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PONNURU on Isolationism DANIELS 2011_06_20postal_cover61404-postal.qxd 6/28/2011 6:11 PM Page 1 July 18, 2011 49145 $4.99 DANIELS on Indignation w PONNURU on Isolationism DAUGHTERDAUGHTER OFOF LIBERTYLIBERTY $4.99 The unlikely presidential campaign of 29 Michele Bachmann BY ROBERT COSTA 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 2/15/2011 7:46 PM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 2/15/2011 7:47 PM Page 3 toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/29/2011 1:50 PM Page 2 Contents JULY 18, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 13 | www.nationalreview.com COVER STORY Page 29 The Battle from Waterloo Kevin D. Williamson on Taxation p. 20 Michele Bachmann hopes her campaign will be a magnet for people of all BOOKS, ARTS political stripes, whether they are fed & MANNERS up with Obama or with the GOP presidential field’s tired talking points. 38 OPENING TO THE EAST Dan Blumenthal reviews On China, She is a face familiar to activists, by Henry Kissinger. but the rest of the country is just 41 WAS MALTHUS RIGHT? tuning in. Robert Costa Michael Knox Beran reviews What’s Wrong with Benevolence: Happiness, Private COVER: THOMAS REIS Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment, by David Stove, ARTICLES edited by Andrew Irvine. 42 MANAGING WAR 18 IMAGINARY ISOLATIONISM by Ramesh Ponnuru Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews Pat Buchanan continues not to be the Republican party. A Vulcan’s Tale: How the Bush Administration Mismanaged 20 NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION by Kevin D. Williamson the Reconstruction of A message from the future. Afghanistan, by Dov S. Zakheim. 22 WHAT’S STEP 2? by Robert VerBruggen 44 MUSIC: A COMPOSER’S HOUR The illogic of Operation Fast and Furious. Jay Nordlinger on the Russian master Rodion Shchedrin. 24 AN ENVIRONMENTAL REFORMATION by Steven F. Hayward Standing up to Pope Carl. 46 FILM: CRUEL, CRUEL SUMMER 26 MAD AS HELL by Anthony Daniels Ross Douthat reviews Super 8. A little pamphlet, a lot of rage. 47 THE STRAGGLER: EX LIBRIS SMOKE ALARM by Daniel Foster John Derbyshire quantifies his 27 inventory of books. The nanny state’s ghoulish new cigarette labels. FEATURES SECTIONS 29 THE BATTLE FROM WATERLOO by Robert Costa 4 Letters to the Editor Representative Bachmann runs for president. 6 The Week 36 The Long View . Rob Long 34 HAVES AND HAVE-MORES by Arnold Kling 37 Athwart . James Lileks A two-tiered health-care system is inevitable. 43 Poetry . Len Krisak 48 Happy Warrior . 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