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Check us out at www.westinghousenuclear.com toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/2/2010 1:57 PM Page 1 Contents JUNE 21, 2010 | VOLUME LXII, NO. 11 | www.nationalreview.com COVER STORY Page 28 Jay Nordlinger on Lech Walesa The Other National Debt p. 26 About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready BOOKS, ARTS to tack some zeroes onto it. That number & MANNERS doesn’t even begin to cover the real 41 ISLAMISM RESURGENT indebtedness of American David Pryce-Jones reviews The governments at the Grand Jihad: How Islam and federal, state, and the Left Sabotage America, by Andrew C. McCarthy. local levels, because governments don’t count 43 THE HAPPINESS OF PURSUIT Matthew Continetti reviews up their liabilities the same The Battle: How the Fight way businesses do. Kevin D. Williamson Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America’s Future, COVER: RANDY FARIS/CORBIS by Arthur C. Brooks. ARTICLES 46 WILL AND GRACE S. T. Karnick reviews Bonhoeffer: 16 THE RIGHT’S CIVIL WRONGS by Ramesh Ponnuru Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, On the intellectual roots of a troubled legacy. by Eric Metaxas. USE WHAT YOU GOT 20 by Mark Krikorian 48 SOURCES OF THE CRISIS We already have a national ID-card system; now we should refine it. John Steele Gordon reviews The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy, TO EDUCATE, INNOVATE 22 by Reihan Salam by Richard A. Posner. Student-centric instruction is the key to controlling school costs. 50 FILM: THE CULTURE 26 PRIZEWINNER by Jay Nordlinger MONSTER A chat with Lech Walesa in the home of the Nobel peace prize. Ross Douthat reviews Shrek Forever After. FEATURES 51 THE STRAGGLER: FOLLOW THE FLEET The Derbyshires encounter the THE OTHER NATIONAL DEBT 28 by Kevin D. Williamson USS Iwo Jima. $14 trillion in the red? We should be so lucky. 30 TALKING CURES by James P. Pinkerton To beat the Left, try beating cancer. 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Williamson caving in to parochial calculations by accountant Richard Lowry economists of the revenue effects of tax cuts (“Goodbye Supply-Side,” May 3)? Senior Editors Has he no idea of the vast body of data from around the globe showing that low- Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones tax countries increase their government spending three times faster than high- Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts tax countries, because the low-tax countries grow their economies some six Literary Editor Michael Potemra Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy times as fast? Does he have any idea of how silly it is to connect higher tax rates National Correspondent John J. Miller Art Director Luba Kolomytseva with increased revenues at all? Tax rates are prices. A huge body of economic Deputy Managing Editors and management literature shows that low prices, in general, yield more revenue Fred Schwarz / Kevin D. Williamson Associate Editors and larger market share (global tax share) over time than high prices do. Helen Rittelmeyer / Robert VerBruggen Spending, on the other hand, is a political matter reflecting the increasing Research Director Katherine Connell Research Manager Dorothy McCartney sway of special interests in our affairs as a result of campaign-finance laws that Executive Secretary Frances Bronson restrict individual contributions to a few thousand dollars but allow millions in Assistant to the Editor Natasha Simons Contributing Editors outlays from PACs. Archer Daniels Midland can buy an ethanol mandate whole- Robert H. Bork / John Derbyshire sale, but world-class chemist Art Robinson in Oregon has to raise money to Ross Douthat / Rod Dreher / David Frum Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty / Jonah Goldberg oppose them in Congress two thousand bucks at a time. Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. 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