2011_11_28UPCl_cover61404-postal.qxd 11/8/2011 7:41 PM Page 1 November 28, 2011 $4.99 Violence & OWS Keynes vs. Hayek Is Foreign Aid Worth It? —Anthony Daniels —Tyler Cowen —Elliott Abrams NNeeiitthheerr PPooppuulliissttss NNoorr TTeecchhnnooccrraattss The Case for the Constitution $4.99 48 YUVAL LEVIN 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/8/2011 11:52 AM Page 2 base_milliken-mar 22.qxd 11/8/2011 11:53 AM Page 3 Logistics & Training Life-Cycle Support Services Supply Chain Management Systems Integration Maintenance & Modifications www.boeing.com/support TODAYTOMORROWBEYOND D CYAN BLK : 2400 9 45˚ 105˚ 75˚ G toc_QXP-1127940144.qxp 11/9/2011 2:28 PM Page 4 Contents NOVEMBER 28, 2011 | VOLUME LXIII, NO. 22 | www.nationalreview.com James Rosen on Joe Frazier COVER STORY Page 30 p. 28 What Is Constitutional Conservatism? BOOKS, ARTS The Left’s simultaneous support for & MANNERS government by expert panel and for the 43 THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE Tyler Cowen reviews Keynes unkempt carpers occupying Wall Street Hayek: The Clash That is not a contradiction—it is a coherent Defined Modern Economics, by Nicholas Wapshott. error. And the Right’s response should 45 MID-CENTURY MIND be coherent too. Yuval Levin Richard Brookhiser reviews Masscult and Midcult: Essays COVER: POODLESROCK/CORBIS Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald. ARTICLES 46 THE QUEST FOR RULES 18 THE CHURCH OF GRIEVANCE by Anthony Daniels Joseph Tartakovsky reviews Design Occupy Wall Street’s dangerous creed. for Liberty: Private Property, Public Administration, and the 20 CRISTINA’S WHIRL by Andrew Stuttaford Rule of Law, by Richard A. Epstein. Argentina heads into troubled waters. 48 RELIGIOUS RIGHTS Jacob Mchangama reviews Silenced: WHAT’S NEW IN BAKU? by David Pryce-Jones 22 How Apostasy and Blasphemy Alas, not much. Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide, by Paul Marshall and A HERO OF US ALL 26 by Jay Nordlinger Nina Shea. Chen Guangcheng, China’s blind and brutalized lawyer. 50 FILM: THE FALL 28 THE GREAT, TRAGIC JOE FRAZIER by James Rosen Ross Douthat reviews Margin Call. A boxing legend, dead at 67. 51 THE STRAGGLER: THE PROPER STUDY FEATURES To Mann, or not to Mann? John Derbyshire responds. 30 WHAT IS CONSTITUTIONAL CONSERVATISM? by Yuval Levin Neither a populist nor a technocrat be. SECTIONS 33 THE FREELOADER MYTH by Ramesh Ponnuru Fear not the 47 percent. 4 Letters to the Editor 6 The Week 35 SO YOU WANT DEBT RELIEF? by Kevin D. Williamson 40 Athwart . James Lileks Let’s stop lending money to OWS. 41 The Bent Pin . Florence King 42 The Long View . Rob Long 37 CONSERVATIVE FOREIGN AID by Elliott Abrams 47 Poetry . Jennifer Reeser There is such a thing, but the GOP presidential candidates haven’t defined it. 52 Happy Warrior . 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But I think it was Milton Friedman who noted that Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts the final consumer pays all costs: The fees were already being paid by con- Literary Editor Michael Potemra sumers. I own a retail store. When you raise credit- or debit-card fees, I raise my Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy National Correspondent John J. Miller prices. (And incidentally, Bank of America has since killed the $5 fee.) Political Reporter Robert Costa Art Director Luba Kolomytseva The piece also calls the measure “a special favor to retailers” that Durbin Deputy Managing Editors inserted “having been lobbied by one of the nation’s biggest retailers, Wal - Fred Schwarz / Kevin D. 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