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HOMELESS in SEATTLE Why Are Wealthy Cities with Booming Economies Seeing a Surge of the Down and Out? by ETHAN EPSTEIN APRIL 16, 2018 $5.99 HOMELESS IN SEATTLE Why are wealthy cities with booming economies seeing a surge of the down and out? BY ETHAN EPSTEIN WEEKLYSTANDARD.COM Contents April 16, 2018 • Volume 23, Number 30 2 The Scrapbook Vegetarians v. carnivores, Democrats fighting dirty, & more 5 Casual David Skinner, sans nickname 6 Editorials The Crown Prince Goes to Washington • Trump vs. the Economy 10 Comment The Legitimacy of Israel’s Borders BY CHRISTOPHER CALdwELL The Once and Future Vladimir Putin BY PRISCILLA M. JENSEN The Conscience of Ann Coulter BY CHARLES J. SYKES The Councilman’s Snowstorm BY PHILIP TERZIAN Dimestore Leader-Worship BY WILLIAM KRISTOL 5 Articles 16 Johnny One-Note BY MICHAEL WARREN The monomaniacal White House talking points 17 Trump and Syria BY THOMAS JOSCELYN Another premature declaration of victory? 19 The Politicization of the MCAT BY DEVORAH GOLdmAN Why should we care about the opinions of aspiring doctors? 21 Worship Thy Ancestor BY DAVE SHIFLEtt 6 . from a distance Features 23 Homeless in Seattle BY ETHAN EPSTEIN Why are wealthy cities with booming economies seeing a surge of the down and out? 30 Campus Disrupter BY NAOMI SCHAEFER RILEY Michael Crow’s quest to change higher education Books & Arts 35 Speak, Goddess BY SUSAN KRISTOL Musings on two new translations of the Odyssey 21 38 Aaron Burr, Conspirator BY JAMES M. BANNER JR. The hard-to-untangle tale of how he became the villain in our history 40 Truly Grand Strategy BY AARON MACLEAN Drawing on the wisdom of history, philosophy, and literature to inform foreign policy 43 Witty Women BY B. D. MCCLAY Controversy-courting creators, critics, and cultural commentators 45 Ready (Or Not) BY JOHN PODHORETZ Steven Spielberg’s messy, mostly animated virtual-reality spectacle 46 Obituary BY MAtt LABASH Lefty Kreh, 1925-2018 46 48 Parody Politics at the egg roll COVER: GEORGE ROSE / GETTY THE SCRAPBOOK The Winning Gesture n the era of gesture politics, when restaurant’s street window. Potential Michael Hunter, the owner of Antler, I political discourse consists of an customers were availed of the protest- told the Globe and Mail. But it didn’t. endless sequence of symbolic protests ers’ opinions on veganism and animal So Hunter took a creative approach. and counterprotests, there are few win- rights; the restaurant’s paying cus- He went to the front window of his ners. The shouting and sign-waving tomers were made to see the banner’s restaurant with three items: a knife, protesters look bitter and sanctimo- accusation while they ate. a cutting board, and a large leg of raw nious, the objects of their venison. He sliced up the leg, disgust are obliged to defend separating meat from fat, and themselves against fre- prepared the meat for roast- quently outrageous accusa- ing. Video of the exchange tions, and no one comes away shows Hunter slowly and more enlightened. calmly exhibiting his talent, In a recent exchange of and the protesters shouting, gestures involving a protest “That deer did not want to and counterprotest, how- die!” and “He’s mocking us!” ever, we’re pretty sure one of As of this writing, pro- the participants won. tests outside Antler Restau- A group of animal rights rant & Bar have noticeably activists assembled outside diminished, and the Face- Antler Kitchen & Bar, a book page created by the fashionable restaurant in protesters has been inun- downtown Toronto cater- Leg of venison, Antler Kitchen-style. Oh, the humanity! dated with taunts from car- ing to carnivores, in order nivorous commenters. It to protest the establishment’s policy The protest, which was legal, went doesn’t seem to have occurred to the of serving meat. The protesters held on for weeks. More protesters came; protesters that harassing and bully- a large banner emblazoned with some brought megaphones. “I hoped ing law-abiding citizens isn’t the most the word MURDER in front of the it would fizzle out and go away,” effective way to persuade them. ♦ attacks before they happened; a pro- restructured the man’s company. Books We Didn’t Finish Obama television ad holding Mitt Nonetheless we wondered if Faris new book recently caught our Romney responsible for the death of a might offer his fellow Dems some use- A attention: It’s Time to Fight Dirty: man’s wife by cancer because the man ful counsel. We got as far as page xix. How Democrats Can Build a Lasting lost his job after Bain Capital (which What the author wants, he writes, “is Majority in American Politics by David Romney didn’t work for at the time) not to institute single-party rule for the Faris, an associate professor of politi- Democrats in perpetuity.” Golly, we’re cal science at Roosevelt University in glad to hear that! So what is the point? Chicago. We weren’t aware that Dem- “It is to control the levers of power ocrats needed the advice of the title, long enough to permanently alter the having long taken an admittedly per- political trajectory of the country, to verse pleasure in cataloguing Demo- smash the current coalition of misfit cratic dirtiness. Nazi toys, misogynist creeps, and rich Some of our favorite moments: nihilists and replace it with a sensible, supporters of Democratic guberna- center-right opposition capable of tell- torial candidate Kathleen Kennedy ing the difference between fake news Townsend passing out Oreo cookies produced by Macedonian troll farmers to mock black Republican candidate and actual facts about the world that Michael Steele; Vermont governor we inhabit together.” Howard Dean suggesting it was an We never got to the part where “interesting theory” that George W. Faris explains how Democrats can Bush knew about the September 11 win more elections, but we wonder GARY LOCKE BIGSTOCK; BELOW: TOP: 2 / THE WEEKLY STANDARD APRIL 16, 2018 if he advises them to avoid sounding like arrogant jackasses. It’s Time to Fight Dirty is published by Melville House and may be pur- chased for $24.99. ♦ Cause of Death: Living n March 29, California superior O court judge Elihu Berle ruled that most coffee sold in the Golden State will have to bear a warning label stating that it may increase the likeli- hood of cancer. Roasted coffee contains traces of the carcinogen acrylamide, and so Californians, if the ruling stands, must be warned every time they buy a cup of coffee or a bag of beans that they’re risking their lives. The plaintiff in the case, a busy- body nonprofit called the Council for Education and Research on Tox- ics, argued that roasted coffee beans should be a regulated substance on the basis of Proposition 65, a 1986 state law otherwise known as the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforce- ment Act. The law mandates that businesses with 10 or more employees must disclose the presence of carcino- gens and other harmful toxins. Each year the state updates its list of toxic chemicals; the list now boasts more than 800 items and includes many chemicals that have little or no statis- tical link with cancer. Some of the chemicals, like bisphenol A (BPA), show up in just about everything. Hence a vast array of products sold in California now even when they’re not required to. to the deadly poison coffee since comes with some version of the The result? California’s warning 2002. In other words, someone had words, “Warning: This product con- means nothing. Taxpayers have to pay the bright idea to shake down the tains chemicals known for the labeling regime, coffee companies for multimillion- to the State of Califor- but no one’s any safer or dollar settlement payouts. The firm nia to cause cancer and better informed. handling the plaintiff’s suit also birth defects or other Of course, the whole managed to shake down potato chip reproductive harm.” So idiotic case, now in its makers several years ago, a similarly if you’re buying bottled sixth year, isn’t about regulated toxin having been found in water, canned food, public safety at all. cooked potatoes in trace amounts. potato chips, salmon, It’s about money. The As manifestly preposterous as Cali- cleaning products, or “council” demanded fornia’s Proposition 65 is, we think the furniture, you’re likely that coffee makers law doesn’t go far enough. We con- to be met with some version of this remove traces of acrylamide from ferred with a biomedical researcher, fearsome notice. Many businesses— the roasting process, almost cer- an old friend of THE SCRAPBOOK, drugstores, hospitals, hotels, banks, tainly knowing that to be unfeasible, who reminded us that the very act of parking garages—take the “CYA” then asked the court for fines of up ingesting food—virtually any food— TWS ART / BIGSTOCK (CUP) approach and post the warning to $2,500 for every person “exposed” contributes to human death. The APRIL 16, 2018 THE WEEKLY STANDARD / 3 natural process called glycolysis, the should have ignored its relentless mis- body’s way of breaking down glucose, characterization, but false pride does produces a byproduct called methyl- not permit me to do so. Terzian writes: glyoxal, or MG, and MG is closely Judge Sarokin ruled that the library associated with a host of deleterious www.weeklystandard.com bodily processes—including aging. had no intrinsic right to bar patrons for their offensive conduct or poor Stephen F. Hayes, Editor in Chief This produces the counterintuitive Richard Starr, Editor hygiene or because their presence Fred Barnes, Robert Messenger, Executive Editors outcome that mild malnourishment caused discomfort to readers. Christine Rosen, Managing Editor often leads to longevity.
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