Authors: William Voegeli
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desentimentalized liberalism and, 4â5
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effect of assassination of, 5â6, 94â96, 107
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white guilt and, 95
Kennedy, Joseph Sr., 6, 12
Kennedy, Robert F., 99
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empathy and, 5â6, 12
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poverty and, 124â27
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white guilt and, 97â98, 100, 106, 214
kindness, C. S. Lewis on, 73â74.
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See also
compassion
King, Coretta Scott, 164
Kipling, Rudyard, 240â41
Klein, Joe, 94, 139, 143, 150
Kohn, Sally, 57
Krauthammer, Charles, 50â51
Kristof, Nicholas, 11, 118â19, 185, 240
Krugman, Paul, xix
Kuttner, Robert, 221
Lakoff, George, 9â10, 11, 34, 217
Lanza, Adam, 153â57
Lasch, Christopher, 134â35
Lemann, Nicholas, 98â99, 103, 128, 178â79
Levinson, Sanford, 159â60
Lewis, Anthony, 24, 27
Lewis, C. S., 73â74, 205
liberalism
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attempts to desentimentalize, 4â5
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effect of Kennedy assassination on, 5â6, 94â96, 107
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statism and government power, 195â206
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see also
compassion; liberal programs
Liberal Mind, The
(Minogue), xviiâxviii
liberal programs, efficacy versus caring concerns, 139â93
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“comprehensive” programs and, 181â85
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differences with conservatives over, 222â29
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diversity and affirmative action policies, 173â81
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environmental programs, 163â73
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gun control, 152â63
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Head Start, 139â41, 143, 148
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perpetual need for additional programs, 185â93
Liberator
, 52â53
lifestyles, liberals' suspending of judgment and dismissal of bad outcomes of programs, 72â75
Lilla, Mark, 14
Lincoln, Abraham, 240
Lindberg, Tod, 223
Lippmann, Walter, 50
Lithwick, Dahlia, 176â77
Loury, Glenn, 108â9
Macmillan, Harold, 16â17
Madison, James, 15, 19, 73, 200â201
Malawi, per capital GDP of, 82
Mamet, David, 26, 164
Manent, Pierre, 53
Mansfield, Mike, 95, 136
Marshall, Thurgood, 174
Martin, Trayvon, 112
Massachusetts, economic growth and, 68â69
Mathis, Joel, 161
McArdle, Megan, 168â69
McCain, John, xiii
McCloskey, Deirdre, 67, 225
McGovern, George, 51â52, 53, 54
McWhorter, John, 112â13
Mead, Walter Russell, 53â54, 136
Medicaid, xiv, 86, 181, 183, 191, 225
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SCHIP and, 8â9, 38
Medicare, xiv, 77, 86, 181, 191, 225, 235
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admitted waste in program, 182â83
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Affordable Care Act as corrective for, 228
Meditations on Hunting
(Ortega y Gasset), 151
Mencken, H. L., 197
Mexico
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immigration to U.S. from, 58â60
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lack of assimilation of immigrants from, 80â81
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per capital GDP of, 59
Meyerson, Harold, 227
Michigan, University of, 175â76
“Middle America,” Lasch on, 134â35
middle class, evolution to victimhood, 122â37
Miles, Vincent, 123
Miller, Matt, 88
Minogue, Kenneth, xviiâxviii, 28, 47
modernity
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changes in social contract and, 13â17
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Christianity and, 13â20, 29
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remedies for, 17â26
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remedies for, reasons to doubt value of, 27â34
Moore, Susan, 70â71, 72, 73, 108
Muller, Jerry, 77
murders, “discrimination” of, 112
Murray, Charles
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life well-lived and, 73
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plan for transfer state, 229â35
Napolitano, Janet, 184
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission), 105â6
Nation
magazine, 123
nation-states, liberals' disdain for patriotism and, 49â50
natural disasters
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animal licensing and, 1â3, 200, 202
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helplessness and, 88, 92
natural gas.
See
hydrological fracturing (fracking)
Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), 164
negative income tax
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Friedman's proposal of, 229â30, 231
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Murray's plan for transfer state and, 229â35
New Deal, Cuomo's defense of, 7
Newtown, CT, shootings, 153â57
New York Times
, 177â78, 202
Nixon, Richard, 198â99
Noah, Timothy, 45
Nordhaus, Ted, 166â67
nuclear power, liberals' dislike of, 166â67, 170, 173
Oakley, Barbara, 32
Obama, Barack, 9, 137, 202
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Affordable Care Act and, 225
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environmental programs and, 163
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on government, 188â90, 198â99, 201
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gun control and, 152â56, 162â63
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Head Start and, 141, 148
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on “Middle America,” 135â36
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rhetoric of compassion and, xiiiâxvii, 10â11, 25â26
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and taking care of own, 38, 76, 86, 91, 192
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2014 budget of, 37
Obama, Michelle, xiiiâxiv, xv
Obamacare.
See
Affordable Care Act
Occupy Wall Street movement, 127, 136
O'Connor, Sandra Day, 176
Office of Economic Opportunity, 46
O'Hare, Michael, 168, 172
Ohio, gun laws in, 162
On Bullshit
(Frankfurt), 144â48
One: Do We Have a Right to More Children?
(Conly), 205
O'Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” xviii
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 216
Orszag, Peter, 183
Ortega y Gasset, José, 151
Orwell, George, 17â18
O'Sullivan, John, 94
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 95, 99
Other America, The
(Harrington), 96
Owens, Marcelas, xiv
Packer, George, 95
pathological altruism, 32â33
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
See
Affordable Care Act
Patrick, Deval, 207
patriotism, liberals' call to higher patriotism and humanitarianism, 48â55
Pelosi, Nancy, 87
Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch
(Kant), 19
Philippines, per capital GDP of, 36
Piss Christ
(Serrano), 31
pluralism, 79â80
population control, liberals' proposals for, 170â72, 205
Postrel, Virginia, 183
poverty
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Freidman on limits of private charity, 212â14
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Johnson's War on, 96â97, 124â25, 192â93
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liberals' views on economic growth versus social welfare, 66â72
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relative poverty line and, 43â47
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victimhood and, 96â100
Powell, Lewis, 174â77
prisoners, rates of release of, 131
proximity, as factor in liberals' compassion, 39â43
Public School 163, in New York City, 120â21
Putnam, Robert, 81â82, 115
Queen for a Day
(television program), xvâxvi
Rawls, John, 11â12, 25, 109, 142
Reagan, Ronald, xviii, 198, 208, 209, 236
reciprocity
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as factor in liberals' compassion, 41â43
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Kennedy and civil rights, 104
“Recycling Is Garbage” (Tierney), 164â65
Reeve, Christopher, xiâxii
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
, 173â79
Rehnquist, William, 174
religion.
See
Christianity
Remnick, David, 163
renewable energy, 167
Republican Party, principle constituency of, 238
Resnick, Joseph, 1
Reston, James, 95
reverse discrimination, 177â79
Revolt of the Elites, The
(Lasch), 134â35
Revolt of the Haves, The
(Kuttner), 221
Rhetoric
(Aristotle), xii
Rieder, Jonathan, 236â37
Righteous Mind, The
(Haidt), 132
“Rising Tide Lifts Mostly Yachts, A” (Coates), 116
Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek), 197â98
Romney, Mitt, xixâxx, 110, 137
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 94, 100, 123
Roosevelt, Franklin, xi, xviii, 4, 23, 103, 110, 123, 149, 196, 214â15, 225
Rorty, Richard, 222â23
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, 21â22, 25, 26, 31, 149, 213
Sackett, Chantell and Michael, 200â202
Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency
, 201â2
Sailer, Steve, 57â58
Sanchez, Steve “Koolking83,” xixâxx
Sander, Richard, 180
Savage, Dan, 133
Scheiber, Noam, 161
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., 4, 29, 30, 97â99, 100
Schmidtz, David, 33
Schneider, Peter, 51
Schrag, Peter, 186
Schumer, Charles, 126â27
Second Amendment, 159â60
self-interest well understood, doctrine of, 18â21, 22â23
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role in social welfare programs, 213â22
selfishness
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liberal criticism of self-reliance as, 118â22
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renunciation of, 23â24
self-regard, empathy and, 25â26, 31â33
self-reliance
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consequences of lack of, 111â18
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dependence encouraged instead, 91â93, 106â11
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liberals' criticisms of as selfish, 118â22
Serrano, Andres, 31
Serrano v. Priest
cases, 220â21
Shapiro, Daniel, 142â43
Shellenberger, Michael, 166â67
Siegel, Lee, 129â30, 146
Sirhan, Sirhan, 99
Smiley, Jane, 134, 136
Smith, Adam, 45â46, 107, 224
social contract, modernity's effect on, 13â17
Social Security, 77, 86, 191, 233, 235
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intentions of 1935 enactment of, 123â24
social welfare programs
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conservatives' plans to reform, 229â36
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increased expenditures in Reagan years, 208, 232, 236
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liberals' views on economic growth and, 66â72
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perpetual need for additional programs, 185â93
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role of self-interest well understood, 213â22
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U.S. spending on welfare as percentage of GDP, 77
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see also
domestic policies
solar power, 167, 172
Sontag, Susan, 104â5
Sopranos, The
(television program), 44
Sotomayor, Sonia, 9, 202
Southfield, MI, 113â15
Sowell, Thomas, 116â17
Sparkman, John, 103
Springsteen, Bruce, 76
State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 8â9, 38
statism, liberals and government's power to coerce, 195â206
Steele, Shelby, 111
Stevens, John, 174
Stevenson, Adlai, 103
Stewart, Potter, 174
Steyn, Mark, 71
Strauss, Leo, 10
Streeter, Richard, 185â86
suffering
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stoicism and, 11, 13
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well-being of empathizer and, 31â33
“Suggestion on the Negro Problem,” (Gilman), 101â2
Sumner, William Graham, 195â96
Supreme Court, of U.S.
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child labor and, 224
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decisions on affirmative action, 173â79, 180
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Sackett
and, 201â2
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Serrano v. Priest II
, 220â21
Swain, Carol, 63â64
Sweden, social welfare in, 75â76, 216â17
Talbot, Margaret, 153â54
Talbott, Strobe, 49â50, 56
taxation
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federal income exemption, 46
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liberals' political use of G. H. W. Bush's tax increases, 208â9
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local property taxes and school district funding, 220â22
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private schools exempted from, 120
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Smith on, 45â46
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social justice and weakening of personal ties, 216â22
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see also
negative income tax
Taylor, Stuart Jr., 180
Texas, economic growth and, 68â69
Thatcher, Margaret, 42
Theory of Justice, A
(Rawls), 11â12
Thernstrom, Abigail, 103
Thernstrom, Stephan, 103, 106
Thomas, Joseph, 114
Thomas, Norman, 123
Thurmond, Strom, 103
Tierney, John, 164â65
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 20â21, 77
tolerance
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liberals' selective application of, 28â31
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lower patriotism and, 54â55