What's So Great About America (26 page)

15
John Esposito, ed., “Sayyid Qutb: Ideologue of Islamic Revival,” in
Voices of Resurgent Islam
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1983); John Esposito,
The Islamic Threat: Myth or Reality?
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 135–37; Ibrahim Abu-Rabi,
Intellectual Origins of Islamic
Resurgence in the Modern Arab World
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996), 133, 158, 172; Roxanne Euben, “Pre-modern, Anti-modern or Postmodern: Islamic and Western Critiques of Modernity,”
Review of Politics,
Summer 1997, 434–50.

16
“The End of Democracy?”
First Things,
November 1996, 18–42.

17
Patrick J. Buchanan,
The Death of the West
(New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001), 6.

18
Cited in “Idiocy Watch,”
New Republic,
15 October 2001, 10.

19
Ann Gerhart, “Black Caucus Waves the Caution Flag,”
Washington Post,
28 September 2001, C-1, C-8.

20
James Bowman, “Towers of Intellect,”
Wall Street Journal,
5 October 2001.

21
Stanley Kurtz, “Edward Said, Imperialist,”
Weekly Standard,
8 October 2001, 35.

22
These words, from the writer Arundhati Roy, were quoted in “Sontagged,”
Weekly Standard,
15 October 2001, 42–43.

23
Cornel West,
Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America
(New York: Routledge, 1993), 236.

24
Ali Mazrui, “Islamic and Western Values,”
Foreign Affairs,
September–October 1997.

25
Nathan Irvin Huggins,
Black Odyssey: The African-American Ordeal in Slavery
(New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 113.

26
Dennis Farney, “As America Triumphs, Americans Are Awash in Doubt,”
Wall Street Journal,
27 July 1992, A-1; see also John Hope Franklin, “The Moral Legacy of the Founding Fathers,”
University of Chicago Magazine,
Summer 1975, 10–13.

27
Stanley Fish,
There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and It's a Good Thing Too
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 87.

28
Haki Madhubuti,
Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?
(Chicago: Third World Press, 1990), 28.

29
Edmund Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
(New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 172.

30
Martha Nussbaum, “Genesis of a Book,”
Liberal Education,
Spring 1999, 38.

31
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
(New York: Vintage Books, 1990), Vol. I, 394, Vol. II, 22.

1
Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., “Africa Can Regain Its Glory,”
Wall Street Journal,
28 January 2000; Steve Hanke, “Africa and Economics,”
Forbes,
28 May 2001, 96.

2
Edward Said,
Orientalism
(New York: Vintage Books, 1978), 31; Edward Said,
Culture and Imperialism
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993), 8.

3
Jacques Gernet,
A History of Chinese Civilization
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); John Merson,
The Genius That Was China
(Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 1990).

4
David Landes,
The Wealth and Poverty of Nations
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 54.

5
Lewis,
The Muslim Discovery of Europe,
68, 222; Bernard Lewis,
Islam and the West
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 ), 14.

6
Jared Diamond,
Guns, Germs, and Steel
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).

7
Walter Rodney,
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
(Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1982), 27.

8
Chinweizu,
The West and the Rest of Us
(New York: Vintage Books, 1975), 3.

9
Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched of the Earth
(New York: Grove Press, 1968), 76.

10
Steve Miller, “Black Leaders Set to Herald Causes,”
Washington Times,
29 November 2001.

11
Khaldun,
The Muqaddimah,
375.

12
Louise Levathes,
When China Ruled the Seas
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994); Philip Snow,
The Star Raft: China's Encounter with Africa
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988).

13
Daniel Boorstin,
The Discoverers
(New York: Vintage Books, 1983), 199.

14
Orlando Patterson,
Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), vii.

15
J. M. Roberts,
The Penguin History of the World
(New York: Penguin Books, 1990), 727.

16
Roy Basler, ed.,
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), Vol. II, 532.

17
The documentation for this is provided in my earlier work,
The End of Racism
(New York: Free Press, 1995), 105–6 and accompanying endnotes.

18
Henry Louis Gates, ed.,
Bearing Witness
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1991), 35.

19
Peter Bauer,
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), 67–68; Peter Bauer,
Reality and Rhetoric: Studies in the Economies of Development
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), 2, 24.

20
Even the Christian notion of miracles does not invalidate the reasonableness of reality. Miracles represent rare acts of divine intervention. A miracle is something that contravenes the laws of nature. Thus the notion of miracles does not reject—indeed it depends on—the presumption that nature follows regular laws. The wonder that attends a miracle arises from the astonishment that these laws might be suspended through divine action.

21
Robert Nisbet,
The Making of Modern Society
(New York: New York University Press, 1986), 42.

22
J. B. Bury,
The Idea of Progress
(New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 111.

1
James Burnham,
Suicide of the West
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1985), 15–18, 20, 24.

2
Jean Paul Sartre, introduction to Frantz Fanon,
The Wretched of the Earth
(New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1963), 13, 27.

3
Mike Zwerin, “Birthday of the Cool,”
Forbes,
15 November 1999, 322.

4
Benjamin Barber,
Jihad vs. McWorld
(New York: Ballantine Books, 1996), 293.

5
Douglas Jehl, “It's Barbie vs. Laila and Sara in Mideast Culture War,”
New York Times,
2 June 1999, A-4.

6
Elaine Sciolino, “Who Hates the U.S.? Who Loves It?”
New York Times,
23 September 2001.

7
Werner Sombart,
Why Is There No Socialism in the United States?
(White Plains: International Arts and Sciences Press, 1976), 109–10.

8
V. S. Naipaul, “Our Universal Civilization,”
New York Review of Books,
31 January 1991, 25.

9
Albert Hourani,
A History of the Arab Peoples
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991), 47; Lewis,
The Muslim Discovery of Europe,
63.

10
Cited by Paul Rahe,
Republics, Ancient and Modern
(Charlotte: University of North Carolina Press, 1994), Vol. III, 53.

11
Madison, Hamilton, and Jay,
The Federalist Papers,
No. 10, Isaac Kramnick, ed. (London: Penguin Books, 1987), 124.

12
James Boswell,
The Life of Johnson
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1933), Vol. I, 567.

13
William Shakespeare,
Julius Caesar,
act 3, scene 2, lines 84–86.

14
Confucius,
The Analects
(New York: Penguin Books, 1986), 74.

15
Khaldun,
The Muqaddimah,
313.

16
Madison, Hamilton, and Jay,
The Federalist Papers,
No. 51, 321.

17
Ibid., 320.

18
Romans 7:19, Revised Standard Version.

19
See, for example, Will Kymlicka,
Multicultural Citizens
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).

20
Cited by Michael Novak,
The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics
(New York: Macmillan, 1971), 140.

21
Cited by Reed Ueda,
Postwar Immigrant America
(Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1994), 124.

1
Michael Barone,
The New Americans
(Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2001), 19.

2
Thomas Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1982), 62–63, 138–40.

3
David Brion Davis,
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 168.

4
Ralph Lerner,
The Thinking Revolutionary
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 163.

5
William McNeill,
Plagues and Peoples
(New York: Doubleday, 1976).

6
W. E. B. DuBois,
The Souls of Black Folk
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1999), 11.

7
Philip S. Foner, ed.,
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass
(New York: International Publishers, 1950), Vol. I, 126, Vol. II, 188–89.

8
Franklin, “The Moral Legacy of the Founding Fathers,” 10–13.

9
Dred Scott v. Sandford,
60 U.S. 393 (1857).

10
Frederick Douglass, “The American Constitution and the Slave: An Address Delivered in Glasgow, Scotland, on 26 March 1860,” in John Blassingame, ed.,
The Frederick Douglass Papers
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979–92), Vol. 3, 352.

11
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Henri Gregoire, February 25, 1809, in Merrill D. Peterson, ed.,
The Portable Thomas Jefferson
(New York: Penguin Books, 1975), 517.

12
Jefferson,
Notes on the State of Virginia,
163.

13
Davis,
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture.

14
Cited by Harry Jaffa,
Crisis of the House Divided
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959), 32.

15
Cited by Forrest McDonald,
Novus Ordo Seclorum
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1985), 160.

16
Jaffa,
Crisis of the House Divided,
370.

17
Abraham Lincoln, “Speech on the Dred Scott Decision,” 26 June 1857, in Mario Cuomo and Harold Holzer, eds.,
Lincoln on Democracy
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 90–91.

18
Frederick Douglass, “Address for the Promotion of Colored Enlistments,” 6 July 1863, in Foner, ed.,
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass,
Vol. III, 365.

19
Cited by Herbert Storing,
Toward a More Perfect Union
(Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1995), 156.

20
Toni Morrison,
Playing in the Dark
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982), 20.

21
Derrick Bell,
Faces at the Bottom of the Well
(New York: Basic Books, 1992), 1, 3, 10, 152.

22
Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray,
The Bell Curve
(New York: Free Press, 1994).

23
Wayne Camara and Amy Schmidt, “Group Differences in Standardized Testing and Social Stratification” (New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1999), 17–18.

24
Laurence Steinberg, Sanford Dornbusch, and Bradford Brown, “Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Achievement,”
American Psychologist,
June 1992, 723.

25
W. E. B. DuBois,
The Negro American Family
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1970), first published in 1908.

26
Herbert Gutman,
The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom
(New York: Pantheon Books, 1976).

27
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,” in Lee Rainwater and William Yancy, eds.,
The Moynihan Report and the Politics of Controversy
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 1967).

28
William Julius Wilson,
The Truly Disadvantaged
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).

29
Philip Kasinitz,
Caribbean New York
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1992).

1
Cited by Lewis,
The Muslim Discovery of Europe,
286–87.

2
Cited by Gertrude Himmelfarb,
One Nation, Two Cultures
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999), 94.

3
Ronald Berman, ed.,
Solzhenitsyn at Harvard
(Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1980), 17.

4
Cited by J. Bottum, “AWOL Christian Soldiers?”
Weekly Standard,
1 October 2001, 12.

5
Robert Bork,
Slouching Towards Gomorrah
(New York: Regan Books, 1996).

6
Seymour Martin Lipset,
American Exceptionalism
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1996), 61–62.

7
William Bennett,
The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators
(New York: Broadway, 1999).

8
Joseph Schumpeter,
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1976), 84.