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2011_11_28UPCl_cover61404-postal.qxd 11/8/2011 7:41 PM Page 1 November 28, 2011 $4.99 Violence & OWS Keynes vs. Hayek Is Foreign Aid Worth It? —Anthony Daniels —Tyler Cowen —Elliott Abrams NNeeiitthheerr PPooppuulliissttss NNoorr TTeecchhnnooccrraattss The Case for the Constitution $4.99 48 YUVAL LEVIN 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/8/2011 11:52 AM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/8/2011 11:53 AM Page 3 Logistics & Training Life-Cycle Support Services Supply Chain Management Systems Integration Maintenance & Modifications www.boeing.com/support TODAYTOMORROWBEYOND D CYAN BLK : 2400 9 45˚ 105˚ 75˚ G toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 11/9/2011 2:28 PM Page 4 Contents NOVEMBER 28, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 22 | www.nationalreview.com James Rosen on Joe Frazier COVER STORY Page 30 p. 28 What Is Constitutional Conservatism? BOOKS, ARTS The Left’s simultaneous support for & MANNERS government by expert panel and for the 43 THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE Tyler Cowen reviews Keynes unkempt carpers occupying Wall Street Hayek: The Clash That is not a contradiction—it is a coherent Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott. error. And the Right’s response should 45 MID-CENTURY MIND be coherent too. Yuval Levin Richard Brookhiser reviews Masscult and Midcult: Essays COVER: POODLESROCK/CORBIS Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald. ARTICLES 46 THE QUEST FOR RULES 18 THE CHURCH OF GRIEVANCE by Anthony Daniels Joseph Tartakovsky reviews Design Occupy Wall Street’s dangerous creed. for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the 20 CRISTINA’S WHIRL by Andrew Stuttaford Rule of Law, by Richard A. Epstein. Argentina heads into troubled waters. 48 RELIGIOUS RIGHTS Jacob Mchangama reviews Silenced: WHAT’S NEW IN BAKU? by David Pryce-Jones 22 How Apostasy and Blasphemy Alas, not much. Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide, by Paul Marshall and A HERO OF US ALL 26 by Jay Nordlinger Nina Shea. Chen Guangcheng, China’s blind and brutalized lawyer. 50 FILM: THE FALL 28 THE GREAT, TRAGIC JOE FRAZIER by James Rosen Ross Douthat reviews Margin Call. A boxing legend, dead at 67. 51 THE STRAGGLER: THE PROPER STUDY FEATURES To Mann, or not to Mann? John Derbyshire responds. 30 WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM? by Yuval Levin Neither a populist nor a technocrat be. SECTIONS 33 THE FREELOADER MYTH by Ramesh Ponnuru Fear not the 47 percent. 4 Letters to the Editor 6 The Week 35 SO YOU WANT DEBT RELIEF? by Kevin D. Williamson 40 Athwart . James Lileks Let’s stop lending money to OWS. 41 The Bent Pin . Florence King 42 The Long View . Rob Long 37 CONSERVATIVE FOREIGN AID by Elliott Abrams 47 Poetry . Jennifer Reeser There is such a thing, but the GOP presidential candidates haven’t defined it. 52 Happy Warrior . 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  • Appendix I: Interdoc Conferences

    Appendix I: Interdoc Conferences

    Appendix I: Interdoc Conferences 250 Appendix II: Interdoc Publications 253 Appendix III: Interdoc Contacts in Eastern Europe 261 Notes Introduction: The Communist Challenge 1. Rolf Geyer, ‘Conclusions’, in Communist Reassessment of Capitalism, Its Resultant Strategy and the Western Response (The Hague: Interdoc, 1968), p. 68. 2. George F. Kennan, Memoirs 1925–1950 (Boston: Bantam, 1969), p. 588; Reagan’s 8 March 1983 speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando, Florida, is his first recorded use of the phrase ‘evil empire’. 3. Melvyn P. Leffler, For the Soul of Mankind: The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Cold War (New York: Hill & Wang, 2007), p. 8. 4. Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 4. 5. Vladislav M. Zubok, A Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), p. 6. 6. Philip Taylor, Munitions of the Mind: A History of Propaganda from the Ancient World to the Present Day (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003), p. 250. 7. Nigel Gould-Davis, ‘The Logic of Soviet Cultural Diplomacy’, Diplomatic History, 27 (April 2003), p. 195. 8. Wyn Rees and Richard J. Aldrich, ‘European and US Approaches to Counterterrorism: Two Contrasting Cultures?’ in Ronald Tiersky and Erik Jones (eds), Europe Today: A Twenty-First Century Introduction (Lanham, MA: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007) pp. 441–442. 9. See Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008). 10. Richard J. Aldrich, The Hidden Hand: Britain, America and Cold War Secret Intelli- gence (London: John Murray, 2001), p.