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2013_05_05 postal:cover61404-postal.qxd 4/15/2014 6:53 PM Page 1 May 5, 2014 $4.99 ROSEN ON JOHN R. BOLTON: HOW TO COUNTER RUSSIA W. THE PAINTER DOUTHAT ON KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON: THE NEW SAGEBRUSH REBELS NOAH The Case Against MICHAEL MANN THE HOCKEY STICK AND FREE SPEECH $4.99 Charles C. W. Cooke 18 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 4/14/2014 12:23 PM Page 1 TOC -- READY:QXP-1127940144.qxp 4/16/2014 2:39 PM Page 1 Contents MAY 5, 2014 | VOLUME LXVI, NO. 8 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 26 The Climate Inquisitor Climate scientist and opponent of free inquiry Michael E. Mann James Rosen on George W. Bush, painter has built a noisy public career p. 23 sounding the alarm over global warming. Secure as he appears to be in his convictions, Mann BOOKS, ARTS has nonetheless taken it upon & MANNERS himself to try to suppress debate 36 THE POLITICS OF BANKING and to silence some of the “irra- Diana Furchtgott-Roth reviews Fragile by Design: The Political tional” and “virulent” critics, who Origins of Banking Crises and he claims have nothing of sub- Scarce Credit, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber. stance to say. Charles C. W. Cooke 38 A TEXAN TO THE RESCUE COVER: ROMAN GENN M. D. Aeschliman reviews Seeking the North Star: Selected Speeches, by John R. Silber. ARTICLES 43 UNEQUAL TO THE TASK 16 A BETTER RUSSIA ‘RESET’ by John R. Bolton Joshua R. Hendrickson reviews We need a foreign policy equipped to deal with the Putin regime. Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty. 20 GREATER GROWTH by Ramesh Ponnuru Steps to reduce economic anxiety. 45 BLACKLISTED Peter Tonguette reviews The Selected 21 MIKE PENCE’S FEDERALISM by Eliana Johnson Letters of Elia Kazan, Does it have a future on Pennsylvania Avenue? edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin. 23 A WAR FOR OILS by James Rosen The presidential arts of George W. Bush. 47 FILM: NOAH’S ARC Ross Douthat reviews Noah. 24 ADVENTURES IN LEXICAL FASHION by Jay Nordlinger Today’s progressive term may become tomorrow’s slur. SECTIONS FEATURES 2 Letters to the Editor 26 THE CLIMATE INQUISITOR by Charles C. W. Cooke 4 The Week Michael Mann’s campaign against free thought. 34 The Long View . Rob Long 35 Athwart . James Lileks 32 SAGEBRUSH REBELS, AGAIN by Kevin D. Williamson 44 Poetry . Richard O’Connell Cliven Bundy and the case for saying “No.” 48 Happy Warrior . 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