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TOC--READY_QXP-1127940144.qxp 6/8/2016 2:32 PM Page 1 Contents JUNE 27, 2016 | VOLUME LXVIII, NO. 11 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 32 BOOKS, ARTS Doug Ducey’s & MANNERS Blooming, 40 GETTING IT TOGETHER Charles Murray reviews The Fractured Republic: Booming Desert Renewing America’s Social ‘If you want to learn something Contract in the Age of Individualism, by Yuval Levin. new, you need to read something old,’ Ducey said. 42 HERBERT AND FRANKLIN Michael Knox Beran reviews ‘As Barry Goldwater wrote Herbert Hoover in the White in Conscience of a House: The Ordeal of the Presidency, by Charles Rappleye. Conservative, “My aim is not to pass laws, it’s to 43 FLAWED GIANT Peter Tonguette reviews Orson repeal them.”’ John J. Miller Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band, by Simon Callow. COVER: THOMAS REIS 45 A COMPOSER IN THE ARTICLES SHADOW OF THE COMMISSARS OUR ILLIBERAL MOMENT by Kevin D. Williamson Sarah Ruden reviews The Noise of 16 Time: A Novel, by Julian Barnes. Trump, Trump protesters, and political violence. DOES EUROPE NEED REFUGEES? by Reihan Salam 49 THE GREAT ELEVENTH 20 David Bahr reviews Everything A look at the case of Sweden. Explained That Is Explainable: THE DEARTH OF DONORS by Sally Satel On the Creation of the 22 Encyclopaedia Britannica’s In-kind compensation for organs would save lives. Celebrated Eleventh Edition, 24 TAIWAN INCHES TOWARD NATIONHOOD by Ian Tuttle 1910–1911, by Denis Boyles. Its culture and politics are asserting an independent identity. 51 FILM: NIGHTMARE LOGIC 28 SIGNED: EL SEXTO by Jay Nordlinger Ross Douthat reviews The Lobster. A rebel, artist, and sometime political prisoner from Cuba. 30 THE TRAGEDY OF MUHAMMAD ALI by James Rosen Why didn’t he stop fighting in time? SECTIONS FEATURES 2 Letters to the Editor DOUG DUCEY’S BLOOMING, BOOMING DESERT by John J. Miller 4 The Week 32 The Long View . Rob Long A look at the Arizona governor’s record and goals. 38 39 Athwart . 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Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters--FINAL_QXP-1127940387.qxp 6/8/2016 2:33 PM Page 2 Letters JUNE 27 ISSUE; PRINTED JUNE 9 EDITOR Richard Lowry Senior Editors Spiritual Self-Interest Richard Brookhiser / Jonah Goldberg / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra In the Week (April 11), a comparison between King David and Donald Trump Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy Washington Editor Eliana Johnson was made. In describing David’s braveness, it was written: “As a boy, David Executive Editor Reihan Salam fought his way to the front line so he could avenge a fearsome giant and blas- Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Correspondent John J. Miller phemer against the God of Israel.” That statement demonstrates a common Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty Chief Political Correspondent Tim Alberta misconception of the events leading up to David’s encounter with Goliath and Art Director Luba Kolomytseva ATIONAL EVIEW Deputy Managing Editors unfortunately misses the point of the story, a point that most N R Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz readers would find true to their core values. Production Editor Katie Hosmer Assistant to the Editor Rachel Ogden When David first joined the ranks of his brothers in the conflict, he was there Research Associate Alessandra Trouwborst to watch the battle. When Goliath made his challenge to any of the Israelites Contributing Editors Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Daniel Foster to fight him one on one, David’s response was the same as that of all the rest Roman Genn / Arthur L. Herman / Lawrence Kudlow of the soldiers; he retreated back to camp. It was there that King Saul offered Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy an incentive to anyone who would fight and kill Goliath: a reward consisting Kate O’Beirne / Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen of Saul’s daughter’s hand in marriage and a special dispensation by which the NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE hero’s family would not have to pay taxes. This reward so intrigued David that Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Edward John Craig Deputy Managing Editor Nat Brown he asked three different times, “What is the reward for killing Goliath?” In National-Affairs Columnist John Fund Staff Writers Charles C. W. Cooke / David French effect, David was making sure this verbal contract was binding. Only then did Senior Political Reporter Alexis Levinson Political Reporter Brendan Bordelon David get up the courage to fight Goliath and make history. Reporter Katherine Timpf The story of how David acquired the courage to fight Goliath exemplifies Associate Editors Molly Powell / Nick Tell Digital Director Ericka Anderson what conservatives often tell the Left: “That which gets rewarded, gets done.” Assistant Editor Mark Antonio Wright Technical Services Russell Jenkins David had no interest in fighting Goliath, in being a hero, or in winning a war. Web Editorial Assistant Grant DeArmitt Web Developer Wendy Weihs As the Biblical scholar Doug Wead once so appropriately put it, David want- Web Producer Scott McKim ed the girl. He wanted to be rich. Killing Goliath was just an avenue to reach EDITORS- AT- L A RG E those dreams. Linda Bridges / Kathryn Jean Lopez / John O’Sullivan NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE Patrick Buckley THOMASL. RHODESFELLOW Ian Tuttle Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. Contributors Hadley Arkes / James Bowman / Eliot A. Cohen HE DITORS RESPOND Dinesh D’Souza / Chester E. Finn Jr. / Neal B. Freeman T E : David tells Goliath that he intends to show “all the James Gardner / David Gelernter / George Gilder earth” that “there is a God in Israel”—a God who “saves not with sword and Jeffrey Hart / Kevin A. Hassett / Charles R. Kesler David Klinghoffer / Anthony Lejeune / D. Keith Mano spear, for the battle is his.” That’s his motive. You think it’s a pious pretext and Michael Novak / Alan Reynolds / Tracy Lee Simmons Terry Teachout / Vin Weber that what he wants is only upward mobility. Twice (no, not three times) he asks Chief Financial Officer James X. Kilbridge the men of Israel to confirm what the king’s reward is for slaying “this man,” Accounting Manager Galina Veygman Accountant Lyudmila Bolotinskaya as they call the giant—David calls him “this uncircumcised Philistine”—and Business Services Alex Batey Circulation Manager Jason Ng is indignant at their hangdog resignation. The promise of wealth and assimila- Advertising Director Jim Fowler tion into the royal family through marriage is commensurate with the value of Advertising Manager Kevin Longstreet the military task none of them has the guts to undertake.