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2.
     
David A. Fahrenthold, “Watch Him Pull a USDA-Mandated Rabbit Disaster Plan out of His Hat,”
Washington Post
, July 16, 2013, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/watch-him-pull-a-usda-mandated-rabbit-disaster-plan-out-of-his-hat/2013/07/16/816f2f66-ed66-11e2-8163-2c7021381a75_story.html.

3.
     
Joe O'Connor, “Magician Forced to Pull Rabbit Disaster Plan out of His Hat,”
National Post
, July 18, 2013, http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/07/18/marty-the-magician-rabbit-disaster-plan/.

4.
     
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., “The Perspective Now,”
Partisan Review
, May–June 1947, p. 238.

5.
     
John F. Kennedy, “The President's News Conference,” March 21, 1962, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=8564.

6.
     
Edward M. Kennedy, Address at the Public Memorial Service for Robert F. Kennedy, delivered June 8, 1968, at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ekennedytributetorfk.html.

7.
     
Mario Matthew Cuomo, 1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered July 16, 1984, in San Francisco, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mariocuomo1984dnc.htm.

8.
     
Paul Waldman, “The Failure of Antigovernment Conservatism,” August 7, 2007,
American Prospect
, http://prospect.org/article/failure-antigovernment-conservatism.

9.
     
George Lakoff, “Empathy, Sotomayor, and Democracy: The Conservative Stealth Strategy,” Truth-Out.org, May 31, 2009, http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/7319-empathy-sotomayor-and-democracy-the-conservative-stealth-strategy-by-george-lakoff.

10.
   
See, for example, Leo Strauss, “Political Philosophy and History,”
Journal of the History of Ideas
10, no. 1 (January 1949): 30–50.

11.
   
“Conservatively Speaking,”
New York Times Magazine
, July 11, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/11/magazine/11QUESTIONS.html?ei=5070&en=a78be4479c624bcf&ex=1204952400.

12.
   
Nicholas D. Kristof, “Where Is the Love?,”
New York Times
, November 27, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/28/opinion/kristof-where-is-the-love.html?_r=0.

13.
   
John Rawls,
A Theory of Justice
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971).

14.
   
Mark Lilla, “The Politics of God,”
New York Times Magazine
, August 19, 2007.

15.
   
Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History,”
National Interest
, Summer 1989.

16.
   
George F. Will,
The Pursuit of Happiness: And Other Sobering Thoughts
(New York: Harper & Row, 1978), p. 180.

17.
   
George Orwell,
My Country, Right or Left, 1940–1943
, ed. Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (Jaffrey, NH: Nonpareil, 2000), p. 14.

18.
   
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, ed. and trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 502.

19.
   
Adam Smith,
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
, ed. Edwin Cannon, Book I, Chapter 2, Library of Economics and Liberty, http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN1.html.

20.
   
Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Radio Greeting on St. Patrick's Day, Warm Springs, Ga.,” March 17, 1937, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=15379.

21.
   
Pete Hamill, “Doing Good,”
New York
, October 13, 1986, p. 39.

22.
   
Learned Hand, “The Spirit of Liberty,” speech delivered in New York City on May 21, 1944, in Diane Ravitch, ed.,
American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990), p. 288. For President Clinton's enthusiasm for Hand's argument, see William J. Clinton, Remarks Announcing the Nomination of Stephen G. Breyer to Be a Supreme Court Associate Justice, May 13, 1994, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50164&st=&st1=. For President Obama's enthusiasm, see Larissa MacFarquhar, “The Conciliator,”
New Yorker
, May 7, 2007, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/05/07/070507fa_fact_macfarquhar.

23.
   
Jeffrey Peter Hart,
The American Dissent: A Decade of Modern Conservatism
(New York: Doubleday, 1966), p. 171; “After 50 Years of Covering War, Looking for Peace and Honoring Law,”
New York Times
, December 16, 2001, http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/16/weekin-review/16WORD.html.

24.
   
Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Emile or On Education
, translated by Allan Bloom (New York: Basic Books, 1979), p. 235n.

25.
   
Barack Obama,
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
(London: Canongate Books, 2008), pp. 67–68. See Clifford Orwin, “Does He Feel Our Pain?,”
In Character
, June 22, 2010, http://incharacter.org/observation/1does-he-feel-our-pain.

26.
   
Hart,
The American Dissent
, p. 171.

27.
   
Minogue,
The Liberal Mind.

28.
   
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.,
The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), pp. 245, 248, and 256.

29.
   
Jimmy Carter, “Address to the Nation on Energy and National Goals: ‘The Malaise Speech,'” July 15, 1979, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=32596.

30.
   
“Hillary Clinton's Politics of Meaning Speech,”
Tikkun
, May–June 1993.

31.
   
Schlesinger,
Vital Center
, pp. 251, 245.

32.
   
Michael Kazin, “What Liberals Owe to Radicals,”
Liberalism for a New Century
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007), p. 123.

33.
   
Max Ways, “Don't We Know Enough to Make Better Public Policies?,”
Fortune
, April 1971, reprinted in Robert E. Hicks, Walter J. Klages, and Frederick A. Raffa, eds.,
Economics: Myth, Method, or Madness?
(Berkeley, CA: McCutchan, 1971), p. 84.

34.
   
“Giving Till It Hurts: An Interview with Barbara Oakley,”
Freeman
, July 29, 2013, http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/giving-till-it-hurts-an-interview-with-barbara-oakley#ixzz2lyHvROD3.

35.
   
An email from David Schmidtz to the author, November 19, 2013. Professor Schmidtz reports that this sentence has made it into several of his lectures, but not in any of his published works to date.

36.
   
Mickey Kaus, “Up from Altruism,”
New Republic
, December 15, 1986, p. 18.

37.
   
Bloom, “The Baby in the Well.”

1.
     
Central Intelligence Agency, World Factbook, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/. All subsequent calculations are derived from data available here, along with some population estimates from individual national censuses.

2.
     
Office of Management and Budget, 2014 Budget, Historical Table 3.2, “Outlays by Function and Subfunction, 1962–2018.” http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2014/assets/hist03z2.xls.

3.
     
Ben Crair, “The SCHIP on Bush's Shoulder,”
New Republic
, August 21, 2007, http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/the-plank/the-schip-bushs-shoulder.

4.
     
David Goodhart, “Why the Left Is Wrong About Immigration,”
Guardian
, March 27, 2013, http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/mar/27/why-left-wrong-mass-immigration#start-of-comments.

5.
     
Ibid.

6.
     
Immanuel Kant,
Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime
, trans. John T. Goldthwait (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960), p. 59.

7.
     
Elizabeth Anderson, “Social Insurance and Self-Sufficiency,” Left 2Right.com, February 5, 2005, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~eandersn/blogpoliticaleconomy.html.

8.
     
Timothy Noah,
The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It
(New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2012), pp. 174–75.

9.
     
Adam Smith,
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
, ed. Edwin Cannan (London: Methuen, 1904), vol. 2, ch. “Article IV,” http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/119/212401.

10.
   
Gordon M. Fisher, “Remembering Mollie Orshansky—The Developer of the Poverty Thresholds,”
Social Security Bulletin
68, no. 3 (2008), http://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v68n3/v68n3p79.html. See also John Cassidy, “Relatively Deprived,”
New Yorker
, April 3, 2006.

11.
   
Shawn Fremstad, “Relative Poverty Measures Can Help Paint a More Accurate Picture of Poverty in 21st Century America,” CEPR Blog, March 14, 2013, http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/cepr-blog/relative-poverty-measures-can-help-paint-a-more-accurate-picture-of-poverty-in-21st-century-america.

12.
   
Minogue,
The Liberal Mind
.

13.
   
Howard Zinn, “A Kinder, Gentler Patriotism,”
Newsday
, April 13, 2003, http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0413-02.htm; Ross Gregory Douthat,
Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class
(New York: Hyperion, 2005), pp. 204–207.

14.
   
Strobe Talbott, “The Birth of the Global Nation,”
Time
, July 20, 1992, pp. 70–71.

15.
   
Ibid.

16.
   
Walter Lippmann,
Isolation and Alliances: An American Speaks to the British
(New York: Little, Brown, 1952), https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/lipp.htm.

17.
   
Charles Krauthammer, “A World Imagined: The Flawed Premises of Liberal Foreign Policy,”
New Republic
, March 15, 1999.

18.
   
Peter Schneider, “False Tears over Bosnia,”
New York Times
, July 30, 1995, Section 4, p. 15.

19.
   
George McGovern, statement announcing candidacy for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination, January 18, 1971, http://www.4president.org/speeches/mcgovern1972announcement.htm.

20.
   
George McGovern, “Address Accepting the Presidential Nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida,” July 14, 1972, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=25967.

21.
   
“Declaration of Sentiments Adopted by the Peace Convention,”
Liberator
, September 28, 1838, http://fair-use.org/the-liberator/1838/09/28/declaration-of-sentiments-adopted-by-the-peace-convention#p3.

22.
   
Pierre Manent, “Human Unity Real and Imagined,”
First Things
, October 2012, http://www.firstthings.com/article/2012/09/human-unity-real-and-imagined.

23.
   
Walter Russell Mead,
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
(New York: Knopf, 2001), p. 146.

24.
   
Sally Kohn, “White People's Racial Discomfort,”
Salon
, August 6, 2013, http://www.salon.com/2013/08/06/white_peoples_racial_discomfort/.

25.
   
Joseph F. Cotto, “Steve Sailer Discusses Genetics' Effect on Intelligence and Society,”
Washington Times
, December 27, 2012, http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/conscience-realist/2012/dec/27/steve-sailer-economics-human-intelligence/.

26.
   
Matthew Yglesias, “What Would Happen If We Let All the Immigrants In?,”
Slate
, January 25, 2013, http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/01/25/what_would_happen_if_we_let_all_the_immigrants_in.html.

27.
   
Ibid.

28.
   
Jeffrey S. Passel, D'Vera Cohn, and Ana Gonzalez-Barera, “Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed,” Pew Hispanic Center, September 23, 2013, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2013/09/23/population-decline-of-unauthorized-immigrants-stalls-may-have-reversed/.

29.
   
Emily Ryo, “Deciding to Cross: Norms and Economics of Unauthorized Migration,”
American Sociological Review
78 (2013): 586.

30.
   
Joseph H. Carens, “The Case for Amnesty,”
Boston Review
, May/June 2009, http://bostonreview.net/BR34.3/carens.php.

31.
   
Ibid.

32.
   
Ibid.

33.
   
Ibid.