The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas (49 page)

Detroit Free Press,
122–23

Dewey, John, 50, 54–56, 62, 63, 64, 69, 160, 162, 163, 203

dictators, 86, 151, 269

Disney, 260

dissent, 122–25

as “highest form of patriotism,” 122–23, 124, 126

liberal persecution of, 128–30

diversity, 4, 89–99, 137

affirmative action and, 96–98

in educational environments, 95–98

Progressives’ view of, 91, 95, 99

social fraying as result of, 98–99

Streisand-
LA Times
controversy and, 89–91

in weakening of groups and communities, 93, 94–95, 98–99

Do as I Say (Not as I Do)
(Schweizer), 99

dogma, 66–75, 80, 117, 154, 157, 174

Buddhism as form of, 257–59

of climate change, 72–74

enemies of, 66, 67–69

karma vs., 256

pragmatism and dissolution of, 46, 48, 53, 56, 58, 69

as source of progress, 70–71

Dorf, Michael C., 165, 166–67

Eastern Orthodox Church, 77

Eastern philosophy, 256–59

Economic Freedom and Representative Government
(Hayek), 131

Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, An
(Beard), 163

economics, 14–16, 25–26, 30, 41, 54–55, 82, 100, 116–17, 201

laissez-faire, 16, 40, 83, 105, 106–7

“Let-them-eat-cake” mentality and, 171, 172, 173–75

Marxist theory of, 195–97, 198, 266

Progressive thought on, 16, 30, 53–54, 57, 105–7, 139

Social Darwinism and, 105–12

socialist, 53, 54–56, 109

war as boon in, 51–52

see also
capitalism

education, 135, 202, 205, 223, 259

anti-conservative bias in, 217

“disposition for social justice” in, 136–37

in diverse environments, 95–98

religious schools and, 119

tuition increases in, 174–75

Eight Americans
(2006 study), 29

Einstein, Albert, 95, 161

elections, U.S., 8, 34, 120, 141, 208, 272

of 1932, 50, 140

of 1964, 129

of 1992, 190–91, 199–200

of 2000, 164

Ely, Richard, 82–83, 152, 161–62, 287
n

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 44, 261

“Emperor’s New Clothes, The” (Anderson), 224

empiricism, 36–37, 55, 56, 116, 154, 207

ideologies disguised with, 14, 24–27, 28–31, 35, 69

see also
pragmatism; science

Enlightenment, 39, 40, 66, 175, 181, 237

environmentalism, 51, 81, 104, 135, 137, 147, 50, 177

dogma of, 72–74

Ethics
(Dewey and Hayden-Tufts), 163

eugenics, 212, 218

conservative vs. liberal, 106–7

in Progressive economics, 105–7

Social Darwinism and, 101, 103, 105–7, 113

evolutionary theory, 100, 103, 104, 111, 115, 204, 289
n

Progressives influenced by, 112–13, 161–62

extremists, 6–7, 21

“Fact Finders: The Anti-Dogma Dogma” (Chait), 25–26

Fallows, James, 16, 86

fascism, 21, 46, 49, 100, 103, 138, 147, 152, 168, 183, 184, 197, 211, 212, 215, 224, 276

Fast Company,
119

Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 134

Federalist Papers, 270, 271

Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan), 194–95

feminism, 31, 191, 194–95, 200, 205, 244, 259

Ford Foundation, 133

Foreign Affairs,
15

Founding Fathers, 40, 152, 159, 163, 164, 213, 271

Hamiltonian vs. Jeffersonian, 192

“original intent” of, 168–70

religious pluralism and, 79

Fourteenth Amendment, 107, 169

Fowler, James H., 207–8

France, 29, 31, 39, 172, 175, 198

bakery regulation in, 173–74

“ideology” in, 40–45

Reign of Terror in, 40, 42, 253

“Francis Herbert Bradley” (Eliot), 114

Frank, Barney, 147, 149, 150

Franklin, Benjamin, 168, 228, 229, 299
n

freedom fighters, 4–6

free markets, 16, 21, 40, 100, 103, 143, 202

French Revolution, 32, 33, 34, 40–41

Freud, Sigmund, 263–65

Friedan, Betty, 194–95

Friedman, Milton, 30, 109

Friedman, Thomas, 14–15, 16, 51

Friends of Voltaire, The
(Tallentyre), 2–3

“F-scale” test, 212, 218

Galbraith, John Kenneth, 39, 56–57, 68, 201

Galileo Galilei, 8, 10–11, 78, 95, 247

Galston, William, 60–61

Gandhi, Mohandas K., 5, 185–89, 259, 263

nonviolent stance of, 180, 185, 187–89

Gandhi
(film), 187

gay rights, 119, 134, 200, 201, 271

gender quotas, 96–98

Genesis, book of, 153–54

geocentrism, 9, 10

geoengineering, 73, 206, 286
n

Germany, 49, 109, 128, 129, 151, 183, 188, 212, 214, 244, 246, 251, 265, 301
n

Gilded Age, 107, 108, 109, 111

global warming, 51, 72–74, 219

“God’s Funeral” (Hardy), 284
n

Goldman, Eric, 49, 53, 107

Goldwater, Barry, 129, 213

Gore, Al, 73, 159, 164, 191, 264

government, 147–52

constitutional limits on, 271–72

democracy and, 268–73

“living constitution” and,
see
“living constitution”

in obligation to protect citizens, 157–58

prevention principle as crusade of, 229–33

progressive support for expansion of, 13, 14–17, 26, 30–31, 50–51, 152, 163, 165–66, 230–33

social justice and intervention of, 142–43

universal health care and, 230–31

“war socialism” and, 50–51, 232

Great Britain, 33, 78, 109, 110, 116, 161, 183, 187, 188, 196, 248, 259

abolition of slavery in, 180, 185

Great Depression, 50, 52

Great Society programs, 51, 201

Greece, ancient, 159, 160, 236

Greenberg, Stanley, 199, 262

Green Party, 135–36, 137

groupthink, 93–94, 216, 218, 288
n

Growth of American Thought, The
(Curti), 108

Guardian,
209

Gulf oil spill (2010), 52, 206

Harvard Crimson,
133

Harvard University, 27, 98, 119, 168, 206

Hawaii, 135

Hayek, Friedrich A., 32, 33, 54, 131, 142, 143, 211

Hazlitt, Henry, 109–10

Head Start, 69–70, 149, 226

health care, 13–14, 26–30, 71, 86, 117, 129, 135, 202–3, 230

prevention principle in, 228, 229–31, 299
n
–300
n

WHO study on, 26–27, 28

Hegel, F. W., 45, 113, 152, 160

Helvétius, Claude Adrien, 3

Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, 77

Henry VIII, King of England, 176, 248

Hillel, Rabbi, 257, 258

“hindsight is 20/20,” 12–14

Hinduism, 187, 256, 263

Hippocratic Oath, 72

Hispanics, 92, 96

history:

Progressive pragmatist disregard for, 12–14, 53–54, 66, 69, 162, 166, 167–68

“right side”/“wrong side” of, 11–12

as science, 85, 86

History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
(Draper), 234

History of the World Part I,
249

“History of Violence, A” (Pinker), 302
n
–3
n

Hitler, Adolf, 32, 61, 67, 103, 105, 124, 129, 188, 189, 204, 214, 244, 246, 276, 301
n
–2
n

Hitlerism, 100, 107, 129

Hitler’s Table Talk 1941–1944
(Cameron and Stevens, trans.), 301
n
–2
n

Hofstadter, Richard, 107–8, 110–11, 112, 213

Hollywood culture, 175–79

spirituality over religion promoted in, 256, 257, 258, 259

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 161, 162, 163

Buck v. Bell
decision and, 107, 165–66

Holocaust, 188, 189, 239, 240, 253

homosexuality, 205, 258–59, 264

see also
gay rights

Hoover, Herbert, 232

Hoover Dam, 149, 292
n
–93
n

House of Representatives, U.S.:

Select Committee on Intelligence of, 73

Un-American Activities Committee of, 128

housing laws, 174

Huffington Post,
88, 132

Hurricane Katrina, 91

Hussein, Saddam, 183, 257

I Am Sam,
268

Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, 238

identity politics, 190, 191, 199, 201, 225, 226

idéologistes,
40–42

ideologues, 21, 22, 25, 27, 35, 42, 43, 44, 45, 53, 57, 61, 62, 214–15

conservatives perceived as, 23–26, 34–35

ideology, 19, 21–38, 53, 91, 185, 207–19

American pragmatism seen as lacking in, 22, 24–25, 52, 55–56, 57–58

bipartisan antipathy to, 3, 31–32, 39

coining of term, 40, 41

conservatives as first opponents of, 31, 32–34

definitions of, 31, 32, 33–34, 37–38

in delegitimizing political opponents, 22–25, 30, 35, 39, 43–44, 46, 64

empiricism in disguising of, 14, 24–27, 28–31, 35, 69

“false consciousness” and, 45–46

French Revolution and birth of, 40–41

liberal/Progressive platform and, 14, 19, 21–26, 27, 30–31, 34, 56, 57–58, 69

Napoleon’s role in shaping connotations of, 39, 42–45

No Labels movement and, 61–62, 64–65

political “center” vs., 7–8

scientific rhetoric and, 72–74, 205, 207, 211–12, 215, 219

separation of church and state as, 76–77, 79

“social justice” as, 143–44

imperialism, 146, 185, 189

Crusades myth and, 241–43

India, 185, 186–87, 188, 263

individualism, 49, 82, 106

infant mortality, 28–29

Inferno
(Dante), 9

Inquisitions, 234, 247–53

Medieval, 247–48

Spanish, 248–52, 253, 301
n

torture in, 249

“witch hunts” myth of, 243–47, 301
n

Institut National, 41

International Herald Tribune,
184

Introduction to Political Economy, An
(Ely), 287
n

Iran, 76, 239

Iranian Revolution (1979), 239

Iraq war, 122, 129, 184, 209, 210

Islam, 235, 241, 242, 263, 264

Christianity vs., 238

fanatical reformation of, 238–39, 240

need for central authority in, 239

search for “Protestant Reformation” of, 235–36, 238, 239, 300
n

see also
Muslims

“Is Prevention Better Than Cure?” (Russell), 229

Israel, 6, 189, 205, 262, 270

Italian Fascism, 49, 211, 224, 276

Italian Socialist Party, 214

Italy, 51, 197, 211, 246

It Takes a Village
(Clinton), 151

Ivory Towers on Sand
(Kramer), 235–36

Jackson, Jesse, Jr., 91, 191

Jacobins, 33, 36, 42, 67, 253

Jacoby, Russell, 262–63

James, William, 44, 46–49, 50, 53

Japan, 16, 29

Japanese Americans, 120

Jefferson, Thomas, 40, 41, 79, 122, 123, 144, 270, 271

Jerusalem, 240, 241

Jesus Christ, 11, 32, 69, 77, 82, 185, 211, 212, 242, 250, 257

Jeweler’s Eye, The
(Buckley), 172

Jews, Judaism, 78, 81, 95, 194, 205, 240, 241, 243, 254, 256, 257, 258, 262, 263, 265–66

anti-Semitism and, 250, 251, 264–65

educational quotas and, 97

Gandhi’s peculiar advice to, 188–89

in Spanish Inquisition, 249–52

jihadists, 21, 69, 240, 241

Johnson, KC, 136–37

Johnson, Lyndon B., 13–14, 51, 59, 96, 209

Johnson, Paul, 185–86, 187

Journal of Criminology,
155

Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology,
155–56

justice, 159–61

“ten guilty men” principle and, 153–58

Kaballah, 258

Kabul, 265–66

Kagan, Elena, 167, 169

Kallen, Horace, 53, 69

Kanaka Maoli, 135

Kanazawa, Satoshi, 204, 216–17

Kansas, 193

Kansas, University of, 137

karma, 256–57

Kennedy, Edward Moore “Ted,” 86–88, 122

Kennedy, John F., 51, 209

Catholicism of, 79–80

“cool pragmatism” of, 56–57

Kerry, John, 77, 80–81, 122, 191

Kevorkian, Jack, 68, 124

Keynes, John Maynard, 51, 54

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 4, 5, 236, 274

Kloppenberg, James, 52–53

Kopechne, Mary Jo, 87–88

Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), 59–60

Kosovo, 129

Kramer, Martin, 235–36, 300
n

Krugman, Paul, 15, 28, 51–52, 204

Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von, 31, 32, 236

labels, 38, 44, 59–65, 231

movements to get rid of, 59–62, 64–65

rebranding of, 62–64

Lady Justice, 159–61, 168

laissez-faire economics, 16, 40, 83, 105, 106–7

Lakoff, George, 6

Lasch, Christopher, 193
n,
194

Leahy, Patrick, 169–70

“Lean Forward” ad campaign, 149–50

Leninism, 63, 211, 266

lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement, 134

“Let them eat cake,” 171–79

alleged conservative mentality of, 171–72, 174, 175

authorship of, 171–73

French bakery regulations and, 173–74

Hollywood celebrities as embodiment of, 175–79

Levin, Ishaq, 265–66

Lewis, Anthony, 68–69, 129

Lewis, Bernard, 240–41

Lewis, Sinclair, 193, 194, 264

Liberal Fascism
(Goldberg), 50

liberals, liberalism, 11, 63, 83, 86, 103, 112, 115, 152, 164, 165, 168, 175, 182, 187, 200, 204, 212, 215, 240

“American exceptionalism” deplored by, 126–27

anti-ideological/non-ideological stance claimed by, 14, 19, 21–26, 27, 30–31, 34, 56, 57–58, 61, 62, 64, 69

anti-label movement of, 62, 63–65

confusing patriotic stance of, 126–28, 130

conservative eugenicists vs. eugenicists in, 106–7

“conservative phrenology” studies and, 34, 207–10, 212–16, 217–19