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Ours has a thing for pantsuits, and she is even tougher on BOOKS, ARTS heretics than was the Spanish original: & MANNERS Tomás de Torquemada, an orthodox 38 FREEDOM TRAILS Dominican, did not think anybody Jay Nordlinger reviews The irredeemable. Kevin D. Williamson Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead. COVER: ROMAN GENN 39 CURRENCY DISUNION Andrew Stuttaford reviews The Euro: How a Common ARTICLES Currency Threatens the Future of Europe, by Joseph E. Stiglitz. 14 ROB PORTMAN’S PERFECT CAMPAIGN by Eliana Johnson The Ohio senator has surged by hyper-localizing his reelection bid. 42 A LITERAL NANNY STATE David French reviews No Child 17 RECOVERY AT LAST? by Ramesh Ponnuru Left Alone: Getting the Confusion about economic policy is distorting both political parties’ analysis. Government Out of Parenting, by Abby W. Schachter. 19 BOBBY JINDAL’S LEGACY by Dan McLaughlin He paid a political price to shrink the government—and improve Louisiana. 44 DAWN OF THE TERROR ERA John J. Miller discusses The Secret 21 THE RIGHT’S VENTURE CAPITALIST by John J. Miller Agent, by Joseph Conrad, and its What Michael Grebe achieved at the Bradley Foundation. BBC television adaptation. 46 FILM: UNSULLIED FEATURES Ross Douthat reviews Sully. TURN, TURN, TURN THE IRREDEEMABLES by Kevin D. Williamson 47 23 Richard Brookhiser sees fall arrive. Hillary Clinton and the politics of leftist condescension. 26 TRUMP AS CENTRIST by Luke Thompson Finding the ideological core within the bluster. SECTIONS PROGRESSIVISM GOES GLOBAL by John Fonte & John Yoo 30 2 Letters to the Editor Transnational governance and its contempt for the consent of the governed. 4 The Week THE NEXT SPACE AGE by Charles C. W. Cooke 36 The Long View . Rob Long 33 Athwart . James Lileks As private spaceflight advances, Washington must reconsider its role. 37 43 Poetry . Daniel Mark Epstein 48 Happy Warrior . 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Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy Washington Editor Eliana Johnson “The first assumption is that America is the world’s economic leader because it is the Executive Editor Reihan Salam most open, entrepreneurial, and market-driven economy.” Mr. Atkinson’s evidence against Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Correspond ent John J. Miller this “assumption” (which is really a conclusion) is weak. While “other countries [are at Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty least equal] in numerous areas” and “the United States runs [a colossal] trade deficit,” both Chief Political Correspondent Tim Alberta Art Director Luba Kolomytseva were also true during America’s fastest growth period (between the Civil War and World Deputy Managing Editors Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz War I). America’s economic jinx since then hasn’t been trade. Production Editor Katie Hosmer “The Washington trade establishment’s second core belief is that trade is an unalloyed Assistant to the Editor Rachel Ogden Research Associate Alessandra Trouwborst good, even if other nations engage in mercantilism.” I defy Mr. Atkinson to find a single Contributing Editors non-ironic affirmation of “unalloyed good,” as opposed to “good on the whole.” Otherwise Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Daniel Foster he correctly characterizes economics since Adam Smith. If Mr. Atkinson disagrees, Roman Genn / Arthur L. Herman / Lawrence Kudlow Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long whence derives his view that “reciprocal free trade is the optimal condition?” Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy Kate O’Beirne / Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen Mr. Atkinson thinks China proves that mercantilism works in that China has been able NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE to “leap ahead.” Even if we stipulate the leap, something other than mercantilism has Editor Charles C. W. Cooke happened at the same time. The Chinese economy has become less Communist, while ours Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Edward John Craig Deputy Managing Editor Nat Brown has become less free. National-Affairs Columnist John Fund Staff Writer David French Third, “the theory [of comparative advantage] holds that nations have natural advan- Senior Political Reporter Alexis Levinson tages in certain goods . and each does better when it specializes in those industries.” Not Reporter Katherine Timpf Ass ociate Editors Molly Powell / Nick Tell quite.