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Using Binoculars and 8. The Fall Sky PLUS: (cid:60)(cid:82)(cid:88)(cid:182)(cid:79)(cid:79)(cid:3)(cid:68)(cid:79)(cid:86)(cid:82)(cid:3)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:70)(cid:72)(cid:76)(cid:89)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:86)(cid:68)(cid:80)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:49)(cid:76)(cid:74)(cid:75)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:54)(cid:78)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:51)(cid:79)(cid:68)(cid:81)(cid:76)(cid:86)(cid:83)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:85)(cid:72)(cid:3) Backyard Telescopes 9. The Winter Sky (cid:54)(cid:87)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:3)(cid:38)(cid:75)(cid:68)(cid:85)(cid:87)(cid:3)(cid:88)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:71)(cid:3)(cid:69)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:51)(cid:85)(cid:82)(cid:73)(cid:72)(cid:86)(cid:86)(cid:82)(cid:85)(cid:3)(cid:48)(cid:88)(cid:85)(cid:83)(cid:75)(cid:92)(cid:3)(cid:76)(cid:81)(cid:3)(cid:87)(cid:75)(cid:72)(cid:3)(cid:70)(cid:82)(cid:88)(cid:85)(cid:86)(cid:72)(cid:178)(cid:68)(cid:69)(cid:86)(cid:82)(cid:79)(cid:88)(cid:87)(cid:72)(cid:79)(cid:92)(cid:3) 4. Observing the Moon and 10. 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LAST 10 The left has a new hero 18 Capital Markets BY CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Walmart, D.C. community organizer 20 A T-Paw Party? BY JOHN MCCORMACK Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty has a better chance than you think Features 22 Knowledge Is Power BY FRED BARNES Paul Ryan and Bob Corker are unusual members of Congress. They know a lot. 26 Our Broken China Policy BY IRWIN M. STELZER Beijing plays chess; America plays tiddlywinks. Books & Arts 22 30 Dutch Master BY JOE QUEENAN In search of Meindert Hobbema 32 Fatal Intersection BY REUEL MARC GERECHT The marriage of Islamic fundamentalism and European anti-Semitism 35 The Beats Go On BY ALEC SOLOMITA And on and on until the reader wants to howl 36 One Man’s Mirth BY LIAM JULIAN Will you or will you not LOL? 37 The Right Thing BY JAMES BOWMAN A philosopher misunderstands humanity’s code 39 True Hit BY JOHN PODHORETZ A classic gets the Coen Brothers treatment 30 40 Parody The new speaker can’t speak COVER BY MICHAEL RAMIREZ THE SCRAPBOOK 2010 According to Katie Couric The New Year is as good a time painful symbolism of a mosque de- Well, when it comes to Islamists as any to evaluate the Old, and liberately constructed beside the site who consecrate their lives to killing THE SCRAPBOOK has been interested where 3,000 people were murdered as many innocent Americans as pos- to read the varying interpretations of by Islamist fanatics. The problem for sible, people are afraid of things they 2010. Among the chattering classes, Katie Couric is not the notion of a understand all too well. But what can for example, there seems to be con- bumptious development proposal but THE SCRAPBOOK say to someone who sensus that the past year was a hor- the “seething hatred” she ascribes to thinks America’s problems are allevi- ror — and from their point principled dissent. ated by sitcoms? Only that a lifetime of view, with some reason. Of course, there’s spent in TV studios seems to affect Not only did the guard no accounting for the brain. change in Washington, network anchors; The Cosby Show (1984-92) was a with unprecedented Re- and THE SCRAP- pleasant depiction of an affl uent ob- publican gains in Con- BOOK can hardly stetrician, his lawyer-wife, and their gress, but Barack Obama begin to explain to adorable kids in a comfortable Brook- was unmasked as a mere Katie Couric that lyn brownstone. It is deeply insulting politician, and a hamfi sted people in the news to suggest, as Katie Couric does, that one at that. business, above all, “attitudes about African Americans in THE SCRAPBOOK’s most should avoid simple this country” were affected in any way revealing look back, how- epithets when ex- by the Cosby sitcom, especially as late ever, came from the per- plaining complex as the mid-1980s. It takes a genuinely spective of Katie Couric, circumstances. But provincial mind to believe that social the CBS news reader. In then again, this is attitudes in a country the size and 2010 she was horrified, Katie Couric we’re complexity of the United States are in- she declared, by objec- talking about — and fl uenced, in any demonstrable way, by tions to the Ground Zero the best part of her mildly amusing TV shows intended to mosque in Lower Manhattan, which year-end review is her solution to sell soap. revealed a “seething hatred” of Mus- the problem of “seething hatred” for Unless, of course, you think that lims in America. Islam: “Maybe we need a Muslim I Love Lucy taught tolerance for To be sure, she didn’t mention any- version of The Cosby Show,” she says. Cuban-American bandleaders, or that thing specifi c, nor explain that criti- “The Cosby Show did so much to bigotry ended with All in the Family. cism of the Ground Zero mosque was change attitudes about African Amer- Surely that would explain how Gomer seldom directed at Muslims or Islam icans in this country, and I think Pyle, USMC made the Vietnam war in general — dozens of mosques thrive sometimes people are afraid of what wildly popular, and I Dream of Jeannie in greater New York — but at the they don’t understand.” put a man on the moon. ♦ Calling All majority of speakers and attendees ing atheism become more diverse. Atheists of Color are almost always white men. Lead- But diversity remains elusive. ing fi gures of the atheist movement — As of late December, American Athe- Beliefnet .com— a religious website Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Chris- ist magazine hadn’t been able to fi nd topher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett enough black atheist writers to fi ll so ecumenical that it serves every — are all white men. a special Black History Month edi- community, from the Bahai to pagans tion for February. In another telling to faithful nonbelievers — recently Alert the EEOC! sign, the Council for Secular Human- ran a sobering piece about the ap- ism tried in vain to present a diverse palling lack of diversity in the atheist Atheists are working to put a more array of speakers at its four-day Octo- community. diverse public face on their move- ber conference in Los Angeles. Most Most atheists, it turns out, are ment. A new group, Black Atheists of the 300 attendees were white men, of America, drew about 25 attendees as were 23 of the 26 speakers. white men. Says Beliefnet: at its fi rst national meeting in Octo- “Considering the changing demo- Y N ber. Also last year, the Institute for graphics of our country, we need to ELE From the smallest local meetings Humanist Studies was born in Wash- consider why our message is not reso- RL K to the largest conferences, the vast ington, D.C., with a goal of help- nating with Latinos, why it’s not res- EA 22 // TTHHEE WWEEEEKKLLYY SSTTAANNDDAARRDD JANUARY 17, 2011 onating with people of color, and why it’s not resonating with women in the way that it could be,” said Debbie Goddard, director of African-Ameri- cans for Humanism. Well, then. The atheist establish- ment types are saying all the right things about their diversity goals, but can we really take them at their word? After all, if they really cared about it, wouldn’t they take the sort of radi- cal measures that the diversity police routinely force on fi re departments, government contractors, and the rest? If atheists can’t increase minority participation through recruitment, then it may be time for some selfl ess white atheists to suspend their non- belief and start going to church, for the good of the cause. Meanwhile, the folks over at the Stuff White People Like blog need to update their list. ♦ Read, Learn, Enjoy Upon returning from its holiday revels, THE SCRAPBOOK found not one but two excellent gifts of the season in the mailbox: sparkling new issues of two of our favorite quarterlies, the Claremont Review of Books (Fall 2010) and National Affairs (Winter 2011). The Claremont Review features many writers familiar to readers of pace, Ralph Lerner’s charming and to an increasingly contentious and this magazine— Christopher Caldwell penetrating refl ections on Abraham adversarial American press corps. It and Matthew Continetti, James Lincoln and the Declaration. And by is to his great credit that he served his Ceaser and Harvey Mansfi eld, Cheryl the time you’re done with that . . . you’ll country’s cause with energy and suc- Miller and Jeremy Rabkin, to men- be just in time for next quarter’s Clare- cess while retaining the admiration tion only some. They and their fellow mont Review and National Affairs. ♦ and respect of reporters. contributors are all at the top of their After Vietnam, he became a se- form. Curious about Barack Obama Barry Zorthian, nior executive at Time Inc., and up or Somerset Maugham, the state of until the time of his death was a fa- 1920-2010 democracy or the strength of the miliar, and much admired, fi gure in West? There’s an amazing amount Not too many civilian officials the Washington public relations and of high-quality refl ection and lively emerged with distinction from policy making world. His life was also writing on these and other topics in the Vietnam war, but Barry Zorthian, an interesting sidebar to the American this issue’s 70 pages. who died in Washington last week at dream: Born in Turkey to Armenian And when you’re done with that, 90, was an honorable exception. Chief parents who fl ed for their lives in the pick up National Affairs — a little less spokesman for the United States early 1920s, Barry Zorthian was a Ma- polemical, a little more policy-orient- government in Saigon (or in formal rine artillery offi cer in the Pacifi c dur- ed, but equally thoughtful and stimu- terms, head of the Joint U.S. Public ing World War II, and a Yale graduate, lating — and consider James Capretta Affairs Offi ce) during 1964-68, he had Class of 1941, where he was tapped on the budget, John Hood on the the diffi cult, and deeply unenviable, for Skull and Bones — not bad for an states’ fi scal crisis, Jeffrey Miron on task of explaining the American mis- immigrant’s son who had landed in redistribution, and, for a change of sion to the South Vietnamese — and America with nothing but hope. ♦ JANUARY 17, 2011 TTHHEE WWEEEEKKLLYY SSTTAANNDDAARRDD // 33 The Fake-Tocqueville suckering the speechwriters of great (and not-so-great) men ever since: Virus Spreads Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Colin John J. Pitney Jr. of Claremont Powell, Ross Perot, John Kerry, et al. McKenna College’s government As Pitney says, “It’s the quotation www.weeklystandard.com department sends word that the that will not die.” ♦ celebrated “fake Tocqueville” quote— “America is great because she is Sentences William Kristol, Editor Fred Barnes, Executive Editor good”—continues to proliferate. Pit- We Didn’t Finish Richard Starr, Deputy Editor ney fi rst chronicled this plague in our Claudia Anderson, Managing Editor pages 15 years ago (“The Tocqueville ‘If everyone in America was very, Christopher Caldwell, Andrew Ferguson, Fraud,” November 13, 1995). He very pleased with his or her health Victorino Matus, Lee Smith, Senior Editors notes at his blog, www.bessettepit- insurance and had no complaints and Philip Terzian, Literary Editor Stephen F. Hayes, Matt Labash, ney.net, that its most recent victim is had access to quality, affordable health Jonathan V. Last, Senior Writers TV host Glenn Beck, who cited it on care in our country, it still would have Matthew Continetti, Opinion Editor January 4. “De Tocqueville said this,” been necessary for us to pass the health Jay Cost, Staff Writer said Beck. Nope. Its earliest known care reform care bill . . . ” (outgoing John McCormack, Online Editor appearance is in the 1940s. Eisen- House speaker Nancy Pelosi at her Daniel Halper, Deputy Online Editor Kari Barbic, Emily Schultheis, hower popularized it, and it has been January 4 press conference). ♦ Kelly Jane Torrance, Assistant Editors Michael Warren, Editorial Assistant Philip Chalk, Design Director CRUISE WITH P.J.! Barbara Kyttle, Design Assistant Carolyn Wimmer, Executive Assistant Max Boot, Joseph Bottum, Tucker Carlson, Noemie Emery, Joseph Epstein, David Frum, David Gelernter, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Michael Goldfarb, Mary Katharine Ham, Brit Hume, Frederick W. 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A wretched little pile of secrets.” “ ‘Man is what he achieves,’ my R obert Benchley said that when the Russian ambassador died father answered, almost savagely.” the world is divided just before the convening of the Con- If I were a marriage counselor, I between those who divide gress of Verona in 1822, is said to have would suggest that a Do and a Hide the world into two kinds asked, “I wonder why he did that?” not marry, for the difference between of people and those who don’t. I But I try to be on the qui vive for hid- the two speaks to profound differences am one of those who do, and would den motives, and if I discover them in about what is important in life. I’m like to present a fresh such division. people, I weigh them in when I make not even certain that the two differing Here the little darling is: The world judgments about them. And judgmen- types can become truly close friends, is divided between people who tal—not a good thing to be, I realize, for the Do is likely to think that the believe that what is most important in our empathy-approving culture— Hide is missing the great point in about human beings is what they life, which is that, within limits, we hide and those who believe that all control our own destinies through what is most important about our actions, while the Hide is likely people is what they do. to think that the Do, in his concen- An old friend and I frequently tration on the surface of life, is him- have conversations that end up self merely covering up, and in his nowhere because we are on oppo- achievements compensating for, site sides of this divide. He is a something he is hiding. Hide, and I a Do, man. As a Hide More people who have been man, my friend is—no surprise infected by contemporary col- here—a Freudian. Freud is of lege education are likely to fall course the Hide man par excel- into the Hide camp than peo- lence. For Freud nothing is as ple who have been brought up it appears, everything is in hid- free of higher education. But ing: Ids are seething below stairs, among those who have been to in the attic Oedipus complexes college further distinctions can be remain unresolved, and though made. Business school and science a cigar may sometimes be a cigar, graduates are likely to be Do’s; those it is more likely disguising some- in the humanities and most of the thing vastly more suggestive. social sciences Hides. My friend is also a devotee of The Do camp has a moral gran- the sociologist Ervin Goffmann, deur wanting in the camp of Hides who holds that life is a theater in I am, a relentless, resolute engine of that comes from taking responsibility which we are all playing parts, wear- judgment-making. We Do-people for one’s actions. If one believes that ing masks, changing roles—in short, tend, I suspect, to be more judgmental we are what we hide, responsibility that we are, under social necessity, than Hide people, if only because we drops away because we are hostage to hiding our real selves. I have only have a fi rmer basis on which to make inner demons that, behind the scenes, myself to go on here, but my sense is judgments: namely, actions. are really calling the shots. Do-peo- that, if you pull away the mask I pres- Everyone from time to time has ple have no such excuse. ent to the public, you will see under- hidden motives; everyone has secrets, Do, Hide, Do, Hide, Do—I begin neath it the selfsame mask; remove some of which are part of one’s invio- to sound rather like Frank Sinatra that second mask, and, lo, there I lable being and oughtn’t to be prod- humming Do Be, Do Be, Do. But the am again, playing the same role of ded and searched out, even by thera- distinction, all apologies to Robert a mildly sly, slightly skeptical, out- pists. But the real question is do these Benchley, seems to me crucial, and at wardly conformist creature. motives and secrets constitute one’s some point in life everyone has to ask, Being a Do man doesn’t mean that deepest and truest self. I don’t happen Which am I? Hide or Do? And once I don’t believe people have hidden to think they do. one decides, lots of other things fall Hmotives, which of course many people In his novel The Walnut Trees of into place. S A NDY Rhmaovtei.v Ie sa mas n Potr isnoc cel eMveert tiner fin sichhin, gw ohuot, ATlhteenrebiunr ga, dAinaldorgéu eM oaclcruarusx beatgwreeeens. JOSEPH EPSTEIN A JANUARY 17, 2011 THE WEEKLY STANDARD / 5 EDITORIALS Debt Be Not Proud As the 112th Congress begins its work this month, few months at most, the government would be unable it must take up some unavoidable unfinished to repay existing debt and interest and would confront business left behind by its predecessor. In their default. frantic, sloppy struggle to advance big-ticket items on the The exact implications of this are hard to predict. But liberal agenda, the Democratic leaders of the 111th Con- none of them are good. The Treasury probably would gress not only failed to produce a budget for the current have to prioritize debt repayment and entitlement checks fi scal year, they also failed to address the fact that the fed- and arbitrarily slash other spending, all while turning eral borrowing necessary to fund their spending binge away potential lenders, unnerving the bond markets, and was quickly nearing the legal debt limit. sending interest rates upward—thereby increasing the That means the new Congress, with a Republican cost of our debt even more. House and a narrowly Democratic Senate, must pass an None of this is what our ailing economy needs as it appropriations measure for the rest of the fi scal year by struggles to recover, and none of it is what the voting pub- early March, when the temporary continuing resolution lic wants to see. It would all inevitably end with Congress now in effect runs out. And it means the new Congress raising the debt ceiling (as Republican and Democratic must raise the debt ceiling—to allow for federal borrow- Congresses have done ten times in just the last decade), ing necessary to cover expenses already incurred by Pres- but on terms far less friendly to Republicans, who will ident Obama and the last Congress, regardless of what the have used up a great deal of political momentum and cap- new Congress does about spending. ital for naught. On their face, these hardly seem like ideal conditions It is easy to understand the frustration of Republicans in which to begin reining in government. But if Repub- confronted with the task of cleaning up after the Demo- licans resist the urge to deny the reality of these circum- crats’ orgy of spending. They want to get right into the stances, and instead seek ways to turn them into opportu- work of restraining government excess and unleashing nities to advance their agenda, they might fi nd that they growth. A vote for raising the debt limit—however ines- have quite a strong hand after all. capable the necessity—feels too much like acquiescence If Republicans are not careful, both the budget and in the binge they were elected to end. debt-limit debates threaten to devolve into games of But it need not be. Rather than revolt against the chicken in which each side tries to blame the other for circumstances they have been handed, Republicans in failing to avert a government shutdown (if not a default Congress should turn these Democratic loose ends into on America’s debt). In such a confrontation, President opportunities to begin changing the spending culture of Obama would have the advantage. He and his party have Washington, and to strengthen their position in the big- nothing to lose from a government shutdown. The pub- ger fi ghts to come this year. lic knows that the Democrats, as the party of big govern- The 2010 election has given Republicans a stronger ment, do not desire a shutdown, and so would blame the bargaining position, but it has not made them supreme impasse on Republicans. Concern over absent govern- in Washington. They have the power to stand athwart any ment services and benefi ts, undoubtedly magnifi ed by the further lurches toward European-style social democracy, press, would create pressure that, over time, would divide and they will surely do so. The hyperactive period of the the Republicans but unite the Democrats. Obama could Obama presidency is over. The question for Republicans let such an impasse continue indefi nitely, and would gain is whether their situation—controlling the House but from every passing day, as Bill Clinton did in 1995. not the Senate or the White House—also allows them to Furthermore, if the debt ceiling, and not just the bud- advance a positive agenda of their own, while persuading get, is at the heart of the showdown, the costs will be not the public to give them the power to do more in 2012. The just political but economic. The Treasury could, for a answer is surely yes, if Republicans use their improved time, move money around the various government trust bargaining position wisely and reinforce rather than funds to avoid actually hitting the debt limit—though defl ate the public mood that got them here. such moves, especially if they involve Social Security or That means picking fi ghts they can win rather than Medicare, would be politically unpopular. But within a forcing confrontations they are sure to lose. It means 6 / THE WEEKLY STANDARD JANUARY 17, 2011