEN COFFERS by Steven Camarota 54 21 THIRD REICH The import of new data on immigration and welfare receipt. William Doino Jr. reviews Church of Spies: The Pope’s Secret War HUNG UP ON ISRAEL by Jay Nordlinger 24 against Hitler, by Mark Riebling. An explanation for the sincere. 56 VIOLENCE BEFORE VICTORIA Molly Powell reviews Murd er by FEATURES Candlelight: The Gruesome TRUMP WRONGS THE RIGHT by Richard Lowry & Ramesh Ponnuru Slayings behind Our 28 Romance with the Macabre, But Republicans should still learn from him. by Michael Knox Beran. FINALLY, THE RECOUNT by Neal B. Freeman 32 58 FILM: BEDEVILED Looking back at WFB’s 1965 mayoral campaign. Ross Douthat reviews Black Mass. 59 COUNTRY LIFE: DUSKFALL EDUCATION SECTION Richard Brookhiser’s garden 39 THE COST OF ‘FREE’ COLLEGE by Andrew P. Kelly approaches winter. It will reduce quality without guaranteeing higher enrollment. 42 BACK TO BASICS by John J. Miller SECTIONS The resurgence of classical education. 2 Letters to the Editor SCHOOL REFORM AT A CROSSROADS 45 by Frederick M. Hess 4 The Week The Left–Right coalition is coming apart. 49 Athwart . James Lileks 50 The Long View . Rob Long CRADLE OF CHOICE by David French 47 56 Poetry . 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