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Governors BOOKS, ARTS everywhere boast of a desire to & MANNERS become ‘the education governor.’ 47 THE GILDED GUILD As Florida’s chief executive, Bush Robert VerBruggen reviews Schools really was one. John J. Miller for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, by Walter Olson. COVER: CHARLES W. LUZIER/REUTERS/CORBIS 48 AUSTRALIAN MODEL ARTICLES Arthur W. Herman reviews Lazarus Rising: A Personal and Political 16 ARAB AGONY by David Pryce-Jones Autobiography, by John Howard. What the Egyptian unrest says about, and portends for, the region. 50 A KIND WORD FOR THE MAN 18 THE FEAR OF WORSE by Anthony Daniels John Wilson reviews Up with Comparing French and American responses to the Middle East upheavals. Authority: Why We Need Authority to Flourish as 24 PALIN VS. ROMNEY by Ramesh Ponnuru Human Beings, If both seek the presidency, it could split the Republican party. by Victor Lee Austin. 52 THE OLD IS NEW AGAIN 26 LOST IN SPACE by Rand Simberg We’re wasting billions on rockets to nowhere. Sarah Ruden illustrates the challenges of translating The Golden Ass of Apuleius. 28 NULLIFICATION TEMPTATION by Allen C. Guelzo Let’s stop Obamacare without blowing up the constitutional order. 54 FILM: THE GREAT QUEST Ross Douthat reviews The Way Back. FEATURES 55 THE STRAGGLER: MORPHEME ADDICTION THE EDUCATION EX-GOVERNOR 32 by John J. Miller John Derbyshire talks Turkey. As a private citizen, Jeb Bush remains a mighty force for good. 37 THE SENSE OF THE SENATE by William Voegeli Proportional representation is not the summum bonum. SECTIONS 40 PIGFORD’S HARVEST by Daniel Foster 2 Letters to the Editor How an honorable farmer’s quest for justice launched an epic fraud. 4 The Week 46 The Long View . 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Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters--ready_QXP-1127940387.qxp 2/2/2011 1:23 PM Page 2 Letters FEBRUARY 21 ISSUE; PRINTED FEBRUARY 3 Marital Goods EDITOR Richard Lowry Jason Lee Steorts misses the boat when he argues that monogamous same-sex Senior Editors unions and heterosexual infertile unions possess the same kind of value, and that Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones therefore we should have no objections to some form of same-sex marriage (“Two Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Views of Marriage,” February 7). Literary Editor Michael Potemra Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy I would argue that the value of a heterosexual union is its intrinsic capacity for National Correspondent John J. Miller procreation. A homosexual couple does not have this intrinsic capacity, but an Political Reporter Robert Costa Art Director Luba Kolomytseva infertile heterosexual couple does. Deputy Managing Editors An infertile couple will admit there is something wrong with them, and it is Fred Schwarz / Kevin D. Williamson Associate Editors typically quite sad for all involved. However, there is always hope for the infertile Helen Rittelmeyer / Robert VerBruggen Research Director Katherine Connell couple—either time or treatment may allow for fertility. There is no hope for a Research Manager Dorothy McCartney homosexual union’s fertility—it does not have the intrinsic capacity for pro - Executive Secretary Frances Bronson Assistant to the Editor Christeleny Frangos creation. While we should not value one marriage over another on its degree of Contributing Editors fertility or fruitfulness, a marriage should, at a minimum, possess the basic intrin- Robert H. Bork / John Derbyshire sic capacity for procreation. Ross Douthat / Rod Dreher / David Frum Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty / Jonah Goldberg It is completely sensible to me that a “maximal experiential union” with the Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin Yuval Levin / Rob Long / Jim Manzi intrinsic capacity for procreation should get special treatment in society—let’s call Andrew C. McCarthy / Kate O’Beirne it a “marriage.” One man and one woman. David B. Rivkin Jr. NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez Joe Gustainis Managing Editor Edward John Craig Chapel Hill, N.C. Deputy Managing Editor Duncan Currie News Editor Daniel Foster Editorial Associates JASOn Lee STeOrTS repLIeS: no, fertility is not just a matter of degree. 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