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20150706_a_cover61404-postal.qxd 6/16/2015 5:57 PM Page 1 July 6, 2015 $4.99 David French: The Fake Campus-Rape Crisis LONG on Caitlyn Jenner COOKE on Magna Carta NORDLINGER on Ann Coulter Bernie’s Strange KevinBrew D. Williamson ON THE TRAIL WITH SENATOR SANDERS www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 6/15/2015 11:57 AM Page 1 THE SENATE PATENT ACT AND HOUSE INNOVATION ACT (H.R.9) WOULD HELP BIG CORPORATIONS THAT WANT TO PAY LESS FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S TECHNOLOGY AND HURT SMALL INVENTORS. THE BILLS TREAT ALL PATENT HOLDERS LIKE TROLLS WHILE LETTING PATENT INFRINGERS MAKE OUT LIKE BANDITS. THE “CUSTOMER STAY” PROVISION WOULD LET BIG INFRINGERS TIE UP SMALL INVENTORS IN COURT FOR YEARS, PUTTING THEM OUT OF BUSINESS. LET’S MAKE SURE ALL INVENTORS AND INNOVATORS ARE PROTECTED, NOT JUST THE BIG GUYS. Sign A letter urging Congress to protect small inventors SAVETHEINVENTOR.COM THIS MESSAGE Brought to you by THE Innovation Alliance TOC--READY_QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/17/2015 2:39 PM Page 1 Contents JULY 6, 2015 | VOLUME LXVII, NO. 12 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 27 BOOKS, ARTS Adventures in & MANNERS 39 ¿SE HABLA COULTER? Jay Nordlinger reviews ¡Adios, National Socialism America! The Left’s Plan to In the Bernieverse, there’s a Turn Our Country in to a Third World Hellhole, by Ann Coulter. whole lot of nationalism mixed up in the socialism. That economic 40 GREAT CREATORS Richard Brookhiser reviews interactions with foreigners are The Fellowship: The Literary inherently hurtful and immoral is Lives of the Inklings, by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski. central to Sanders’s view of how THE WAY WE TEACH TODAY the world works. Kevin D. Williamson 42 M. D. Aeschliman reviews The State of the American Mind: 16 COVER: ROMAN GENN Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism, edited by Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow. ARTICLES 44 TRAINED ANALYTIC INCOMPETENCE 18 JUDGING LEE-RUBIO by Ramesh Ponnuru Bing West reviews The Great War A tax plan and supply-siders. of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight against Terrorism from al 22 REAGAN’S SUPPLY-SIDE GENIUS by Edwin J. Feulner & Stephen Moore Qa’ida to ISIS, by Michael Morell. It still matters today. 45 UNDER THE SIGN OF THE 24 MAGNA CARTA’S FRUITS, 800 YEARS ON by Charles C. W. Cooke NAVEL America is one of them. Elizabeth Powers reviews The Festival of Insignificance, 26 NOT ME by Rob Long by Milan Kundera. Try as we might, we cannot escape ourselves. 47 THE ESSENCE OF STARDOM Ross Douthat discusses the success of Melissa McCarthy. FEATURES 27 ADVENTURES IN NATIONAL SOCIALISM by Kevin D. Williamson Notes from a weekend with Bernie. SECTIONS THE CAMPUS-RAPE LIE by David French 30 Letters to the Editor Bad statistics, shoddy journalism, leftist power grabs, and a crisis that isn’t. 2 4 The Week CALIFORNIA’S BALKANIZED DEMOCRATS by Troy Senik 37 Athwart . James Lileks 34 The Long View Identity politics may splinter the liberal coalition. 38 . Rob Long 43 Poetry . Sally Cook 48 Happy Warrior . David Harsanyi NATIONAL REVIEW (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by N ATIONAL 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., 2015. Address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, etc., to Editorial Dept., N ATIONAL REVIEW, 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. Address all subscription mail orders, changes of address, undeliverable copies, etc., to NATIONALREVIEW, 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 6/17/2015 1:48 PM Page 2 Letters JULY 6 ISSUE; PRINTED JUNE 18 EDITOR Richard Lowry Senior Editors Cold Comfort Richard Brookhiser / Jonah Goldberg / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra Ian Tuttle’s article on a proposed road through congressionally designated Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy wilderness in Alaska (“Deadly Environmentalism,” June 22) omitted several Washington Editor Eliana Johnson Executive Editor Reihan Salam salient facts. Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Correspondent John J. Miller While people on both sides of the issue respect the emergency-transportation Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty Art Director Luba Kolomytseva concerns of the residents of King Cove, Alaska, a road through Izembek Deputy Managing Editors National Wildlife Refuge’s wilderness is no solution. It is estimated that driving Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz Production Editor Katie Hosmer to the community of Cold Bay would take nearly two hours, if the route were Assistant to the Editor Carol Anne Kemp Research Associate Alessandra Haynes passable. The severe weather Tuttle describes—thick fog, lashing rain, driving Contributing Editors snow—would often render the road useless. Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Roman Genn Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow By comparison, planes, helicopters, and a hovercraft that was purchased with Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy millions of federal tax dollars can transport people much more quickly. The Kate O’Beirne / Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen hover craft transported a full ambulance and crew to Cold Bay in about 20 min- NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez utes. Former Aleutians East Borough mayor Stanley Mack once called it “a life- Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Edward John Craig Opinion Editor Patrick Brennan saving machine.” It successfully performed 32 medical evacuations from King National-Affairs Columnist John Fund Cove until the borough decided it was too expensive to operate. Staff Writers Charles C. W. Cooke / David French Senior Political Reporter Alexis Levinson Dr. Pete Mjos, former Eastern Aleutian medical director for the U.S. Public Political Reporters Joel Gehrke / Brendan Bordelon Reporter Katherine Timpf Health Service, has told the U.S. Department of the Interior that attempting to As sociate Editors Nat Brown / Molly Powell / Nick Tell drive the road during extreme weather would jeopardize lives. Editorial Associate Christine Sisto Supporters of the road proposal routinely cite long-ago aviation accidents as Technical Services Russell Jenkins Web Editorial Assistant Grant DeArmitt justification for a land route, but the fact remains that no one has died during a Web Developer Wendy Weihs Web Producer Scott McKim medical evacuation from King Cove during the past quarter century. EDITORS- AT- L A RG E The U.S. Department of the Interior has repeatedly and exhaustively studied Linda Bridges / John O’Sullivan the road idea and consistently declined to approve it. Let us hope that all sides NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE BUCKLEYFELLOWINPOLITICALJOURNALISM can move forward with finding a solution that solves King Cove’s emergency- Ian Tuttle Contributors transport needs while keeping our national wildlife refuge intact. Hadley Arkes / James Bowman Eliot A. Cohen / Dinesh D’Souza Chester E. Finn Jr. / Neal B. Freeman Nicole Whittington-Evans James Gardner / David Gelernter George Gilder / Jeffrey Hart Alaska Regional Director Kevin A. Hassett / Charles R. Kesler David Klinghoffer / Anthony Lejeune The Wilderness Society D. Keith Mano / Michael Novak Alan Reynolds / Tracy Lee Simmons Terry Teachout / Vin Weber Chief Financial Officer James X. Kilbridge IAN TUTTLE RESPONDS: I appreciate the work that the Wilderness Society and Accounting Manager Galina Veygman Accountant Lyudmila Bolotinskaya similar organizations do, but Ms. Whittington-Evans’s response pointedly Business Services avoids the indisputable conclusion: that a road is not only the best, but the sole Alex Batey / Alan Chiu Circulation rManage Jason Ng feasible option for getting injured or ill King Cove residents quickly to Cold WORLD WIDE WEB www.nationalreview.com MAIN NUMBER 212-679-7330 Bay’s all-weather airport. Ms. Whittington-Evans recommends aircraft—when SUBSCRIPTION INQUIRIES 386-246-0118 WASHINGTON OFFICE 202-543-9226 the unreliability of air travel is precisely the problem. She recommends, too, the ADVERTISING SALES 212-679-7330 hovercraft that operated briefly between King Cove and Cold Bay—despite the Executive Publisher Scott F. Budd Advertising Director Jim Fowler fact that, as I wrote, it failed to operate 30 percent of the time and ultimately Advertising Manager Kevin Longstreet Assistant to the Publisher Emily Gray was too expensive to operate. She says the road will take two hours to travel— Director of Philanthropy and Campaigns Scott Lange but doesn’t mention that it would cut the average bad-weather travel time by Associate Publisher Paul Olivett Director of Development He yward Smith two-thirds. Director of Revenue Erik Netcher Vice President, Communications Amy K. Mitchell Ms. Whittington-Evans recommends solutions that have been shown to be PUBLISHER infeasible, and argues against the sole remaining option. I am sympathetic to Jack Fowler desires to protect flora and fauna, but despite her words about “finding a solu- CHAIRMAN John Hillen tion,” Ms. Whittington-Evans has none to offer.