The Pity Party (40 page)

13.
   
Jonathan H. Adler, “Sackett Oral Argument,”
Volokh Conspiracy
, January 9, 2012, http://www.volokh.com/2012/01/09/sackett-oral-argument/; Lyle Denniston, “A Weak Defense of EPA,” SCOTUS Blog, January 9, 2012, http://www.scotusblog.com/2012/01/a-weak-defense-of-epa/.

14.
   
“The Sacketts and the Clean Water Act,”
New York Times
, January 9, 2012, p. 18.

15.
   
Ilya Somin, “Unanimous Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Property Owners in Sackett v. EPA,”
Volokh Conspiracy
, March 21, 2012, http://www.volokh.com/2012/03/21/unanimous-supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-property-owners-in-sackett-v-epa.

16.
   
Sarah Conly, “Three Cheers for the Nanny State,”
New York Times
, March 24, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/25/opinion/three-cheers-for-the-nanny-state.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130325&.

17.
   
Ibid.

18.
   
Ben Adler, “Ban the Bats,”
American Prospect
, April 24, 2007, http://prospect.org/article/ban-bats.

19.
   
Sarah O. Conly, Bowdoin College faculty biography, http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/s/sconly/.

20.
   
C. S. Lewis,
God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
(Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1970), p. 292.

21.
   
Lionel Trilling,
The Liberal Imagination
(New York: Viking, 1950), p. 221.

22.
   
Patricia Murphy, “The Senate's Last Compassionate Conservative Tries to Help the Jobless,”
Daily Beast
, January 7, 2014, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/07/the-senate-s-last-compassionate-conservative-tries-to-help-the-jobless.html.

23.
   
Elizabeth Harrington, “Mass. Gov. Knocks ‘Hard Right' for Wanting to ‘Shrink Government, Cut Taxes, Crush Unions,'”
CNS News
, June 15, 2012, http://cnsnews.com/news/article/mass-gov-knocks-hard-right-wanting-shrink-government-cut-taxes-crush-unions.

24.
   
The video is available at http://www.youtube.com/user/charlottein2012.

25.
   
Steven M. Teles, “The Eternal Return of Compassionate Conservatism,”
National Affairs
, Fall 2009, http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-eternal-return-of-compassionate-conservatism.

26.
   
George Bush, “Inaugural Address,” January 20, 1989, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=16610.

27.
   
George W. Bush, “Remarks Announcing Candidacy for the Republican Presidential Nomination,” June 12, 1999, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=77819.

28.
   
George W. Bush, “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia,” August 3, 2000, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25954.

29.
   
John DiIulio, “John DiIulio's Letter,”
Esquire
, October 24, 2002, http://www.esquire.com/features/dilulio.

30.
   
“Births: Final Data for 2011,” National Vital Statistics Reports, vol. 62, no. 1, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr62/nvsr62_01.pdf#table16.

31.
   
Josh Mitchell, “About Half of Kids with Single Moms Live in Poverty,”
Wall Street Journal
, November 25, 2013, http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/11/25/about-half-of-kids-with-single-moms-live-in-poverty/.

32.
   
Milton Friedman,
Capitalism and Freedom
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962), p. 191.

33.
   
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Campaign Address at Detroit, Michigan,” October 2, 1932, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=88393.

34.
   
Ibid.

35.
   
Ibid.; Leon Wieseltier, “Climates,”
New Republic
, August 6, 2007, http://www.tnr.com/columnists/story.html?id=908491de-b0d0-4d2b-8b1e-7bca0fb8bed8&p=1.

36.
   
Computations based on OECD Social Expenditures Database (http://www.oecd.org/social/expenditure.htm) and OECD Factbook 2013 data on gross national income (http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/economics/oecd-factbook-2013/national-income-per-capita_factbook-2013-22-en). Gross national income is a slightly different measure than gross domestic product. As the Factbook explains, “Whereas GDP refers to the income generated by production activities on the economic territory of the country, GNI measures the income generated by the residents of a country, whether earned on the domestic territory or abroad.”

37.
   
Alan Wolfe,
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), p. 142.

38.
   
George Lakoff, “The Price of Our Freedom,”
Huffington Post
, December 17, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-lakoff/the-price-of-our-freedom_b_2314658.html.

39.
   
Bertrand de Jouvenel,
The Ethics of Redistribution
(1952; reprint, Indianapolis: Liberty Press, 1990), pp. 54–57.

40.
   
Hamill, “Doing Good,” p. 39.

41.
   
Joseph Cropsey, “Conservatism and Liberalism,” in Robert A. Goldwin, ed.,
Left, Right and Center: Essays on Liberalism and Conservatism in the United States
(Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965), p. 54.

42.
   
Robert Kuttner,
Revolt of the Haves: Tax Rebellions and Hard Times
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1980), p. 103.

43.
   
U.S. Census Bureau,
Public Education Finances: 2011
, G11-ASPEF (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2013), p. 8.

44.
   
William A. Fischel, “How Judges Are Making Public Schools Worse,”
City Journal
, Summer 1998, http://www.city-journal.org/html/8_3_how_judges.html.

45.
   
Richard Rorty,
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 86.

46.
   
Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “A Terrifying Honesty,”
Atlantic
, February 2002, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/02/a-terrifying-honesty/302426/.

47.
   
Tod Lindberg, “Left 3.0,”
Policy Review
, No. 177, 2013, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/139271.

48.
   
Richard A. Epstein,
How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution
(Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2006), pp. 5–7. See also U.S. Bureau of the Census,
Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1957
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960), Series D 1-10, Series D 32-46.

49.
   
Peter Beinart, “How Obama Did It,”
Daily Beast
, May 21, 2010, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/03/21/how-obama-did-it.html.

50.
   
David Brooks,
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 135.

51.
   
Harold Meyerson, “From Japan's Devastation, Our Lisbon Moment?,”
Washington Post
, March 15, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/from-japans-devastation-our-lisbon-moment/2011/03/15/ABPH0yZ_story.html.

52.
   
Friedman,
Capitalism and Freedom
, pp. 191–95.

53.
   
Charles Murray,
In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State
(Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute, 2006), pp. 10–14, 130–39.

54.
   
William F. Buckley Jr.,
Four Reforms: A Guide for the Seventies
(New York: Putnam, 1973).

55.
   
Murray,
In Our Hands
, p. 14.

56.
   
See David T. Beito,
From Mutual Aid to the Welfare State: Fraternal Societies and Social Services, 1890–1967
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).

57.
   
Jonathan Rieder,
Canarsie: The Jews and Italians of Brooklyn Against Liberalism
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 6.

58.
   
James W. Ceaser, “True Blue vs. Deep Red: The Ideas That Move American Politics,” discussion paper for the Hudson Institute's 2006 Bradley Symposium, p. 16, http://www.bradleyfdn.org/pdfs/framing essay.pdf.

59.
   
Ronald Brownstein, “Population Trends Boosting the Democrats Show No Sign of Slowing,”
National Journal
, January 10, 2009, http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/politicalconnections.php; Ronald Brownstein, “Today's Politics: Coalition of Transformation vs. Coalition of Restoration,”
National Journal
, November 21, 2012, http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/political-connections/today-s-politics-coalition-of-transformation-vs-coalition-of-restoration-20121121.

60.
   
Donat Gallagher, ed.,
The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh
(Boston: Little, Brown, 1983), pp. 161–62, 634–35.

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AARP, Medicare and, 183

Adler, Ben, 204

admission policies.
See
affirmative action

affirmative action

    
harm done to mismatched candidates, 180–81

    
legal background of, 173–77

    
reverse discrimination and, 177–79

Affluent Society, The
(Galbraith), 96

Affordable Care Act, xiv–xv, 225

    
characteristics of uninsured persons before passing of, 181–82

    
as “comprehensive” program, 181–84

    
as corrective for Medicare, 228

    
Dionne on intentions versus actual rollout of, 150–51

Against Autonomy: Justifying Coercive Paternalism
(Conly), 203–4

Alito, Samuel, 201, 202

Allen, Woody, 33

altruism

    
pathological altruism, 32–33

    
used as synonym for compassion, 25

Ambati, Balamurali, 181

Anderson, Elizabeth, 41–42

animal licensing, disaster plans and, 1–3, 200, 202

Animal Welfare Act (1966), 1

Aristotle, xii

Asians in U.S., history and economic advancement of, 116–17

assimilation

    
in Ellis Island era, 79–80, 82

    
liberals' attitude toward, 79–83

Audacity of Hope, The
(Obama), 25–26

Aurora, CO, shootings, 152, 162

Australia, immigration policy of, 57

automobile accidents and deaths, 157–58

Bai, Matt, 129

Bakke, Allan, 174, 178–79

Barnett, Randy, 160

Barone, Michael, 103

Bastiat, Frédéric, 72

Beinart, Peter, 225

Belgium, 78

Bell, Daniel, 226

Benedickt, Allison, 119–20

Black Leadership Forum, 164

Blackmun, Harry, 174, 177

Blow, Charles, xx, 93

Bobos in Paradise
(Brooks), 226

“Bomboku, Mpinga” (fictional Congo resident), story of, 35, 38

Boorstin, Daniel, 146

border control, liberal policy proposals for, 184–85

Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, 160

Brennan, William, 174

Breyer, Stephen, 202

Brooks, David, 226

Brown, J. Douglas, 123–24

Brownstein, Ronald, 238

Buckley, William F. Jr., 11, 27–28, 154, 198, 230–31

Burger, Warren, 174

Bush, George H. W., 208–9

Bush, George W., xxi, 206, 209–12, 234

California

    
economic growth and, 69

    
equal funding of school districts in, 220–22

    
Proposition 13, 222

    
Proposition 209, 179, 180–81

    
spending on social welfare, 186–87

California, University of at Davis, affirmative action and, 173–79

California, University of at Los Angeles, 180–81

Canada, immigration policy of, 57

Canarsie, NY, 236–37

Canfield, Natoma, xiv

capitalism

    
conservatives' acceptance of, as better than available alternatives, 227

    
liberals' doubt of reliability of self-interest, 23–24

    
liberals' views on economic growth versus social welfare, 66–72

    
predicted contradictions of, 225–27

Capitalism and Freedom
(Friedman), 212–14, 229

carbon dioxide emission reduction, liberal proposals for, 165–73

Carens, Joseph, 59–65