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You Didn't Build That Teepee! Trump Talks Parenting & Politics The Guns of August at 100 Do Botched Executions Matter? UKIP Triumphs! JEFFREY LORD PETER HITCHENS JESSE WALKER vs. WILLIAM TUCKER JAMES DELINGPOLE JULY/AUGUST 2014 A MONTHLY REVIEW EDITED BY R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR. You Didn’t Build That Teepee! Elizabeth Warren arouses the worst progressive fantasies. By Ira Stoll PLUS: Summer Books and Cocktails James Taranto, Jonathan Tobin, Freddy Gray, Helen Rittelmeyer, Eve Tushnet, Daniel Foster, Katherine Mangu-Ward…and more! Ukraine: A River Runs Through It Matthew Omolesky Schlesinger’s Excellent Bow Tie R.J. Stove Why I Quit Batman Tim Cavanaugh 1 5 1 5 1 5 1 5 25 50 75 95 25 50 75 95 25 50 75 95 25 50 75 95 100 100 100 100 “ The best detector is not merely the one that can pick up radar from the farthest distance, although the Valentine One continues to score best.” — Autoweek Now V1 comes to a touchscreen near you. 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Bluetooth is a registered trademark of Bluetooth SIG, Inc. • iPhone, iPad and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc. • Android is a trademark of Google Inc. 1074482 • American Spectator - JULY-AUG14 • 10 x 12 table of CONTENTS July/August 2014 • VOL. 47, NO. 6 2 About This Month 45 Politics ARTS & LETTERS Here Comes Summer What GOP ‘Establishment’? by wlady pleszczynski by grover g. norquist 60 The Great Bow Tie View of History The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 4 The Continuing Crisis 47 Hot and Bothered Edited by Andrew Schlesinger and by r. emmett tyrrell, jr. Apocalypse Not Stephen C. 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Worry About What We Eat by jesse walker and william tucker By Harvey Levenstein reviewed by kyle peterson 14 Summer Books and Drinks by sundry luminaries 66 In a Sentimental Mood Louis Armstrong: Master of Modernism FEATURES By Thomas Brothers 20 Teepee Populism Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington Elizabeth Warren’s shrewd anti-capitalism By Terry Teachout has progressives on the war path. reviewed by c.w. mahoney by ira stoll 69 Nobody’s Fools 24 The Foul Tornado The Rule of Nobody: On the centenary of World War I. Saving America From Dead Laws by peter hitchens and Broken Government By Philip K. Howard 28 The Dnieper and the Lethe reviewed by f.h. buckley Ukraine’s geographic destiny. by matthew omolesky p. 14 50 Letter from Paris 32 Father’s Days France’s Simmering Intifada 70 Current Wisdom A father and son travel America back by joseph a. harriss by assorted jackasses when it mattered. by gerald nachman 52 Presswatch 72 Last Call Church and State Bat Guano DEPARTMENTS by james taranto by tim cavanaugh 38 London Calling 54 Capitol Ideas Kipper Time My Day at the United Nations COVER ART: SHAFALI ANAND The American Spectator is published monthly, except for by james delingpole by tom bethell combined July/Aug and Jan/Feb issues, by The American Spectator, LLC at 1611 N. Kent St., Suite 901, Arlington, VA 22209. Printed in the U.S. Periodicals post- 40 The Spectator Interview 56 Ben Stein’s Diary age paid at Arlington, VA, and additional mailing offices. A Trump Card More Than We Bargained For One-year subscription is $39 (new subscribers only). by jeffrey lord by benjamin j. stein Publication number: 0148-8414. Vol. 47, No. 6. POSTMASTER: send address changes to The American Spectator, P.O. Box 171, Congers, NY 10920-0171. 43 Up in Arms 58 Conservative Tastes © 2014 The American Spectator, LLC. All rights reserved. Reproductions without permission are express- Our Gun-Shy Justices Removing the Magic From Mozart ly prohibited. To request permission to republish an arti- by josh blackman by james bowman cle or for reprint information call 703-807-2011 ext. 32. www.spectator.org THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR 1 about this MONTH VOLUME 47, NO. 6 Editor-in-Chief R. EmmEtt tyRREll, JR. Editorial Director WladyslaW PlEszczynski Managing Editor Kyle Peterson by WLADY PLESZCZYNSKI Assistant Managing Editor Matthew Purple Assistant Editor Matthew Walther Senior Editors W. JamEs antlE iii, t om BEthEll, F.h. BucklEy, h.W. cRockER iii, John h . Fund, Quin hillyER, nEd Ryun, RogER sc Ruton, BEn stEin Here Comes Summer Chief Saloon Correspondent Aram Bakshian, Jr. Economics Editor Stephen Moore Paris Bureau Joseph A. Harriss Movie and Culture Critic James Bowman Senior Editorial Advisor Robert L. Bartley (1937-2003) Kapellmeister Baron Von Kannon believe in American exceptional- he’d found a clever way out by agreeing ism with every fiber of my being,” to the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Contributing Editors david aikman, JEd BaBB in, FloREncE king, our president told the graduates exchange for five Taliban terrorists, only hERBERt london , JEFFREy loRd, of West Point on May 28. Not to see the deal blow up in his face. Per- shaWn macomBER , g EoRgE nEumayR, bad for someone who five long haps he will find consolation in Peter gRovER g. norquist, John t Rain, Brian S. Wesbury years ago thought his country no Hitchens’ reflections on the continuing Art Direction/Production Jeffrey P. 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