20161024_cover61404-postal.qxd 10/18/2016 7:11 PM Page 1 November 7, 2016 $4.99 YUVAL LEVIN ELIANA JOHNSON RICHARD BROOKHISER Cronyism’s Threat Donald Trump’s Maine D. Keith Mano’s Craft The BlueWave DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES ARE THREATENING TO TURN TRADITIONAL RED STATES BLUE. HOW DO REPUBLICANS SURVIVE? TIM ALBERTA www.nationalreview.com base_new_milliken-mar 22.qxd 10/18/2016 1:49 PM Page 1 SMALL BUSINESS IS TOO BIG TO FAIL The Job Creators Network Bring Small Businesses Back Bus tour has been hitting the streets to raise awareness about the plight of small business and the challenges facing American entrepreneurs. Overtaxation, overregulation, and lack of access to credit are stifling our biggest source of new jobs. TO FIND OUT MORE, AND TO SEE HOW YOUR CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS STACK UP IN THE FIGHT FOR SMALL BUSINESS, VISIT DEFENDMAINSTREET.COM TOC_QXP-1127940144.qxp 10/19/2016 2:41 PM Page 1 Contents NOVEMBER 7, 2016 | VOLUME LXVIII, NO. 20 | www.nationalreview.com BOOKS, ARTS ON THE COVER Page 26 & MANNERS The Blue Wave 39 THE FACTS ON IMMIGRATION Republicans have carried Mark Krikorian reviews We Wanted Workers: the white vote in every Unraveling the Immigration general election since 1968. Narrative, by George J. Borjas. But that’s not enough 40 DARK LOYALTIES anymore. The demographic Ronald Radosh reviews True Believer: Stalin’s Last American writing is on the wall; if the Spy, by Kati Marton. GOP continues to repel 42 THE DOWNSIDE OF non-whites, it will cease to ROMNEYISM Jason Willick reviews The Upside Tim Alberta be competitive. of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the COVER: ROMAN GENN Middle Class, by Edward Conard. 44 COLD WAR REDUX ARTICLES John Fund reviews Putin’s Master Plan: To Destroy Europe, MAINE DIVIDED by Eliana Johnson 16 Divide NATO, and Restore Its diverging population is poised to split its electoral votes. Russian Power and Global Influence, by Douglas E. Schoen with TWO FLAWED TAX PLANS by Ramesh Ponnuru 18 Evan Roth Smith. Congress would have to restrain either Clinton or Trump. THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT’S DEMISE by Ian Tuttle 45 BOOKS IN BRIEF 20 Michael Potemra reads about housecats. Now what is needed is an authentic Christian voice. A CASE OF COMPASSION by Matthew Scully 46 FILM: TODAY’S NAT TURNER 22 Ross Douthat reviews The Birth of One woman’s act of mercy invites us to reflect on the suffering of animals. a Nation. THE GIMLET-EYED by Richard Brookhiser 24 47 APPLE-PICKING TIME On the craft of D. Keith Mano. Richard Brookhiser looks for apples. FEATURES THE BLUE WAVE by Tim Alberta 26 SECTIONS Republicans must adapt to a diversifying electorate or lose their influence. THE CRONYIST THREAT by Yuval Levin 2 Letters to the Editor 32 The Week Conservatives should act to restore confidence in free markets. 4 37 Athwart . James Lileks MASTERS OF THE GAME by Kevin D. Williamson 38 The Long View . Rob Long 34 Poetry A word of defense for elitism. 43 . Jennifer Reeser 48 Happy Warrior . Daniel Foster NATIONAL REVIEW (ISSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by N ATIONAL 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., 2016. 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The editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts or artwork unless return postage or, better, a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters-FINAL_QXP-1127940387.qxp 10/19/2016 2:39 PM Page 2 Letters NOVEMBER 7 ISSUE; PRINTED OCTOBER 20 EDITORINCHIEF Richard Lowry Looking the Other Way on Abortion Senior Editors Richard Brookhiser / Jonah Goldberg / Jay Nordlinger Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Jay Nordlinger’s article “No More Baby” (September 26) concludes that we are a Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts Literary Editor Michael Potemra “deeply hypocritical society” because we won’t admit that killing a newborn baby is Vice President, Editorial Operations Christopher McEvoy not much different from killing a pre-born baby by abortion. I agree with this conclu- Washington Editor Eliana Johnson Executive Editor Reihan Salam sion, but I believe the hypocrisy goes much deeper. Nordlinger asks whether Emile Roving Correspondent Kevin D. Williamson National Corresponden t John J. Miller Weaver, who was given a life sentence for killing her newborn baby, is “worse—all that Senior Political Correspondent Jim Geraghty much worse—than her counterparts who dispose of their babies earlier and more neatly.” Chief Political Correspondent Tim Alberta Art Director Luba Kolomytseva But by focusing on this question, we avoid other questions that are even more difficult Deputy Managing Editors to face: Are these women “all that much worse” than people who support politicians Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz Production Editor Katie Hosmer who take pro-abortion positions only because they calculate it will further their career? Assistant to the Editor Rachel Ogden Research Associate Alessandra Trouwborst As their supporters include friends, relatives, members of religious communities, and Contributing Editors possibly someone sitting next to us at dinner, isn’t it more convenient for us to place Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Daniel Foster the blame elsewhere? And is what these supporters do “all that much worse” than our Roman Genn / Arthur L. Herman / Lawrence Kudlow Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long choice of easy targets in our determination of where blame is placed? Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy Kate O’Beirne / Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen Joseph Mirra NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE Editor Charles C. W. Cooke Bronx, N.Y. Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Edward John Craig Deputy Managing Editor Nat Brown National-Affairs Columnist John Fund Merit-Based Education Reform Staff Writer David French Senior Political Reporter Alexis Levinson Reporter Katherine Timpf Rarely do we hear intelligent solutions to the problem of America’s failing educational Assoc iate Editors Molly Powell / Nick Tell system—even from reformers, who get caught up in the “golden goose” approach of Digital Director Ericka Andersen Assistant Editor Mark Antonio Wright alighting on a single issue. Frederick M. Hess’s “Ten Priorities for Education Policy” Technical Services Russell Jenkins Web Editorial Assistant Grant DeArmitt (October 24), however, is a practical and rational approach to the entire issue. While Web Developer Wendy Weihs teaching in one of the school systems Hess mentioned—Baltimore’s—I had the plea- Web Producer Scott McKim sure of working with fine teachers (and some not-so-fine), but I left, like many others, EDITORS- AT- L A RG E Linda Bridges / Kathryn Jean Lopez / John O’Sullivan because of the shortcomings to which Hess intelligently proposes solutions. NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE Most insightful of all, Hess suggests to “permit for-profit educators to compete on THOMASL. RHODESFELLOW Ian Tuttle their merits.” This was the marrow of education—of all true learning—from the appearance of the human race on the planet until the late 1800s, when schooling BUCKLEYFELLOWSINPOLITICALJOURNALISM Alexandra DeSanctis / Austin Yack became mandatory. Merit-based, “boutique” education was, on the whole, vastly more Contributors effective, cost-efficient, and entertaining to students and teachers alike. I would add to Hadley Arkes / James Bowman / Eliot A. Cohen this homeschooling and “unschooling,” which have recently proven to be extremely Dinesh D’Souza / Chester E. Finn Jr. / Neal B. Freeman James Gardner / David Gelernter / George Gilder effective means of education. These small centers of true learning should receive the Jeffrey Hart / Kevin A. Hassett / Charles R. Kesler David Klinghoffer / Anthony Lejeune / Michael Novak benefit of tax breaks, freedom from governmental meddling, and a general approbation Alan Reynolds / Tracy Lee Simmons from the vox populi—for their efficiency, and for their great virtue of relieving an over- Terry Teachout / Vin Weber Chief Financial Officer James X. Kilbridge stressed system and an overtaxed people. Accounting Manager Galina Veyg man Accountant Lyudmila Bolotinskaya Business Services Alex Batey John C. Young Circulation Manager Jason Ng Pensacola, Fla. 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