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Reckoning with Vietnam a Journal of Political Thought and Statesmanship VOLUME XVIII, NUMBER 2, SPRING 2018 A Journal of Political Thought and Statesmanship William Charles R. Voegeli: Reckoning with Vietnam Kesler: Arthur M. inking Schlesinger, Jr. Essays by Martha Bayles about Catesby Leigh and Trump Mackubin Anthony Thomas Esolen: Owens Peter C. When Myers: Harry Race Became Talk Sally Angelo M. Joseph Codevilla: Postell: e Natural e Trouble Law of War with Congress & Peace Michael Burlingame: David P. Ulysses S. Goldman: Grant Sigmund Freud Paul A. Rahe: John James Fonte: Madison’s American Notes Sovereignty A Publication of the Claremont Institute PRICE: $6.95 IN CANADA: $8.95 H C VAN ANDEL GRADUATE SCHOOL OF STATESMANSHIP M.A. POLITICS Ph.D. POLITICS A F P A G E P P A P THE FACULTY Larry P. Arnn · Adam Carrington · Mickey Craig · John W. Grant Matthew Mendham · Ronald J. Pestritto · Kevin Portteus · Paul A. Rahe Kevin Slack · Thomas G. West B W A T O ering Competitive Scholarships and Fellowship Stipends For more information or to apply: gradschool.hillsdale.edu | [email protected] | (517) 607-2483 HC_GradSchool_CRB_7-16.indd 1 7/25/16 8:36 AM mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm FROM THE EDITORIAL DESK William Voegeli: When Your Neighbors Are Passive-Progressive: page 5 CORRESPONDENCE: page 6 ESSAYS Charles R. Kesler: Thinking about Trump: page 10 Catesby Leigh: These Honored Dead: page 42 Morality, politics, and the presidency. How the Vietnam Veterans Memorial succeeded despite itself. Angelo M. Codevilla: On the Natural Law of War and Peace: page 25 Joseph Postell: What’s the Matter with Congress?: page 56 A guide for statesmen and warriors. Why it’s hard to make Congress great again. Mackubin Thomas Owens: The Vietnam War Revisited: page 37 Joseph Epstein: Hail, Mommsen: page 75 Why the conventional history is wrong. A German historian’s tribute to Rome. Algis Valiunas: The Tragic Sense: page 88 What Joseph Conrad knew. REVIEWS OF BOOKS David P. Goldman: The Prophet of Ordinary Unhappiness:page 18 Michael Burlingame: Rehabilitating Grant: page 67 Freud: The Making of an Illusion, by Frederick Crews. American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, by Ronald C. White; Grant, by Ron Chernow; and The Complete Personal Memoirs of Ulysses Anthony Esolen: Why Can’t a Woman Be More Like a Man?: page 22 S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition, edited by John F. Marszalek. When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, by Ryan T. Anderson. Paul Kengor: The Great Dismantler:page 70 Gorbachev: His Life and Times, by William Taubman. John Fonte: One Nation: page 31 The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World, Charles Horner: The Past Is Prologue:page 72 by Stewart Patrick. Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power, by Howard W. French; and The China Order: Michael Auslin: Imperialism, American-Style: page 35 Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power, The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth by Fei-Ling Wang. of American Empire, by Stephen Kinzer. Rafael Major: Slouching Toward Bethlehem: page 79 Peter C. Myers: An Honest Conversation about Race: page 48 Shakespeare’s Rome: Republic and Empire, by Paul A. Cantor; Reckoning With Race: America’s Failure, and Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World, by Gene Dattel. by Paul A. Cantor. William Voegeli: He’s History: page 51 Diana Schaub: The Figure in the Carpet:page 81 Schlesinger: The Imperial Historian, by Richard Aldous. Naïve Readings: Reveilles Political and Philosophic, by Ralph Lerner. Paul A. Rahe: Missing the Point: page 61 David Lewis Schaefer: Misreading Montaigne: page 84 Madison’s Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention, Montaigne: A Life, by Philippe Desan, translated by Steven Rendall by Mary Sarah Bilder. and Lisa Neal. Sally C. Pipes: A Man of Accomplishment: page 87 Entrepreneurial Life: The Path from Startup to Market Leader, by Robert L. Luddy. SHADOW PLAY Martha Bayles: The Dark at the End of the Tunnel: page 95 Ken Burns’s The Vietnam War does not take sides. PARTHIAN SHOT Mark Helprin: The Guillotine of Sophistry: page 98 Claremont Review of Books w Spring 2018 Page 3 Claremont_Spring2018_NYROB040106 3/29/18 12:43 PM Page 1 # # # # New from Library of America # # # # Wendell Berry Reconstruction Basketball Port William Novels & Stories Voices from America’s First Great Great Writing About America’s Game I: The Civil War to World War II Struggle for Racial Equality Alexander Wolff editor Jack Shoemaker editor Brooks D. 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America’s Albert Murray Elmore Leonard Collected Novels & Poems Westerns nonprofit Train Whistle Guitar / The Spyglass Tree Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre publisher The Seven League Boots / The Magic Keys Valdez Is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / Stories Henry Louis Gates, Jr. & Paul Devlin editors Terrence Rafferty editor # # # # 799 pages 790 pages “An absolute joy to read.” “Nobody’s pace or voice has ever been so dazzling.” Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The New York Times Book Review www.loa.org /libraryofamerica /LibraryAmerica /libraryofamerica mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm from the editorial desk When Your Neighbors Are Passive-Progressive by William Voegeli iversity and inclusion” is the moral benchmark of our ticket those cars. Little wonder that despite the District’s affordable hous- time, “social justice” distilled to its essence. Every corporation, ing policies, Shaw went from being 90% black in 1970 to 30% in 2010. “Dcollege, and government agency, along with a growing number “Our new neighbors” proved unwilling to “collaborate, cooperate, or even of bowling leagues and bait-and-tackle shops, has an Office of Diversity converse,” said Metropolitan’s pastor. After 150 years in Shaw, Metro- and Inclusion. politan Baptist has relocated to Maryland. Many places that preach diversity and inclusion, however, do little A big reason gentrifiers move into cities, Hyra writes, is that they “crave to practice it. The website WalletHub has released its annual diversity a variety of ‘authentic’ urban experiences.” Hyra describes the newest Shaw rankings of American cities. Portland, Oregon, ends up as 270th out of residents as “tourists in place” who want things both ways: expensive res- 501 cities in terms of ethnic diversity, no surprise given that the 2010 taurants and condominiums, but also the “drama of living on the edge.” census showed Portland’s population to be 76.1% white, 9.4% Hispanic, 7.1% Asian, and 6.3% black. Despite this demographic resemblance to the e may safely assume that shaw’s gentrifiers not only past’s more monochromatic America, the one Donald Trump is allegedly don’t consider themselves racists, but take pride in the en- determined to restore, Multnomah County gave Trump only 17% of its Wlightened views that set them apart from the bigoted reac- votes in 2016. (Four-fifths of the county’s residents live in Portland.) tionaries who elected Trump. But politically, too, they want things both Even thorough, geographic intermingling of different ethnic groups ways. TheUrban Dictionary defines “passive progressives” as “pseudo- doesn’t guarantee that diversity will be inclusive. Consider gentrification, liberals,” holding all the right opinions and attitudes while reliably ad- wherein significant numbers of prosperous people move into and then vancing their own interests. change the character of city neighborhoods previously home to the urban Perhaps, however, the problem is not that Shaw’s newcomers are poor. Although a global phenomenon, American gentrification usually pseudo-liberals but that they’re…well, authentic liberals. In 1962, long entails white professionals transforming black neighborhoods. before anyone worried about gentrification, James Baldwin lamented “the In Race, Class, and Politics in the Cappuccino City (2017) sociologist incredible, abysmal, and really cowardly obtuseness of white liberals,” as Derek S. Hyra studied gentrification in Washington, D.C.’s Shaw neigh- a result of which “they could deal with the Negro as a symbol or a victim borhood. Because of Washington’s affordable housing policies, including but had no sense of him as a man.” rent control and subsidized housing, gentrification there does not, to the It is possible to feel both contempt and sympathy for today’s urban pro- extent common in other cities, price people out of the neighborhoods gressive. An article on gentrification in Philadelphia noted that white flight where they grew up. In that sense, gentrification in D.C. should have as was supposed to have devastated big cities 50 years ago, just as gentrifica- good a chance to go smoothly as could be hoped for.
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