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Trump's Andrew Jackson 20170529sbc_cover61404-postal.qxd 5/9/2017 5:44 PM Page 1 May 29, 2017 $5.99 RICHARD BROOKHISER KEVIN D.WILLIAMSON PONNURU & LOWRY Trump’s Andrew Jackson Retail’s Agony Populism’s False Start THE ROOTS OF LEFTFT--WING VIOLENCE I A N T U T T L E $5.99 22 0 73361 08155 1 www.nationalreview.com base_new_milliken-mar 22.qxd 5/9/2017 4:29 PM Page 1 SAFE SPACES? We’re hearing a lot of talk about college campuses providing “safe spaces” for students. But we don’t think that way at Union University. We don’t coddle and shelter our students from the real world. Because, let’s face it—the world is unsafe. So we prepare our students to think, to create, and to excel in a dangerous world. We also take seriously the words of the psalmist: “Sustain me so that I can be safe and always be concerned about Your statutes.” (Psalm 119:117). We believe obedience to God and concern for His word is the safest place a student can possibly be. And that’s exactly what we teach—that God’s word is to be honored far more than human wisdom, that it applies to every sphere of life, and that those who obey it are safe, no matter what comes their way. United in spirit. Grounded in truth. uu.edu Founded in 1823 | Jackson, Tennessee EXCELLENCE-DRIVEN | CHRIST-CENTERED | PEOPLE-FOCUSED | FUTURE-DIRECTED TOC-FINAL_QXP-1127940144.qxp 5/10/2017 2:47 PM Page 1 Contents MAY 29, 2017 | VOLUME LXIX, NO. 10 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 22 Everyone an Enemy Richard Brookhiser on Trump and Jackson Antifa’s reason for describing p. 16 something or someone as ‘fascist’ is not that it is actually BOOKS, ARTS fascist but that describing it & MANNERS that way is politically advantageous. Likewise with 35 LEADING MAN Peter Tonguette reviews Charlton any number of other slurs. Heston: Hollywood’s Last Icon, Antifa are in effect claiming by Marc Eliot. to oppose everything that is 37 ENLIGHTENED LINCOLN bad—and, of course, it Jason Lee Steorts reviews Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel, is Antifa who decide what by George Saunders. is bad. Ian Tuttle 38 ‘MANIFESTO FOR MODERATION’ COVER: THOMAS REIS Alvin S. Felzenberg reviews Washington’s Farewell: ARTICLES The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations, by John 14 POPULISM’S FALSE START by Ramesh Ponnuru & Richard Lowry Avlon. The Trump administration should become more responsive to voters’ concerns. 40 SAHARA OF THE BEAUX ARTS 16 A HISTORY LESSON FOR THE PRESIDENT by Richard Brookhiser Lauren Weiner reviews The New Trump understands Andrew Jackson better than the Civil War. Philistines, by Sohrab Ahmari. TAX FEDERALISM by Stephen Eide 18 41 ON THE RUN Ending the state-and-local deduction would help make blue states pay their way. Randy Boyagoda reviews The Golden Legend, by Nadeem Aslam. 20 OWNING THEIR FUTURE by Jay Nordlinger The joy of DECA. 43 CLOSED CIRCLE Ross Douthat reviews The Circle. FEATURES 22 EVERYONE AN ENEMY by Ian Tuttle SECTIONS The vague and dangerous ideology of leftist violence. 2 Letters to the Editor CLOSING TIME by Kevin D. Williamson 26 4 The Week American retail’s fast, furious decline. 33 Athwart . James Lileks The Long View . Rob Long ZINKE RIDES IN by Shawn Regan 34 30 41 Poetry . Stephen Scaer But will the new interior secretary take on the federal-lands bureaucracy? 44 Happy Warrior . Andrew Stiles NATIONAL REVIEW (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by N ATIONAL REVIEW, Inc., at 215 Lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. Periodicals postage paid at New York, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. © National Review, Inc., 2017. 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The editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or artwork unless return postage or, better, a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters-FINAL_QXP-1127940387.qxp 5/10/2017 2:48 PM Page 2 Letters MAY 29 ISSUE; PRINTED MAY 11 EDITORINCHIEF Richard Lowry Senior Editors Girl with Bull Richard Brookhiser / Jonah Goldberg / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones I read Jay Nordlinger’s piece about Fearless Girl (“Girl, Misplaced,” May 1) and Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra her placement opposite Charging Bull and agree that it’s an injustice that the new Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy Executive Editor Reihan Salam sculpture warps the meaning of another’s work. Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Correspondent John J. Miller I love the vision of both statues but don’t understand why they have to be in oppo- Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty sition to each other. Isn’t the idea of the “can-do spirit of America” the same as the fear- Art Director Luba Kolomytseva Deputy Managing Editors less spirit of a “woman hold[ing] her ground, no matter what challenges come barreling Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz Production Editor Katie Hosmer down the pike”? I have an idea for resolving the dispute. Instead of having her oppose Assistant to the Editor Rachel Ogden the bull, place Fearless Girl in front and to the side of Charging Bull and let them face Research Associate Alessandra Trouwborst the challenges America encounters together, fearless and with a can-do spirit. Contributing Editors Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Daniel Foster Mary Turner Roman Genn / Arthur L. Herman / Lawrence Kudlow Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Via e-mail Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen Clarifying the Law NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor Charles C. W. Cooke Managing Editor Katherine Connell Ramesh Ponnuru announces, with approval it seems, that “a relatively solid con- Deputy Managing Editor Mark Antonio Wright Senior Writer David French servative bloc of four . will be capable of making law when Justice Anthony Critic-at-Large Kyle Smith National-Affairs Columnist John Fund Kennedy joins it” (“The Gorsuch Triumph,” May 1). Reporter Katherine Timpf And that is a good thing? I thought conservatives prided themselves in recogniz- Associate Editors Molly Powell / Nick Tell Digital Director Ericka Andersen ing that making laws is reserved for the people’s representatives in Congress, and Technical Services Russell Jenkins Web Editorial Assistant Grant DeArmitt not for the members of SCOTUS, however conservative they may be. Web Developer Wendy Weihs John Vandonk Web Producer Scott McKim Norco, Calif. EDITORS- AT- L A RG E Kathryn Jean Lopez / John O’Sullivan NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE RAMESH PONNURU RESPONDS: I meant “making law” as in “specifying legal rules THOMASL. RHODESFELLOW Ian Tuttle based on statutes and the Constitution,” not “replacing the content of statutes and the Constitution.” The phrasing is ambiguous, I’ll admit, but in my defense I was BUCKLEYFELLOWSINPOLITICALJOURNALISM Alexandra DeSanctis / Austin Yack not making an argument about jurisprudence. COLLEGIATE NETWORK FELLOW Paul Crookston Contributors What about the Fair Tax? Hadley Arkes / James Bowman / Eliot A. Cohen Dinesh D’Souza / Chester E. Finn Jr. / Neal B. Freeman James Gardner / David Gelernter / George Gilder Mr. Cole’s excellent article “The Case for Tax Reform” (May 1) is both timely Jeffrey Hart / Kevin A. Hassett / Charles R. Kesler David Klinghoffer / Anthony Lejeune / Alan Reynolds and pertinent; however, he missed an opportunity by not considering replacing Tracy Lee Simmons / Terry Teachout / Vin Weber the graduated income tax. Funding the federal government through a national Vice President Jack Fowler sales tax, a.k.a. “Fair Tax,” is an idea much praised but seldom seriously dis- Chief Financial Officer James X. Kilbridge cussed. Although replacing the current method of funding the federal govern- Accounting Manager Galina Veygman Accountant Lyudmila Bolotinskaya ment is closer to revolution than reform and unlikely in the short term, the Business Services Alex Batey Circulation Manager Jason Ng benefits are obvious and well documented. Such a consideration was understand- Advertising Director Jim Fowler Advertising Manager Kevin Longstreet ably beyond the scope of this article, but possibly Mr. Cole could be persuaded to write an article considering revolution? PUBLISHERCHAIRMAN Dave Helma Garrett Bewkes John Hillen Mica, Wash. FOUNDER William F. Buckley Jr. LAN OLE RESPONDS PATRONS AND BENEFACTORS A C : Many of the reforms discussed in the piece include ele- Robert Agostinelli ments of the Fair Tax proposal. For example, removing deductions and adopting a Dale Brott Mr. and Mrs. Michael Conway destination-based business tax are both reforms that make the current tax code more like Mark and Mary Davis Virginia James the Fair Tax. However, adopting a Fair Tax system in full would increase taxes on many Christopher M. Lantrip lower-income voters. This is likely why Congress so far seems reluctant to do so. Brian and Deborah Murdock Mr.
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