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Operation Rewind $3.95 04 the EDITORS 2011_01_24 upc_cover61404-postal.qxd 1/4/2011 7:47 PM Page 1 January 24, 2011 49145 $3.95 KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON’s Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism Operation Rewind $3.95 04 THE EDITORS 0 74851 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 1/4/2011 10:54 AM Page 1 We would like to introduce ARISTOTLEARISTOTLE you to some of SHAKESPEARESHAKE your teachers ST.ST. AUGUSTINEAUGUSTINE at Ave Maria University. JOHN MILTON ST. THOMAS AQUINAS Your journey begins at Ave Maria University. To learn more, please visit www.avemaria.edu Economics Philosophy Politics Theology Business Music Biology Pre-law program Mathematics Literature Psychology History Pre-med program Classics 5050 Ave Maria Boulevard | Ave Maria, Fl 34142 www.AveMaria.edu | 877-AVE-UNIV Find us on Facebook KNOWLEDGE VIRTUE EXCELLENCE toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 1/5/2011 1:50 PM Page 1 Contents JANUARY 24, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 1 | www.nationalreview.com ON THE COVER Page 14 Ramesh Ponnuru on 2012 Operation Rewind p. 18 While we like a good party now and BOOKS, ARTS again, the fact that House Republicans & MANNERS held no official gala to celebrate their accession to the majority in the 47 TWO QUARTS LOW Glenn Harlan Reynolds reviews new Congress reflects both a Gray Lady Down: What the becoming modesty and the Decline and Fall of the New York accurate understanding that it Times Means for America, by William McGowan. is time to get to work. The Editors 48 AGENTS OF INFLUENCE Claire Berlinski reviews The Arab COVER: R.H. PRODUCTIONS/GETTY Lobby: The Invisible Alliance that Undermines America’s ARTICLES Interests in the Middle East, by Mitchell Bard. 18 ADVANTAGE: OBAMA by Ramesh Ponnuru Evicting the president in 2012 will not be easy. 51 TOP DOWN Helen Rittelmeyer reviews Pathology 20 BUDGET WAR by James C. Capretta of the Elites: How the Arrogant Strategy and tactics for the new House majority. Classes Plan to Run Your Life, by Michael Knox Beran. 21 WHAT THE WHIGS KNEW by Richard Lowry 52 PRESENT AT THE CREATION Our economy and culture would benefit from its remembrance. Ryan T. Anderson reviews Origins: How the Nine Months Before 24 RETURNS THE GULAG by David Pryce-Jones Birth Shape the Rest of Our The Khodorkovsky trial exposes the ugly truth of Putin’s Russia. Lives, by Annie Murphy Paul. 54 FILM: OUT OF THE PAST 26 CHILDHOOD, INTERRUPTED by Matthew Shaffer Ross Douthat reviews The King’s In memoriam. Speech and True Grit. 55 THE STRAGGLER: FEATURES SHOVEL READY John Derbyshire fills a hole. 30 SOCIALISM IS BACK by Kevin D. Williamson And it’s in your face. SECTIONS 37 MASTER OF THE SENATE by Robert Costa 2 Letters to the Editor Mitch McConnell gets the job done. 4 The Week 46 The Long View . Rob Long 42 ENDANGERED? SPECIOUS by Travis Kavulla 49 Poetry . Sarah Ruden Of the ‘northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf’ and similar absurdities. 56 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. Address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, etc., to Editorial Dept., NATIONAl REvIEw, 215 lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. 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Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters--ready_QXP-1127940387.qxp 1/5/2011 1:50 PM Page 2 Letters JANUARY 24 ISSUE; PRINTED JANUARY 6 Defeats that Weren’t EDITOR Richard Lowry I would like to thank Mackubin Thomas Owens and James S. Robbins—the for- Senior Editors mer for reviewing This Time We Win (“The Tet Myth,” December 20) and the Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger latter for writing it. When certain of my friends discuss the Vietnam War, two Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts items that are always brought up are the Tet Offensive and the siege of Khe Sanh. Literary Editor Michael Potemra To hear these liberals tell it, both battles were major American defeats. But in Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy National Correspondent John J. Miller the case of Tet, the people didn’t rise up for the Communists, and when it was Political Reporter Robert Costa Art Director Luba Kolomytseva over, the Viet Cong had been so badly reduced that they never posed a serious Deputy Managing Editors threat for the remainder of America’s involvement in Vietnam; the Viet Cong Fred Schwarz / Kevin D. Williamson Associate Editors and North Vietnamese Army managed to hold no territory for longer than a Helen Rittelmeyer / Robert VerBruggen couple of weeks. In the case of Khe Sanh, when two under-strength Marine Research Director Katherine Connell Research Manager Dorothy McCartney battalions hold—and then, with the help of the Navy and Air Force, break—two Executive Secretary Frances Bronson North Vietnamese divisions, it is not a defeat but a victory. What turned these Assistant to the Editor Christeleny Frangos victories into “defeats” was the bleating of media pundits who had no combat Contributing Editors Robert H. Bork / John Derbyshire experience themselves. Ross Douthat / Rod Dreher / David Frum Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty / Jonah Goldberg In the movie Heartbreak Ridge, Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway summed up the Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin situation very well when he observed that we may have lost the Vietnam War, Yuval Levin / Rob Long / Jim Manzi Andrew C. McCarthy / Kate O’Beirne but we won all of the battles. America lost Vietnam because it lacked a military David B. Rivkin Jr. objective and had no political will to win, not because it was defeated by the NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE enemy’s military force. I worry a similar process may unfold in Afghanistan Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez Managing Editor Edward John Craig today, and fear for our soldiers there. Deputy Managing Editor Duncan Currie News Editor Daniel Foster Editorial Associates Roy Jaruk Brian Stewart / Katrina Trinko Web Developer Nathan Goulding Patterson, N.Y. 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Buckley Jr. Letters may be sub mitted by e-mail to [email protected]. 2 | www.nationalreview.com JANUARY 2 4 , 2 0 1 1 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 1/3/2011 4:28 PM Page 1 week_QXP-1127940387.qxp 1/5/2011 1:45 PM Page 4 The Week n At least she can console herself that she’s still the first female House minority leader. n President Obama had a good December in the lame-duck ses- sion of the 111th Congress, signing a 9/11 first-responders bill, a new START treaty, and a repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays in the military. The first-responders bill, despite its name, is a slab of New York City pork allowing first respon- ders, Manhattanites, and their trial lawyers to file claims for 20 more years.
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