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ARTICLES 46 UNLOCKING THE AMERICAN MIND 16 THE TEAM PLAYER by Robert Costa Matthew Spalding reviews The Rick Santorum and the art of the possible. Founders’ Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between 18 STILL THE ALINSKY PLAYBOOK by John Fund the Declaration and the President Obama continues to dance with the one who brung him. Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It, 20 COUSINHOOD, LATELY by Jay Nordlinger by Larry P. Arnn. Notes on Anglo-American relations in the time of Obama. 48 ART: REDISCOVERING 23 MAN AT HIS BLANDEST by Daniel Foster AMERICA The politics of Esquire. Roger Kimball tours the new American Wing Galleries at the Met. 25 FRIENDS OF THE LORAX by John J. Miller Dr. Seuss’s politics for children. 50 FILM: HOLLYWOOD’S CIA Ross Douthat reviews Safe House. 27 THE HIPSTER AND THE SUPERZIP by Rob Long Analyzing a symbiotic relationship. 51 CITY DESK: NOT ALL THAT JAZZ Richard Brookhiser listens to the bluesmen. FEATURES 29 THE COLLEGE CARTEL by Vance H. Fried & Reihan Salam Competition and innovation will lower the cost of higher education. SECTIONS 36 PLAY TO EXTINCTION by Kevin D. Williamson 2 Letters to the Editor Gambling is a racket, not a tool of economic development. 4 The Week 41 Athwart . James Lileks 39 DECLARER OF INDEPENDENCE by Andrew Stuttaford 42 The Long View . Rob Long Nigel Farage wants Brussels out of Britain. 44 Poetry . Sarah Ruden 52 Happy Warrior . Mark Steyn NATiONAl Review (iSSN: 0028-0038) is published bi-weekly, except for the first issue in January, by NATiONAl 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., 2012. Address all editorial mail, manuscripts, letters to the editor, etc., to editorial Dept., NATiONAl Review, 215 lexington Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10016. Address all subscription mail orders, changes of address, undeliverable copies, etc., to NATiONAl Review, Circulation Dept., P. O. 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Opinions expressed in signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of the editors. letters--ready_QXP-1127940387.qxp 2/29/2012 2:12 PM Page 2 Letters The Tank Buster MARCH 19 ISSUE; PRINTED MARCH 1 Bravo to Daniel Foster for his paean EDITOR to the A-10 Warthog (“Justice for Richard Lowry Warthogs,” March 5). In World War Senior Editors II, I was an enlisted combat aircrew- Richard Brookhiser / Jay Nordlinger man in Marine Corps aviation. Post- Ramesh Ponnuru / David Pryce-Jones Managing Editor Jason Lee Steorts war, after college and ROTC, I took Literary Editor Michael Potemra an Air Force commission and went Executive Editor Christopher McEvoy National Correspondent John J. Miller to pilot training. Whenever I dis- Political Reporter Robert Costa Art Director Luba Kolomytseva cussed our dearth of ground-support Deputy Managing Editors aviation, I’d be laughed at and told Fred Schwarz / Kevin D. Williamson Associate Editor that our mission was big-time nukes. Robert VerBruggen Then Korea came, and the Air Force was scrambling for ground support. F- Research Director Katherine Connell Executive Secretary Frances Bronson 51 Mustangs, unsuited to the task, did a lot of the job and suffered considerable Assistant to the Editor Christeleny Frangos losses. The twin-engined B-26 (earlier the A-26) Invader helped, but was even Contributing Editors Robert H. Bork / Shannen Coffin / John Derbyshire less suited to troop support. We did a lot better in Vietnam with the A-1 Ross Douthat / Rod Dreher / David Frum Skyraider (secondhand from the Navy). Roman Genn / Jim Geraghty / Jonah Goldberg Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow / Mark R. Levin Then came the A-10, too late for Vietnam, but what a machine! The Air Force, Yuval Levin / Rob Long / Jim Manzi with a tank-buster and troop support? The Warthog has covered itself with Andrew C. McCarthy / Kate O’Beirne David B. Rivkin Jr. / Reihan Salam glory, and, frankly, I fully expected its transfer to the Army or Marine aviation. NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE It’s the perfect weapons platform for a mission with which Air Force brass still Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez seem uncomfortable. Managing Editor Edward John Craig News Editor Daniel Foster Editorial Associates Robert J. Powers Brian Bolduc / Charles C. W. Cooke Katrina Trinko Colonel, U.S. Air Force (ret.) Technical Services Russell Jenkins Shreveport, La. EDITORS- AT- L A RG E Linda Bridges / John O’Sullivan Contributors The Warthog’s Weak Spot Hadley Arkes / Baloo / Tom Bethell James Bowman / Priscilla L. Buckley In early 1975, I was recently retired and working as a tactical-aviation expert at Eliot A. Cohen / Brian Crozier Dinesh D’Souza