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4. James Alan Fox, dean of Northeastern University’s College of Criminal Justice, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, April 21, 1995, p. B1.
5. Maggie Gallagher, The Abolition of Marriage: How We Lost the Right to a Lasting Love (Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing, 1995), pp. 31–2.
6. Charles Murray, “The Coming White Underclass,” Wall Street Journal, October 29, 1993, p. A14.
7. Irving Kristol, “Welfare: The best of intentions, the worst of results,’ Atlantic Monthly, August 1971, p. 45.
8. See Looking Before We Leap: Social Science and Welfare Reform, eds. Kent R. Weaver and William T. Pickens (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1995).
9. Myron Magnet, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass (New York: William Morrow, 1993), pp. 141–2.
10. Douglas J. Besharov, “What About the Poor?: The Hope of a New Approach,” Washington Post, December 3, 1995, p. CI.
11. Joseph Tierney, Jean Baldwin Grossman, with Nancy L. Resch, Making a Difference: An Impact Study of Big Brothers/Big Sisters (Philadelphia: Public/Private Ventures, 1995).
12. John J. Dilulio, Jr., “Violent Crime and Representative Government,” Bradley Lecture Series, American Enterprise Institute, June 10, 1996.
13. “The State of Violent Crime in America,” First Report of The Council on Crime in America, The New Citizenship Project, Washington, DC, January 1996.
14. Ben J. Wattenberg, Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life (New York: The Free Press, 1995), pp. 139–57.
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.
Chapter 10
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.
Chapter 11
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.
Chapter 12
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.
8. Ibid., pp. 143–158.
9. Ibid., p. 179.
10. Albert S. Braverman and Brian Anziska, “Challenges to Science and Authority in Contemporary Medical Education,” Academic Questions, Summer 1994, p. 14.
11. See generally Roberts and Stratton, The New Color Line.
12. Ibid., p. 152.
13. Evidence cited in Roberts and Stratton, p. 89. See also Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton, “Color Code,” National Review, March 20, 1995, p. 36.
14. Sowell, p. 22.
15. See generally Gary Becker, The Economics of Discrimination (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).
16. Peter Brimelow and Leslie Spencer, “When quotas replace merit, everybody suffers,” Forbes, February, 15, 1993, p. 102.
17. Steele, p. 115.
18. Christopher Lasch, The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1995), pp. 84–5.
19. Quoted in Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton, In Defense of Liberalism (forthcoming).
20. B. Drummond Ayres, Jr., “Conservatives Forge New Strategy To Challenge Affirmative Action,” New York Times, February 16, 1995, p. A1.
21. “Campus Protest Against Slurs,” New York Times, February 16, 1995, p. A22.
22. Mary Lefkowitz, Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History (New York: Basic Books, 1996), pp. 2–4. The following account and quotations are from this work.
23. “Remark Ends a Job Candidacy,” New York Times, July 29, 1993, p. A21.
24. Michael Pack, “Campus Culture Wars,” video distributed by Direct Cinema Limited, Santa Monica, CA, 1993.
25. Nino Langiulli, “When It Came to ‘That’ at the University of Cincinnati” Measure, March 1993, p. 3.
26. Dominic Lawson, “Taboo Or Not Taboo, That Is The Question,” The Spectator, November 19, 1994, p. 9.
27. Ibid.
28. Paul Johnson, “Gone is the time when Americans led the world in saying what they thought,” The Spectator, November 26, 1994, p. 31.
29. Lawson, p. 14.
30. Ibid.
31. Michael Brenson, “Is ‘Quality’ An Idea Whose Time Has Gone?” New York Times July 22, 1990, Sec. 2, p. 1.
Chapter 13
1. Brigette Berger, “Multiculturalism and the Mode
rn University,” The Politics of Political Correctness, a special issue of Partisan Review (1993), pp. 516, 519. Gertrude Himmelfarb expresses a similar thought: “[T]here is an intimate, pervasive relationship between what happens in our schools and universities, in the intellectual and artistic communities, and what happens in society and the polity.” On Looking Into The Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), p. xii.
2. Richard Hofstadter, Anti-intellectualism in American Life (New York: Vintage Books, 1962), p. 51.
3. Ibid., p. 23.
4. Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire, quoted by John Leo, “Spicing up the (ho-hum) truth,” US. News & World Report, March 8, 1993, p. 24.
5. National Standards for United States History: Exploring the American Experience, Grades 5–12, National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.
6. Ibid., p. 44.
7. Ibid., p. 47.
8. Ibid., p. 56.
9. Daniel J. Boorstin, The Americans: The Colonial Experience (New York: Random House, 1958), pp. 53–8.
10. Lynne V. Cheney, “The End of History,” Wall Street Journal, October 20, 1994, p. A22.
11. Susan Olasky, “History Substandards,” World, April 20, 1996, p. 18.
12. National Association of Scholars, The Dissolution of General Education: 1914–1993 (Princeton: National Association of Scholars, 1996).
13. Robert J. Samuelson, “The Low State of Higher Ed,” Washington Post, September 2, 1992, p.A21.
14. The Dissolution, p. 47.
15. Todd Gitlin, “Is America overdosing on entertainment?” San Francisco Examiner, August 23, 1994, Fourth Ed., p. C2.
16. Paul Hollander, “Political correctness is alive and well on campus near you,” Washington Times, December 28, 1993, p. A19.
17. L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan, “The New Left and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s: A Reevaluation,” Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, 1995, p. 43.