Slouching Towards Gomorrah (65 page)

3.
Ibid.,
p. 19.

4.
Charles Krauthammer, “Defining Deviancy Up,”
The New Republic,
November 22, 1993, p. 20.

5.
Ibid
.

6.
Christopher Lasch,
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1995), pp. 233–4.

7.
Lionel Trilling,
Sincerity andAuthenticity: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1969–1970
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974), p. 1.

8.
Ibid
.

1.
James Miller, “
Democracy Is in the Streets”: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 305.

2.
Philip Gourevitch, “Vietnam: The Bitter Truth,”
New York Review of Books,
December 22, 1994, p. 55, reviewing Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh,
South Wind Changing
(St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1994):

3.
Interview of Bui Tin conducted by Stephen Young, “How North Vietnam Won the War,”
Wall Street Journal,
August 3, 1995, p. A8.

4.
Christopher Jencks quoted by Todd Gitlin,
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
(New York: Bantam Books, 1993), p. 271.

5.
José Ortega y Gasset,
The Revolt of the Masses
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1957), p. 50.

6.
Ibid.,
p. 51.

7.
Ibid.,
p. 53.

8.
Seymour Martin Lipset,
Rebellion in the University
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993), pp. xxxix-xl.

9.
Gitlin, p. 104.

10.
Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus,
Movement and Revolution
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), p. 60.

11.
Gitlin, pp. 40–1.

12.
The Sixties,
ed. Gerald Howard (New York: Washington Square Press, 1982), p. 18.

13.
Gitlin, p. 34.

14.
Midge Decter,
Liberal Parents, Radical Children
(New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975).

15.
James Q. Wilson,
The Moral Sense
(New York: The Free Press, 1993), p. 109.

16.
Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter,
Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 389.

17.
Cited in Robert Lerner, Althea K. Nagai, and Stanley Rothman,
American Elites
(New Haven: Yale University Press, in press), chapter 8.

18.
Helmut Schoeck,
Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior
(Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1987).

19.
Ibid.,
pp. 337–8.

20.
Peter Collier and David Horowitz,
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties
(New York: Touchstone, 1990).

21.
Quoted in Gitlin, pp. 109–10.

22.
Reprinted in James Miller’s “Democracy Is in the the Streets”:
From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, pp. 329–74.

23.
Paul Johnson,
A History of Christianity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1976), p. 255.

24.
Ibid.,
p. 263.

25.
Ibid.,
p. 305.

26.
Robert Nisbet,
Conservatism: Dream and Reality
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), p. 105.

27.
Lionel Trilling,
Sincerity and Authenticity
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974), pp. 93–4.

28.
Collier and Horowitz, p. 96.

29.
Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 65
.

30.
William L. O’Neill,
Coming Apart: An Informal History of America in the 1960s
(Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971), pp. 295–6.

31.
Lipset, p. 3.

1.
Peter Collier and David Horowitz,
Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties
(New York: Touchstone, 1990), p. 14.

2.
“In Praise of the Counterculture,”
New York Times
, December 11, 1994, Sec. 4, p. 14.

3.
Charles J. Sykes,
The Hollow Men: Politics and Corruption in Higher Education
(Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1990), p. 145.

4.
Joseph B. Treaster, “Brewster Doubts Fair Black Trials,”
New York Times,
April 25, 1970, p. A1.

5.
John Hersey,
A Letter to the Alumni
(New York: Bantam Books, 1971).

6.
Ibid., p.
114.

7.
Many of the facts recited here and all of the quotes are taken from Allan P. Sindler’s unpublished manuscript “The Cornell Crisis of 1969.“

8.
“Investigations; Kent State: Another View,”
TIME,
October 26, 1970, p. 27.

9.
Ibid
.

10.
Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus,
Movement and Revolution
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 43–7.

11.
Ibid.,
pp. 46–7.

12.
Walter Berns, “The New Left and Liberal Democracy,”
How Democratic Is America? Responses to the New Left Challenge,
ed. Robert Goldwin (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1971), pp. 29–30.

13.
Collier and Horowitz, p. 77.

14.
Robert Nisbet,
Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 186.

15.
“September 1, 1939,”
The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden
(New York: Random House, 1945).

16.
Collier and Horowitz, pp. 294—5.

17.
George Will, “Slamming the Doors,”
Newsweek,
March 25, 1991, pp. 65–6.

18.
Stanley Rothman and S. Robert Lichter,
Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and the New Left
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), pp. 392–4.

19.
Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and the Sixties: Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 413.

1.
Robert Nisbet,
The Quest for Community
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1953), p. 225.

2.
Ibid.,
pp. 225–7.

3.
Gordon Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), pp. 239–40.

4.
John Stuart Mill, “On Liberty,”
Three Essays
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1975, 1978), p. 14.

5.
Gertrude Himmelfarb,
On Liberty and Liberalism: Vie Case of John Stuart Mill
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974).

6.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), p. 103.

7.
James Fitzjames Stephen,
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
ed. Stuart D. Warner (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993).

8.
Himmelfarb, On Liberty and Liberalism,
p. xx.

9.
Himmelfarb, On Looking into the Abyss,
pp. 77–8.

10.
T. S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society & Notes Towards the Definition of Culture
(New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1940, 1949), p. 12.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Pierre Manent,
An Intellectual History of Liberalism
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 62–3.

13.
Victorian and Edwardian Poets: Tennyson to Yeats
, eds. W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (New York: Viking Press, 1950), p. xix.

14.
Irving Kristol, “My Cold War,”
The National Interest
, Spring 1993, pp. 141, 144.

15.
Mill, p. 118.

16.
Edmund Burke, “Speech at His Arrival at Bristol Before the Election in That City (1774),”
Speeches and Letters on American Affairs
(London: J. M. Dent, 1908, 1956), p. 66.

17.
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to That Event
(London: Penguin Books, 1968), p. 91.

18.
William J. Bennett, “The Children,”
What to Do About …,
ed. Neal Kozodoy (New York: Regan Books/HarperCollins, 1995), p. 5.

1.
Gordon S. Wood,
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), p. 234.

2.
Christopher Lasch,
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1995), p. 22.

3.
Keith Bradsher, “Gap in Wealth In U.S. Called Widest in West,”
New York Times,
April 17, 1995, p. 1.

4.
Michael Novak, “What Wealth Gap?,”
Wall Street Journal,
July 11, 1995, p. A16.

5.
Irving Kristol,
Neoconservatism: the Autobiography of an Idea
(New York: The Free Press, 1995), p. 166.

6.
The quotes in the subsequent five paragraphs are from Walter J. Blum and Harry Kalven, Jr.,
The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953, 1976).

7.
James Q. Wilson,
The Moral Sense
(New York: The Free Press, 1993), pp. 55–78.

8.
Ibid.,
pp. 60–1.

9.
Ibid.,
p. 77.

10.
James K. Glassman, “The Rich Already Pay Plenty,”
Washington
Post, July 11, 1995, p. A17.

11.
Helmut Schoeck,
Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior
(Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1987), p. 179.

12.
Bertrand de Jouvenel,
The Ethics of Redistribution
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1952), pp. 79–81. (Footnote omitted)

13.
Martin Malia, “A Fatal Logic,”
The National Interest,
Spring 1993, pp. 80, 87.

14.
Pierre Manent,
An Intellectual History of Liberalism
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), pp. 107–8.

15.
Kurt Vonnegut, “It Seemed Like Fiction,”
Wall Street Journal, July
29, 1994, p. A10.

16.
William Manchester,
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1978), p. 7.

17.
Schoeck, p. 329.

18.
Wilson,
The Moral Sense,
p. 74.

19.
Allan Bloom, “The Democratization of the University,”
How Democratic Is America?: Responses to the New Left Challenge,
ed. Robert Goldwin (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1969), p. 114.

20.
Karl Mannheim, Man
and Society
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1940, 1966), pp. 89–91.

21.
Ibid.,
p. 91.

22.
John Rawls,
A Theory of Justice
(Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971) and
Political Liberalism
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1993).

23.
Rawls, Political Liberalism,
p. 6.

24.
Richard Grenier, “Equality of Intelligence,”
Washington Times,
May 29, 1995, p. A21.

25.
Jouvenel, p. 73.

26.
Aaron Wildavsky,
The Rise of Radical Egalitarianism
(Washington, DC: American University Press, 1991), p. xxx.

27.
Alexis de Touqueville,
Democracy in America
(New York: Vintage Books, 1945), vol. 2, p. 337.

28.
Ibid
.

29.
Ibid.,
p. 101.

30.
Manent, p. 111.

31.
Charles J. Sykes,
A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
(New York: St. Martins Press, 1992).

32.
Tocqueville, vol. 2, p. 352.

1.
Friedrich A. Hayek,
The Constitution of liberty
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), p. 2.

2.
Joseph A. Schumpeter,
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1947), p. 147.

3.
Max Weber,
The Sociology of Religion
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1963), pp. 124–5.

4.
Ibid.,
p. 135.

5.
Richard Grenier.
Capturing the Culture: Film, Art, and Politics
(Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1991), pp. xxxiv-xxxv.

6.
Hillary D. Rodham, “Remarks on the Occasion of Wellesley’s 91st Commencement,” speech delivered May 31, 1969.

7.
Release of the Office of the Press Secretary, the White House, “Remarks of the First Lady at Liz Carpenter’s Lectureship Series,” University of Texas, April 6, 1993.

8.
Michael Kelly, “Saint Hillary,”
New York Times Magazine,
May 23, 1993, pp. 22, 24.

9.
Ibid.,
p. 65.

10.
Thomas Fields-Meyer, “This Year’s Prophet,”
New York Times Magazine, June
27, 1993, p. 28.

11.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, “Work: A Politics of Meaning Approach to Policy,”
Tikkun,
May/June 1993, pp. 23,25–6.

12.
Robert Lerner, Althea K. Nagai, and Stanley Rothman,
American Elites
(New Haven: Yale University Press, in press).

13.
Ibid.,
chapter 7.

14.
Ibid.,
chapter 6.

15.
Ibid.,
chapter 9.

16.
Paul Hollander,
Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965–1990
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 149.