by Mark Steyn
18 “Cambridge University college renames ‘distasteful’ Empire Ball,” The Telegraph, February 12, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/4604461/Cambridge-University-college-renames-distasteful-Empire-Ball.html.
19 “London bomber video aired on TV,” BBC, September 2, 2005; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4206708.stm.
20 Tim Shipman and Gerri Peev, “‘They were lucky not to be shot’: Police chief says armed officers showed ‘enormous restraint’ as mob attacked Charles and Camilla,” The Daily Mail, December 10, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337088/ROYAL-CAR-ATTACK-Mob-attacking-Charles-Camillas-car-lucky-shot.html.
21 “Charlie Gilmour pleads guilty to student protest disorder charges,” The Guardian, May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/may/06/charlie-gilmour-pleads-guilty-protest.
22 Julie Burchill, “Spare us these pampered protesters who riot in defence of their privilege,” The Independent, December 16, 2010; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/julie-burchill/julie-burchill-spare-usthese-pampered-protesters-who-riot-in-defence-of-their-privilege-2161489.html.
23 Rebecca Atwood, “Brown Targets Work Skills,” The Higher Education, July 6, 2007; available online at http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=209524§ioncode=26.
24 All data available online via http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/charts.html.
25 Social Analysis & Reporting Division, National Statistics Quality Review Series, Report #31 (Office for National Statistics, London 2004).
26 James Tozer, “Christian preacher vows to fight after he’s arrested for ‘public order’ offences after saying homosexuality is a sin,” The Daily Mail, May 3, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1270650/Christianpreacher-trial-public-order-offences-saying-homosexuality-sin.html.
27 “Nursery alert for racist toddlers,” BBC, July 7, 2008; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7493654.stm.
28 Luke Salkeld, “Flipping madness! Police offer free flip-flops to binge drinkers who keep falling over in heels,” The Daily Mail, November 27, 2008; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1089919/Flipping-madness-Police-offer-free-flip-flops-binge-drinkers-falling-heels.html.
29 Nick Allen, “Man escapes jail for punching war veteran, 96,” The Telegraph, October 22, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1566972/Man-escapes-jail-for-punching-war-veteran-96.html.
30 George Jonas, “The Evil Men Do Lives After Them,” The National Post, October 16, 2000; available online at http://jeanchretien.libertyca.net/html/0072.html.
31 David Millward, “Traffic wardens get head cameras,” The Telegraph, December 21, 2009; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6840937/Traffic-wardens-get-head-cameras.html.
32 Maxine Frith, “How average Briton is caught on camera 300 times a day,” The Independent, January 12, 2004; available online at http://www.independent. co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/how-average-briton-is-caught-on-camera-300-times-a-day-572781.html.
33 John Steele, “Britain has worst drug addiction rate in Europe,” The Telegraph, April 19, 2007; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549028/Britain-has-worst-drug-addiction-rate-in-Europe.html.
34 Steve Doughty, “Most teenage pregnancies now end with an abortion,” The Daily Mail, May 11, 2009; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180262/Most-teenage-pregnancies-end-abortion.html.
35 Steve Doughty, “Single mother Britain: U.K. has most lone parents of any major European nation,” The Daily Mail, April 1, 2011; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1372533/Britain-lone-parents-major-Euro-nation. html.
36 Helen Weathers, “Why does Britain have record levels of abortion and an unprecedented need for IVF?,” The Daily Mail, June 30, 2006; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-393236/Why-does-Britain-record-levelsabortion-unprecedented-need-IVF.html.
37 Jack Grimston, “Children wear body armour school uniform,” The Times, September 9, 2007; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2414704.ece
38 “The plan for social security: full outline,” The Guardian, December 2, 1942; available online at http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,,127564,00.html.
39 Patrick Wintour, “Brown: Remembrance Sunday should become ‘British Day’,” The Guardian, January 14, 2006; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/jan/14/britishidentity.labour.
40 John Carvel, “Brown urged to create holiday on birthday of health service,” The Guardian, January 1, 2008; available online at http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jan/01/uk.publicservices.
41 Jason Groves, “’Shameless’ generation grows as seven million now live in households where no one works,” The Daily Mail, September 14, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1310220/7-million-live-joblesshouseholds-works.html.
42 Tim Shipman, “More than 900,000 have been off sick for a DECADE–costing taxpayer £4bn a year,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303320/4bn-year-900-000-whove-decadesick.html.
43 Paul Sims, “Councils pay for disabled to visit prostitutes and lap-dancing clubs from £520m taxpayer fund,” The Daily Mail, August 16, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1303273/Councils-pay-disabledvisit-prostitutes-lap-dancing-clubs.html.
44 Abul Taher, “‘Soviet’ Britain swells amid the recession,” The Times, January 25, 2009; available online at http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article5581225.ece.
45 House of Commons, “A Century of Change: Trends in UK statistics since 1900,” December 21, 1999; available online at http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/rp99/rp99-111.pdf.
46 Alison Little, “20,000 Families to be put under 24/7 CCTV surveillance in their own homes ‘to change their bad behaviour’,” The Daily Express, July 29, 2009; available online at http://justgetthere.us/blog/archives/20,000-Families-to-beput-under-247-CCTV-surveillance-in-their-own-homes-to-change-their-bad-behaviour.html.
Chapter Six
1 Michael Snyder, “The Middle Class in America Is Radically Shrinking. Here Are the Stats to Prove it,” The Business Insider, July 15, 2010; available online at http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/the-u.s.-middle-class-is-being-wiped-outhere’s-the-stats-to-prove-it-520657.html?tickers=%5EDJI,%5EGSPC,SPY,MCD,WMT,XRT,DIA.
2 Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Data Retrieval: Labor Force Statistics (CPS)”; available online at http://www.bls.gov/webapps/legacy/cpsatab13.htm.
3 Carolyn Dimitri, Anne Effland, and Neilson Conklin, “The 20th Century Transformation of U.S. Agriculture and Farm Policy,” US Department of Agriculture, June 3, 2005; available online at http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/eib3/eib3.htm#changes and http://www.agclassroom.org/gan/timeline/farmers_land.htm.
4 Remarks by the Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack before US House Committee on Agriculture in Washington, DC, May 12, 2011; available online at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2011/05/0208.xml&contentidonly=true.
5 Aaron E. Cobet and Gregory A. Wilson, “Comparing 50 years of labor productivity in U.S. and foreign manufacturing,” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June 2002; available online at http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/06/art4full.pdf.
6 Bureau of Labor Statistics, “Employment Situation Summary,” May 6, 2011; available online at http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm.
7 Dennis Cauchon, “Summer jobs hit all-time low for youths,” USA Today, September 3, 2010; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2010-09-03-youth-unemployment_N.htm.
8 Susan Page, “Married? Single? Status affects how women vote,” USA Today, August 25, 2004; available online at http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections
/nation/polls/2004-08-25-female-vote_x.htm.
9 US Department of Commerce, “Projections of the Number of Households and Families in the United States: 1995 to 2010,” 2010; available online at http://www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf.
10 U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2008 Annual Social and Economic Supplement.
11 “Busy Not Running GM,” Wall Street Journal, June 3, 2009; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124389952143874411.html.
12 John Tamny, “Memo To Washington: Let GM Fail,” Forbes, July 10, 2008; available online at http://www.forbes.com/2008/07/09/gm-washington-detroit-opedcx_jt_0710tamny.html.
13 Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, “Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout,” Wall Street Journal, November 28, 2008; available online at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122783248646663009.html.
14 Testimony of Rick Wagoner (CEO of the General Motors Corporation) to the United States Senate in Washington, D.C., November 18, 2008; available online at http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/WSJ_WagonerTestimony-081118.pdf.
15 Associated Press, “Detroit Three erasing productivity gap,” June 5, 2008; available online at http://www.rrstar.com/archive/x142951738/Detroit-Three-erasingproductivity-gap.
16 Jennifer Harper, “Kerry aims to rescue newspapers,” The Washington Times,April 22, 2009; available online at http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/22/kerry-aims-to-rescue-newspaper-industry/.
17 Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, The Ruins of Detroit (London: Steidl, 2011).
18 John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. Is in Motown,” Time, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.
19 Jonathan Oosting, “Detroit school board president struggles to write a coherent sentence; does it matter?” MLive.com, March 4, 2010; available online at http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2010/03/detroit_school_board_president.html.
20 Anthony Daniels, “Britain, benign & proud,” Speech reprinted in The New Criterion , January 2011; available online at http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Britain--benign---proud-6752.
21 Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?” The Detroit News, March 4, 2010; available online at http://detnews.com/article/20100304/OPINION03/3040437/Does-DPS-leader-s-writing-send-wrong-message.
22 Michelle Malkin, “Diplomas Won’t Make Jihadis Go Away, Barack,” Human Events, July 16, 2008; available online at http://www.humanevents.com/article. php?id=27552.
23 Laura Berman, “Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?” The Detroit News.
24 “Detroit: Now a Ghost Town,” Time, 2009; available online at http://www.time. com/time/interactive/0,31813,1925735,00.html.
25 Henry Payne, “Unions of Urban Decay,” National Review Online, August 6, 2007; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/221777/unionsurban-decay/henry-payne.
26 Steven Gray, “In Detroit, Nearly 50% Unemployment Rate?” Time, December 16, 2009; available online at http://detroit.blogs.time.com/2009/12/16/in-detroitnearly-50-unemployment-rate/.
27 Ibid.
28 John Huey, “Assignment Detroit: Why Time Inc. is in Motown,” Time, September 24, 2009; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1925681,00.html.
29 Niall Ferguson, “Empire Falls,” Vanity Fair, October 2006; available online at http://fnf.org.ph/downloadables/Empire_Falls_as_published_in_Vanity_Fair_Oct_06.pdf.
30 Centers for Disease Control, “Prevalence of overweight, obesity and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960-62 through 2005-2006”; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/overweight/overweight_adult.htm.
31 John G. Spangler, “Childhood Obesity: Attacking a Crushing Epidemic,” ABCNews.com, May 13, 2010; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/childhood-obesity-white-house-task-force-childhood-obesity/story?id=10631915.
32 “Not grrrreat: After five decades, anti-obesity Bill could ban cartoon Tony the tiger from TV,” The Daily Mail, May 19, 2008; available online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1015879/Not-grrrreat-After-50-years-anti-obesity-Bill-ban-Tony-tiger-TV.html.
33 Sharon Bernstein, “San Francisco bans Happy Meals,” Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/nov/02/business/la-fi-happy-meals-20101103.
34 Public Health Agency of Canada, “Preconception Health and Folic Acid,” 2005; available online at http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fa-af/backgrounder-eng.php.
35 Steven Reinberg, “Folic Acid Fortification Might Boost Cancer Risk,” ABCNews. com, November 18, 2009; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Healthday/folic-acid-fortification-boost-cancer-risk/story?id=9109220.
36 Senator Richard Lugar, “Lugar praises passage of child nutrition bill,” press release, August 5, 2010; available online at http://lugar.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=327017&.
37 Madison Park, “Ex-military leaders: Young adults ‘too fat to fight’,” CNN, April 20, 2010; available online at http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/military.fat.fight/index.html.
38 Viktoria Lapko, “Family Becomes Extinct, To Be Replaced with Feminism and Gender Equality,” Pravda, August 19, 2010; available online at http://english.pravda.ru/history/19-08-2010/114665-family_feminism_gender_equality-0/.
39 Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar,” August 31, 1837.
40 “Follow the Leader,” The Economist, July 8, 2010; available online at http://www.economist.com/node/16542808.
41 Paul A. Rahe, Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift (Yale University Press, 2010).
42 Kenneth Minogue, “The New Epicureans,” The New Criterion, September 2001; available online at http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-new-Epicureans-2131.
43 “Millionaire gay fathers celebrate arrival of twins with triple christening ceremony,” The Daily Mail, July 3, 2010; available online at http://www.dailymail. co.uk/news/article-1291664/Millionaire-gay-fathers-Barrie-Tony-Drewitt-Barlow-celebrate-arrival-twins-triple-christening-ceremony.html.
44 James Bone, “‘Pregnant man’ Thomas Beatie gives birth to baby girl,” The Times, July 4, 2008; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4265368.ece.
45 Julia Steinecke, “Border skirmishes,” The Toronto Star, August 15, 2009; available online at http://www.thestar.com/travel/article/680107.
46 Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (New York: Harper, 2010).
47 Jared Diamond, “The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race,” Discover, May 1987; available online at http://www.scribd.com/doc/2100251/Jared-Diamond-The-Worst-Mistake-in-the-History-of-the-Human-Race.
48 Roger Scruton, The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope (Oxford University Press, 2010).
49 George F. Will, “Why Mike Pence catches conservatives’ eyes,” The Washington Post, December 8, 2010; available online at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/08/AR2010120805110.html.
50 Centers for Disease Control, “National Vital Statistics Report,” August 9, 2010; available online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr58/nvsr58_24.pdf.
51 Milton and Rose Friedman, Free to Choose: A Personal Statement (New York: Harcourt, 1979).
52 Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa, “Sen. John Kerry skips town on sails tax,” The Boston Herald, July 23, 2010; available online at http://www.bostonherald.com/track/inside_track/view.bg?articleid=1269698.
53 International Court of Justice, “Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo,“ July 22, 2010; available online at http://www.icj-cij.org/docket/files/141/15987.pdf.
54 “Kosovo independence move not illegal, says UN court,” BBC, July 22, 2010; available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-10730573.
55 Alberto Alesina and Enrico Spolaore, The Size
of Nations (The MIT Press, 2005).
56 Remarks made before the United States Congress in Washington, D.C., November 7, 2007; available online at http://www.nysun.com/national/speech-bypresident-sarkozy-before-congress/66054/.
57 Joe Klein, “Yes, It’s Racism...but it’s Complicated,” Time, September 16, 2009; available online at http://swampland.time.com/2009/09/16/yes-its-racism-butits-complicated/.
58 Jonah Goldberg, “Joe Klein Loves Diversity,” National Review Online, September 17, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/187380/joe-klein-loves-diversity/jonah-goldberg.
59 Jared Taylor,“Jared Taylor Remembers Joe Sobran,”VDare.com, October 1, 2010; available online at http://vdare.com/taylor/101001_sobran.htm.
60 Philippe Legrain, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (Princeton University Press, 2007).
61 Christopher Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe (New York: Anchor, 2010).
62 Giovanni di Lorenzo, “Drinnen vor der Tür,” Die Zeit No. 41, 2004.
63 Chistopher Caldwell, “Think Tank: New Ideas For The 21st Century: Immigration and welfare: a bad mix,” The Times, April 26, 2009; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6168821.ece.
64 “Somali Refugees Settle in Maine Town,” ABC News; available online at http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=130098&page=1.
65 Federation for American Immigration Reform, “Birthright Citizenship,” August 2010; available online at http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16535&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1007.
66 “Stockton School Trustee Used District Credit Card For Personal Purchases,” CBS Sacramento, February 10, 2011; available online at http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2011/02/10/stockton-school-trustee-used-district-credit-card-forpersonal-purchases/.
67 Sherry Jacobson, “Across Texas, 60,000 babies of noncitizens get U.S. birthright,” Dallas News, August 8, 2010; available online at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20100807-Across-Texas-60-000-babies-3859.ece.