The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas (46 page)

3
.   Murray N. Rothbard, “Richard T. Ely: Paladin of the Welfare-Welfare State,”
Independent Review
6, no. 4 (Spring 2002), p. 586, citing Sidney Fine,
Laissez Faire and the General-Welfare State: A Study of Conflict in American Thought, 1865–1901
(Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956), pp. 180-81.

13.: Ten Guilty Men

1
.   “Mallen reuera vigita facino rosos mortem pietate euadere, quã iustu vnu condempari.” John Fortescue,
De Laudibus Legum Angliæ [A Learned Commendation of the Politique Lawes of England
], ch. 27, at 63 trans. Robert Mulcaster 1567, Da Capo Press, 1969.

2
.   Alexander Volokh, “Ten Guilty Men,”
University of Pennsylvania Law Review
(1997), pp.146–73,
www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm#53
.

3
.   Hoover Institution, “Mugged by Reality,”
Policy Review
no. 84 (July 1, 1997); accessed February 21, 2010,
www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/7500
.

4
.   Ibid.: In Miami, sociologist James A. Inciardi used a “snowballing” interview technique to find them. He sent researchers into high-crime neighborhoods to talk to youngsters about “who’s doing drugs” and “who’s into crime.” They found 611 youngsters ages 12 to 17 who admitted to multiple crimes and repeated drug use. Ninety percent of them had been arrested, an equal proportion had been thrown out of school, and almost half had been incarcerated. Typically they began to use alcohol at age seven and turned to crime and drugs at 11; almost two-thirds had participated in a robbery by the age of 13. The interviewees confessed to a total of 429,136 criminal acts during the year prior to their interviews—more than 700 each, or nearly two a day. Of these acts, 18,477, or 30 apiece, were major felonies, including 6,269 robberies and 721 assaults. Nearly 18 percent had committed armed robberies, as young as 14, and 90 percent carried weapons most of the time. Among this violent crowd, 361 committed the 6,269 robberies—an average of 17 each—and two-thirds of them robbed before the age of 13.

5
.   
Jeremy Bentham,
A Treatise on Judicial Evidence
(London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825).

6
.   “That is an old saying, and true,
Prestat reum nocentem absolvi, quam ex prohibitis Indiciis & illegitima probatione condemnari
. It is better that a Guilty Person should be Absolved, than that he should without sufficient ground of Conviction be condemned.” Volokh citing David Levin,
What Happened in Salem?
125-126 (1960), citing Increase Mather,
Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men
(1693).

14.: Living Constitution

1
.   William Watson,
Ten Quodlibetical Questions Concerning Religion and State,
1601.

2
.   Herbert David Croly and Sidney A. Pearson,
Progressive Democracy
(New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998), p. 369.

3
.   Bert J. Loewenberg, “Darwinism Comes to America, 1865–1900,”
Mississippi Valley Historical Review
28, (1941).

4
.   Richard Ely,
Ground Under Our Feet: An Autobiography
(New York: Macmillan, 1938), p. 154.

5
.   John Dewey, “Darwin’s Influence Upon Philosophy,”
Popular Science (
July 1909), p. 90.

6
.   Woodrow Wilson,
The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People
(New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913).

7
.   Ronald J. Pestritto,
Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism
(Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), p. 122.

8
.   See Robert Livingston Schuyler, “Forrest McDonald’s Critique of the Beard Thesis,”
Journal of Southern History
27, no. 1 (1961): 73–80; Peter J. Coleman, “Beard, McDonald, and Economic Determinism in American Historiography,”
Business History Review
34, no. 1 (1960): 113–21.

9
.   John Dewey and James Tufts,
Ethics
(New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1913), p. 479.

10
. See Leonard Frank James,
The Supreme Court in American Life
(Chicago: Scott, Foresman. 1964), p. 159.

11
. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, concurring statement,
Joseph Burstyn, Inc. v. Wilson
(1952).

12
. George Will,
This Week
, ABC, July 3, 2011. Video and transcript accessed July 12, 2011,
www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/07/03/will-asks-week-panel-does-congress-have-constitutional-power-require-
.

13
. Al Gore interview,
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
, PBS, March 14, 2000; accessed July 12, 2011,
www.pbs.org/newshour/election2000/candidates/gore_3-14c.html
.

14
. David Finnigan,
Community Briefs
(June 23, 2005); accessed July 14, 2011,
www.jewishjournal.com/community_briefs/article/community_briefs_20050624./
.

15
. Sonia Sotomayor, Judge Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture, 2001, delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

16
. Senator Barack Obama speaking before Planned Parenthood Action Fund, July 17, 2007.

17
. Remarks of Senator Barack Obama at confirmation of Justice John Roberts; accessed July 14, 2011,
www.obamaspeeches.com/031-Confirmation-of-Judge-John-Roberts-Obama-Speech.htm
.

18
. Michael Dorf, “Who Killed the ‘Living Constitution’?”
FindLaw,
March 10, 2008; accessed July 14. 2011,
www.writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20080310.html
.

19
. William Leuchtenburg,
Supreme Court Reborn
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 15–22.

20
. Mark DeWolfe Howe,
Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski 1916–1935
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1953).

21
. Dorf, “Who Killed the ‘Living Constitution’?”

22
. Ibid.

23
. Dahlia Lithwick, “It’s a-Living,”
Slate,
August 25, 2005;
www.slate.com/id/2125095/
; accessed September 12, 2011.

24
. Laurence H. Tribe, “On Health Care, Justice Will Prevail,”
New York Times,
February 7, 2011.

25
. Representative Raul Grijalva, interview on
Hardball with Chris Matthews,
MSNBC, January 7, 2011.

26
. Miriam Jordan, “U.S. Immigration Fight Widens to Native-Born,”
Wall Street Journal
, July 20, 2010.

27
. Senate Judiciary Committee, Justice Elana Kagan confirmation hearing, 111th Cong., June 29, 2010.

28
. Ibid.

29
. Senate Judiciary Committee, statement of chairman, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), on the proposal requiring an amendment to the Constitution, H.R. 2560, 112th Cong., July 22, 2011.

15.: Let Them Eat Cake

1
.   Speech published by the WPA a year later: Harry Hopkins, “The Realities of Unemployment,” PDF available online; accessed November 28, 2011,
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/roune/issue/5315/download/89358./1937_rounemp.pdf
; Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Address at the Democratic State Convention,” Syracuse, N.Y., September 29, 1936.

2
.   
Mario Puzo, “Like Marie Antoinette,”
New York Times
, September 15, 1968.

3
.   William Safire,
Safire’s Political Dictionary
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2008), p.396; Patrick Buchanan, “The Toyota Republicans,”
Human Events,
December 16, 2008.

4
.   Myron Magnet,
The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties Legacy to the Underclass
(San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000), p 116.

5
.   Penelope Wang, “Is College Still Worth the Price?”
Money
, April 13, 2009.

6
.   Mark Perry, “Chart of the Day: The Higher Education Bubble,”
The Enterprise Blog
July 25, 2011; accessed August 3, 2011,
blog.american.com/2011/07/chart-of-the-day-the-higher-education-bubble/
.

7
.   David Holwick, “Demanding Divas,”
America Online, Inc.
August 5, 2001; accessed November 25, 2011,
www.findthepower.net/CP/IL/PostNewABC2_I.php?IL=ON&SeeAlso=DIVA
.

8
.   See Kathryn Petras Holwick and Ross Petras,
Unusually Stupid Celebrities: A Compendium of All-Star Stupidity
(New York: Villard, 2007), p. 72.

9
.   See Holwick; Tom Whipple, “Keeping up Appearances,”
The Guardian,
May 28, 2005.

10
. See Holwick; Jane Bell, “Do We Really Want to Live to 130?”
Belfast Telegraph
, February 17, 1999; “Studios Say No to Stars’ Pet Perks,”
The Sunday Telegraph
, February 21, 1999.

11
. See Holwick; Karen Heller, “Conspicuous Stardom to John Travolta,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, January 12, 1999; Dan Cox, “Star Treatment; Chefs, Jets, Pets Inflate Pic Tabs,”
Variety,
June 23–29, 1997; Avashti, “Lulu’s from LA-LA Land,” the
New York Post
, February 14, 1999.

12
. See Holwick; Petras, p. 113.

13
. See Holwick; “Zane’s Titanic Ego, Myers’ Margarine Mania,”
ABC NEWS
, September 11, 2000.

14
. See Holwick; Petras p. 115; Leah Garchik, “Personals,”
San Francisco Gate
, March 8, 1995.

15
. See: “Give global warming the bum’s rush: Sheryl Crow,” Agence France Presse, April 23, 2007.

16
. Joseph Farah, “Oliver Stone, Far from the Malibu Crowd,”
Los Angeles Times
, March 7, 1993.

17
. Daniel Radosh, “Moore Is Less,”
Salon
(June 1997); accessed November 26, 2011,
www1.salon.com/june97/media/media970606.html
.

18
. Iris Nowell;
Generation Deluxe: Consumerism and Philanthropy of the New Super-rich
(Dundurn, 2004), p. 62.

19
. Dominic Turnbull, “Madonna: I Have Never Changed a Single Nappy,”
Sunday Mirror
, July 29, 2001.

16.: Violence Never Solves Anything

1
.   George Orwell, “Notes on Nationalism,”
Polemic
(London, May 1945), Reprinted in
England, Your England, and Other Essays
(London: Secker and Warburg, 1953).

2
.   Leviathan, chapter xvii.

3
.   
New York Times,
September 17, 2011.

4
.   George Orwell, “No Not One: A Review of
No Such Liberty
by Alex Comfort,”
The Adelphi
(October 1941).

5
.   Paul Johnson,
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
(New York: Harper Collins, 2001), p. 471.

6
.   George Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi,”
Partisan Review
(January 1949).

7
.   Mohandas Gandhi, “To Every Briton,” Radio Address, New Delhi (July 2, 1940).

8
.   Orwell, “Reflections on Gandhi.”

17.: Middle Class

1
.   William Voegeli, “Reforming Big Government,”
Claremont Review of Books
(Fall 2008); accessed May 2, 2010,
www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1570/article_detail.asp
.

2
.   In
Words That Changed a Nation
:
The Most Celebrated and Influential Speeches of Barack Obama
, the word “poor” barely appears. In the seven instances where it does and is used to describe impoverished Americans (as opposed to, say, “poor nations”—the only time the word appears in his inaugural), not once does the former community organizer ever speak about doing things
for
poor people. Rather, in most cases he uses it in the context of elevating himself. Most commonly, he cites the group as a significant member of the coalition of people who think he’s great. As in his famous “yes we can” speech in South Carolina: “You can see it in the faces here tonight. There are young and old, rich and poor. They are black and white, Latino and Asian and Native American.” In fairness, Obama has of course talked about alleviating poverty, occasionally in speeches and more often when asked specifically about it in interviews. Most often, however, his explanations are often retrospective, and the intent is to illustrate that government can do great things, even if alleviating the plight of the poor isn’t one of them anymore.

3
.   Peter Gay,
Pleasure Wars: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud
(New York: W. W. Norton, 1998), p. 26.

4
.   Harold Stearns,
America Now: An Inquiry into Civilization in the United States
(New York: Literary Guild of America, 1938).

5
.   Sinclair Lewis, “Minnesota, the Norse State,”
The Nation,
May 30, 1923.

6
.   “Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society,
1962.” Courtesy of the office of Senator Tom Hayden; PDF accessed November 12, 2011,
www.coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/huron.html
.

7
.   Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), p. 425.

8
.   Karl Marx,
The Communist Manifesto
(London: Verso, 1998), p. 34.

9
.   See Bertell Ollman, “Marx’s Use of ‘Class,’”
American Journal of Sociology
, 73, no. 5 (March 1968): 573–80.

10
. Marx,
The Communist Manifesto,
p. 48.

11
. Karl Marx,
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
(New York: International Publishers, 1994).

12
. David Brooks,
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upperclass and How They Got There
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000), p. 43.