Slouching Towards Gomorrah (66 page)

17.
Jennifer Kaylin, “Bass, Yale, and Western Civ.,”
Yale Alumni Magazine,
Summer 1995, p. 39.

18.
Frederick Lewis Allen,
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s
(New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 189–90.

19.
Ken Ringle, “Political Correctness: Art’s New Frontier,”
Washington Post,
March 31, 1991, p. Gl.

20.
Hollander, p. 86.

21.
Robert Alter, “The Persistence of Reading,”
Partisan Review
Special Issue on “The Politics of Political Correctness” (1993), p. 512.

22.
Schumpeter, p. 148.

23.
Ibid., pp.
148–9.

24.
James Gardner, Culture or Trash?: A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities
(New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993), p. 218.

25.
Seymour Martin Lipset,
Rebellion in the University
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1993), p. 200.

26.
Helmut Schoeck,
Envy: A Theory of Social Behavior
(Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1987), pp. 328–9.

27.
Ibid.,
p. 127.

28.
James Q. Wilson,
On Character
(Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 1991), p. 39.

29.
Myron Magnet, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass
(New York: William Morrow, 1993).

1.
Robert Nisbet,
Conservatism: Dream and Reality
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986), p. 41.

2.
William A. Donohue,
Twilight of Liberty: The Legacy of the ACLU
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994), p. 65. This and his other book.
The Politics of the American Civil Liberties Union
(New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1985), are the definitive works on the ACLU.

3.
Mary Ann Glendon, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
(New York: The Free Press, 1991).

4.
These matters are discussed in Robert H. Bork, “What to Do About the First Amendment,”
Commentary,
February 1995, p. 23.

5.
Cohen
v.
California,
403 U.S. 15 (1971).

6.
Ibid.,
at 25.

7.
Ibid
.

8.
Texas v. Johnson, 491
U.S. 397 (1989).

9.
Ibid.,
at 414.

10.
Ibid.,
at 417.

11.
Paul Greenberg, “Burning questions over the Stars and Stripes,”
Washington Times,
July 6, 1995, p. A16.

12.
Dissenting in
Street
v.
New York,
394 U.S. 576 (1969). The majority did not reach the question.

13.
Walter Berns,
The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy
(New York: Basic Books, 1976), pp. 160–1.

14.
Brandenburg
v.
Ohio,
395 U.S. 444 (1969).

15.
Lee
v.
Weisman,
505 U.S. 577 (1992).

16.
Griswold
v.
Connecticut,
381 U.S. 479 (1965).

17.
Eisenstadt
v.
Baird,
405 U.S. 438 (1972).

18.
Roe
v.
Wade,
410 U.S. 113 (1973).

19.
See Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law
(New York: The Free Press, 1990).

20.
Planned Parenthood
v.
Casey,
505 U.S. 833 (1992).

21.
Ibid.,
at 851.

22.
Bowers
v.
Hardwick,
478 U.S. 186,204 (1986).

23.
Ibid
.

24.
Ibid
.

25.
Brown
v.
Board of Education,
347 U.S. 483 (1954).

26.
Bork, The Tempting of America,
pp. 74–83.

27.
Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections,
383 U.S. 663 (1966).

28
Reynolds v. Sims
, 377 U.S. 533 (1964).

29.
United Steelworkers of America v. Weber,
443 U.S. 193 (1979).

30.
Johnson v. Transportation Agency, Santa Clara County,
480 U.S. 616 (1987).

31.
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC,
497 U.S. 547 (1990).

32.
Adarand Constructors, Inc. v. Pena,
115 S. Ct. 2097 (1995).

33.
United States
v.
Virginia,
116 S. Ct. 2263 (1996).

34.
George F. Will, “VMI: Gone,”
Washington Post,
June 30, 1996, p. C7.

35.
United States
v.
Virginia,
116 S. Ct. at_ (Scalia, J., dissenting).

36.
Compassion in Dying v. State of Washington,
49 F.3d 586 (9th Cir. 1995).

37.
79 F.3d 790,800 (9th Cir. 1995).

38.
Quill
v.
Vacco,
80 F.3d 716 (2d Cir. 1996).

39.
Baehr
v.
Lewin,
74 Haw. 530, 580; 852 P.2d 44, 67 (1993).

40.
Romer
v.
Evans,
116 S. Ct. 1620 (1996).

41.
Ibid.,
at 1629.

42.
Ibid
.

43.
Lino Graglia, “It’s Not Constitutionalism, It’s Judicial Activism,”
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy,
Winter 1996, pp. 293, 298.

44.
Don Van Natta, Jr., “Judges Defend A Colleague From Attacks,”
New York Times,
March 29, 1996, p. B1.

45.
Quoted in Gerald Gunther,
Learned Hand: The Man and the Judge
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), pp. 247,248.

46.
Ibid., p.
249.

1.
Michael Bywater, “Never mind the width, feel the lack of quality,”
The Spectator,
May 13, 1995, p. 44 (reviewing
The Faber Book of Pop,
London: Faber, 1995).

2.
Robert Pattison,
The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism
(Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1987), pp. 122–3.

3.
S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and Stanley Rothman,
Prime Time: How TV Portrays American Culture
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1994), p. 416.

4.
Ibid.,
pp. 404–5.

5.
Walter Goodman, “As TV Sows Outrage, Guess What It Reaps,”
New York Times,
March 28, 1995, p. C26.

6.
Paula Span, “Where Do They Find These People?,”
Washington Post,
April 16, 1992, p. Dl.

7.
James Gardner, Culture or Trash?: A Provocative View of Contemporary Painting, Sculpture, and Other Costly Commodities
(New York: Carol Publishing Group, 1993).

8.
Ibid.,
p. 183.

9.
Roberta Smith, “A Show of Moderns Seeking to Shock,”
New York Times,
November 23, 1995, p. C11.

10.
Roger Kimball, “The heritage of Dada,”
The Public Interest,
Fall 1994, p. 120.

11.
Ibid.,
p. 123.

12.
John Leo, “The leading cultural polluter,”
U.S. News & World Report,
March 27, 1995, p. 16.

13.
All quotes not citing a periodical source are from “notes” taken by Pete Wehner at the May 18, 1995 meeting between William Bennett, DeLores Tucker,
et al.,
and Time Warner executives.

14.
Howard Kurtz, “Time Warner, on the Defensive for the Offensive,”
Washington Post,
June 2, 1995, pp. AI, A18.

15.
Ibid
.

16.
Bernard Weinraub, “Filmmakers Discount Criticism by Dole,”
New York
Times, June 2, 1995, p. A24.

17.
“The New Global Popular Culture,” American Enterprise Institute Conference, Washington, DC, March 10, 1992.

18.
Ibid
.

19.
Ibid
.

20.
Martha Bayles, Hole In Our Soul: The Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music
(New York: The Free Press, 1994), p. 259.

21.
Ibid.
, p. 258.

22.
John J. O’Connor, “Music as the Food of Hate: Rock for the Skinheads,”
New York Times,
June 19, 1993, p. 47.

23.
Simon Winchester, “An Electronic Sink of Depravity,”
The Spectator,
February 4, 1995, p. 9.

24.
Ibid.,
p. 10.

25.
Ibid.,
p. 11.

26.
Stephen Bates, “Alt. Many. Of. These. Newsgroups. Are. Repellent.,”
The Weekly Standard,
October 30, 1995, p. 27.

27.
Winchester, p. 11.

28.
John R. Wilke, “A Publicly Held Firm Turns X-Rated Videos Into a Hot Business,”
Wall Street Journal,
July 11, 1994, p. 1.

29.
George Gilder, “Breaking the Box,”
National Review,
August 15, 1994, p. 37.

30.
Leo, p. 16.

31.
Maggie Gallagher, Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution Is Killing Family, Marriage, and Sex and What We Can Do About It
(Chicago: Bonus Books, 1989), p. 251.

32.
Ibid.,
p. 252.

1.
Stanley Brubaker, “In praise of censorship,”
The Public Interest, ‘Winter
1994, p. 48.

2.
Christopher Lasch,
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1995), p. 85.

3.
Ibid.,
p. 86.

4.
“Mr. Dole’s Entertainment Guide,”
New York Times,
June 2, 1995, p.A28.

5.
George Will, “This Week With David Brinkley,”
ABC News,
June 4, 1995.

6.
Michael Medved,
Hollywood vs. America: Popular Culture and the War on Traditional Values
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), pp.239–252; Vincent Ryan Ruggiero,
WARNING: Nonsense Is Destroying America
(Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994), pp. 91–125.

7.
Jane D. Brown and Jeanne R, Steele, “Sexuality and American Social Policy,” p. 1. A report prepared for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute, presented September 29, 1995.

8.
bid.,
pp. 23–24.

9.
S. Robert Lichter, Linda S. Lichter, and Stanley Rothman,
Prime Time: How TV Portrays American Culture
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1994), pp. 425–31.

10.
Miller
v.
California,
413 U.S. 15 (1973).

11.
George Will, “America’s Slide Into the Sewer,”
Newsweek,
July 30, 1990, p. 64.

12.
Chaplinsky
v.
New Hampshire,
315 U.S. 568, 571–2 (1942). (footnotes omitted)

13.
Walter Berns, The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy (New York: Basic Books, 1976), p. 221.

14.
John R. Wilke, “A Publicly Held Firm Turns X-Rated Videos Into a Hot Business,”
Wall Street Journal July
11, 1994, p. 8.

15.
Michael Medved, “The Cultures of Hollywood,” Bradley Lecture Series, American Enterprise Institute, January 12, 1993.

1.
The facts are set out in accessible form in Gertrude Himmelfarb,
The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995), pp. 222–37.

2.
James Q. Wilson,
The Moral Sense
, (New York: The Free Press, 1993), p. 178.

3.
Christine Bachrach, William Mosher, Susan Newcomer, and Stephanie Ventura, “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?,” paper presented at an American Enterprise Institute conference in Washington, DC, March 20, 1995.

4.
James Alan Fox, dean of Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, as reported in the
Wall Street Journal,
April 21, 1995, p. B1.

5.
Maggie Gallagher,
The Abolition of Marriage: How We Lost the Right to a Lasting Love
(Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995), pp. 31–2.

6.
Charles Murray, “The Coming White Underclass,”
Wall Street Journal
, October 29, 1993, p. A14.

7.
Irving Kristol, “Welfare: The best of intentions, the worst of results,’
Atlantic Monthly
, August 1971, p. 45.

8.
See
Looking Before We Leap: Social Science and Welfare Reform,
eds. Kent R. Weaver and William T. Pickens (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995).

9.
Myron Magnet, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass
(New York: William Morrow, 1993), pp. 141–2.

10.
Douglas J. Besharov, “What About the Poor?: The Hope of a New Approach,”
Washington Post
, December 3, 1995, p. CI.

11.
Joseph Tierney, Jean Baldwin Grossman, with Nancy L. Resch,
Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters
(Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures, 1995).

12.
John J. Dilulio, Jr., “Violent Crime and Representative Government,” Bradley Lecture Series, American Enterprise Institute, June 10, 1996.

13.
“The State of Violent Crime in America,” First Report of The Council on Crime in America, The New Citizenship Project, Washington, DC, January 1996.

14.
Ben J. Wattenberg, Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life
(New York: The Free Press, 1995), pp. 139–57.