Slouching Towards Gomorrah (67 page)

15.
Paul Johnson, “Crime: The People Want Revenge,”
Wall Street Journal,
January 4, 1994, p. A10.

16.
Robert Lerner, Althea K. Nagai, and Stanley Rothman,
American Elites
(New Haven: Yale University Press, in press), chapter 4.

17.
“The State of Violent Crime in America,” p. 17.

18.
Daniel D. Polsby, “The False Promise of Gun Control”
Atlantic Monthly,
March 1994, p. 57.

19.
Ibid
.

20.
John Carlson, “Go To The People,”
The American Enterprise
, May/June 1995, pp. 39–40.

21.
John J. Dilulio, Jr. and Anne M. Piehl, “Does Prison Pay? Revisited,”
Brookings Review,
Winter 1995, pp. 21–95.

22.
John J. Dilulio, “Let ‘em Rot,”
Wall Street Journal, January
26, 1994, p. 14. Professor Dilulio promptly protested the savage title given his piece by some
Journal
headline writer.

23.
“The State of Violent Crime in America,” p. 55.

24.
Murray, p. A14.

25.
See James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg,
The Great Reckoning: How the World Will Change in the Depression of the 1990s
(New York: Summit Books, 1991). Their previous book was encouragingly entitled
Blood in the Streets.

26.
Murray, p. A14.

1.
Doris Gordon, “Abortion and Rights: Applying Libertarian Principles Correctly,”
Studies in Prolife Feminism,
Spring 1995, pp. 121, 127.

2.
James Q. Wilson, “On Abortion,”
Commentary,
January 1994, p. 21.

3.
Ibid
.

4.
Mary Ellen Bork, Letter to the Editor,
Commentary,
March 1994, pp. 7–8.

5.
Ibid
.

6.
Peter Singer, “Killing Babies Isn’t Always Wrong,”
The Spectator,
September 16, 1995, p. 22.

7.
Candace C. Crandall, “The Fetus Beat Us,”
The Women’s Quarterly,
Winter 1996, p. 1.

8.
Naomi Wolf, “Our Bodies, Our Souls,”
The New Republic,
October 16, 1995, p. 26.

9.
Taken from Aida Torres and Jacqueline Darroch Forrest, “Why Do Women Have Abortions?”
Family Planning Perspectives,
July/August 1988, pp. 169–70.

10.
Ibid.,
p. 173.

11.
Richard D. Glasow, “Statistics Show Abortion Being Used as Birth Control,”
National Right to Life News,
May 9, 1994, p. 18.

12.
“Anesthetized to truth,”
World,
January 13, 1996, p. 17.

13.
Diane M. Gianelli, “Shock-tactic ads target late-term abortion procedure,”
American Medical News,
July 5, 1993, p. 3.

14.
Diane M. Gianelli, “Outlawing abortion method,”
American Medical News,
November 20, 1995, p. 3.

15.
Richard John Neuhaus, “Don’t Cross This Threshold,”
Wall Street Journal,
October 27, 1994, p. A20.

16.
“The Use of Anencephalic Neonates as Organ Donors,”
Journal of the American Medical Association,
May 24/31, 1995, p. 1614.

17.
Ibid.,
p. 1615.

18.
Charles Krauthammer, “…And a Troubling Development,”
Washington Post,
June 9, 1995, p. A27.

19.
Charles Krauthammer, “Traveling Executioner,”
Washington Post,
December 3, 1993, p. A29.

20.
Elizabeth Kristol, “Soothing Moral Shroud,”
Washington Post,
December 3, 1993, p. A29.

21.
Compassion In Dying
v.
State of Washington,
49 F.3d 586, 593–94 (9th Cir. 1995), quoting Report from the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law, “When Death Is Sought: Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in the Medical Context,” May 1994, p. 122.

22.
Herbert Hendin, “Dying of Resentment,”
New York Times,
March 21, 1996, p. A25.

23.
Dr. Edmund 1). Pellegrino, “Ethics
“Journal of the American Medical Association,
June 7, 1995, pp. 1674–5. The interior quote is from Derek Humphrey, “Letter to the Editor,”
New York Times,
December 3, 1994, p. A22.

24.
Michael Fumento, “What the Dutch can teach us about euthanasia,”
Washington Times,
March 19, 1995, p. B3.

25.
Carlos F. Gomez, “Managing the Unmanageable: The Case Against Euthanasia,” in
Medicine Unbound: ‘The Human Body and the Limits of Medical Intervention,
eds. Robert H. Blank and Andrea L. Bonnicksen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 228–41. See also Gomez,
Regulating Death: Euthanasia and the Case of the Netherlands
(New York: The Free Press, 1991) for an earlier and lengthier study, which confirms a very pessimistic view of the Dutch reality.

26.
David C. Thomasma, “Euthanasia as Power and Empowerment,”
Medicine Unbound: The Human Body and Limits of Medical Intervention,
eds. Robert H. Blank and Andrea L. Bonnicksen (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 210–27.

27.
Ibid.,
p. 223.

28.
Herbert Hendin, “Selling Death and Dignity,”
Hastings Center Report
, May-June 1995, pp. 19–23.

29.
Ibid.,
p. 20.

1.
Sandra Harding of University of Delaware and Susan McClary, “who applies feminist theories to music,” respectively. Quoted in John Leo. “PC: Almost dead. Still funny,”
U.S. News & World Report,
December 5, 1994, p. 24.

2.
See discussion in chapter 1.

3.
Carol Iannone, “The Feminist Confusion,”
Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989), p. 153.

4.
Christina Hoff Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994).

5.
Midge Decter, “You’re On Your Own, Baby,”
The Women’s Quarterly,
Winter 1996, p. 4.

6.
Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge,
Professing Feminism: Cautionary Tales from the Strange World of Women’s Studies
(New York: Basic Books, 1994), p. 183. Other excellent works include Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism?
and a monograph by Dale O’Leary, “Gender Feminism: The Deconstruction of Women,” Free Congress Foundation, August 1995.

7.
Carol Iannone, “The Feminist Confusion,”
Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties
, eds. Peter Collier and David Horowitz (Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989), p. 149.

8.
Bella Abzug, “A message from NGO women to UN member states, the Secretariat and the Commission on the Status of Women,” New York, April 3, 1995.

9.
James Q. Wilson,
The Moral Sense
(New York: The Free Press, 1993), pp. 165–6.

10.
Melford E. Spiro,
Gender and Culture: kibbutz women revisited
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1979), p. 106.

11.
Barbara Crossette, “A Warrior, A Mother, A Scholar, A Mystery,”
New York Times,
August 17, 1994, p. CI. Why the headline writer would call her “a mystery” is itself a mystery. Presumably it is because Dr. Kirkpatrick is a neo-conservative rather than a leftist.

12.
Patai and Koertge, p. 112.

13.
Rene Denfield, “Old Messages: Ecofeminism and the Alienation of Young People from Environmental Activism,” p. 3. Paper presented at “The Flight from Science and Reason,” New York, May 31-June 2, 1995.

14.
Profane Existence,
May/June 1992, p. 1.

15.
Anne Wilson Schaef, Women’s Reality: An Emerging Female System in the White Male Society
(Minneapolis: Winston Press, 1981), p. 27.

16.
Martha Nussbaum, “Justice for Women,”
The New York Review of Books,
October 8, 1992, p. 43.

17.
Interview with Simone de Beauvoir, “Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma,”
Saturday Review,
June 14, 1975, p. 18.

18.
Shere Hite, The Hite Report on the Family: Growing Up Under Patriarchy
(New York: Grove Press, 1994), pp. 352–60.

19.
Dianne Knippers, “Building a Shrine in Beijing,”
Heterodoxy,
October 1995, p. 7.

20.
Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
(New York: Crown, 1991).

21.
Ibid.,
p. xxii.

22.
Faludi’s arguments have been exposed as false many times over. See, among others, Sommers,
Who Stole Feminism,
especially pp. 234–44; Mary Eberstadt, “Wake Up Little Susie,”
American Spectator,
October 1992, p. 30; Gretchen Morgenson, “A Winner’s Bible,”
Forbes,
March 16, 1992, p. 152; Maggie Gallagher, “Exit Stage Back,”
National Review
, March 30, 1992, p. 41; and Charlotte Allen, “New Wave Feminism,”
Commentary,
February 1992, p. 62.

23.
As cited by Christina Hoff Sommers, “Feminist fatale,”
The New Criterion,
October 1995, p. 64.

24.
Susan Cheever, “An Accidental Symbol,” (review of
I Am Roe
by Norma McCorvey with Andy Meisler),
New York Times Book Review,
July 3, 1994, p. 7.

25.
Patai and Koertge, p. 116.

26.
“Feminism Against Science,”
National Review,
November 18, 1991, p. 30.

27.
Ibid
.

28.
Carol Innerst, “Feminists remake college curriculums,”
Washington Times,
June 21, 1993, p.A1.

29.
George F. Will, “Literary Politics,”
Newsweek,
April 22, 1991, p. 72.

30.
“Blackboard Jungle,”
The NEA Higher Education Journal,
Spring 1991, p. 15.

31.
Joyce Price, “Lesbians get place at the table at women’s studies conference,”
Washington Times,
June 21, 1993, p. A8.

32.
Michael Pack, “Campus Culture Wars,” video distributed by Direct Cinema Limited, Santa Monica, CA, 1993.

33.
Edmund Daniels and Michael David Weiss, “‘Equality’ over Quality,”
Reason,
July 1991, p. 44.

34.
Camille Paglia and Christian Hoff Sommers, “Has Feminism Gone Too Far?”
Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg,
Produced by New River Media, Washington, DC, November 4, 1994.

35.
John Leo, “De-escalating the gender war,”
U.S. News and World Report,
April 18, 1994, p. 24.

36.
George Will, “A Kind of Compulsory Chapel,”
Newsweek,
November 14, 1994, p. 84.

37.
Letter from Robert Weissberg to
Measure,
August/September 1995, p. 4.

38.
Pack, “Campus Culture Wars.“

39.
Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?,
p. 91.

40.
Robert Nisbet,
Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 245.

41.
John Corry, “The Death of Kara Hultgreen,”
The American Spectator,
June 1995, p. 40.

42.
Robert J. Caldwell, “Navy files cast doubt on gender neutral,”
San Diego Union-Tribune
, May 14, 1995, p. G1.

43.
Corry, p. 40.

44.
K. L. Billingsley, “Dancing with the Elephant,”
Heterodoxy,
March/April 1995, p. 12.

45.
Much of this material is taken from Billingsley, “Dancing with the Elephant” and K.L. Billingsley, “Feminist Forced March,”
Heterodoxy, June
1995, pp. 1,13.

46.
Cal Thomas, “Navy’s thought police,”
World,
June 17/24, 1995, p. 17.

47.
Ibid
.

48.
David Horowitz,
The Feminist Assault on the Military
, Center for the Study of Popular Culture, Studio City, CA, 1992, pp. 21–3.

49.
Ibid.,
p. 16.

50.
Billingsley, “Feminist Forced March,” pp. 9–10.

51.
Dana Priest, “Navy Punishes Two for Sex Aboard Ship,”
Washington Post,
February 19, 1995, p. A13.

52.
Horowitz,
The Feminist Assault on the Military.
Testimony before the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces also claimed that the military is desensitizing male soldiers to screams of women prisoners being tortured. “Major Mom,”
World,
September 26, 1992, p. 7.

53.
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. 270.

54.
Spiro, p. 109.

55.
Spiro, pp. 109–10.

56.
Gallagher, p. 148.

1.
Glenn Loury, “Black Political Culture After the Sixties,”
Second Thoughts: Former Radicals Look Back at the Sixties
(Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1989), p. 143.

2.
Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
(New York: St. Martins Press, 1990), p. 27.

3.
Ibid.,
pp. 27–8.

4.
Jason DeParle, “For Some Blacks, Social Ills Seem to Follow White Plans,”
New York Times,
August 11, 1991, sec. 4, p. 5.

5.
Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton,
The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy
(Washington. DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995).

6.
Thomas Sowell,
Preferential Policies: An International Perspective
(New York: William Morrow, 1990), pp. 15–6.

7.
Terry Eastland, Ending Affirmative Action: The Case for Colorblind Justice
(New York: Basic Books, 1996), p. 40.