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54 Robertson, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations, 133.
55 Sennett, The Hidden Injuries of Class.
56 Ellis, The Napoleonic Empire, 30.
57 Bell, “On Meritocracy and Equality,” 1972.
58 Rawls, A Theory of Justice, 86.
59 Lindsey, The Age of Abundance, 61, 65, 67, 78, 235.
60 “Environmental Housing and Life Styles,” 1971.
61 Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations.
62 Hutchinson, Nationalism, 104.
63 Tropman, Strategic Perspectives on Social Policy, 342.
64 Cloward, “The Welfare Vaudevillian,” 1979.
65 Hodgson, The Gentleman from New York, 87.
66 Shelley, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 283.
67 Lippmann, Drift and Mastery, 267.
68 Larkin, High Windows.
69 Moynihan, Came the Revolution, 262–263.
70 Wilson, On Character, 1.
Chapter 7: The Aims of Education
1 Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet, 208.
2 Washington, The Writings of George Washington, 11–13.
3 Roland, Reflections on Lee, 20.
4 Cooke, The Federalist, 9.
5 Ibid., 9.
6 Banfield, Here the People Rule, 9.
7 Cooke, The Federalist, 238–239.
8 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Henry Reeve), 397.
9 Lukacs, A New Republic, 135–136.
10 Lincoln, “Inaugural Address,” 1861.
11 Knox, The Belief of Catholics, 6.
12 Emerson, Essays and Lectures, 7.
13 Emerson, The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume III, 288.
14 Wilson, The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 274–276, 451.
15 Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 67.
16 Scalia, Scalia Speaks, 66.
17 Lincoln, Speeches and Writings, 1832–1858, 32.
18 Mann, Life of Horace Mann, 83.
19 Levin, “Edmund Burke’s Economics of Flourishing,” 2016.
20 Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed, 16, 18.
21 Harrison, The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold, 100.
22 Berns, Making Patriots, 3.
23 Ibid., 10–11.
24 Adams, “John Adams to Abigail Adams, 29 October 1775,” 1775.
25 Locke, Two Treatises on Government, 189.
26 Locke, The Conduct of the Understanding, 8.
27 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 5, 9.
28 Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, 216, 236–237, 240.
29 Cooke, The Federalist, 419.
30 Sandefur, Frederick Douglass, 5.
31 Harlan, The Degradation of American History, xv–xix, 3.
32 Ibid., xix, xxi.
33 Lorenz, On Aggression.
34 Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost, 325.
35 Will, The Woven Figure, 325.
36 Ibid., 144.
37 Levine, “Speaking for the Humanities,” 1989.
38 Berns, Making Patriots, 79.
39 Jefferson, “From Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush, 23 September 1800,” 1800.
40 Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, 37.
41 Holowchak, Thomas Jefferson and Philosophy, 46.
42 Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, 376.
43 Boller, Presidential Campaigns, 112.
44 Cather, The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK, 377.
45 Nichols, The Death of Expertise, 73.
46 Truss, Talk to the Hand, 36, 85, 123, 164.
47 “Wellesley Statement from CERE Faculty,” 2017.
48 Nichols, The Death of Expertise, x, 3–4, 25, 30, 35–36, 99, 118.
49 Ibid., 9, 14, 106, 203.
50 Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult, 212.
51 Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, 20.
52 Will, With a Happy Eye But…, 184.
53 Will, The Morning After, 392.
54 Sasse, The Vanishing American Adult, 220.
55 Will, With a Happy Eye But…, 189.
56 Dinwiddy, Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 421.
57 Hughes, Consciousness and Society, 4, 74.
58 Ibid., 39.
59 Marx, Das Kapital, xvii, xix.
60 Graham, The Spanish Civil War, 12, 84, 86.
61 Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay, 185–187.
62 Ibid., 196–197.
63 Freedman, Millay at 100, 120.
64 Dienstag, Pessimism, 5, 118, 168, 202.
65 Ibid., 12, 17–18, 21, 40, 42, 79.
66 Ibid., 41, 79, 187, 195.
67 Ibid., 221, 270–272.
Chapter 8: Going Abroad
1 James, Letters, Volume 3, 282.
2 Tennyson, Locksley Hall, 53.
3 Nau, Conservative Internationalism, 164.
4 MacMillan, Paris 1919, 338.
5 Smith, FDR, 170.
6 MacMillan, Paris 1919, xxviii, 11.
7 Will, One Man’s America, 32.
8 Wilson, “Address to Congress on International Order,” 1918.
9 Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, 262–263.
10 Will, The Leveling Wind, 357.
11 Will, With a Happy Eye But…, 84.
12 Lippmann, The Stakes of Diplomacy, 9–10.
13 Steel, Walter Lippmann and the American Century, 133–134.
14 Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War,” 109.
15 Meyer, Pax Ethnica, 24.
16 Will, “Bedeviled by Ethnicity,” 1992.
17 MacMillan, Paris 1919, 42, 132, 435.
18 Ibid., 23–24.
19 Stelzer, The Neocon Reader, 132.
20 Nau, Conservative Internationalism, 172.
21 Lukacs, A New Republic, 319.
22 Berns, Making Patriots, 8.
23 James, Letters, Volume 3, 282.
24 Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job, 84.
25 “Brady’s Photographs,” 1862.
26 Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 4.
27 Miller, Norman Angell and the Futility of War, 9.
28 Brooke, 1914 and Other Poems, 69.
29 Cohen, Identities in Crisis in Iran, 147.
30 Will, The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts, 23.
31 Will, Suddenly, 3.
32 Bullock, Hitler and Stalin, 633.
33 Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners, 23.
34 McCloskey, The Bourgeois Virtues, 283.
35 Fest, Hitler, 69.
36 Eksteins, Rites of Spring, 312.
37 James, Memories and Studies, 303.
38 Bell, Sociological Journeys, 327.
39 Nisbet, Prejudices, 22–23, 27.
40 Greenhouse, “Conflict in the Balkans,” 1995.
41 Brodie, From Crossbow to H-Bomb, 234.
42 Will, The Pursuit of Happiness and Other Sobering Thoughts, 229.
43 Hakim, War, Peace and All that Jazz, 187.
44 Wenzi, A Conscious Endeavor, 146.
45 Addison, The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, 180.
46 Warner, A Library of the World’s Best Literature, 141.
47 Wood, Empire of Liberty, 357.
48 Lukacs, A New Republic, 221.
49 Zwonitzer, The Statesman and the Storyteller, 481.
50 Lukacs, A New Republic, 204, 210, 213.
51 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 176.
52 Zwonitzer, The Statesman and the Storyteller, 413–414.
53 Hawley, Theodore Roosevelt, 138.
54 Zwonitzer, The Statesman and the Storyteller, 375.
55 Lukacs, A New Republic, 203.
56 Blum, Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality, 89–90.
57 Dean, Warren G. Harding, 100.
58 Fischer, Liberty and Freedom, 517.
59 Morison, The Rising Sun in the Pacific, 210.
60 Steel, Walter Lippmann and the
American Century, 409.
61 Stahel, The Battle for Moscow, 309.
62 Sandler, The Korean War, 233.
63 Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, 667.
64 Lewis, Main Street.
65 Judis, The Folly of Empire, 11.
66 Kennedy, “Address of Senator John F. Kennedy Accepting the Democratic Party Nomination for the Presidency of the United States,” 1960.
67 Johnson, “Address at Johns Hopkins University,” 1965.
68 Johnson, “Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union,” 1966.
69 Hayward, The Age of Reagan, 114.
70 Ibid., 108.
71 Greene, The Quiet American, 60.
72 Boot, The Road Not Taken, 223, 429–430.
73 Hayward, The Age of Reagan, 41, 71, 111, 154.
74 Himmelfarb, The Moral Imagination, 188.
75 Marlantes, “The Bloody Pivot,” 2017.
76 Boot, The Savage Wars of Peace, xxii; Scott, President Wilson’s Foreign Policy, 389.
77 Krames, The Rumsfeld Way, 117.
78 “Two Hundred and Seventeenth Day,” 1946.
79 Bush, “Commencement Address at the United States Military Academy in West Point,” 2002.
80 Moynihan, Secrecy, 179.
81 Bush, “Remarks at the American Enterprise Institute Dinner,” 2003.
82 Will, The Morning After, 300, 383.
83 Bush, “The President’s New Conference,” 2004.
84 Bush, “Inaugural Address,” 2005.
85 Bush, “Remarks on the War on Terror,” 2005.
86 Wilson, The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 294.
87 Nelson, Thomas Paine, 215–216.
88 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 36.
89 Fadiman, Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes, 321.
90 Blair, Tony Blair in His Own Words, 249.
91 Bush, “Remarks on the 20th Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy,” 2003.
92 Reagan, “Address to Members of the British Parliament,” 1982.
93 Rice, “National Security Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice Discusses War on Terror at Reagan Library and Museum,” 2004.
94 Bush, “Remarks in Halifax, Canada,” 2004.
95 Kennedy, “Inaugural Address,” 1961.
96 Trotsky, Literature and Revolution, 207.
97 Stoppard, Travesties, 12.
98 Will, With a Happy Eye But…, 83.
99 Will, Suddenly, 73.
100 Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow, 33.
101 Marx, The Communist Manifesto.
102 Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man, 51, 135.
103 Ibid., 3.
104 Buchanan, Day of Reckoning, 132.
105 Kennedy, “Inaugural Address,” 1961; Buchanan, Day of Reckoning, 132.
106 Buchanan, Day of Reckoning, 132.
107 Buchanan, “The Good Neocon,” 2007.
108 Jefferson, “From Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 19 June 1802,” 1802.
109 Kissinger, World Order, 236–237, 279.
110 Ibid., 245.
111 Ibid., 257–258, 271.
112 Kagan, On The Origins of War, 567.
113 Cleva, Henry Kissinger and the American Approach to Foreign Policy, 97.
114 Nixon, “Remarks to Midwestern News Media Executives Attending a Briefing on Domestic Policy in Kansas City, Missouri,” 1971.
115 Diggins, Ronald Reagan, 412.
116 Hayward, The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 442.
117 Gorbachev, “Text of Gorbachev’s Speech to the United Nations,” 1988.
118 Reagan, The Last Best Hope, 20.
119 Lincoln, Lincoln: Speeches and Writings, 1859–1865, 6.
120 Yeats, “The Second Coming.”
121 Jefferson, “Thomas Jefferson to Roger Weightman,” 1826.
122 Lefever, America’s Imperial Burden, 132.
123 Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream, 115, 124–125.
124 Judis, The Folly of Empire, 114.
125 Berlin, Against the Current, 94.
126 Kagan, On the Origins of War, 1, 566–567, 570.
Chapter 9: Welcoming Whirl
1 Combs, The Comedy of Democracy, 84.
2 Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 159.
3 Paul II, Collected Poems, 39.
4 Weeks, Stalin’s Other War, 32.
5 Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebook, 344.
6 Will, With a Happy Eye But…, 102.
7 Ratcliffe, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 406.
8 Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Henry Reeve), 626–628.
9 Kristol, Neoconservatism, 134.
10 Handlin, The Popular Sources of Political Authority, 442–443.
11 Larson, The Return of George Washington, 116.
12 Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 8, 400.
13 Himmelfarb, The Moral Imagination, 239.
14 Matthew 22:21 KJV.
15 Berns, Making Patriots, 30, 33.
16 Ibid., 32, 43.
17 Jones, The Black Book, 61.
18 Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, 39–40, 54.
19 Allen, Moral Minority, 27.
20 Adams, The Works of John Adams, 67, 85.
21 Allen, Moral Minority, 77.
22 Ibid., xii, 105, 116, 138, 142.
23 Marx, Critique of Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right,” 131.
24 Allen, Moral Minority, 72.
25 Keller, America’s Three Regimes, 40.
26 Cooke, The Federalist, 62.
27 Allen, Moral Minority, 91.
28 Paine, The Age of Reason, Volume II, 86.
29 Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: 1816–1826, 220.
30 Heidler, Washington’s Circle, 34–35.
31 De Vries, The Mackerel Plaza, 7, 28.
32 Will, The Morning After, 175.
33 Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952).
34 Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984).
35 Washington, “Inaugural Address,” 1789.
36 Washington, “Washington’s Farewell Address 1796,” 1796.
37 Oshisanya, An Almanac of Contemporary and Comparative Judicial Restatements, 1052.
38 Eisenhower, “Religion,” 1952.
39 Paul, Natural Rights Individualism and Progressivism in American Political Philosophy, 34–35.
40 Andrews, Famous Lines, 251.
41 Ehrenberg, Civil Society, 65.
42 Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason, 304.
43 Jefferson, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, 976.
44 Wood, Empire of Liberty, 577–587.
45 Rasmussen, The Infidel and the Professor, 152.
46 Adams, The Works of John Adams, 415.
47 Spalding, We Still Hold These Truths, 139.
48 Adams, “From John Adams to Mercy Otis Warren, 16 April 1776,” 1776.
49 Kirk, The Essential Russell Kirk, 52.
50 Kirk, The Conservative Mind, 29–32, 62, 66, 80, 184.
51 Clarke, The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe, 583.
52 Jefferson, “Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 12 October 1813,” 1813.
53 Jefferson, The Works of Thomas Jefferson, 210.
54 Jefferson, The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia, 545.
55 Jefferson, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Volume II, 103.
56 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 364.
57 Sacks, “Cultural Climate Change,” 2017.
58 Himmelfarb, One Nation, Two Cultures, 87.
59 Maxwell, “Molecular Evolution.”
60 Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, 236–238.
61 Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat, xx, 60.
62 Gottlieb, The Dream of Reason, 205.
63 Kaku, Einstein’s Cosmos, 61.
64 Ibid., 127.
65 Feynman, The Character of Physical Law, 129.
66 Kaku, Einstein’s Cosmos, 129.
67 Freud, The Futur
e of an Illusion, 99.
68 Rees, Our Cosmic Habitat, 75.
69 Miller, Discovering Molecular Genetics, 6.
70 Henley, A Book of Verses, 57.
71 Koestler, The Ghost in the Machine.
72 Ryle, The Concept of the Mind.
73 Snyder, Black Earth, 1, 4–6.
74 Updike, A Month of Sundays, 28.
75 Updike, Rabbit at Rest, 273.
76 Wilson, Moral Judgment, 23.
77 Wilson, American Politics, Then & Now, 186.
78 Sumner, What Social Classes Owe Each Other, 114.
79 De Vries, The Blood of the Lamb, 207–208.
80 Wilbur, Collected Poems, 30.
81 Turner, On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection, 1.
82 Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Volume 8, 224.
83 Quammen, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin, 38, 207, 217.
84 Fadiman, The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes, 343.
85 James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, 53.
86 Crane, The Meaning of Belief, 8–9, 12, 65.
87 Ibid., 11, 21.
88 Ibid., 78.
89 Greenblatt, The Swerve, 5–6.
90 Ibid., 7, 10.
91 Darwin, The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, 224.
92 Kirby, An Introduction to Entomology, 344.
93 Darwin, The Origin of the Species, 478.
94 Genesis 2:7 KJV.
95 Himmelfarb, Victorian Minds, 206.
96 Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.
97 Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth.
98 Clark, Civilisation, 123.
Chapter 10: Borne Back
1 Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water, 201.
2 Lehman, The Oxford Book of American Poetry, 270–271.
3 Cooke, The Federalist, 3.
4 Ibid., 594.
5 Webster, The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster, 253–254.
6 Lincoln, Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, 28, 36.
7 Cervantes, The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, 113.
8 Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, 662–676.
9 The Bhagavad Gita, 55.
10 Lincoln, Great Speeches, 25.
11 Lincoln, “Address at the Dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 1863.”
12 Kristol, “The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy, by J. L. Talmon,” 1952.
13 Moynihan, Counting Our Blessings.
14 Washington, “Circular to the States,” 1783.
15 Emerson, Emerson, 291.
16 Hughes, Consciousness and Society, 171.
17 Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 150, 190.
18 Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2, 54.