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20170828 subscribers_cover61404-postal.qxd 8/8/2017 4:46 PM Page 1 August 28, 2017 $5.99 YOU THE CASE FOR SKILLS-BASED IMMIGRATION REIHAN SALAM $5.99 35 PLUS HEATHER MAC DONALD on Jeff Sessions KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON on Emma Lazarus 0 73361 08155 1 www.nationalreview.com base_new_milliken-mar 22.qxd 8/8/2017 5:36 PM Page 1 Truth Matters …in private life and in the public square Educating for Citizenship e Republic Plato Nicomachean Ethics Politics Aristotle On Duties Cicero Treatise on Law St. omas Aquinas Second Treatise of Government John Locke e Federalist Papers Articles of Confederation Declaration of Independence e U.S. Constitution Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville e Lincoln–Douglas Debates Students read and discuss these texts and many more in a rigorous, 4-year Great Books program quinas A C s o a Thomas Aquinas College l m l e o g h e T Join us in supporting the 75% of students on nancial aid www.thomasaquinas.edu/uscitizen 1971 TOC-FINAL_QXP-1127940144.qxp 8/9/2017 2:37 PM Page 1 Contents AUGUST 28, 2017 | VOLUME LXIX, NO. 16 | www.nationalreview.com BOOKS, ARTS & MANNERS ON THE COVER Page 24 39 THE NEW MANICHAEANS Michael Knox Beran reviews The The Case for Skills-Based Once and Future Liberal: After Immigration Identity Politics, by Mark Lilla. 41 TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE The RAISE Act has the potential to Terry Teachout reviews Ernest Hemingway: A Biography, do a great deal of good. Instead of by Mary V. Dearborn, and Paradise sharpening our political and Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, by David S. Brown. economic divides, as mass immigration has been doing for a 42 THE GREAT LADDER Robert VerBruggen reviews Dream generation, the bill offers an Hoarders: How the American immigration system that would Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the actually help heal them. Reihan Salam Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do about It, by Richard V. Reeves. COVER: ROMAN GENN 44 A FAMILY RIVEN BY ARTICLES REVOLUTION Tracy Lee Simmons reviews The WRETCHED REFUSE, INDEED by Kevin D. Williamson 14 Loyal Son: The War in Ben About that poem . Franklin’s House, by Daniel Mark Epstein. 16 PROSECUTING POLITICS by David French In Texas, criminal law is being twisted to destroy officeholders. 46 RECOVERING THE SOUL OF CONSERVATISM JARED AND OTHER SONS-IN-LAW by Jay Nordlinger 19 James E. Person Jr. reviews The Angles on a relationship. Vision of the Soul: Truth, WHO CRITIQUES THE CRITIC? by Ian Tuttle Goodness, and Beauty in the 21 Western Tradition, by James On the career of Michiko Kakutani. Matthew Wilson. 47 ON THE BEACH FEATURES Ross Douthat reviews Dunkirk. 24 THE CASE FOR SKILLS-BASED IMMIGRATION by Reihan Salam It makes sense economically and morally. 27 IN DEFENSE OF JEFF SESSIONS by Heather Mac Donald SECTIONS His work on policing and immigration merits praise. 2 Letters to the Editor THE AGONY OF VENEZUELA by Pierpaolo Barbieri 30 4 The Week How a prospering democracy sank into dictatorship and hunger. 37 Athwart . James Lileks The Long View . Rob Long TRUMP’S CONSERVATIVE INTERNATIONALISM by Henry R. Nau 38 33 43 Poetry . Jessica Hornik It aims at a globalism rooted in nationalism. 48 Happy Warrior . Kyle Smith 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. 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The reason everyone thinks college is so important is obvious: Executive Editor Reihan Salam Higher education is a racket for the Left, providing employment, affirmation Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Correspondent John J. Miller for their views, a comfortable, insular environment, and a steady stream of Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty Art Director Luba Kolomytseva newly indoctrinated progressives, so the media do everything they can to keep Deputy Managing Editors pumping up enrollment. This country started on its long decline the day news- Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz Robert VerBruggen papers began expecting reporters to have college degrees. Production Editor Katie Hosmer Assistant to the Editor Rachel Ogden In view of this, however, rising college-dropout rates may be less alarm- ing than Mr. Cass appears to think. How many students enroll at college, get Contributing Editors Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Daniel Foster hit full blast by the pervasive political thought control, and decide to call Roman Genn / Arthur L. Herman / Lawrence Kudlow Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Dave at the screen-door plant and see if they’re still hiring? Just as we Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi would not condemn a plumbing trainee who wants to give college a try, nei- Andrew C. McCarthy / Andrew Stuttaford ther should we automatically chalk up as a failure someone who goes to col- NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor Charles C. W. Cooke lege and realizes it’s not for him. Teenage career plans last about as long as Managing Editor Katherine Connell teenage romances. Deputy Managing Editor Mark Antonio Wright Senior Writers The author quotes Charles Murray: “What we need is an educational sys- Michael Brendan Dougherty / David French Critic-at-Large Kyle Smith tem that brings children with all combinations of assets and deficits to adult- National-Affairs Columnist John Fund hood having identified things they enjoy doing and having learned how to do Reporter Katherine Timpf Associate Editors Molly Powell / Nick Tell them well.” That makes for a fine wish list, but does it perhaps expect too Manager, Office & Development Russell Jenkins much self-awareness and constancy from kids who find new favorite enter- Web Editorial Assistant Grant DeArmitt Web Producer Scott McKim tainers, games, and social-media platforms every few months? Of course our EDITORS- AT- L A RG E children keep upsetting our plans for them—that’s their job. 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