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34.
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Ibid.
35.
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Carol Swain, “Apply Compassion Shown Illegal Immigrants to the Most Vulnerable Citizens,”
Boston Review
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36.
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Joseph H. Carens, “Joseph H. Carens Responds,”
Boston Review
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37.
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Letter to Senator Orrin Hatch, July 9, 1991, http://cis.org/sites/cis.org/files/king-letter.pdf.
38.
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Christopher Jencks, “Who Should Get In? An Exchange,”
New York Review of Books
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39.
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Mickey Kaus, “Three Sides to Amnesty in a Nutshell,”
Daily Caller
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40.
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Carens, “Carens Responds.”
41.
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Timothy Egan, “As Idaho Booms, Prisons Fill and Spending on Poor Lags,”
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Deirdre McCloskey,
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43.
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Jonathan Cohn, “Blue States Are from Scandinavia, Red States Are from Guatemala,”
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44.
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Cohn, “Blue States Are from Scandinavia, Red States Are from Guatemala.”
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Suzanne Daley, “Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault,”
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Daley, “Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault.”
51.
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C. S. Lewis,
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54.
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Ibid., pp. 40â41.
55.
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Daley, “Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault.”
56.
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Ross Douthat, “Can We Be Sweden?,”
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57.
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58.
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Jerry Z. Muller, “Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism,”
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60.
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Samuel P. Huntington,
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61.
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Federalist Papers, No. 2, http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed02.asp.
62.
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John Fonte, “Jack Kemp's Huddled Masses,”
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63.
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Christopher Jencks, “Who Should Get In? Part II,”
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64.
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Ibid.
65.
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John Lloyd, “Study Paints Bleak Picture of Ethnic Diversity,”
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Richard Florida, “The Paradox of Diverse Communities,”
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Lloyd, “Study Paints Bleak Picture of Ethnic Diversity.”
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Goodhart, “Why the Left Is Wrong About Immigration.”
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Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” January 21, 2013, American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=102827.
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David N. Bass, “Pelosi's Children,”
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Mickey Kaus, “The Godmother,”
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Hillary Rodham Clinton,
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, “Suffer the Little Children,”
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12.
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Elshtain, “Suffer the Little Children.”
13.
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James Q. Wilson, “Why We Don't Marry,”
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John O'Sullivan, “What Jackie Did Next,”
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16.
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George Packer, “Leaving Dealey Plaza,”
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18.
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Schlesinger,
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Nicholas Lemann, “America Right and Left,”
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Thomas Sowell,
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24.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “A Suggestion on the Negro Problem,”
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25.
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David M. Kennedy,
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26.
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Abigail and Stephan Thernstrom,
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27.
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Michael Barone,
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28.
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Nicholas Lemann,
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29.
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30.
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Quoted in Carl Solberg,
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31.
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Susan Sontag, essay for “What's Happening in America (A Symposium),”
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32.
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Christopher Hitchens, “Susan Sontag: Remembering an Intellectual Heroine,”
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33.
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Stephan Thernstrom, “The Kerner Commission Report Lacks Credibility,” Heritage Foundation lecture on the Kerner Commission Report, March 13, 1998, http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-kerner-commission-report.
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Kaus, “Up from Altruism,” p. 18.
35.
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Jean Bethke Elshtain, “The Hard Questions,”
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36.
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Glenn C. Loury, “The Return of the Undeserving Poor,”
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