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2013_06_23-ups:cover61404-postal.qxd 6/3/2014 8:12 PM Page 1 June 23, 2014 $4.99 THE EDITORS: OBAMA’S AFGHAN FOLLY ROSS DOUTHAT ON GODZILLA DAVID HARSANYI WILLIAMSON: THE RISE & FALL OF PATTON BOGGS ON UNREAD BOOKS Fight the The case for retaliating Dragon against China on trade $4.99 OREN CASS 25 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 6/2/2014 1:31 PM Page 1 RANDY E. BARNETT DARCY OLSEN Carmack President, Waterhouse The Goldwater Professor of Institute Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL TERRY TEACHOUT Editorial Board Drama Critic, Member and The Wall Street Columnist, Journal and The Wall Street Critic-at-Large, Journal Commentary Photo by: Ken Howard, 2009 THE BRADLEY PRIZES WILL BE PRESENTED ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18 AT THE JOHN F. KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. The Bradley Prizes recognize outstanding achievements that are consistent with the Foundation’s mission statement. 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TOC -- READY:QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/4/2014 2:10 PM Page 1 Contents JUNE 23, 2014 | VOLUME LXVI, NO. 11 | www.nationalreview.com BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS ON THE COVER Page 30 40 DYSFUNCTIONAL Fight the GOVERNMENT Fred Siegel reviews The Fourth Dragon Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, by John As any economist’s model Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. demonstrates, both China and 41 WHEN TO GO TO WAR the United States will benefit Mario Loyola reviews Point of Attack: Preventive War, from greater wealth if they International Law, and Global build strong trade ties and Welfare, by John Yoo. open their markets to each 43 HIGH STAKES other. But while the United Paul Lettow reviews Reagan at Reykjavik: Forty- States strives to cooperate by Eight Hours That Ended the opening its market, China has Cold War, by Ken Adelman. chosen betrayal. Oren Cass 44 THE REAL TINSEL Rob Long reviews COVER: THOMAS REIS Citizen Hollywood: How the Collaboration between LA and ARTICLES DC Revolutionized American Politics, by Timothy Stanley. 16 RIGHT REFORMS by Ramesh Ponnuru Liberalism is not the future of conservatism. 45 THE GREAT FLOOD Michael Novak reviews 18 #NONOTME by Charles C. W. Cooke The Johnstown Girls, The UCSB killings were not caused by “white male privilege.” by Kathleen George. 21 A CONCERT OF DEMOCRACIES by John Yoo 50 FILM: MONSTER MASH Russia’s aggression shows the need to move beyond “collective security.” Ross Douthat reviews Godzilla. 51 HOMECOMING THERE’LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND . by David Pryce-Jones 24 Richard Brookhiser remembers the life . but will there be a Britain too? of Sergeant Shawn Michael Farrell II. 28 A LONG WAY FROM HARLAN COUNTY by Jay Nordlinger One man’s reflections on labor unions in our time. SECTIONS FEATURES 2 Letters to the Editor 30 FIGHT THE DRAGON by Oren Cass 4 The Week China’s threat to the economic peace. 38 The Long View . Rob Long 39 Athwart . James Lileks 35 VICTUS by Kevin D. Williamson 45 Poetry . Stephen Scaer The rise and fall of Patton Boggs. 52 Happy Warrior . David Harsanyi NaTiONaL Review (iSSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by NaTiONaL 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., 2014. address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, etc., to editorial Dept., NaTiONaL Review, 215 Lexington avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. address all subscription mail orders, changes of address, undeliverable copies, etc., to NaTiONaL Review, Circulation Dept., P. O. 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Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters -- READY:QXP-1127940387.qxp 6/4/2014 12:55 PM Page 2 Letters JUNE 23 ISSUE; PRINTED JUNE 5 EDITOR Richard Lowry Is Causation Magical? Senior Editors Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones While I share David Pryce-Jones’s aversion to Gabriel García Márquez’s unfor- Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra givable political affiliations and the undue accolades he received in eulogy, Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy I’m not certain that Mr. Pryce-Jones’s article “Poet of Self-Pity” (May 19) Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Correspondent John J. Miller accurately represents magic realism. First, though magic realism had its ori- Art Director Luba Kolomytseva gins in Latin America, I would argue that the former director of the national Deputy Managing Editors Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz library in Argentina, Jorge Luis Borges, had more to do with the genesis of this Associate Editors genre than did García Márquez. More important, the definition of magic realism Patrick Brennan / Katherine Connell Production Editor Katie Hosmer I provide for my students is “a genre of literature that combines the mundane Assistant to the Editor Madison V. Peace with the fantastic in order to demonstrate how imagination affects perception.” Contributing Editors Rather than promoting the idea that consequences require no response and Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Roman Genn Jim Geraghty / Jonah Goldberg / Florence King effects exist independent of causes, García Márquez’s surreal scenarios illus- Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin trate how our preconceived notions, cultural biases, and innate limitations pre- Yuval Levin / Rob Long / Jim Manzi Andrew C. McCarthy / Kate O’Beirne vent or at least significantly challenge our ability to objectively view the Reihan Salam / Robert VerBruggen world. The result or effect is a world where what is so (reality) and what we NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE think is so (fantasy, i.e., magic) are inextricably bound insofar as we experi- Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez Managing Editor Edward John Craig ence it. Consequently, we should acknowledge this limitation and make a con- News Editor Tim Cavanaugh scious and conscientious effort to accurately understand circumstances and National-Affairs Columnist John Fund National Reporter Eliana Johnson respond appropriately. Staff Writer Charles C. W. 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