THE CINCINNATI MYTH by Eliana Johnson Saturday Night Massacre, and IRS Discrimination Wasn’T Just the Work of Rogue Agents
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2013_07_01 subscribe:cover61404-postal.qxd 6/11/2013 8:18 PM Page 1 July 1, 2013 $4.99 JAY NORDLINGER: The Left’s Racial Putdowns KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON ON RAND AND STEINBECK JOHN J. MILLER HENRY OLSEN: IS RAND PAUL THE ANSWER? ON HARRY JAFFA Daniiel Foster w eliiaannaa Johnson w roobb lloonngg $4.99 tthhee eeDDittoorss 26 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 6/10/2013 2:27 PM Page 1 TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/12/2013 2:33 PM Page 1 Contents JULY 1, 2013 | VOLUME LXV, NO. 12 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 16 The Cincinnati Myth John J. Miller on Harry V. Jaffa p. 32 Two Cincinnati employees have told the House Oversight Committee that BOOKS, ARTS they were taking orders from Washington. One of those employees told & MANNERS the committee he began singling out tea- 41 LINCOLN’S PATH, STILL Jay Winik reviews Lincoln party applications at the request of a Unbound: How an Ambitious supervisor who told him “Washington, Young Railsplitter Saved the American Dream—And D.C., wanted some cases.” Eliana Johnson How We Can Do It Again, by Rich Lowry. COVER: ROMAN GENN 42 GREATNESS IN A DARK TIME ARTICLES Charles J. Cooper reviews Saving Justice: Watergate, the 16 THE CINCINNATI MYTH by Eliana Johnson Saturday Night Massacre, and IRS discrimination wasn’t just the work of rogue agents. Other Adventures of a Solicitor General, by Robert H. Bork. 18 ONE-PARTY TAXMEN by Daniel Foster Is it time to un-reform the civil service? 45 EPIC OF A NATION Daniel Johnson reviews Flight of 21 BUREAUCRATIC ROT by Rob Long the Eagle: The Grand Strategies A government, like a fish, decays from its guts. That Brought America from Colonial Dependence to World 22 RAND PAUL’S PARTY by Henry Olsen Leadership, by Conrad Black. It wouldn’t offer much to conservatives. 46 GENIUS FOR FRIENDSHIP 24 FEDERALISM.COM by Ramesh Ponnuru John Avlon discusses the friendship An Internet sales tax should foster competition among states. between William F. Buckley Jr. and Murray Kempton. 26 UNCLES, FRUITS, AND NUTS by Jay Nordlinger A look at some American slurs. 51 FILM: NO GREEN LIGHT Ross Douthat reviews The Bling Ring. FEATURES 29 MEN’S RISING EARNINGS by Scott Winship SECTIONS Tales of decline rely on flawed methodology. 2 Letters to the Editor 32 THE HOUSE OF JAFFA by John J. Miller 4 The Week The remarkable career of a scholar still at work. 39 Athwart . James Lileks 40 The Long View . Rob Long 35 THE GRAPES OF RAND by Kevin D. Williamson 50 Poetry . Jennifer Reeser Ayn Rand’s God and John Steinbeck’s capitalism. 52 Happy Warrior . 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As Michael Knox Beran implies at the Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy Washington Editor Robert Costa conclusion of “Wisdom in Command” (June 3), his review of Mr. Hanson’s Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson latest book, The Savior Generals, there is not much new under the sun, and we National Correspondent John J. Miller Art Director Luba Kolomytseva would do well to study history in order to better understand our current chal- Deputy Managing Editors Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz lenges. Robert VerBruggen I look forward to reading The Savior Generals, but I have a small bone to pick Production Editor Katie Hosmer Editorial Associate Katherine Connell with the review. Mr. Beran paints a picture of the Eastern Roman Empire as a Research Associate Scott Reitmeier decaying, near-failed state, with General Belisarius fighting nobly to salvage Assistant to the Editor Madison V. Peace Rome’s past glory as twilight descends upon its ragged and cash-strapped Contributing Editors Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat remains. Although there is much to criticize and dislike about Roman imperial Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty culture (both eastern and western), the end was not even close for the eastern Jonah Goldberg / Florence King Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin regime in the middle of the sixth century. In fact, Belisarius and his fellow gen- Yuval Levin / Rob Long erals aggressively reasserted control, in the name of Justinian I, over Rome Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy Kate O’Beirne / Reihan Salam itself, Italy, and much of the Mediterranean rim across North Africa and into the NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Iberian Peninsula. This does not seem like a technocratic repairing of the Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez breaches in Byzantium’s defenses, as Mr. Beran portrays it. 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