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A FRIGHTFUL DEMOCRACY by Stanley Kurtz 6 the Week the Egyptian Revolution’S Leaders Have an Illiberal Agenda 2011_03_07 ups_cover61404-postal.qxd 2/15/2011 7:43 PM Page 1 March 7, 2011 49145 $3.95 STANLEY KURTZ: What Is the Egyptian Opposition? Pawlenty’s Shot The former Minnesota governor is a strong 2012 contender RAMESH PONNURU $3.95 10 PLUS: BING WEST: On Patrol in Afghanistan ROBERT VERBRUGGEN: Whither Justice Kennedy? 0 74851 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 2/15/2011 7:46 PM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 2/15/2011 7:47 PM Page 3 toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 2/16/2011 1:56 PM Page 2 Contents MARCH 7, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 4 | www.nationalreview.com COVER STORY Page 33 Anthony Daniels on Multiculturalism Pawlenty to Like p. 18 Tim Pawlenty’s main problem is simple: Most BOOKS, ARTS Americans have never heard of him. & MANNERS And among those who have heard of 43 TRAVAILS, CHINESE him, a common observation is that he AND AMERICAN is not an electrifying speaker. Yet Kevin D. Williamson reviews How Pawlenty may just be the Republicans’ the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly—and the strongest presidential candidate Stark Choices Ahead, by Dambisa Moyo. for 2012. Ramesh Ponnuru 45 WHAT IT WILL TAKE COVER: ROMAN GENN Mackubin Thomas Owens reviews The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, ARTICLES and the Way Out of Afghanistan, by Bing West. 18 THE BRUTE AND THE TERRORIST by Anthony Daniels In Britain, multiculturalism cannot escape blame for either. 47 ACCEPTING LIMITS Anthony Daniels reviews The 20 A PROGNOSIS FOR JUSTICE KENNEDY by Robert VerBruggen Conservative Foundations of How will this pivotal jurist look upon Obamacare? the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy against Its Modern 23 JAILBREAK CONSERVATIVES by Eli Lehrer Enemies and Immoderate Sometimes the answer is fewer prisons. Friends, by Daniel J. Mahoney. 26 TRANSPORTATION-POLICY CROSSROADS by Samuel R. Staley 49 BEGAVELED NEUROSES There is indeed a right way. Joseph Tartakovsky reviews Scorpions: The Battles and 29 REAGANITE IRAN STRATEGY by Colin Dueck & Ray Takeyh Triumphs of FDR’s Great A multi-front attack can overcome the ayatollahs just as it overcame the Soviets. Supreme Court Justices, by Noah Feldman. 31 THE PEACE CORPS AT 50 by Jay Nordlinger A few observations (mainly conservative). 51 CITY DESK: USABLE PAST Richard Brookhiser browses the thrift shops. FEATURES 33 PAWLENTY TO LIKE by Ramesh Ponnuru SECTIONS The former Minnesota governor could be a strong presidential candidate. 4 Letters to the Editor 36 A FRIGHTFUL DEMOCRACY by Stanley Kurtz 6 The Week The Egyptian revolution’s leaders have an illiberal agenda. 41 The Bent Pin . Florence King 42 The Long View . Rob Long 38 WITH THE WARRIORS by Bing West 48 Poetry . Lawrence Dugan How our Marines go about the business of destroying the Taliban. 52 Athwart . James Lileks NATIONAl REvIEw (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by NATIONAl 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., 2011. 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It’s in our power.™ letters--ready_QXP-1127940387.qxp 2/16/2011 1:57 PM Page 4 Letters MARCH 7 ISSUE; PRINTED FEBRUARY 17 Against the Seventeenth Amendment EDITOR Richard Lowry In an otherwise excellent article about the U.S. Senate (“The Sense of the Senior Editors Senate,” February 21), William Voegeli errs in saying that “the Lincoln–Douglas Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones debates were the first step on the road to the Seventeenth Amendment,” which Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts provided for the election of senators by the people of each state, and that “the Literary Editor Michael Potemra Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy Seventeenth Amendment had the unintended consequence of reaffirming the National Correspondent John J. 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