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34.
   
Conor Friedersdorf, “Why ‘If We Can Save Just One Child . . .' Is a Bad Argument,”
Atlantic
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35.
   
Adam Gopnik, “Guns on the Screen: A Failure of the Liberal Imagination?,”
New Yorker
, April 11, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/04/guns-on-the-screen-a-failure-of-the-liberal-imagination.html.

36.
   
Traffic data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/People/PeopleAllVictims.aspx. Gun data from National Center for Health Statistics, http://webappa.cdc.gov/cgi-bin/broker.exe. See also Tom Vanderbilt, “Don't Turn Left!,”
Slate
, August 1, 2011, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/transport/2011/07/dont_turn_left.html.

37.
   
Michael Tomasky, “A Shameful Day in the Senate,”
Daily Beast
, April 18, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/04/18/a-shameful-day-in-the-senate.html.

38.
   
Adam Gopnik, “The Cultural Fight for Guns,”
New Yorker
, April 4, 2013, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/04/the-cultural-fight-for-guns.html.

39.
   
Ibid.; Friedersdorf, “Why ‘If We Can Save Just One Child . . .' Is a Bad Argument.”

40.
   
Sanford Levinson, “The Embarrassing Second Amendment,”
Yale Law Journal
99 (1989): 637–59. See also Randy Barnett, “Constitutional Conventions,”
Claremont Review of Books
, Summer 2007, http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1382/article_detail.asp.

41.
   
Barnett, “Constitutional Conventions”; Jeffrey Goldberg, “The Case for More Guns (and More Gun Control),”
Atlantic
, November 28, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-case-for-more-guns-and-more-gun-control/309161.

42.
   
Goldberg, “More Guns.”

43.
   
Noam Scheiber, “Can We Please Drop the Gun Rights PC-Ness?,”
New Republic
, July 23, 2012, http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/plank/105264/can-we-please-drop-the-gun-rights-pc-ness.

44.
   
Joel Mathis, “Maybe Noam Scheiber Should Pipe Down,”
Cup o' Joel
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45.
   
Goldberg, “More Guns.”

46.
   
Nedra Pickler, “Obama Taking Executive Action on Guns,”
Real Clear Politics
, April 19, 2013, http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/obama_taking_executive_action_on_guns_118044.html.

47.
   
Julie Pace, “Obama Proposes Firearms Background Check Changes,” Associated Press, January 3, 2014, http://news.yahoo.com/obama-proposes-firearm-background-check-changes-180246697--politics.html.

48.
   
David Remnick, “No More Magical Thinking,”
New Yorker
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49.
   
John Tierney, “Recycling Is Garbage,”
New York Times Magazine
, June 30, 1996; Julian Sanchez, “Fifth Columnist,”
Reason
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50.
   
Tierney, “Recycling Is Garbage”; Sanchez, “Fifth Columnist.”

51.
   
Steven F. Hayward,
Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, 2008
(San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute, 2008), pp. 58–61.

52.
   
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, “What Conservatives Can Teach Liberals About Global Warming Policy,” NewGeography.com, October 1, 2013, http://www.newgeography.com/content/003963-what-conservatives-can-teach-liberals-about-global-warming-policy.

53.
   
U.S. Energy Information Administration,
Annual Energy Review, 2011
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54.
   
Megan McArdle, “What Are We Going to Do About Carbon?,”
Daily Beast
, June 25, 2013, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/how-we-imagine-carbon-control.html.

55.
   
Michael O'Hare, “Things We Won't Hear in the Big Climate Speech Tomorrow,”
Reality-Based Community
, June 24, 2013, http://www.samefacts.com/2013/06/politics-and-leadership/things-we-wont-hear-in-the-big-climate-change-speech-tomorrow/.

56.
   
McArdle, “What Are We Going to Do About Carbon?”

57.
   
O'Hare, “Things We Won't Hear in the Big Climate Speech Tomorrow.”

58.
   
Sontag, essay for “What's Happening in America (A Symposium),” p. 58; Paul Watson, “The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know It on Planet Earth?,” Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, May 4, 2007, http://www.seashepherd.org/commentary-and-editorials/2008/10/30/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-life-as-we-know-it-on-planet-earth-340.

59.
   
Watson, “The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know It on Planet Earth?”; Vaclav Smil, “Global Population: Milestones, Hopes, and Concerns,”
Medicine and Global Survival
, October 1998, pp. 105–108.

60.
   
Watson, “The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know It on Planet Earth?”

61.
   
“The Downside of Diversity,”
Economist
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62.
   
William M. Chace, “Affirmative Inaction,”
American Scholar
, Winter 2012, http://theamericanscholar.org/affirmative-inaction.

63.
   
Dahlia Lithwick, “The Legal Fiction of ‘Diversity,'”
Slate
, May 16, 2002, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2002/05/the_legal_fiction_of_diversity.single.html.

64.
   
Sara Rimer and Karen W. Arenson, “Top Colleges Take More Blacks, but Which Ones?,”
New York Times
, June 24, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/24/us/top-colleges-take-more-blacks-but-which-ones.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm.

65.
   
Nicholas Lemann, “Taking Affirmative Action Apart,”
New York Times Magazine
, June 11, 1995.

66.
   
Julie Marquis, “Liposuction Doctor Has License Revoked,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 26, 1998, http://articles.latimes.com/1998/aug/26/news/mn-16736; Eric Malnic, “Doctor in Landmark Anti-Bias Case Slain,”
Los Angeles Times
, August 13, 2002, http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/13/local/me-chavis13.

67.
   
Richard Sander and Stuart Taylor Jr., “The Painful Truth About Affirmative Action,”
Atlantic
, October 2, 2012, http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/10/the-painful-truth-about-affirmative-action/263122/.

68.
   
Balamurali Ambati, “Health Care,” blog post, July 25, 2009, http://daylightsmark.blogspot.com/2009/07/health-care-those-who-are-not-liberal.html. See also Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, and Jessica C. Smith, U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, P60-235,
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2008).

69.
   
Virginia Postrel, Dynamist blog, http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003001.html, http://www.dynamist.com/weblog/archives/003003.html.

70.
   
Barack Obama, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress,” February 24, 2009, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=85753.

71.
   
Sarah Kliff, “Study: Expanding Medicaid Doesn't Reduce ER Trips. It Increases Them,”
Washington Post
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72.
   
Richard A. Serrano, “High-Tech Border Fence Is Slow Going,”
Los Angeles Times
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73.
   
Nicholas Kristof, “Prudence or Cruelty?,”
New York Times
, November 16, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/prudence-or-cruelty.html.

74.
   
Nicholas Kristof, “This Is Why We Need Obamacare,”
New York Times
, November 2, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/opinion/sunday/kristof-this-is-why-we-need-obamacare.html.

75.
   
Peter Schrag, “In California, the Minority Still Rules,”
California Progress Report
, July 11, 2011, http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site/california-minority-still-rules.

76.
   
The expenditure calculations are based on U.S. Census Bureau data on state and local finances (available at http://www.census.gov/govs/estimate/) and state population estimates (http://www.census.gov/popest/data/historical/index.html). The GDP chained price index used to adjust expenditures for inflation is available in Historical Table 10.1 of the
Budget for the U.S. Government in 2013
, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUDGET-2013-TAB/xls/BUDGET-2013-TAB-10-1.xls.

77.
   
Andrew Ferguson, “Staggering Idiocy,”
Weekly Standard
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78.
   
Barack Obama, “Address Before a Joint Session of the Congress on the State of the Union,” January 25, 2011, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88928.

79.
   
William J. Clinton, “Remarks Announcing the National Performance Review,” March 3, 1993, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=46291&st=&st1=.

80.
   
Matt Bai, “What Obama Still Hasn't Figured Out About Being President,”
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81.
   
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “2012 HHS Poverty Guidelines,” http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12poverty.shtml.

82.
   
William A. Galston, “Where Left and Right Agree on Inequality,”
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1.
     
William Graham Sumner, “The Forgotten Man,” in
The Forgotten Man and Other Essays
, ed. Albert Galloway Keller (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1918), http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/2396/226423.

2.
     
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Radio Address from Albany, New York: ‘The “Forgotten Man” Speech,'” April 7, 1932, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=88408.

3.
     
For a pro-Sumner account of the shift from his to Roosevelt's interpretation of the undeservedly neglected, see Amity Shlaes,
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression
(New York: Harper, 2007).

4.
     
Penn Jillette, “I Don't Know, So I'm an Atheist Libertarian,” CNN, August 17, 2011, http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/16/jillette.atheist.libertarian/index.html.

5.
     
Henry Louis Mencken,
Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks
(New York: Knopf, 1956), p. 247.

6.
     
Republican Party Platform of 1936, June 9, 1936, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29639.

7.
     
Friedrich A. von Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom
(1944; reprint, New York: Routledge Classics, 2001), pp. 13–14.

8.
     
William F. Buckley Jr.,
Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus
(New York: Encounter Books, 2009), p. 20.

9.
     
Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address, January 11, 1989, http://www.reaganlibrary.net/.

10.
   
Michael Duffy and Michael Scherer, “The Role Model: What Obama Sees in Reagan,”
Time
, January 27, 2011, http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2044712-1,00.html.

11.
   
Barack Obama, “Commencement Address at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio,” May 5, 2013, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=103570&st=&st1.

12.
   
Jess Bravin, “Fight Against EPA Orders Heads to Supreme Court,”
Wall Street Journal
, January 9, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203436904577149001510886324.html.