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Peter Thiel 47 a LONG RED SUNSET Harvey Klehr Reviews American Dreamers: How the Left COVER: K.J 2011_10_03 postal_cover61404-postal.qxd 9/13/2011 9:21 PM Page 1 October 3, 2011 49145 $4.99 JAMES LILEKS on ‘the Perry Approach’ thethe eNDeND ofof thethe futurefuture PETER THIEL PLUS: TIMOTHY B. LEE: Patent Absurdity ALLISON SCHRAGER: In Defense of Financial Innovation ROB LONG: A Farewell to Steve Jobs $4.99 40 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 9/12/2011 2:50 PM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 9/12/2011 2:50 PM Page 3 toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 9/14/2011 2:10 PM Page 2 Contents OCTOBER 3, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 18 | www.nationalreview.com COVER STORY Page 28 Ramesh Ponnuru on Social Security Swift Blind p. 18 Horseman? BOOKS, ARTS There is no law that the & MANNERS exceptional rise of the West 40 THE MISSING MAN must continue. So we could do Matthew Continetti reviews Keeping worse than to inquire into the the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans, widely held opinion that America by Mitch Daniels. is on the wrong track, to wonder 42 BLESS THE BEASTS whether Progress is not doing Claire Berlinski reviews The Bond: as well as advertised, and Our Kinship with Animals, perhaps to take exceptional Our Call to Defend Them, by Wayne Pacelle. measures to arrest and reverse any decline. Peter Thiel 47 A LONG RED SUNSET Harvey Klehr reviews American Dreamers: How the Left COVER: K.J. HISTORICAL/CORBIS Changed a Nation, by Michael Kazin. ARTICLES 49 BUSH RECONSIDERED 18 SOCIAL SECURITY ALERT by Ramesh Ponnuru Quin Hillyer reviews The Man in Perry and Romney debate a program in need of reform. the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the 20 DEAD LETTER by Robert VerBruggen George W. Bush Era, Tough unions, weak management doom USPS. by Timothy S. Goeglein. 24 CRIME, PUNISHMENT, AND REHABILITATION by Mitch Pearlstein 50 FILM: GOING VIRAL When they’ve done the time, expunge the crime. Ross Douthat reviews Contagion. 26 THE RIGHT KIND OF TYRANT by Rob Long 51 THE STRAGGLER: What Steve Jobs gave the world. CATALOG SHOPPER John Derbyshire gears up. NR INNOVATION SPECIAL SECTIONS 28 SWIFT BLIND HORSEMAN? by Peter Thiel Look, listen—proceed. 4 Letters to the Editor 8 The Week PATENTLY ABSURD by Timothy B. Lee 32 37 The Bent Pin . Florence King Copyright law can meet the needs of software developers. 38 The Long View . Rob Long 39 Athwart James Lileks 34 INNOVATIONS AND LIMITATIONS by Allison Schrager . 41 Poetry Jennifer Reeser Where financial innovation went wrong, and how to set it right. 52 Happy Warrior . Mark Steyn 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. 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