The Pity Party (37 page)

34.
   
Ibid.

35.
   
Carol Swain, “Apply Compassion Shown Illegal Immigrants to the Most Vulnerable Citizens,”
Boston Review
, May/June 2009, http://bostonreview.net/forum/case-amnesty/apply-compassion-offered-illegal-immigrants-most-vulnerable-citizens-carol-swain.

36.
   
Joseph H. Carens, “Joseph H. Carens Responds,”
Boston Review
, May/June 2009, http://bostonreview.net/forum/case-amnesty/joseph-h-carens-responds.

37.
   
Letter to Senator Orrin Hatch, July 9, 1991, http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/king-letter.pdf.

38.
   
Christopher Jencks, “Who Should Get In? An Exchange,”
New York Review of Books
, May 23, 2002, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2002/may/23/who-should-get-in-an-exchange/?pagination=false&printpage=true.

39.
   
Mickey Kaus, “Three Sides to Amnesty in a Nutshell,”
Daily Caller
, May 8, 2013, http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/08/three-sides-to-amnesty-in-a-nutshell/.

40.
   
Carens, “Carens Responds.”

41.
   
Timothy Egan, “As Idaho Booms, Prisons Fill and Spending on Poor Lags,”
New York Times
, April 16, 1998, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F30714FF3F580C758DDDAD0894D0494D81.

42.
   
Deirdre McCloskey,
The Bourgeois Virtues
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).

43.
   
Jonathan Cohn, “Blue States Are from Scandinavia, Red States Are from Guatemala,”
New Republic
, October 5, 2012, http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/magazine/108185/blue-states-are-scandinavia-red-states-are-guatemala.

44.
   
Calculations based on Census Bureau Table 14, State Population—Rank, Percent Change, and Population Density, 1980 to 2010, http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0014.pdf.

45.
   
Edward L. Glaeser, “Young Workers Can't Afford Homes in the State,”
Boston Globe
, June 14, 2012, http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/editorials/2012/06/14/good-luck-attracting-talent-young-workers-can-afford-homes-massachusetts/Wdxx8pEyWT20khdIMZZkWM/story.html.

46.
   
J. P. Donlon, “2014 Best and Worst States for Business,”
Chief Executive
, May 8, 2014, http://chiefexecutive.net/2014-best-worst-states-for-business.

47.
   
Cohn, “Blue States Are from Scandinavia, Red States Are from Guatemala.”

48.
   
Suzanne Daley, “Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault,”
New York Times
, April 20, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/europe/danes-rethink-a-welfare-state-ample-to-a-fault.html?hpw&_r=0.

49.
   
Mark Steyn, “America Must Learn from Our Laziest Woman,”
Telegraph
, February 2, 2004, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3602966/America-must-learn-from-our-laziest-woman.html.

50.
   
Daley, “Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault.”

51.
   
Frédéric Bastiat,
Selected Essays on Political Economy
, trans. Seymour Cain, 1995, Library of Economics and Liberty, http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html.

52.
   
Charles Murray, “The Trouble with Taking the Trouble out of Everything,”
Wall Street Journal
, March 25, 2009, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123793074783930483.html.

53.
   
C. S. Lewis,
The Problem of Pain
(New York: Macmillan, 1962), p. 40.

54.
   
Ibid., pp. 40–41.

55.
   
Daley, “Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault.”

56.
   
Ross Douthat, “Can We Be Sweden?,”
New York Times
, November 21, 2012, http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/can-we-be-sweden.

57.
   
Keith Caulfield, “President Obama's DNC Speech Boosts Springsteen Song Sales by 409%,”
Billboard
, September 12, 2012, http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/retail/1083793/president-obamas-dnc-speech-boosts-bruce-springsteen-song-sales-by; Statement by the President on the One-Year Anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, October 29, 2013, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/10/29/statement-president-one-year-anniversary-hurricane-sandy.

58.
   
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, Book I, Chapter 14, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/1_ch14.htm.

59.
   
Jerry Z. Muller, “Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism,”
Foreign Affairs
, March/April 2008.

60.
   
Samuel P. Huntington,
Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), p. 111.

61.
   
Federalist Papers, No. 2, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed02.asp.

62.
   
John Fonte, “Jack Kemp's Huddled Masses,”
National Review
, November 11, 2013, p. 33.

63.
   
Christopher Jencks, “Who Should Get In? Part II,”
New York Review of Books
, December 20, 2001, http://www.nybooks.com.ccl.idm.oclc.org/articles/archives/2001/dec/20/who-should-get-in-part-ii/.

64.
   
Ibid.

65.
   
John Lloyd, “Study Paints Bleak Picture of Ethnic Diversity,”
Financial Times
, October 8, 2006, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/c4ac4a74-570f-11db-9110-0000779e2340.html?siteedition=uk#axzz2mLtXdfst.

66.
   
Richard Florida, “The Paradox of Diverse Communities,”
Atlantic
, November 19, 2013, http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/11/paradox-diverse-communities/7614/.

67.
   
Lloyd, “Study Paints Bleak Picture of Ethnic Diversity.”

68.
   
Goodhart, “Why the Left Is Wrong About Immigration.”

1.
     
Quoted in William E. Leuchtenburg, “The Achievement of the New Deal,” in Harvard Sitkoff, ed.,
Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1985), pp. 220–21.

2.
     
Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” January 21, 2013, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=102827.

3.
     
David N. Bass, “Pelosi's Children,”
American Spectator
, February 6, 2009, http://spectator.org/articles/42179/pelosis-children.

4.
     
William J. Clinton, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union,” January 23, 1996, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=53091.

5.
     
Mickey Kaus, “The Godmother,”
New Republic
, February 15, 1993.

6.
     
Matt Miller, “What Typhoon Haiyan Tells Us About Obamacare,”
Washington Post
, November 13, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matt-miller-what-typhoon-haiyan-tells-us-about-obamacare/2013/11/13/0438c394-4c08-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html.

7.
     
Rheta Childe Dorr,
What Eight Million Women Want
(Boston: Small, Maynard, 1910), retrieved at Project Gutenberg, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12226/12226-h/12226-h.htm#CHAPTER_XI.

8.
     
Hillary Rodham Clinton,
It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), pp. 11–13.

9.
     
Jean Bethke Elshtain, “Suffer the Little Children,”
New Republic
, March 4, 1996.

10.
   
MSNBC promo spot,
Real Clear Politics
, April 9, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/04/08/msnbc_ad_kids_dont_belong_to_their_parents_its_collective_responsibility.html.

11.
   
Melissa Harris-Perry, “Why Caring for Children Is Not Just a Parent's Job,” MSNBC, April 9, 2013, http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/why-caring-children-not-just-parent.

12.
   
Elshtain, “Suffer the Little Children.”

13.
   
James Q. Wilson, “Why We Don't Marry,”
City Journal
, Winter 2002, http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_1_why_we.html.

14.
   
Joe Klein, “The Original Power Couple,”
New Republic
, October 10, 1994, pp. 42–43; Tamara K. Hareven,
Eleanor Roosevelt: An American Conscience
(Chicago: Quadrangle, 1968), pp. 175–80.

15.
   
John O'Sullivan, “What Jackie Did Next,”
American Conservative
, January 14, 2008, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-jackie-did-next/.

16.
   
James Piereson, “Lincoln and Kennedy: A Tale of Two Assassinations,”
Real Clear Politics
, July 27, 2007, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/06/lincoln_and_kennedy_a_tale_of.html.

17.
   
George Packer, “Leaving Dealey Plaza,”
New Yorker
, October 15, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/10/leaving-dealey-plaza.html.

18.
   
Lyndon B. Johnson, “Special Message to the Congress Proposing a Nationwide War on the Sources of Poverty,” March 16, 1964, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=26109.

19.
   
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978), p. 824; Steven F. Hayward,
The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980–1989
(New York: Crown Forum, 2009), p. 115.

20.
   
Schlesinger,
Robert Kennedy and His Times
, pp. 68, 882–83; Jules Witcover,
85 Days: The Last Campaign of Robert Kennedy
(New York: Putnam, 1969), p. 165.

21.
   
Nicholas Lemann, “America Right and Left,”
Atlantic
, April 1998, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98apr/leftrite.htm.

22.
   
David Burnham, “Schlesinger Calls Violence a U.S. Trait,”
New York Times
, June 6, 1968, http://partners.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/specials/schlesinger-violence.html.

23.
   
Thomas Sowell,
Intellectuals and Race
(New York: Basic Books, 2013), p. 31.

24.
   
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “A Suggestion on the Negro Problem,”
American Journal of Sociology
14, no. 1 (July 1908): 78–85.

25.
   
David M. Kennedy,
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 764.

26.
   
Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom,
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible: Race in Modern America
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), p. 104, 564n22.

27.
   
Michael Barone,
Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan
(New York: Free Press, 1990), p. 287.

28.
   
Nicholas Lemann,
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America
(New York: Knopf, 1991), pp. 111–12.

29.
   
John F. Kennedy: “Radio and Television Report to the American People on Civil Rights,” June 11, 1963, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9271.

30.
   
Quoted in Carl Solberg,
Hubert Humphrey: A Biography
(New York: Norton, 1984), p. 297.

31.
   
Susan Sontag, essay for “What's Happening in America (A Symposium),”
Partisan Review
, Winter 1967, pp. 57–58.

32.
   
Christopher Hitchens, “Susan Sontag: Remembering an Intellectual Heroine,”
Slate
, December 29, 2004, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/obit/2004/12/susan_sontag.html; Sontag, essay for “What's Happening in America (A Symposium),” p. 58.

33.
   
Stephan Thernstrom, “The Kerner Commission Report Lacks Credibility,” Heritage Foundation lecture on the Kerner Commission Report, March 13, 1998, http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-kerner-commission-report.

34.
   
Kaus, “Up from Altruism,” p. 18.

35.
   
Jean Bethke Elshtain, “The Hard Questions,”
New Republic
, September 30, 1996, p. 29.

36.
   
Glenn C. Loury, “The Return of the Undeserving Poor,”
Atlantic
, February 2001, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/02/the-return-of-the-undeserving-poor/302102/.

37.
   
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Acceptance Speech for the Renomination for the Presidency, Philadelphia, Pa.,” June 27, 1936, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15314.