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20150601_postal_cover61404-postal.qxd 5/12/2015 7:08 PM Page 1 June 1, 2015 $4.99 COOKE on SALLY SATEL: The CDC’s E-cigarette Panic Pamela Geller MAC DONALD on Henry Olsen: Scott Walker’s Populist Appeal Baltimore LISTEN UP, LADIES The Unlikely Traditionalism of Millionaire Matchmaker PATTI STANGER by ELIANA JOHNSON www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 5/13/2015 2:37 PM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 5/11/2015 1:07 PM Page 3 TOC_QXP-1127940144.qxp 5/13/2015 2:05 PM Page 2 Contents JUNE 1, 2015 | VOLUME LXVII, NO. 10 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 29 Tocqueville’s Matchmaker Henry Olsen on Scott Walker Patti Stanger, host of Bravo TV’s The p. 22 Millionaire Matchmaker, looks like a feminist hero. She’s single, she’s rich, and she, as they say, has it all. It’s in BOOKS, ARTS her work as a matchmaker that things & MANNERS get tricky. The laws of love, she has 42 THE SOURCES OF AMERICAN found, have not bent to the arc of CONDUCT the feminist movement. Eliana Johnson Mario Loyola reviews The Obama Doctrine: American Grand Strategy Today, by Colin Dueck. COVER: RANDEE ST. NICHOLAS 43 LOST, NOT FORGOTTEN ARTICLES Joseph Postell reviews Our Lost Constitution: The Willful 18 FREE SPEECH WITHOUT APOLOGIES by Charl es C. W. Cooke Subversion of America’s When bullets start to fly, who cares who is their target? Founding Document, by Mike Lee. 20 A 2016 POLICY PREVIEW by Ramesh Ponnuru Taking a look at the GOP hopefuls’ nascent agendas. 45 RECLAIMING CITIZENSHIP Edward Whelan reviews SCOTT WALKER’S TAX POPULISM by Henry Olsen 22 The Constitution: An The Wisconsin governor has wisely jettisoned supply-side orthodoxy. Introduction, by Michael Stokes Paulsen and Luke Paulsen. 24 A TIME FOR RESCUE by David Pryce-Jones In Israel, a play casts light on a crisis. 49 THE WOEFUL WHITNEY Roger Kimball discusses Renzo Piano’s HOMAGE TO MACEDONIA by Jay Nord linger 27 latest creation. Shaky times in a gutsy Balkan state. 51 FILM: A RIGHT QUADRANGLE Ross Douthat reviews Far from the FEATURES Madding Crowd. 29 TOCQUEVILLE’S MATCHMAKER by Eliana Johnson Patti Stanger teaches anew an old lesson about the sexes. 32 THE RIOT SHOW! by Heather Mac Donald SECTIONS News media glamorized anarchy and reinforced lies in Baltimore. 4 Letters to the Editor 35 THE TARRING OF E-CIGARETTES by Sally Satel 6 The Week At the Centers for Disease Control, perfect defeats good. 40 The Long View . Rob Long Athwart . James Lileks WHAT’S LOVING GOT TO DO WITH IT? by Matthew J. Franck 41 37 44 Poetry . Lee Oser Gay-marriage supporters misuse a precedent. 52 Happy Warrior . David Harsanyi NATIONAL REVIEW (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by N ATIONAL 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., 2015. 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The editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or artwork unless return postage or, better, a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 5/13/2015 2:36 PM Page 1 letters_QXP-1127940387.qxp 5/13/2015 2:04 PM Page 4 Letters JUNE 1 ISSUE; PRINTED MAY 14 EDITOR Richard Lowry Senior Editors Robot Labor Richard Brookhiser / Jonah Goldberg / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra Danny Crichton’s essay “Fear Not the Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy Washington Editor Eliana Johnson Robot” (May 4) is optimistic about Executive Editor Reihan Salam Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson robots, but even more optimistic about a National Correspondent John J. Miller Art Director Luba Kolomytseva basic law of economics: Jobs are created Deputy Managing Editors by the money to pay for them. Robots Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz Production Editor Katie Hosmer generate productivity, productivity trans- Assistant to the Editor Carol Anne Kemp Research Associate Alessandra Haynes lates into money, and money creates jobs. Contributing Editors We don’t have to worry about what kinds Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Roman Genn Jim Geraghty / Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow of jobs or how much they may or may not Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy pay. We may assume robots will create Kate O’Beirne / Andre w Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen low-paying jobs, but the price of jobs is NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez determined mainly by social convention Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Edward John Craig Opinion Editor Patrick Brennan rather than by their presumed productivi- National-Affairs Columnist John Fund ty. Robots are not consumers of anything Staff Writers Charles C. W. Cooke / David French Political Reporter Joel Gehrke except the energy to run them (and of Reporters Andrew Johnson / Katherine Timpf course the labor to build them and repair them), so the productivity they create Associate Editors Nick Tell / Molly Powell / Nat Brown has to go into jobs for consumers. Editorial Associates Even if robots do create low-paying jobs, at some point they will generate B rendan Bordelon / Christine Sisto Technical Services Russell Jenkins more jobs than there are workers to fill them. Competition for scarce labor will Web Developer Wendy Weihs Web Producer Scott McKim then raise wages—no matter what the jobs are. And we don’t even have to be EDITORS- AT- L A RG E able to imagine them. We have always been creating unimaginable jobs. Linda Bridges / John O’Sullivan We don’t have to worry about all the money going to the owners of the robots. NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE BUCKLEYFELLOWINPOLITICALJOURNALISM If they have income, they will buy things with it, and what they buy, no matter Ian Tuttle Contributors what it is, will translate into labor. The richer one is, the more labor one purchases Hadley Arkes / Baloo / James Bowman in relation to goods. Evidence of this is amply provided by history. In the era (and Eliot A. Cohen / Dinesh D’Souza Chester E. Finn Jr. / Neal B. Freeman in the countries) of low productivity, wealth accumulated for the powerful, and James Gardner / David Gelernter George Gilder / Jeffrey Hart the poor were poor simply because there was not enough productivity to generate Kevin A. Hassett / Charles R. Kesler David Klinghoffer / Anthony Lejeune money to pay for jobs. But in the early days of the Industrial Revolution, though D. Keith Mano / Michael Novak the “robber barons” were obscenely rich, the income of the working class rose Alan Reynolds / Tracy Lee Simmons Terry Teachout / Vin Weber steadily. This was true in England and America as they industrialized in the 19th Chief Financial Officer James X. Kilbridge Accounting Manager Galina Veygman century, and Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Korea in the 20th. And now we are Accountant Lyudmila Bolotinskaya seeing it in Thailand, China, and India. 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