2013_05_06 ups:cover61404-postal.qxd 4/16/2013 8:17 PM Page 1 May 6, 2013 $4.99 O ’ S U L L I V A N M I N O G U E CITIZEN AILES FAREWELL TO MRS. THATCHER T H E E D I T O R S J A Y N O R D L I N G E R VICTIM HILLARY SPECIAL SECTION: DEFENSE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA N O E M I E E M E R Y $4.99 18 And America’s future, by MARKSTEYN 0 74820 08155 6 www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 4/15/2013 11:38 AM Page 2 Logistics & Training Life-Cycle Support Services Supply Chain Management Systems Integration Maintenance & Modifications www.boeing.com/support TODAYTOMORROWBEYOND base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 4/15/2013 11:39 AM Page 3 D CYAN BLK 9 45˚ 105˚ 75˚ TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 4/17/2013 2:25 PM Page 2 Contents MAY 6, 2013 | VOLUME LXV, NO. 8 | www.nationalreview.com ARTICLES 16 VICTIM HILLARY by Noemie Emery Her career is a story of dependence, not empowerment. COVER: ROMAN GENN 20 MARRIAGE AND ADOPTION by Ramesh Ponnuru BOOKS, ARTS Traditionalists do not slight the latter. & MANNERS 22 OPPORTUNITY CONSERVATISM by Stuart M. Butler & Matthew Spalding It is the answer statism should receive. 54 KING ROGER Jay Nordlinger reviews Roger Ailes: 24 THE NEW ANTI-ATHEISTS by Jonah Goldberg Off Camera, by Zev Chafets. Believers are getting some reinforcements. 55 BOHEMIA IN THE CITY Richard Brookhiser reviews BORG QUEEN by Kevin D. Williamson 27 The Village: 400 Years of Beats She is coming for your children. and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues: A History of Greenwich Village, by John Strausbaugh. FEATURES 58 CLEAR THINKING ON RACE Abigail Thernstrom reviews MICHAEL POPPINS by Mark Steyn 32 Intellectuals and Race, When the nanny acquired a police force . by Thomas Sowell. FAREWELL TO AN IRON LADY 36 by John O’Sullivan 59 TILTING LEFT Margaret Thatcher left us her example. Robert VerBruggen reviews Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do 38 LEADING WITH LUCK by Kenneth Minogue Conservatives Care?, by Neil Gross. Thatcher had virtue and good fortune. 61 LONE STAR MODEL John Daniel Davidson reviews Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: SPECIAL DEFENSE SECTION What America Can Learn From the Strange Genius of Texas, 40 THE DIFFIDENCE DOCTRINE by Victor Davis Hanson by Erica Grieder. President Obama’s neo-isolationist foreign policy. 63 FILM: A MASTER’S MISFIRE 42 THE PERIL OF SEQUESTRATION by Frederick W. Kagan Ross Douthat reviews Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder. It has undermined our national security. 46 ADRIFT IN ASIA by Michael Auslin We have neglected what was supposed to be a priority. SECTIONS 48 MINIMUM DETERRENCE, MORE DANGER by Keith B. Payne 4 Letters to the Editor How not to think about nuclear weapons. 6 The Week 52 The Long View . Rob Long 50 ROBOTS, RAY GUNS, AND CYBER WAR by Daniel Foster 53 Athwart . 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Miller my classmates and friends appear in the hockey-game scene, which was Art Director Luba Kolomytseva Deputy Managing Editors filmed at Harvard’s rink. I have attended alumni meetings where the film was Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz shown and we all pointed out the Cambridge places familiar to us. So Harvard Robert VerBruggen Production Editor Katie Hosmer should get at least partial credit for the movie. Editorial Associate Katherine Connell Research Associate Scott Reitmeier Assistant to the Editor Madison V. Peace Richard F. Collier Jr. Contributing Editors Belle Mead, N.J. Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty Jonah Goldberg / Florence King Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin Back in the U.S.S.R. Yuval Levin / Rob Long Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy Thanks for the recent notice about the passing of Kate O’Beirne / Reihan Salam Galina Vishnevskaya (The Week, December 31). 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Rhodes FOUNDER Letters may be sub mitted by e-mail to [email protected]. William F. Buckley Jr. 4 | www.nationalreview.com MAY 6 , 2 0 1 3 base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 4/15/2013 11:19 AM Page 1 Don’t Repeat Europe’s Mistakes Europe “reformed” its sugar policy in 2006 and became more dependent on imports. Since then: •83 European sugar mills closed • 120,000 sugar workers lost their jobs •Sugar prices climbed •Grocery shoppers paid 20% more for sweetened foods •Tight supplies plagued Europe Now, Big Candy wants Congress to follow Europe’s failed economic model by outsourcing our sugar production…all in hopes of pocketing a few extra pennies a pound to further bloat their pro3t margins. And they’re calling it “reform.” Support Current Sugar Policy—It Works for America American Sugar Alliance | 2111 Wilson Boulevard | Suite 600 | Arlington, VA 22201 | www.sugaralliance.org week:QXP-1127940387.qxp 4/17/2013 2:33 PM Page 6 The Week n As one wag has said, “The worst part about being a domestic terrorist is all those midterms you have to grade in 20 years.” n The bombing of the Boston Marathon was a savage attack on a public festivity in the heart of a major city.