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43. Richard Wagner, “Judaism in Music,” trans. William Ashton Ellis, in Sämtliche Schriften und Dichtungen, vol. 5, pp. 66–85, http://jrbooksonline.com/PDF_Books/JudaismInMusic.pdf.
44. Isabel V. Hull, The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II: 1888–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 74.
45. Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1889–1936 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), 43, 135.
46. Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 120–21.
47. George Orwell, Orwell, vol. 2: My Country Right or Left, 1940–1943, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (Boston: Nonpareil Books, 1968), 14.
48. Karl Marx, “The Victory of the Counter-Revolution in Vienna,” trans. Marx-Engels Institute, Neue Rheinische Zeitung No. 136, November 1848, https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/11/06.htm.
49. Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto, 89.
50. V. I. Lenin, “The State and Revolution,” in Princeton Readings in Political Thought, ed. Mitchell Cohen and Nicole Fermon (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996), 541.
51. Richard Pipes, The Russian Revolution (New York: Vintage Books, 1990), 820.
52. Anne Applebaum, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine (New York: Doubleday, 2017).
53. Lee Edwards, “The Legacy of Mao Zedong Is Mass Murder,” Heritage.org, February 2, 2010, https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/the-legacy-mao-zedong-mass-murder.
54. Jacques Steinberg, “Times Should Lose Pulitzer from 30’s, Consultant Says,” NYTimes.com, October 23, 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/us/times-should-lose-pulitzer-from-30-s-consultant-says.html.
55. Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, from Mussolini to the Politics of Change (New York: Crown Forum, 2009), 102–3.
56. Ben Shapiro, “NYT Op-Ed: ‘For All Its Flaws, the Communist Revolution Taught Chinese Women to Dream Big,” DailyWire.com, September 26, 2017, https://www.dailywire.com/news/21547/nyt-op-ed-all-its-flaws-communist-revolution-ben-shapiro.
57. Thomas L. Friedman, “Our One-Party Democracy,” New York Times, September 8, 2009, https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/opinion/09friedman.html.
58. David Filipov, “For Russians, Stalin Is the ‘Most Outstanding’ Figure in World History, Followed by Putin,” WashingtonPost.com, June 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/06/26/for-russians-stalin-is-the-most-outstanding-figure-in-world-history-putin-is-next/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.279839e59134.
59. Svetlana Alexievich, Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (New York: Random House, 2017), 176–86.
60. Meg Sullivan, “FDR’s Policies Prolonged Depression by 7 Years, UCLA Economists Calculate,” UCLA.edu, August 10, 2004, http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.
61. Burton Folsom, New Deal or Raw Deal?: How FDR’s Economic Legacy Has Damaged America (New York: Threshold Editions, 2008), 105.
62. Sullivan, “FDR’s Policies Prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA Economists Calculate.”
63. Thomas C. Leonard, Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics and American Economics in the Progressive Era (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2016), xiii.
64. “T. Roosevelt Letter to C. Davenport about ‘Degenerates Reproducing,’” DNA Learning Center, January 3, 1913, https://www.dnalc.org/view/11219-T-Roosevelt-letter-to-C-Davenport-about-degenerates-reproducing-.html.
65. Paul Rahe, “Progressive Racism,” NationalReview.com, April 11, 2013, https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/04/progressive-racism-paul-rahe/.
66. Buck v. Bell (1927), 274 US 200.
67. Edward J. Larson, Sex, Race, and Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 28.
68. Rachel Gur-Arie, “Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), by Harry Laughlin,” ASU.edu, August 12, 2015, https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/eugenical-sterilization-united-states-1922-harry-h-laughlin.
69. Paul A. Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), 239.
70. Jennifer Latson, “What Margaret Sanger Really Said about Eugenics and Race,” Time.com, October 14, 2016, http://time.com/4081760/margaret-sanger-history-eugenics/.
71. Margaret Sanger, “My Way to Peace,” January 17, 1932, https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=129037.xml.
72. “Eugenics and Birth Control,” PBS.org, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/pill-eugenics-and-birth-control/.
73. “Nomination Database: Margaret Sanger,” NobelPrize.org, https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/archive/show_people.php?id=8093.
CHAPTER 8: AFTER THE FIRE
1.Yvonne Sherratt, Hitler’s Philosophers (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 16.
2.Hugh McLeod and Werner Ustorf, eds., The Decline of Christendom in Western Europe, 1750–2000 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
3.Søren Kierkegaard, “Subjectivity Is Truth,” in Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Philosophical Fragments, trans. Louis Pojman, 1844, http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/rarneson/Courses/kierkegaardphil1reading.pdf.
4.Walter Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1968), 18.
5.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Helen Zimmern (New York: Macmillan, 1907), 155.
6.Kaufmann, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, 33–34.
7.Herman Philipse, Heidegger’s Philosophy of Being: A Critical Interpretation (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998), 259.
8.Mark A. Ralkowski, Heidegger’s Platonism (London: Continuum Books, 2009), 100.
9.Martin Heidegger, “The Self-Assertion of the German University,” trans. W. S. Lewis, in The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader, ed. R. Wolin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), 29–39.
10. Jean-Paul Sartre, Essays in Existentialism (New York: Citadel Press, 1993), 41.
11. Max Roser, “Life Expectancy,” OurWorldInData.org, https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy.
12. Kyle Smith, “Sigmund Fraud,” NationalReview.com, December 19, 2017, https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/12/sigmund-freud-fake-charlatan-liar/.
13. Wardell B. Pomeroy, Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982), 68.
14. Sue Ellin Browder, “Kinsey’s Secret: The Phony Science of the Sexual Revolution,” CrisisMagazine.com, May 28, 2012, https://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/kinseys-secret-the-phony-science-of-the-sexual-revolution.
15. Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (New York: Liveright, 2014), 38.
16. E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: First Vintage Books/Random House, 1999), 7.
17. Edward O. Wilson, “The Biological Basis of Morality,” Atlantic, April 1998, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1998/04/the-biological-basis-of-morality/377087/.
18. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence, 14.
19. Ibid., 173–80.
20. Steven Pinker, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress (New York: Viking, 2018), 4.
21. Yoram Hazony, “The Dark Side of the Enlightenment,” Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment-1523050206.
22. Pinker, Enlightenment Now, 3–4.
23. Michael Shermer, “How Do We Know Right from Wrong without God or Religion,” BigThink.com, March 4, 2018, http://bigthink.com/videos/michael-shermer-how-we-know-right-from-wrong-without-god-or-religion.
24. Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape (New York: Free Press, 2010).
25. Ibid., 12–13.
26. Marvin Perry, Sources of the Western Tradition, vol. 2: From the Renaissance to the Present (Boston: Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2014), 85.
27. “Waking Up with Sam Harris: Episode #112,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWCl32j8jM.
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HAPTER 9: THE RETURN TO PAGANISM
1.Voltaire, “Jeannot and Colin,” in The Oxford Magazine, volume I (1768), 190
2.Frank Newport, “Five Key Findings on Religion in the US,” Gallup.com, December 23, 2016, http://news.gallup.com/poll/200186/five-key-findings-religion.aspx.
3.Thomas E. Woods Jr., “Race, Inequality, and the Market,” FEE.org, October 1, 2002, https://fee.org/articles/race-inequality-and-the-market/.
4.“Changes in Women’s Labor Force Participation in the 20th Century,” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 16, 2000, https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2000/feb/wk3/art03.htm.
5.Donald M. Fisk, “American Labor in the 20th Century,” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 30, 2003, https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/cwc/american-labor-in-the-20th-century.pdf.
6.Fred Siegel, The Revolt against the Masses (New York: Encounter Books, 2013), 112–13.
7.Giuseppe Fiori, Antonio Gramsci: Life of a Revolutionary (New York: Schocken Books, 1973), 103.
8.Max Horkheimer, Critical Theory: Selected Essays (New York: Continuum, 2002), 207.
9.Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History, Theories, and Political Significance (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), 135.
10. Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (New York: Henry Holt, 1941), 240.
11. Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization (Boston: Beacon Press, 1974), 5.
12. Christopher Holman, Politics as Radical Creation (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2013), 44.
13. Marcuse, Eros and Civilization, 227–28.
14. Herbert Marcuse, “Repressive Tolerance” in Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr., and Herbert Marcuse, A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston, 1965; Marcuse.org, 2015), https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/pubs/60spubs/65repressivetolerance.htm.
15. Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being (Start Publishing LLC, 2012).
16. Lisa Hammel, “Dr. Spock as a Father—No Mollycoddler,” New York Times, November 8, 1968, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/spock-father.html?_r=1.
17. Eric Pace, “Benjamin Spock, World’s Pediatrician, Dies at 94,” New York Times, March 17, 1998, https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/17/specials/spock-obit.html.
18. Nathaniel Branden, The Psychology of Self-Esteem (Los Angeles: Nash, 2001), 114.
19. Steven C. Ward, Modernizing the Mind (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002), 102.
20. Jesse Singal, “How the Self-Esteem Craze Took Over America,” TheCut.com, May 30, 2017, https://www.thecut.com/2017/05/self-esteem-grit-do-they-really-help.html.
21. Christina Hoff Sommers, “Reconsiderations: Betty Friedan’s ‘The Feminine Mystique,’” NYSun.com, September 17, 2008, https://www.nysun.com/arts/reconsiderations-betty-friedans-the-feminine/86003/.
22. Betty Friedan, It Changed My Life (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), 397.
23. Malcolm X, “Racial Separation,” BlackPast.org, October 11, 1963, http://www.blackpast.org/1963-malcolm-x-racial-separation.
24. Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), 4–5.
25. Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within (Boston: Little, Brown, 1992), 44–45.
26. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait,” Washington Post, September 24, 2015, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/09/24/why-intersectionality-cant-wait/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.179ecf062277.
27. Ta-Nehisi Coates, “I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye,” Atlantic, May 7, 2018, https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/.
28. Donna M. Hughes, “Significant Differences: The Construction of Knowledge, Objectivity, and Dominance,” Women’s Studies International Forum 18, no. 4 (July–August 1995): 395–406, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/027753959580031J.
29. Allum Bokhari, “Lawsuit: Google Instructed Managers That ‘Individual Achievement’ and ‘Objectivity’ Were Examples of ‘White Dominant Culture,’” Breitbart.com, April 18, 2018, http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/18/lawsuit-google-instructed-managers-that-individual-achievement-and-objectivity-were-examples-of-white-dominant-culture/.
30. Joshua Loftus, “Steven Pinker’s Radical Centrism and the ‘Alt-right,’” Medium.com, January 11, 2018, https://medium.com/@joftius/steven-pinkers-radical-centrism-and-the-alt-right-b261fde5a24f.
31. Twitter, January 9, 2018, https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/950794932066947072?lang=en.
32. Eric Turkheimer, Kathryn Paige Harden, and Richard E. Nisbett, “Charles Murray Is Once Again Peddling Junk Science about Race and IQ,” Vox.com, May 18, 2017, https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-murray-race-iq-sam-harris-science-free-speech.
33. Ezra Klein, “The Sam Harris Debate,” Vox.com, April 9, 2018, https://www.vox.com/2018/4/9/17210248/sam-harris-ezra-klein-charles-murray-transcript-podcast.
34. Heather Mac Donald, “How Identity Politics Is Harming the Sciences,” City-Journal.org, Spring 2018, https://www.city-journal.org/html/how-identity-politics-harming-sciences-15826.html.
35. Lawrence H. Summers, “Remarks at NBER Conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce,” Office of the President of Harvard University, January 14, 2005, https://web.archive.org/web/20080130023006/http://www.president.harvard.edu/speeches/2005/nber.html.
36. Tom Yun, “U of T Letter Asks Jordan Peterson to Respect Pronouns, Stop Making Statements,” TheVarsity.ca, October 24, 2016, https://thevarsity.ca/2016/10/24/u-of-t-letter-asks-jordan-peterson-to-respect-pronouns-stop-making-statements/.
37. Laura Booth, “Who Is Lindsay Shepherd?” TheRecord.com, December 12, 2017, https://www.therecord.com/news-story/7992232-who-is-lindsay-shepherd-/.
38. Ben Shapiro, “The Purge: Scott Yenor and the Witch Hunt at Boise State,” WeeklyStandard.com, October 18, 2017, https://www.weeklystandard.com/ben-shapiro/the-purge-scott-yenor-and-the-witch-hunt-at-boise-state.
39. John Sexton, “Professor Notes Men Are Taller Than Women on Average, SJWs Storm Out Angrily,” HotAir.com, March 14, 2018, https://hotair.com/archives/2018/03/14/professor-points-men-taller-women-average-sjws-storm-angrily/.
40. Nick Roll, “Evergreen Professor Receives $500,000 Settlement,” InsideHigherEd.com, September 18, 2017, https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/09/18/evergreen-professor-receives-500000-settlement.
41. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” TheAtlantic.com, September 2015, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/.
42. Roy Baumeister, Evil: Inside Human Violence and Cruelty (New York: Holt Paperbacks, 1999), 45.
43. Melinda D. Anderson, “How the Stress of Racism Affects Learning,” TheAtlantic.com, October 11, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/10/how-the-stress-of-racism-affects-learning/503567/.
44. Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (New York: HarperCollins, 2015).
45. Yuval Noah Harari, “The Meaning of Life in a World without Work,” Guardian, May 8, 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book.
CONCLUSION: HOW TO BUILD
1.Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 275.
2.Ronald Reagan, Phoenix Chamber of Commerce, March 30, 1961, https://archive.org/details/RonaldReagan-EncroachingControl.
3.Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp.
4.G. K. Chesterton, The Thing (London, 1929; Martin Ward’s Home Page, 2010), http://www.gkc.org.uk/gkc/books/The_Thing.txt.
Index
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Abel, 32
abolitionism, 94, 179, 180
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abortion, 167
Abraham, 24, 29, 35, 55, 212–13
Achilles, 42
Adam, 32, 45
Adams, John, 14, 88, 92
Adorno, Theodor, 189–90
Akkad, 31
Alexievich, Svetlana, 153
Al-Farabi, 67
allegory of the cave, 42, 58
alt-right, xvi, 184, 202–3, 208
Alzheimer’s, 9
American Astronomical Society, 204
American dream, 187–88
American Enlightenment, 121–23, 127
American exceptionalism, 131
Amos, 180
Anaxagoras, 46
Anti-Defamation League, xxiii
Antigone, 42
Antiochus IV, 57
anti-Semitism, xxiii, 146–48
Apsu, 23
Aquinas, Thomas, 67–71, 74–75, 90, 170, 212
Arab world, 65–66
Aristotle, 5–7, 14, 42–45, 48, 50–53, 55, 66–67, 69–71, 76–77, 80, 82–83, 87–88, 90, 102, 106–7, 162, 188, 216
Aryanism, 146
astronomy, 68–69
atheism, 10, 100, 104–5, 114–15, 123, 133, 140, 180
Augustine, Saint, 59–61, 63–64, 69–71, 88
Augustus Caesar, emperor of Rome, 31
Austria, 130, 149
autocracy, 152
Babbitt (Lewis), 187–88
Babeuf, Gracchus, 134
Babylonians, 28
Bach, Johann S., 216
Bacon, Francis, 77–79, 107, 111, 165, 170
Bacon, Kevin, 16
Bacon, Roger, 69
Baumeister, Roy, 207
Beauvoir, Simone de, 198
Becket, Thomas, 63
Beethoven, Ludwig van, 216
Benedict, Saint, 64
Bentham, Jeremy, 110
Bible, 5, 7, 9–10, 20, 24, 27–31, 34, 36–37, 47, 65, 81, 87–89, 101, 103, 106, 123, 133, 160, 180–82, 212, 216
Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia, 91
Bismarck, Otto von, 145–46
Black Lives Matter, xix
Black Panther Party, 198
Black Power (Carmichael and Hamilton), 198
blacks, xiv, xvi–xvii, 93–94, 187, 189, 198–201, 203, 206