The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas (44 page)

15
. Samuel Tanenhaus,
The Death of Conservatism
(New York: Random House, 2009), p. 2.

16
. Andrew
Sullivan,
The Conservative Soul
(New York: HarperCollins, 2006), p. 230.

17
. Ibid. pp. 198–202.

18
. Michael Oakeshott, “On Being Conservative,” in
Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays
, expanded edition (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2010), p. 194.

19
. Edmund Burke,
Letter i. On a Regicide Peace.
vol. v., p. 331. Available in John Bartlett,
Familiar Quotations
(10th ed., 1919); accessed November 2, 2011,
www.bartleby.com/100/276.html
.

2.: Pragmatism

1
.   “Réponse à l’adresse du Conseil d’Etat” in
Moniteur,
21 décembre 1812. Cit and translated by Emmet Kennedy, “Ideology from Destutt De Tracy to Marx,”
Journal of the History of Ideas
40, no. 3 (July–September 1979), p. 360.

2
.   Timothy D. Terrell, “The Economics of Destutt de Tracy,”
Mises Daily
(Ludwig von Mises Institute), November 28, 2008; accessed May 5, 2011,
www.mises.org/daily/3222
.

3
.   Murray Rothbard,
Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought
,
Vol. 2
, (Auburn, Ala: Elgar Publishing, 1995), p. 8; accessed May 5, 2011, mises.org/books/histofthought2.pdf.

4
.   Ibid., p. 7.

5
.   Kennedy, p. 358.

6
.   John B. Thompson,
Ideology and Modern Culture: Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication
(Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991) p. 31.

7
.   Ibid.

8
.   Ibid.

9
.   Talleyrand, Me’maires, ed. Due de Broglie (Paris, 1891), Cit and translated by Emmet Kennedy,
A Philosophe in the Age of Revolution: Destutt de Tracy and the Origins of “Ideology,” Vol. 1,
p. 452.

10
. Ibid., p. 215.

11
.
Napoleon: In His Own Words,
ed. by Jules Bertaut, trans. by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes (Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1916), p. 112.

12
. Steven Englund,
Napoleon: A Political Life
(Boston: Harvard University Press, 2005), p. 52.

13
. “Hegel to Niethammer, October 13, 1806,”
Hegel: The Letters
, trans. by Clark Butler and Christine Seiler (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985); transcribed by Andy Blunden for
marxists.org
, (2005); accessed May 11, 2011,
www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/letters/1806-10-13.htm
.

14
. Friedrich Nietzsche,
The Genealogy of Morals
(New York: Random House, 1956), p. 187.

15
.
Bertrand Russell, “Pragmatism,”
Edinburgh Review
209 (April 1909), pp. 363–88. Reprinted in
The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell. Vol. 6: Logical and Philosophical Papers 1909–13
(London: Routledge, 1992), pp. 260–84.

16
. Karl Marx,
The German Ideology
(1845); accessed May 22, 2011,
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/german-ideology/ch01b.htm
.

17
. Richard Rorty, “Nietzsche and the Pragmatists,”
The New Leader
80, no. 9 (May 19, 1997).

18
. The phrase comes from Thomas Hardy’s poem “God’s Funeral.” It reads in part:
XI
How sweet it was in years far hied
To start the wheels of day with trustful prayer,
To lie down liegely at the eventide
And feel a blest assurance he was there!
XII
And who or what shall fill his place?
Whither will wanderers turn distracted eyes
For some fixed star to stimulate their pace
Towards the goal of their enterprise?
See also A. N. Wilson,
God’s Funeral: The Decline of Faith in Western Civilization
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1999).

19
. William James, “The Dilemma of Determinism,” in
Essays in Pragmatism
(New York: Meridian Books, 1955), pp. 37–64.

20
. William James, “The Social Value of the College-Bred,” in
Writings, 1902–1910
(William James Library of America, 1987), p. 1245.

21
. William James, “Is Life Worth Living?” in
The Will to Believe
and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy and Human Immorality
(New York: Dover, 1956), p. 42.

22
. Daniel T. Rodgers,
Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998), p. 86.

23
. Jane Addams,
Democracy and Social Ethics
(New York: Macmillan, 1902), p. 275.

24
. Paul Krugman on
Fareed Zakaria GPS,
CNN, August 14, 2011; Transcript and video accessed September 1, 2011,
www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/paul-krugman-fake-alien-invasion_n_926995.html
.

25
. Paul Krugman, “Reckonings: After the Horror,”
New York Times,
September 14, 2001.

26
. James T. Kloppenberg,
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hopes, and the American Political Condition
(Princeton University Press, 2010), p. 264.

27
. See Thomas G. West and Douglas A. Jeffrey, “Essay Five: The Modern Rejection of the Principles of the American Founding,”
The Rise and Decline of Constitutional Government in America
(Claremont Institute, 2000); accessed September 2, 2011,
www.vindicatingthefounders.com/essay5.html
.

28
.
See Henry T. Edmondson, “Deweyisms,” (Claremont Institute, 2004); accessed September 2, 2011,
www.claremont.org/publications/pubid.366/pub_detail.asp
.

29
. Tiffany Jones Miller, “John Dewey and the Philosophical Refounding of America,”
National Review
(December 31, 2009).

30
. “Liberalism vs. Fascism,” editorial,
New Republic,
March 2, 1927, p. 35.

31
. See Michael Tomasky, “Jackboots and Whole Foods,”
The Guardian
(March 2, 2008);
www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/02/jackbootsandwholefoodsl
; and see my response, Jonah Goldberg, “Clumsy Critique,”
National Review Online
(March 13, 2008),
www.nationalreview.com/articles/223903/clumsy-critique/jonah-goldberg
.

3.: No Labels

1
.   William Galston and David Frum, “A No Labels Solution to Washington Gridlock?”
The Washington Post
, December 10, 2010.

2
.   Jon E. Dougherty, “Rosie’s Armed Bodyguard,”
World Net Daily,
May 26, 2000; accessed March 15, 2010,
www.wnd.com/?pageId=1999
; Jill Smolowe, “Mom on a Mission,”
People
23, no. 24.

3
.   Arianna Huffington on
Fareed Zakaria GPS,
CNN, June 27, 2010; transcript and video accessed November 25, 2011,
www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-fareed-zakaria-obama_b_627015.html
.

4
.   John Dewey, “Who Might Make a New Party?”
New Republic
66 (April 1, 1931), pp. 177–79.

5
.   Ronald Radosh, “Can Van Jones Create a ‘Left-Wing Tea Party’? Don’t Bet On It,”
PJ Media,
August 17, 2011; accessed September 13, 2011,
pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2011/08/17/van-jones-left-wing-tea-party/
.

4.: Dogma

1
.   Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
The Possessed
(1872), part III, chapter II; see also James H. Billington,
Fire in the Minds of Men
(Transaction Publishers, 1980).

2
.   Norman Cameron and R. H. Stevens, trans.
Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944: His Private Conversations
(London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1953), p. 62.

3
.   Gilbert K. Chesterton,
Heretics
(New York: John Lane, 1905), p. 286.

4
.   Panama Publishing,
Jail: An Inmate’s Survival Guide
(BookSurge Publishing, 2007), p. 27.

5
.   Franz Boas, “An Anthropologist’s Credo,”
The Nation
147 (1938), pp. 201–4.

6
.   John Kenneth Galbraith,
The Great Crash, 1929
(New York: Mariner Books, 2009), p. 171.

7
.   
Stephen Jay Gould,
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
(New York: Harmony Books, 1995), p. 96.

8
.   “After 50 Years of Covering War, Looking for Peace, and Honoring Law: An Interview with Anthony Lewis,”
New York Times
(December 16, 2001).

9
.   Horace Kallen, “Pragmatism,” in Edwin Seligman, ed.,
Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. 12
(New York: Macmillan, 1934), p. 310.

10
. Scott Sumner, “The GMU Onslaught Continues…,”
The Money Illusion
, September 29, 2009; accessed November 9, 2011,
www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=2427
.

11
. Nick Eberstadt, “Broken Yardstick,”
New York Times,
September 9, 2005.

12
. George Eliot,
Middlemarch
(New York: Penguin Classics, 1994), p. 739.

13
. President Abraham Lincoln, “Annual Message to Congress—Concluding Remarks,” (December 1, 1862), in Roy P. Basler, ed.,
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
,
Vol. 5
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953).

14
. William F. Buckley, Jr., “Notes Toward an Empirical Definition of Conservatism,” in Frank S. Meyer, ed.,
What Is Conservatism?
(New York: Henry Holt, 1964), p. 217.

15
. See P. J. Crutzen. “Albedo Enhancement by Stratospheric Sulfur Injections: A Contribution to Resolve a Policy Dilemma?”
Climatic Change
77 (2006): 211–19. Also see Scott Barrett, “The Incredible Economics of Geoengineering,”
Environmental and Resource Economics
39 (January 2008), pp. 45–54: “Not all scientists welcomed the recent publication of a paper by Paul Crutzen, a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, on geoengineering. In the same issue of
Climatic Change,
Ralph Cicerone, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, wrote, ‘I am aware that various individuals opposed the publication of Crutzen’s paper, even after peer review and revisions, for various and sincere reasons that are not wholly scientific.’
Climatic Change
77 (2006): 221.”

16
. Sister Mary Louise,…
Over the Bent World
(New York: Sheed & Ward, 1939), p. 590.

17
. Manfred Henningsen,
Modernity without Restraint
,
The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Vol. 5
(Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000), p. 60.

18
. Robert Nisbet,
Prejudices: A Philosophical Dictionary
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), p. 93.

5.: Separation of Church and State

1
.   Kim Hartman, “Atheists Sue Over Installation of 9/11 Cross at WTC Museum,”
Digital Journal Online
, July 31, 2011; accessed August 3, 2011,
digitaljournal.com/article/309760
.

2
.   James Q. Wilson, “The Reform Islam Needs”
City Journal
(Autumn 2002), pp. 26–35 (28).

3
.   
C. V. Wedgwood,
The Thirty Years War
(New York Review Books, 2005), p. 506.

4
.   Wilson, “Reform,” p. 30.

5
.   Ibid., p. 31.

6
.   See Michael Novak, “The Truth About Religious Freedom,”
First Things (
March 2006).

7
.   Ely scholar Benjamin Rader reports that “ministers across the country used Ely’s writing as a basis for sermons.” Ely’s
Social Aspects of Christianity
was a definitive text. “For more than twenty years,” writes Rader, “every minister entering the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was required to read
Social Aspects
as well as Ely’s
An Introduction to Political Economy
.” Benjamin Rader, “Lay Spokesman for the Social Gospel,”
The Journal of American History
, Vol. 53, No. 1 (June, 1966), pp. 61–74 (67–68).

8
.   Richard Ely,
Social Aspects of Christianity and Other Essays
(T. Y. Crowell & Company, 1880) p. 53; Cited in Rader, p. 72.

9
.   John Lukacs,
Remembered Past: John Lukacs on History, Historians, and Historical Knowledge
(Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2005), p. 305.

10
.
Social Aspects of Christianity
, p. 57.

11
. Richard Ely,
The Social Law of Service
(New York, 1896), p. 167. Cited in Rader, p. 71.

12
. Cathleen Falsani,
Barack Obama:
The 2004 “God Factor” Interview
(April 30, 2008); Transcript accessed November 9, 2011,
blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/11/obamas-interview-with-cathleen.html
.

6.: Power Corrupts

1
.   John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton (Lord Acton), “Letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton (1887),” in
Historical Essays and Studies
(1907).

2
.   Ibid.

3
.   James Fallows, “Edward M. Kennedy,”
The Atlantic
(August 26, 2009); accessed March 22, 2011,
www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/08/senator-edward-m-kennedy/23873/
.

4
.   Melissa Lafsky, “The Footnote Speaks,” The Huffington Post (August 27, 2009); accessed December 6 2011,
www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-lafsky/the-footnote-speaks-what_b_270298.html
.

7.: Diversity

1
.   Unedited version of a letter to the
Los Angeles Times
, November 28, 2005; accessed December 10, 2010,
www.barbrastreisand.com/us/statement/letter-la-times
; published version: “Singing the Op-ed Blues,”
Los Angeles Times,
November 23, 2005; accessed December 10, 2010,
articles.latimes.com/2005/nov/23/opinion/le-wednesday23.3
.