201501209_postal:cover61404-postal.qxd 1/20/2015 11:20 PM Page 1 February 9, 2015 $4.99 BERAN on HEATHER MAC DONALD: Bill de Blasio versus the NYPD Napoleon BROOKHISER on JOHN J. MILLER: ALLEN DRURY’S WASHINGTON Robert E. Lee FRANCE AGAINST ITSELF CHARLES C. W. COOKE FROM THE PARIS SUBURBS PLUS: THEODORE DALRYMPLE w ROB LONG w THE EDITORS www.nationalreview.com base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 1/21/2015 2:35 PM Page 2 base:milliken-mar 22.qxd 1/21/2015 2:35 PM Page 3 TOC:QXP-1127940144.qxp 1/21/2015 1:58 PM Page 2 Contents FEBRUARY 9, 2015 | VOLUME LXVII, NO. 2 | www.nationalreview.com Heather Mac Donald on Bill de Blasio and the NYPD ON THE COVER Page 27 p. 33 ‘Je suis . qui?’ Tourists inquiring as to whether Paris is safe in all areas are often told that they will remain unmolested if they stay within BOOKS, ARTS the Périphérique, the 20-mile-long ring & MANNERS road that encircles the city. Broadly 41 THE LAST CONQUISTADOR speaking, they will be, for it is outside Michael Knox Beran reviews Napoleon: A Life, this barrier that almost all of Paris’s by Andrew Roberts. darknesses lie. Charles C. W. Cooke 43 CALLS OF DUTY Richard Brookhiser reviews COVER: MOMENT/GETTY The Man Who Would Not Be Washington: Robert E. Lee’s Civil War and His Decision ARTICLES That Changed American History, by Jonathan Horn. 17 MOVED TO KILL by Theodore Dalrymple The Islamist mindset. 46 AN ODD COUPLE FOR THE AGES RIRE IN THE REAR 20 by Rob Long James Rosen reviews The Professor Charlie Hebdo, insolent child among philosophes. and the President: Daniel Patrick Moynihan in the Nixon FATHER KNOWS LAST 21 by Kevin D. Williamson White House, by hen Step Hess. The strange and necessary ‘putative-fathers registries.’ 49 MUSIC: BACON BITS APPRENTICED FOR SUCCESS by Reihan Salam 22 Jay Nordlinger on rediscovering an Work experience, more than community college, is what students need. American composer. 24 THE GREAT WASHINGTON NOVEL by John J. Miller FILM: THINGS THAT GO BUMP Rediscovering Allen Drury’s Advise and Consent. 51 Ross Douthat reviews The Babadook. FEATURES 27 ‘JE SUIS . QUI?’ by Charles C. W. Cooke SECTIONS A report from les banlieues. 4 Letters to the Editor 6 The Week 33 THE MAYOR WHO SLANDERED THE POLICE by Heather Mac Donald 39 Athwart . James Lileks Bill de Blasio has lost the NYPD’s trust. 40 The Long View . Rob Long 37 SAVERS’ REAL PROBLEM by Ramesh Ponnuru & David Beckworth 42 Poetry . Len Krisak To help them, target nominal-spending growth. 52 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., 2015. 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I find it Deputy Managing Editors Katherine Connell / Nicholas Frankovich / Fred Schwarz laughable that after he acknowledges the ridiculous practices and “shady union Production Editor Katie Hosmer Assistant to the Editor Carol Anne Kemp goons” of the TSA, the airport authorities, and the NTSB, it never occurs to Research Associate Alessandra Haynes Mr. Williamson that the FAA and air-traffic control are similarly staffed. Yes, Contributing Editors Shannen Coffin / Ross Douthat / Roman Genn I have waited for takeoff—or been rerouted through airspace for “weather”— Jim Geraghty / Florence King / Lawrence Kudlow Mark R. Levin / Yuval Levin / Rob Long when there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. But it has never once been my decision, Mario Loyola / Jim Manzi / Andrew C. McCarthy Kate O’Beirne / Andrew Stuttaford / Robert VerBruggen or the decision of my company, to burn fuel, waste time, or miss passenger con- NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE nections. Mr. Williamson might want to educate himself about onerous and Editor-at-Large Kathryn Jean Lopez Managing Editor Edward John Craig undecipherable flight-duty limits (imposed on airlines by the FAA) or the unin- News Editor Tim Cavanaugh Opinion Editor Patrick Brennan tended consequences of the “Passenger’s Bill of Rights” (imposed on airlines National-Affairs Columnist John Fund by politicians) before he attributes flight delays to incompetent airline employ- Staff Writer Charles C. W. Cooke Political Reporter Joel Gehrke ees. Capitalism indeed. No one is forcing Mr. Williamson to fly. Maybe he can Reporters Andrew Johnson / Katherine Timpf submit his next diatribe about wasted time from the comfort of a Greyhound Associate Editors Molly Powell / Nat Brown bus seat. I hear they offer WiFi these days. 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