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CHARLES CW COOKE on the Miracle Of 2013_04_22 postal:cover61404-postal.qxd 4/2/2013 8:07 PM Page 1 April 22, 2013 $4.99 SteynMark on Zombies MARRIAGE AND THE COURT: Ponnuru w The Editors WoWonderlandnderland CHARLES C. W. COOKE ON the miracle of Canada’s tar sands $4.99 16 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 4/2/2013 3:59 PM Page 1 TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 4/3/2013 2:28 PM Page 1 Contents APRIL 22, 2013 | VOLUME LXV, NO. 7 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 32 The Quiet Reihan Salam on the modern family Gold Rush p. 20 In our search for energy supplies, there is of course a BOOKS, ARTS need for some self- awareness. But there is no & MANNERS need what soever for the 41 THE GREAT ABYSS Michael F. Bishop reviews companies that make our July 1914: Countdown to War, lifestyles possible to prostrate by Sean McMeekin. themselves in front of us 42 WHERE SHE’S COMING FROM Florence King reviews apologetically. Charles C. W. Cooke My Beloved World, by Sonia Sotomayor. COVER: AP PHOTO/JEFF MCINTOSH 44 LANDSCAPE AFTER Andrew Stuttaford reviews ARTICLES The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in THE PORTMAN POSITION by Ramesh Ponnuru 16 Eastern Europe, by Marci Shore. Why do so few share the senator’s views on marriage? EVELYN WAUGH, CATHOLIC MODERN FAMILY 47 20 by Reihan Salam OPTIMIST Developed societies still need kinship groups. Micah Mattix reviews 22 HIGHER EDUCATION REVALUED by Thomas K. Lindsay Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family, by Michael G. Brennan. Texas considers a proposal to reverse grade inflation. 50 FILM: ON THE BRINK 24 QUAKERS AND BOOTLEGGERS by Kevin D. Williamson They’re putting a cork in Pennsylvania liquor-law reform. 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