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20140424:cover61404-postal.qxd 4/1/2014 6:47 PM Page 1 April 21, 2014 $4.99 JOHN J. MILLER: JOHN KASICH, WORKING-CLASS GOVERNOR? ROSS DOUTHAT ON WES ANDERSON KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON CHARLES C. W. COOKE: AGAINST THE CREDENTIAL SNOBS ON THE AMERICANS HOW DARE HE THE DECLINE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN AMERICA David French $4.99 16 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 3/31/2014 12:26 PM Page 2 ENDURING AWARENESS 1 Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance Network Systems Secure Communications Command & Control Live 1 Bleed base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 3/31/2014 12:27 PM Page 3 www.boeing.com/C4ISR E D CYAN BLK : 2400 9 45˚ 105˚ 75˚ G TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 4/2/2014 2:30 PM Page 2 Contents APRIL 21, 2014 | VOLUME LXVI, NO. 7 | www.nationalreview.com Jay Nordlinger on Michael Gove p. 22 ON THE COVER Page 25 Restore the BOOKS, ARTS Religious Freedom & MANNERS 38 THE PURITANS AMONG US Restoration Act Mary Eberstadt reviews Religious liberty exists as a core civi- An Anxious Age: The Post- Protestant Ethic and the Spirit lizational value not just because plu- of America, by Joseph Bottum. ralist societies profit from it, but 39 THE LAWLESS because the human heart demands it. Amir Taheri reviews If history teaches anything, it teaches Dancing with the Devil: The Perils of Engaging Rogue that the religious impulse—the sense of Regimes, by Michael Rubin. eternity set in the hearts of men (to 43 RISING DRAGON, paraphrase Solomon)—is nothing if CROUCHING EAGLE not powerful. David French Arthur L. Herman reviews The Contest of the Century: The New Era of Competition COVER: ROMAN GENN with China—and How America ARTICLES Can Win, by Geoff Dyer. 18 OBAMA VERSUS OBAMACARE by Ramesh Ponnuru 45 LOVE IN A DARK TIME The courts need to strike down the administration’s latest lawless fix. Michael Novak reviews I Kiss Your Hands Many Times: Hearts, 19 DROP THE ‘DROPOUT’ by Charles C. W. Cooke Souls, and Wars in Hungary, This country was built by people without formal credentials. by Marianne Szegedy-Maszak. 22 OUR MAN IN LONDON by Jay Nordlinger 46 FILM: ANOTHER LOST A visit with Michael Gove, Britain’s education minister. KINGDOM Ross Douthat reviews The Grand 23 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE by Kevin D. Williamson Budapest Hotel. The Americans discovers an ongoing Cold War. 47 CITY DESK: NOT-SO-MEAN STREETS FEATURES Richard Brookhiser discusses vehicles in the city. 25 RESTORE THE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RESTORATION ACT by David French The Left now hates the liberty it helped preserve. SECTIONS 28 THE MAILMAN’S SON by John J. Miller John Kasich, working-class governor? 4 Letters to the Editor 30 TEN WELFARE-REFORM LESSONS by Robert Doar 6 The Week New York City embraced an ethic of work. 36 The Long View . Rob Long 37 Athwart . James Lileks 33 MANEUVER WARFARE by Daniel Foster 44 Poetry . Stephen Scaer The Pentagon, the Congress, and the future of the tank. 48 Happy Warrior . Jonah Goldberg 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. 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