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JAY NORDLINGER on the Best-Governed Country $4.99 in North America and Its 10 Exceptional Leader 2013_03_11 postal:cover61404-postal.qxd 2/19/2013 6:36 PM Page 1 March 11, 2013 $4.99 OUR PROBLEM —Betsy WoodruffGIRLS ON POPE BENEDICT: Ponnuru w Weigel w The Editors TheThe TrueTrue North!North! JAY NORDLINGER on the best-governed country $4.99 in North America and its 10 exceptional leader 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 2/15/2013 1:03 PM Page 1 TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 2/20/2013 2:44 PM Page 1 Contents MARCH 11, 2013 | VOLUME LXV, NO. 4 | www.nationalreview.com John Yoo on the Obama anti-presidency ON THE COVER Page 32 p. 28 Leader of the West Conservatives, wherever they BOOKS, ARTS live, can be pleased with & MANNERS Canadian prime minister 40 COUNSELS OF PRUDENCE Allis Radosh reviews Coolidge, Stephen Harper. He is a by Amity Shlaes. leader of the West, and he is 42 THE FAITH OF AMERICANS particularly interesting, not Matthew J. Franck reviews least because he is a Constitutional Conservatism: Liberty, Self-Government, and surprise: a conservative Political Moderation, flower that has bloomed in by Peter Berkowitz. unpromising soil. Jay Nordlinger 43 THE EMPTY CRADLE? W. Bradford Wilcox reviews COVER: MIKE KEMP/RUBBERBALL/CORBIS What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s ARTICLES Coming Demographic Disaster, by Jonathan V. Last. 18 THE SCHOLAR POPES by Ramesh Ponnuru How John Paul II and Benedict XVI changed their office. 45 THE RIGHT TO COMMAND Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews 20 BENEDICT’S LEGACY by George Weigel The Generals: American A brilliant mind, a peerless communicator, an indifferent executive. Military Command from World War II to Today, 23 LIFE, LIBERTY, AND A FREE PHONE by Charles C. W. Cooke by Thomas E. Ricks. Against the Uncle Sam cell plan. 46 CATHOLIC BLUEPRINT 26 PHILADELPHIA’S EXPRESSIVE UNIONS by Jillian Kay Melchior Katherine Connell reviews “One person’s harassment is another person’s free-speech exercise.” Evangelical Catholicism: Deep Reform in the 21st-Century 28 THE PRESIDENCY REDEFINED by John Yoo Church, by George Weigel. Obama weakens it where it should be strong and strengthens it where it should be weak. 51 FILM: TAKE THE NOIR PILL 30 LENA DUNHAM AND GIRLS’ RIGHTS by Betsy Woodruff Ross Douthat reviews Side Effects. Thoughts on a troubling political philosophy. SECTIONS FEATURES 2 Letters to the Editor 32 LEADER OF THE WEST by Jay Nordlinger 4 The Week The progress of Stephen Harper, Canada’s Conservative prime minister. 38 The Long View . Rob Long 39 Athwart . James Lileks 36 USPS, R.I.P. by Kevin D. Williamson 44 Poetry . Donald Mace Williams We never needed a postal monopoly. 52 Happy Warrior . 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