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NORDLINGER: China's Grisly Harvest 20140825:cover61404-postal.qxd 8/5/2014 8:25 PM Page 1 August 25, 2014 $4.99 EDWARDS ON SOLZHENITSYN NORDLINGER: China’s Grisly Harvest BROOKHISER ON GHOSTS THE GREAT EQUALIZER CIVIL RIGHTS, SELF-DEFENSE, AND THE FIREARM ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ CHARLES C. W. COOKE www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 8/1/2014 2:36 PM Page 1 BASED ON THE WORLDWIDE BEST-SELLER ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER JEFF BRIDGES ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER MERYL STREEP BRENTON THWAITES ALEXANDER SKARSGÅRD ODEYA RUSH KATIE HOLMES TAYLOR SWIFT SCREENPLAY DIRECTED BYMICHAEL MITNICK AND ROBERT B. WEIDE BY PHILLIP NOYCE A MATURE THEMATIC ReceiveYourDestiny.org IMAGE AND SOME SCI-FI ACTION/ VIOLENCE . FEATURING THE ORIGINAL SONG“ORDINARY HUMAN” BY ONEREPUBLIC AUGUST 15 TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 8/6/2014 2:46 PM Page 1 Contents AUGUST 25, 2014 | VOLUME LXVI, NO. 15 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 26 The Great Equalizer Until the late 1970s, the history of American gun control was largely inextricable from the history of American racism. Lee Edwards on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Today, this history p. 38 has largely been forgotten—and with it a fascinating counter-history: the tales of those who, like Ida Wells, steadfastly BOOKS, ARTS refused to be intimidated; the recognition that & MANNERS firearms played a key part in the emancipation of 36 FACE THE SLAUGHTER blacks as well as of whites; and the understand- Jay Nordlinger reviews The ing that if rights are not backed up by force they Slaughter: Mass Killings, Organ Harvesting, and China’s Secret represent nothing solid at all. Charles C. W. Cooke Solution to Its Dissident Problem, by Ethan Gutmann. 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