IN THE July 15, 2013, ISSUE
Remington, U.S.A.
Ilion, N.Y. — it is reasonable to assume, I would venture, that nobody much cares if his toaster was made in China. Nor are we greatly vexed that our television ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
A Subnation of Immigrants
For some people, the debate over the immigration bill before the Senate ended on June 18. That day, the Congressional Budget Office released two reports, one suggesting that the bill ...
FISA Fiasco
‘The FISA court is a rubber stamp.” The ongoing NSA controversy has revived that shopworn talking point, relentlessly repeated by progressive and libertarian opponents of national-security surveillance. The notion is ...
The Inappropriate ‘Inappropriate’
Some conservatives believe that it was reverence for the Constitution that constrained the growth of government in the early days of the republic, while the economist Arnold Kling has argued ...
The Education of Justin Amash
As Justin Amash zips along a parade route in Cutlerville, Mich., on June 8, there’s a method to his movement. Rather than marching down the middle of 68th Street behind ...
Twilight of the Confederacy
Looking back 20 years after it was fought, Alexander Stewart Webb declared that the Battle of Gettysburg “was, and is now throughout the world, known to be the Waterloo of ...
Blowing Up Barbie
Rolla, Mo. — There are many summer camps, something for everyone. But there’s no other camp quite like this: an explosives camp. A hands-on explosives camp. Such a thing would ...
Features
Remington, U.S.A.
Ilion, N.Y. — it is reasonable to assume, I would venture, that nobody much cares if his toaster was made in China. Nor are we greatly vexed that our television ...
Open Skies and Open Spectrum
Politics is the competition of interests and the competition of ideas. The advantage lies with interests that are organized and entrenched (teachers, farmers) and with ideas that mobilize effective interest ...
Books, Arts & Manners
A New Birth
Gettysburg remains the greatest clash of arms ever to occur in North America. It is also the most studied battle in American history. In 1900, a historian remarked that “another ...
Let Burke Be Burke
General readers in search of a reliable and readable single-volume biography of Edmund Burke have had few options in recent decades. Although some significant new material (including especially Burke’s complete ...
Hinges of History
Heraclitus called war “the father of all things”; James Lacey and Williamson Murray see war as the father of civilization and, more specifically, of major global shifts of power.
That’s a ...
No Honey, No Baby, No Church
For decades, the United States has largely dodged the secular tide that has engulfed Europe. Indeed, for much of the last half-century, religion has continued to play a notable role ...
The Siege of Men
Something fundamental has changed about American society, and it’s weakening our nation, both economically and culturally.
Analysts have worked to identify potential causes, and have come up with many suspects: the ...
Thrill of the New
Life is change. What could be more obvious? I grew up with a phone number that had letters in it: FIllmore 2-3769 (the number finally died when my father moved ...
Sections
Letters
Bad Artists Steal, Too
In mentioning the works George Lucas “borrowed and repurposed” in the making of Star Wars, Ross Douthat omits the films of Japan’s Akira Kurosawa — but I ...
The Week
‐ Harry Reid, looking up to the sky from the Senate floor, said that Ted Kennedy would “smile at all of us” when the immigration bill passed. Smile, sure, Mr. ...
Borderline Crazy
From an early draft of the immigration bill:
1.223 (b) The government shall construct a fence across the entirety of the border. Upon completion of the fence the government may, at ...
Passed But Not Read
PASSED BUT NOT READ:
Senate Bill 744: Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.
With Amendments and Revisions
FULL TEXT EXCERPTS:
From Title I:
9 SEC. 4. SOUTHERN BORDER SECURITY COMMISSION.
10 (a) ESTABLISHMENT. ...
Poetry
THE TEDDY BEAR
That is a human curiosity –
endear what might destroy you in the wild.
Give children emblems of ferocity
to cuddle when they’re frightened, sad, or riled.
Take what is fierce and ...
The Graffiti on the Wall
Timing is everything, even in apocalyptic doom-mongering. When my book America Alone came out in 2006, the conventional wisdom was that its argument about Europe’s demographic death spiral was “alarmist” ...