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Wall Street 51 SCHOOL FOR FIGHTING Victor Davis Hanson reviews doesn’t want free markets—it wants Conquered into Liberty: Two friends, favors, and fealty. Kevin D. Williamson Centuries of Battles along the Great Warpath that Made the American Way of War, COVER: HO/RTR/NEWSCOM by Eliot A. Cohen. ARTICLES 52 BE NICE! John Derbyshire reviews The EURO MELEE by Andrew Stuttaford 18 Better Angels of Our Nature: It’s Europe vs. the Europeans. Why Violence Has Declined, 20 JUSTICE FOR LIBYA by John R. Bolton by Steven Pinker. It requires blocking the world court’s overreach. 54 THE GONZO FILES 24 RETREAT—BUT WHOSE? by Jamie M. Fly Kyle Smith reviews Fear and Now is no time for more force reductions in Afghanistan. Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of 26 THE STATE CAN BULLY, TOO by Robert VerBruggen Hunter S. Thompson, A well-intentioned New Jersey law does more harm than good. edited by Jann S. Wenner. 30 FAST TRACK TO NOWHERE by Samuel Staley 56 IVY LEAGUE LOVE China’s experience with high-speed rail provides a cautionary tale. Randy Boyagoda reviews The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides. 32 REGULATED UNTO DEATH by Travis Kavulla How the EPA is killing America’s energy industry. 58 FILM: MISCASTING PEARLS Ross Douthat reviews THREE WINNERS 36 by Jay Nordlinger The Descendants. The Nobel peace committee divides its 2011 prize wisely. 59 CITY DESK: BUYER’S REMORSE FEATURES Richard Brookhiser tours his stores. 39 REPO MEN by Kevin D. Williamson Beware Wall Street efforts to reoccupy the Republican party. 42 ROMNEY’S THE ONE by Ramesh Ponnuru SECTIONS Why the former Massachusetts governor deserves the GOP nomination. 4 Letters to the Editor 44 BUCKEYE FOR PROMOTION by John J. Miller 6 The Week A 34-year-old GOP star eyes an Ohio Senate seat. 49 Athwart . James Lileks 50 The Long View . Rob Long 46 IRANIAN END GAME by Michael Rubin 56 Poetry . 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DECEMBER 19 ISSUE; PRINTED DECEMBER 1 For Yuval Levin to point to Teddy Roosevelt’s J. P. Morgan–financed 1912 Bull EDITOR Moose party as the original progressivism (“What Is Constitutional Conservatism?” Richard Lowry November 28) does a serious injustice to the authentic progressives of that Senior Editors era. Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones The quasi-fascist “progressivism” of the centralizing, elitist, Jefferson- Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts despising Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Croly was a far cry from Bob La Follette’s Literary Editor Michael Potemra Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy authentic Wisconsin progressivism, which preceded it. It was also different National Correspondent John J. Miller from the short-lived Conference for Progressive Political Action–endorsed Political Reporter Robert Costa Art Director Luba Kolomytseva independent La Follette candidacy of 1924 (whose elderly candidate refused to Deputy Managing Editors run on the sponsoring organization’s socialist platform), the Communist-backed Fred Schwarz / Kevin D. Williamson Associate Editors Henry Wallace Progressive campaign of 1948, and the current “progressive” Helen Rittelmeyer / Robert VerBruggen Research Director Katherine Connell irruption based on Marxist redistributionism. Executive Secretary Frances Bronson By far the best of these “progressive” offerings was La Follette’s of 1900, built Assistant to the Editor Christeleny Frangos on private property, small business, fair competition, the rejection of crony capi- Contributing Editors Robert H. Bork / Shannen Coffin / John Derbyshire talism, and expertise in the service of the people. 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