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Cooke on Jeremy Clarkson ON THE COVER Page 28 p. 26 A Place for Conscience BOOKS, ARTS That the civil-rights movement organized & MANNERS to advance the condition of black Americans 40 UPPER CRUST is a fitting and natural precedent to the move- Florence King reviews Hissing Cousins: The Untold Story of ment organized to advance the condition of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice gay Americans is an exercise in question- Roosevelt Longworth, by Marc Peyser and Timothy Dwyer. begging, one that is, given the American 42 A NEW FORM OF temperament, almost inevitable. Kevin D. Williamson GOVERNMENT Matthew Spalding reviews COVER: ROMAN GENN A Republic No More: Big Government and the Rise of ARTICLES American Political Corruption, by Jay Cost. 16 JEB, SCOTT, AND THE REST by Ramesh Ponnuru How fare the Republican presidential hopefuls? 44 ON THE COUCH Mona Charen reviews Admirable 18 THE TAXMAN ENDURETH by Patrick Brennan Evasions: How Psychology ted Cruz’s abolish-the-iRS idea has little merit. Undermines Morality, by Theodore Dalrymple. 20 BETTING ON INDIA’S ECONOMY by Sadanand Dhume its strength will be our strategic asset. 45 WOMEN’S LIVES Robert P. George reviews North of WHAT MUSLIMS SHOULD FEAR MOST 22 by Re ihan Salam the Tension Line, by J. F. Riordan. it isn’t american xenophobia. 50 FILM: TERROR IN THE ANTI-SCOLD 26 by Charles C. W. Cooke PLAIN SIGHT on the phenomenon of Jeremy Clarkson. Ross Douthat reviews It Follows. 51 CITY DESK: WRITING À DEUX Richard Brookhiser on a marriage FEATURES of writers. 28 A PLACE FOR CONSCIENCE by Kevin D. Williamson anti-gay discrimination is wrong, but it is not Jim Crow. 30 ANOTHER WIN FOR RIGHT-TO-WORK by John J. Miller SECTIONS Now, in half the states, you cannot be forced to join a union. 2 Letters to the Editor 33 THE WRONG BOX by Tim Heffernan and Graeme Wood 4 The Week our prisons’ use of solitary confinement is inhumane. 38 The Long View . Rob Long 39 Athwart . 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Williamson nition that the global order requires a strong power [namely, the U.S.] to National Correspondent John J. Miller Art Director Luba Kolomytseva underwrite its security.” Deputy Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz Senator Robert A. Production Editor Katie Hosmer Taft of Ohio was Assistant to the Editor Carol Anne Kemp Research Associate Alessandra Haynes “Mr. Re publi can” of Contributing Editors the 1940s and ’50s Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Roman Genn Jim Geraghty / Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow and narrowly lost the Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCa rthy Re publican presiden- Kate O’Beirne / Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen tial nomination to NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez Eisen hower in 1952. Managing Editor Edward John Craig Opinion Editor Patrick Brennan His credentials as a National-Affairs Columnist John Fund “traditional” conser- Staff Writer Charles C. W. Cooke Political Reporter Joel Gehrke vative are impecca- Reporters Andrew Johnson / Katherine Timpf ble. He had this to say Associate Editors Nick Tell / Molly Powell / Nat Brown about the use of military force in a speech to the Ameri can Assembly on Editorial Associates May 22, 1951: Brendan Bordelon / Christine Sisto Technical Services Russell Jenkins Web Developer Wendy Weihs Web Producer Scott McKim My view is that American foreign policy should be directed primarily to the EDITORS- AT- L A RG E protection of the liberty of the people of the United States, and that war Linda Bridges / John O’Sullivan should only be undertaken when necessary to protect that liberty, that we are NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE BUCKLEYFELLOWSINPOLITICALJOURNALISM not justified in going to war simply to increase the standard of living of the Ryan Lovelace / Ian Tuttle Contributors people throughout the world, or to protect their liberty unless such protection Hadley Arkes / Baloo / James Bowman is necessary for our own defense. .There is one policy and only one policy Eliot A. 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Assistant to the Publisher Emily Gray Director of Philanthropy and Campaigns Scott Lange Associate Publisher Paul Olivett David E. Steuber Director of Development Heyward Smith Director of Revenue Erik Netcher Mineral Point, Wis. Vice President, Communications Amy K. Mitchell PUBLISHER Jack Fowler JOHN LINDSAY CHAIRMAN / John Hillen CHAIRMANEMERITUS Thomas L. Rhodes AP PHOTO FOUNDER William F. Buckley Jr. Letters may be submitted by e-mail to [email protected]. 2 | www.nationalreview.com APRIL 2 0 , 2 0 1 5 base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 3/30/2015 1:41 PM Page 1 week--READY:QXP-1127940387.qxp 4/1/2015 2:24 PM Page 4 The Week n The Left predicted that Jon Stewart’s succession by a bira- cial foreigner would be greeted with hate and fear from para- noid, partisan zealots. And they were right. n Clean as a hound’s tooth, or a Hillary server. Representative Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), head of the House Benghazi probe, was told by Clinton lawyer David Kendall (of impeachment fame) that the private server on which Mrs. Clinton conducted business during her tenure as secretary of state was now blank, because she had wiped it after turning her job-related e-mails over to the State Department. She turned them over years after she left office and only when the House asked for them, and she herself decided what was job-related and what was not.