Unstoppable (30 page)

Chapter 8

1
. F. A. Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents—The Definitive Edition
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 87, Google Books edition.

2
. Carl T. Bogus,
Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2011), 135–136.

3
.
Changing America: Blueprints for the New Administration: The Citizens Transition Project
, edited by Mark Green (New York: Newmarket, 1992), 30.

4
. Adam Davidson, “Prime Time for Paul Ryan's Guru (the One Who's Not Ayn Rand),”
New York Times
, August 21, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/prime-time-for-paul-ryans-guru-the-one-thats-not-ayn-rand.html
.

5
. Russell Kirk, “Review of Democracy and Leadership (Babbitt) and Great Humanists (Hough),”
Western Political Quarterly
(June 7, 1954): 296–299; reprinted on the Imaginative Conservative,
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/05/kirks-review-of-democracy-and.html
.

6
. Henry Calvert Simons,
A Positive Program for Laissez Faire: Some Proposals for a Liberal Economic Policy
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).

7
.
Changing America
, 31.

8
. James T. Patterson,
Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) 155.

9
. Bogus,
Buckley
, 29.

10
. Patterson,
Mr. Republican
, 319.

11
. Ibid., 323.

12
. Ibid., 331.

Chapter 9

1
. Jeff Faux, e-mail message to author.

2
. Robert Brent Toplin,
Radical Conservatism: The Right's Political Religion
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), 265.

3
. Nicholas D. Kristof, “Profiting from a Child's Illiteracy,”
New York Times
, December 7, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html
.

4
. Ronald Reagan,
The Reagan Diaries
(New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 65.

5
. Garry Wills,
Confessions of a Conservative
(New York: Penguin Books, 1980), 210.

6
. Carl T. Bogus,
Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2011), 139–140.

7
. Russell Kirk,
Redeeming the Time
, ed. Jeffrey O. Nelson (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996), 271.

8
. John Bliese,
The Greening of Conservative America
(Boulder: Westview, 2002); Gordon Durnil,
The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).

9
. Roger Scruton,
How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 9, 2.

10
. Ibid., 246.

11
. Patrick J. Buchanan,
Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency
(New York: Macmillan, 2007), 7.

12
. Ibid., 171.

13
. Patrick J. Buchanan, “Patriotism in the Boardroom,” June 30, 1998,
http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-patriotism-in-the-boardroom-319
.

14
. Robert Kuttner, “Rethinking Free Trade,”
Boston Globe
, September 29, 2004.

15
. Buchanan,
Where the Right Went Wrong
, 21.

16
. Ibid., 28; “The Military–Industrial Complex; The Farewell Address of President Eisenhower,” 1961,
http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html
.

17
. Thomas E. Ricks, “For Vietnam Vet Anthony Zinni, Another War on Shaky Territory,”
Washington Post
, December 23, 2003, C1,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22922-2003Dec22_3.html
.

18
. Jack Abramoff, “I Know the Congressional Culture of Corruption,”
Atlantic
, July 24, 2012.

Epilogue

1
. Stephen P. Dunn,
The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith: Introduction, Persuasion, and Rehabilitation
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 44.

2
. Cass R. Sunstein, “Breaking Up the Echo,”
New York Times
, September 17, 2012,
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/balanced-news-reports-may-only-inflame.html
.

3
. Thomas E. Ricks, “For Vietnam Vet Anthony Zinni, Another War on Shaky Territory,”
Washington Post
, December 23, 2003, C1,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22922-2003Dec22_3.html
.

Index

AARP.
See
American Association of

Retired Persons

ABA.
See
American Bar Association

Abramoff, Jack,
178

Abrams, Elliott,
34

ACLU.
See
American Civil Liberties Union

“The Across the Political Spectrum Conference Against War and Militarism,”
56

Adams, John,
30
,
82
,
88

Advertisements,
11
,
95–96

Advocacy tools,
68–69

Afghanistan War,
44
,
59
,
60
,
71
,
123

Agar, Herbert,
139
,
141
,
148

Agnew, Spiro,
165

Agrarianism: A Program for Farmers
(Cauley),
150–151

Agrarians,
139–143
,
159

    
abilities of,
151–152

    
versus contemporary conservatives,
143–149

    
limitations of,
149–151

AIG,
103

Air bag installation,
10
,
40
,
53–55

ALEC.
See
American Legislative Exchange Council

Alliance Against Government Reading Your Email Without a Warrant campaign,
89–90

Amato, Theresa,
87
,
88

    
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny,
87

Amazon,
90

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP),
190

American Bar Association (ABA),
58–60
,
135
,
136

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
88–89
,
90
,
108

American Conservative,
33–34

American Enterprise Institute,
49–50
,
125–126
,
183

American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC),
108

American Review,
159

American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Steve Bullock, Attorney General of Montana,
98

Americans for Tax Reform,
48
,
90

Amoco,
122

Apple,
103

Arenas, and convergence,
68–69

“As Banking Titans Reflect on Errors, Few Pay Any Price” (Eisinger),
156

Ashcroft, John,
12

Associated Press,
47

Atomic Energy Commission,
1

Atomic energy industry,
73

AT&T,
90

Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce,
97

Austrian School of Economics,
28

Automobile industry,
53

Automobile insurance rates and regulation,
85

Automobile safety legislation,
185
.
See also
Air bag installation

Bachmann, Michele,
32–33
,
49

Bhagwati, Jagdish,
176

Baker, Howard,
3

Baker, James,
92

Ballot initiatives,
83–84
,
85

Bandow, Doug,
55–56

Bank of America,
79
,
103

Banks/banking

    
executives, and financial crisis, 2008–2009,
156–157

    
“too big to fail,”
65
,
78–79

    
See also
Financial crisis, 2008–2009
;
specific banks

Barnes, Harry Elmer,
177

Barr, Bob,
88

Barron's Financial Weekly,
103

Beck, Glenn,
123

Becker, Gary S.,
78

Bendiner, Robert,
35

Benjamin, Medea,
55–56

Bennett, Bob,
126

Bennett, James T.,
87–88

    
Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties,
88

Bennett, William,
108
,
126

    
The Book of Virtues,
126

Berle, Adolf,
102

Berman, Howard,
3
,
4

“Big Business in the Property State” (Lanier),
144

Bill of Rights amendments,
62

Bill of Rights Defense Committee,
90

Billionaires, and effective convergence, financial resources for,
181–187

Bipartisanship, corporate blockage of,
50–53

Black Swan
(Taleb),
157

Blacklisting,
124

Blacks,
149–150

Bliese, John R. E.,
173

    
The Greening of Conservative America,
173

Boehner, John,
31
,
76
,
172–173
,
179

Boeing,
72

Boettke, Peter,
162

Bogle, John,
104–105

Bogus, Carl T.,
161–162
,
164
,
171

Bollier, David,
100

Bolton, John,
132

The Book of Virtues
(Bennett),
126

Booz Allen Hamilton,
51

Brave New World
(Huxley),
16

Breeder Reactor project,
1–3
,
133
,
182

Brennan, William,
136–137

Brennan Center (NYU Law School),
136–137

Brooks, Arthur,
125–126

Brooks, David,
30
,
32

Brown, Hank,
18–20

Buchanan, Patrick J.,
33–34
,
61
,
174–177

    
Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency,
34
,
174

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
14
,
107
,
161
,
165

Buffett, Warren,
78
,
181

Buhle, Paul,
56

Burke, Edmund,
6
,
25–26
,
29
,
101
,
173–174

Burris, Roland,
52

Bush, George W.,
33
,
73
,
76
,
89
,
122–123
,
178

    
and executive overreach of power,
58–60

    
and financial crisis, 2008–2009,
149

    
and preventive war,
176–177

    
and public commons,
100

    
and Texas State Republican Platform, 2002,
12–13

Bush (George W.) administration,
45
,
88–89
,
91