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Adventures in the Word Trade DAVID SKINNER on the Demise of the American Heritage Dictionary’S Usage Panel A HIGH-CULTURECOMMUNITY JOSEPH HOROWITZ DECEMBER 10, 2018 • $5.99 Adventures in the Word Trade DAVID SKINNER on the demise of the American Heritage Dictionary’s usage panel WEEKLYSTANDARD.COM Contents December 10, 2018 • Volume 24, Number 14 2 The Scrapbook Alex Trebek’s microaggression, ‘inclusion’ that excludes, & more 5 Casual Dennis Byrne’s no-name generation 6 Editorials Putin Poses a Test • The Second Time as Farce 9 Comment A cutthroat competitor like any other BY CHRISTINE ROSEN President Trump’s precarious position BY FRED BARNES 6 There’s no such thing as an overnight transformation BY HILIP ERZIAN P T ALEX WONG / GETTY Articles 14 The ACLU’s J’Accuse BY KC JOHNSON & STUART TAYLOR JR. The group comes out against equal treatment before the law 16 Nevertheless, She Persisted BY DOMINIC GREEN Theresa May’s Brexit deal means the end of sovereignty and democracy 19 No Easy Repeat BY RICHARD E. BURR Trump will struggle to win Michigan again 14 GAGE SKIDMORE! Features 21 Going High (Culture) BY JOSEPH HOROWITZ Orchestras and universities are working together to feed our hunger for community and a shared American identity 25 How He Played the Game BY DANIEL MCGRAW Ex-NFL receiver Anthony Gonzalez’s impressive political debut in the suburbs of Cleveland, Akron, and Canton 16 Books & Arts 28 Defining Characteristic BY DAVID SKINNER Now that the American Heritage Dictionary’s ‘usage panel’ has been shuttered, a look back at the dictionary’s evolution 38 Strange Saddles BY JOHN PODHORETZ Watching the Coen brothers’ new Western on screens large and small 39 High-Altitude Hideout BY TONY MECIA A Bond villain’s Alpine lair now houses a museum for 007 42 Celebration of a Curious Character BY DAN ALBAN Ricky Jay, 1946-2018 44 Parody Presidential report card 25 COVER BY HAL MAYFORTH THE SCRAPBOOK Criminally Negligent n late September, FedEx driver rumpuses and altercations when those that America is still a racist nation. I Timothy Warren was driving stories have anything to do with some- The savvy reader may have sus- through a neighborhood in Port- body’s being a racist. If some idiot pected our use of the phrase “local land, Ore., when Joseph Magnuson in Topeka or Syracuse or Lubbock crime story” is just a little mischie- shouted at him that he was going too shouts a racial insult and somebody vous. In April 2013, when the trial of fast. When Warren, who is black, got else catches it on a smartphone video, serial killer and abortionist Kermit out of the truck, Magnuson berated you can be pretty sure that a young Gosnell drew to a close with multiple him with numerous insults, includ- reporter from the Post will dutifully guilty verdicts, Sarah Kliff, then the ing, according to witnesses, a series of explain all the details. Indeed, you Post’s health policy reporter, explained racial insults. When Magnuson took could be forgiven for thinking that to Mollie Hemingway on Twitter a swing at Warren, Warren hit back, the Post’s editors and reporters are that she had not covered the Gosnell whereupon Magnuson lost conscious- deeply invested in the proposition trial because she did not cover “local ness and died a few hours crime.” The revelation of Gos- later. Prosecutors declined to nell’s murder and abuse factory charge Warren, saying he was was, for Kliff, of a piece with a acting in self-defense. (And news item about a robbery at the from our reading of the story, Circle K in Waco. the prosecutors got it right). To her credit, Kliff later We mention the story said she was wrong to charac- because we read about it in terize the case as local crime. the Washington Post, and there She has since moved to the would seem to be little reason left-wing news site Vox.com. for the Post to cover what is in Still, the glaringly selec- every sense a local crime story. tive partiality of the Post’s Not even that, since there were coverage rankles. Maybe if no criminal charges. Readers of someone had been caught the Post, however, or at least of the on video calling Gosnell a new Jeff Bezos-owned Post, will racially insensitive name, have noticed how frequently the then the paper would have paper covers local stories about given him some attention. ♦ Liberté, Égalité, in all the nakedness and solitude of the habit of using abstractions as all- metaphysical abstraction,” Burke purpose moral guides is still very Inclusivité wrote in Reflections on the Revolution much à la mode. The word du jour is dmund Burke famously ridi- in France. “Am I to congratulate a inclusion. Use it, and you can defend E culed the radicals and revolu- highwayman and murderer, who has just about anything you want to do. tionaries of his day for justifying Consider: At Rider University violent and unjust acts by simple- in New Jersey this week, campus minded appeals to abstract values. administrators decided to remove The abstract value he had in mind Chick-fil-A from a list of potential was liberty, which the mountebanks ® campus franchises on the grounds of France and their cheerleaders in that the restaurant chain is “widely England used to justify murder and perceived to be in opposition to the sedition. Wasn’t Burke for the revo- LGBTQ+ community.” “We sought lution? his adversaries wanted to to be thoughtful and fair in balanc- know. Wasn’t he for liberty? “I can- ing the desire to provide satisfying not stand forward and give praise or options for a new on-campus restau- blame to anything which relates to broke prison, on the recovery of his rant while also being faithful to our human actions and human concerns, natural rights?” values of inclusion,” explained Rider’s on a simple view of the object, as it Today’s radicals are a much more president, Gregory G. Dell’Omo, and stands stripped of every relation, peaceable lot (most of the time), but the school’s vice president for student FISH: BIGSTOCK 2 / THE WEEKLY STANDARD DECEMBER 10, 2018 affairs, Leanna Fenneberg, in a letter. This little intellectual pirouette surely equals anything the Jacobins pulled off: By proclaiming the vir- tues of inclusion, you can literally exclude people and organizations you don’t like. We’re inclusive around here—now get out! Rider’s Center for Diversity and Inclusion is organizing a campus forum “so that the voices of stu- dents, faculty, staff and others can continue to be heard” and that all involved can “grow from this expe- rience.” What a relief to know that the school’s students are working through such momentous problems. Annual tuition: $42,000. ♦ Leave That Unsaid uch has already been said about M Donald Trump’s rambling, semicoherent statement on the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia in light of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s mur- der. We would only like to say a quick word about a single phrase in that strange document: “That being said.” It occurs at the beginning of the state- ment’s penultimate paragraph: “That being said, we may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder . .” THE SCRAPBOOK wishes to go on record as loathing this phrase and its miserable siblings—that said, hav- ing said that, with that said, that having been said—and to plead with readers neither to use it nor tolerate those Articles We Tried host Alex Trebek mispronounce the who do. The phrase serves no legiti- name of the ethnic group from which mate purpose except to sug- Not to Read she is descended: the Igbo people. gest that everything prior e tried to look away, but it was Trebek pronounced it Ig-boh, with to it was stated only to get W no use once we read the head- a hard g. But it’s pronounced Ee-boh. it “said” and so may be line: “Why It Matters That Alex The g is silent. safely forgotten. If it’s a Trebek Mispronounced The Name Of Whereupon the author banged transition you want, the My People On ‘Jeopardy!’ ” The piece out a 900-word complaint about language offers a smor- ran, fittingly, at the Huffington Post. how Trebek flawlessly pronounces gasbord of alternatives: The author, Ngozi Nwangwa—Shir- European names and words like but, yet, however, on the other ley, to use her anglicized name—is a La Rochefoucauld and Reichs- hand, nonetheless, and so on. New York-based writer and “a queer marschall but can’t say the name If you have already said it, you Nigerian-American who is passion- of a marginalized Nigerian ethnic don’t need to point out that you said ate about giving marginalized folks group correctly. All through her it—unless you’re afraid your readers a space to be heard.” She grew up childhood, she recalls, Americans are not paying attention. And who watching Jeopardy! with her family. mispronounced her name and the can blame them, if you persist in While recently binge-watching old name of the Igbo people, but not using pointless filler phrases? ♦ episodes of the show, Nwangwa heard until she was older was she “able to DECEMBER 10, 2018 THE WEEKLY STANDARD / 3 “has a whiplash effect. I don’t remember this hurting so much— when did I get this old?” The question is touching, in a way. But of course she didn’t just get old. www.weeklystandard.com She got manipulated and jaded by Stephen F. Hayes, Editor in Chief the American left’s grievance racket, Richard Starr, Editor and now the poor woman can’t even Fred Barnes, Robert Messenger, Executive Editors watch a game show without search- Christine Rosen, Managing Editor Peter J.
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