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To Make a Gun an EXERCISE in ALL-AMERICAN MANUFACTURING 2013_07_15 upc:cover61404-postal.qxd 6/25/2013 8:39 PM Page 1 July 15, 2013 $4.99 RAMESH PONNURU: AGAINST THE IMMIGRATION BILL YUVAL LEVIN ON BURKE ALLEN C. GUELZO KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: The Use and Abuse of ‘Inappropriate’ ON GETTYSBURG To Make a Gun AN EXERCISE IN ALL-AMERICAN MANUFACTURING $4.99 28 CHARLES C. W. COOKE 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/12/2012 12:34 PM Page 2 : 2400 G base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/12/2012 12:34 PM Page 3 Logistics & Training Life-Cycle Support Services Supply Chain Management Systems Integration Maintenance & Modifications www.boeing.com/support TODAYTOMORROWBEYOND D : 2400 45˚ 105˚ 75˚ G TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/26/2013 2:50 PM Page 1 Contents BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS JULY 15, 2013 | VOLUME LXV, NO. 13 | www.nationalreview.com 39 A NEW BIRTH Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews ON THE COVER Page 29 Gettysburg: The Last Invasion, Remington, U.S.A. by Allen C. Guelzo. 40 LET BURKE BE BURKE It seems nobody told Yuval Levin reviews Edmund the people of Ilion, Burke: The First Conservative, by Jesse Norman and Edmund N.Y., that they were Burke in America: The supposed to join the Contested Career of the Father of Modern decline of American Conservatism, by Drew Maciag. manufacturing. Amid . 42 HINGES OF HISTORY all the bad economic Arthur L. Herman reviews news, Remington and Moment of Battle: The Twenty Clashes That Changed its town present a ray the World, by James Lacey and Williamson Murray. of hope. Charles C. W. Cooke 44 NO HONEY, NO BABY, NO CHURCH W. Bradford Wilcox reviews ARTICLES How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory 16 A SUBNATION OF IMMIGRANTS by Ramesh Ponnuru of Secularization, Social cohesion matters. by Mary Eberstadt. 18 FISA FIASCO by Andrew C. McCarthy 45 THE SIEGE OF MEN A “rubber stamp” court would be an improvement. Carrie Lukas reviews Men on Strike: Why Men Are 21 THE INAPPROPRIATE ‘INAPPROPRIATE’ by Kevin D. Williamson Boycotting Marriage, An adjective abused. Fatherhood, and the American Dream—and Why It Matters, THE EDUCATION OF JUSTIN AMASH 23 by John J. Miller by Helen Smith. How a libertarian gadfly took wing. 47 CITY DESK: TWILIGHT OF THE CONFEDERACY 25 by Allen C. Guelzo THRILL OF THE NEW How Gettysburg changed history. Richard Brookhiser discusses a life of changing technology. 27 BLOWING UP BARBIE by Jay Nordlinger The joy of explosives camp. SECTIONS FEATURES 4 Letters to the Editor 29 REMINGTON, U.S.A. by Charles C. W. Cooke 6 The Week A storied gun maker and the town with which it thrives. 37 Athwart . James Lileks 38 The Long View . Rob Long 32 OPEN SKIES AND OPEN SPECTRUM by Christopher DeMuth 43 Poetry . Annabelle Moseley The occasional power of simple ideas. 48 Happy Warrior . Mark Steyn 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. 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