130. Hearn, “Black Caucus.”
131. David Knowles, “John Lewis Switches to Obama,” politicsdaily.com, Feb. 27, 2008; “Congressman John Lewis,” Southern Freedom Fighter Museum, May 21, 2008, southernfreedomfighter.blogspot.com.
132. Michael Saul, “Geraldine Ferraro Resigns Clinton Post Amidst Furor over Obama Comments,” New York Daily News, March 12, 2008.
133. Orlando Patterson, “The Red Phone in Black and White,” New York Times, Mar. 11, 2008.
134. Mike Allen and Jonathan Martin, “Powell Endorses Obama,” Politico, Oct. 19, 2008, dyn.politico.com; Lynn Sweet, “Colin Powell Endorses Barack Obama on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ Turned Off by McCain’s Focus on Ayers,” Chicago Sun-Times, Oct. 19, 2008.
135. Peter Wallsten, “Wall Divides Republican Party Factions,” Seattle Times, June 3, 2007.
136. Sailer, “Diversity Is Strength!”
137. Charlie Savage, “Videos Shed New Light on Sotomayor’s Positions,” New York Times, June 11, 2009.
138. David D. Kirkpatrick, “Sotomayor’s Focus on Race Issues May Be Hurdle,” New York Times, May 30, 2009.
139. “The Franchise for Felons,” Washington Times, May 29, 2009.
140. Charlie Savage, “A Judge’s View of Judging Is on the Record,” New York Times, May 15, 2009.
141. Ibid.
142. Edward A. Adams, “Race and Gender of Judges Make Enormous Differences in Rulings, Studies Find,” ABA Journal, Feb. 6, 2010.
143. “Aloha, Segregation,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 17, 2009.
144. “Sen. Akaka on Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act,” Feb. 23, 2010, allamericanpatriots.com
145. “Britain Nixes Iroquois Team’s Passports,” AP, Washington Times, July 15, 2010.
146. Paul Krugman, “The Town Hall Mob,” New York Times, Aug. 6, 2009.
147. Ibid.
148. Mark Finkelstein, “Cynthia Tucker: 45–65% of Town-Hall Protesters Are Racists,” NewsBusters.org, Aug. 7, 2009.
149. Susan Davis, “WSJ/NBC News Poll: Tea Party Tops Democrats and Republicans,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 16, 2009.
150. David Zinczenko, “Decline of the American Male,” USA Today, June 17, 2009.
151. Edwin S. Rubenstein, “July Jobs: Americans Are the Biggest—and Only—Losers. Moratorium Now!” vdare.com, Aug. 6, 2010.
152. Edwin S. Rubenstein, “July Jobs: Displacement Returns with a Vengeance,” vdare.com, Aug. 7, 2009.
5. Demographic Winter
1. John Feffer, “New Neighbors, New Economy,” Epoch Times, Nov. 17, 2009; “A Migration Summit to Address Shrinking Birth Rates,” huffingtonpost.com, Nov. 10, 2009.
2. Pierre Eugène Marcelin Berthelot, Dictionary of Science Quotations, quoted in R. Desper, The Human Side of Scientists, 1975.
3. Comprehensive Tables, World Population Statistics: The 2008 Revision, vol. 1 (New York: United Nations, 2009), 86, 142, 248, 390, 406, 476, 228, 306, 316, 162, 404, 84, 102, 48, 62, 114, 166, 210, 264, 312, 368, 474.
4. Jack Goldstone, “The New Population Bomb: The Four Megatrends That Will Change the World,” Foreign Affairs, Jan./Feb. 2010, 32–33.
5. Phillip Longman, “Think Again: Global Aging,” Foreign Policy, November 2010, 54.
6. Edward Bernard Glick, “Who Will Be on Top at the End of the Century?” American Thinker, Dec. 27, 2010.
7. Comprehensive Tables, World Population Statistics: The 2006 Revision, vol. 1 (New York: United Nations, 2007), 5.
8. “Can Policies Boost Birth Rates?” policy brief, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, November 2007, 1.
9. Ibid., 2.
10. Ibid.
11. World Population Statistics: The 2008 Revision, 292.
12. Lisa Twaronit, “Japan’s Low Birth Rate Poses Demographic Dilemma,” MarketWatch, March 18, 2010.
13. Joel Kotkin, “The Kid Issue,” forbes.com, Sept. 8, 2009.
14. Nicholas Eberstadt, “The Demographic Future: What Population Growth—and Decline—Means for the Global Economy,” Foreign Affairs, Nov.–Dec. 2010, 61.
15. Frank Zeller, “Baby Shortage Is an Economic Time Bomb,” Vancouver Sun, Dec. 29, 2010.
16. Blaine Harden, “For Young Japanese, U.S. Degrees Lose Lure,” Washington Post, April 11, 2010.
17. Hiroko Tabuchi, “China’s Day Arriving Sooner than Japan Expected,” New York Times, Oct. 2, 2009.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. World Population Statistics: The 2008 Revision, 398.
21. Ibid.
22. “S. Korea Urges Lights Out to Boost Birthrate,” AFP, Jan. 20, 2008, breitbart.com.
23. Goldstone, “The New Population Bomb,” 34.
24. Longman, “Think Again,” 55.
25. Zeller, “Baby Shortage Is an Economic Time Bomb.”
26. Henry A. Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 134.
27. Reiner Klingholz, “Europe’s Real Demographic Challenge,” Policy Review, Oct.–Nov. 2009, 63.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid., 66.
30. “Birth Control Pill Inventor Laments Demographic ‘Catastrophe,’” catholicnewsagency.com, Jan. 11, 2009.
31. Russell Shorto, “No Babies,” New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2008, 71.
32. Longman, “Think Again,” 58.
33. World Population Statistics: The 2008 Revision, 480.
34. Cal Thomas, “Invasion by Immigration,” Tribune Media Services, Aug. 12, 2009, calthomas.com.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Graeme Wilson, “White Britons a Minority by 2066,” The Sun, Nov. 18, 2010; “White Britons a Minority by 2066,” The Independent, Nov. 18, 2010, belfasttelegraph.co.uk.
38. Fouad Ajami, “Strangers in the Land,” New York Times Book Review, Aug. 2, 2009, 7.
39. Ibid.
40. Tom Whitehead, “Labor Wanted Mass Immigration to Make UK More Multicultural, Says Former Adviser,” Telegraph, Oct. 23, 2009.
41. Ibid.
42. Richard Kerbaj, “Muslin Population ‘Rising 10 Times Faster Than Rest of Population,’” London Times, Jan. 30, 2009; “Hinduism in the United Kingdom” and “Black British,” wikipedia.com.
43. Alexi Mostrous and Christine Seib, “Tide Turns as Poles End Great Migration,” Sunday Times, Feb. 16, 2008.
44. Charles Krauthammer, “Never Again?” Washington Post, May 5, 2006.
45. Leon Cohen, “Jewish Pro-Life Activist Medved Says Children Are ‘A Gift, Not a Choice,’” Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, May 7, 2004, jewishchronicle.org.
46. Philip Roth, The Counterlife (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1986), 103.
47. Stephen Steinlight, “The Jewish Stake in America’s Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy,” Center for Immigration Studies, October 2001.
48. Ibid.
49. Isabel Kershner, “Some Israelis Question Benefits for Ultra-Religious,” New York Times, Dec. 28, 2010.
50. “Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century,” Introduction, Eric Kaufmann, Belfer Center, Harvard University/Birkbeck College, University of London, p. 7.
51. John Mearsheimer, “Saving Israel from Itself,” American Conservative, May 18, 2009.
52. Guy Lieberman, “Housing Minister: Spread of Arab Population Must Be Stopped,” haaretz.com, Feb. 7, 2009.
53. Ibid.
54. Yair Lapid, “What Demographic Problem?” YNET, July 7, 2009, ynetnews.com.
55. Mearsheimer, “Saving Israel from Itself.”
56. Rory McCarthy, “Olmert: Israel Must Hand Back Land for Peace with Palestinians and Syria,” Guardian, Sept. 29, 2008.
57. John Lynn, “Ehud Barak Defies Benjamin Netanyahu on Threat to Israel,” The Australian, Jan. 28, 2010.
58. John Mearsheimer, “Sinking Ship,” The American Conservative, Aug. 2010, 11.
59. Alan Dershowitz, “Palestinians and the ‘Right of Return,’” Christian Science
Monitor, April 16, 2007.
60. Goldstone, “The New Population Bomb,” 37.
61. World Population Statistics: The 2008 Revision, 406.
62. Casimir Dadak, “A New ‘Cold War’?” Independent Review, Summer 2010, 95.
63. Martin Walker, “The World’s New Numbers,” Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2009.
64. Nicholas Eberstadt, “Drunken Nation: Russia’s Depopulation Bomb,” World Affairs, Spring 2009.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid.
67. Richard Fairbanks and Paul Hewitt, “Demography vs. an Imperial Impulse,” Washington Times, Sept. 17, 2008.
68. William Hawkins, “U.S. Need Not Decline,” Washington Times, Dec. 4, 2008.
69. Bill Gertz, “Hayden Warns of Russian Unrest,” Washington Times, May 1, 2008.
70. “Russia’s Exploding Muslim Population,” foreignpolicy.com, Jan. 16, 2007.
71. Clifford J. Levy, “Its Population Falling, Russia Beckons Its Children Home,” New York Times, March 22, 2009.
72. “Rivalries of the Bear and Dragon,” Financial Times, Oct. 15, 2009, 10.
73. Dadak, “A New ‘Cold War’?” 95.
74. Kotkin, “The Kid Issue.”
75. Feffer, “New Neighbors, New Economy.”
76. Ibid.
77. Ibid.
78. Ariana Eunjung Cha, “In Aging China, a Change of Course,” Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2009.
79. Ibid.
80. Peter Hitchens, “Gendercide: China’s Shameful Massacre of Unborn Girls Means There Will Soon Be 30M More Men Than Women,” Daily Mail, April 10, 2010, dailymail.co.uk.
81. Longman, “Think Again,” 55.
82. Eberstadt, “Demographic Future,” 57.
83. Cha, “In Aging China, a Change of Course.”
84. “Taiwan Seeks Baby-Boosting Slogan,” BBC News, March 16, 2010.
85. Edwin Mora, “NYT Environment Reporter Floats Idea: Give Carbon Credits to Couples That Limit Themselves to One Child,” cnsnews.com, Oct. 19, 2009.
6. Equality vs. Freedom?
1. James Fenimore Cooper, On the Disadvantages of a Monarchy, wikiquote.org.
2. Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (New York: MJF Books, 1968), 20.
3. Murray Rothbard, “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature,” Modern Age, Fall 1973, lewrockwell.com.
4. President Barack Obama, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 2009, abcnews.go.com.
5. Irving Kristol, “The Neoconservative Persuasion,” Weekly Standard, Aug. 25, 2003.
6. Kevin Phillips, The Cousins’ War: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America (New York: Basic Books, 1999).
7. “An Excerpt of Query XIV from the Notes on the State of Virginia (1781),” The Atlantic, October 1996.
8. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to John Adams, Oct. 28, 1813,” The Founders Constitution, press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders.
9. Thomas Jefferson, “Letter to Lafayette, Feb. 14, 1815,” etext.virginia.edu.
10. Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821, etext.virginia.edu.
11. Bertrand Russell, famous-proverbs.com.
12. Willmoore Kendall, Contra Mundum (New York: Arlington House, 1971), 351–52.
13. Ibid., 352.
14. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 3 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 145–46.
15. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 2 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 255–56.
16. Ibid.
17. “Abraham Lincoln’s Speech on the Dred Scott Decision,” June 26, 1857, The Freeman Institute, freemaninstitute.com/lincoln.htm.
18. Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 388.
19. Kendall, Contra Mundum, 354.
20. Thomas E. Woods Jr. and Kevin Gutzman, “Brown vs Board vs the U.S. Constitution,” vdare.com, July 25, 2008.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream,” Washington, D.C., Aug. 28, 1963, americanrhetoric.com.
24. Ibid.
25. “Moving Toward a Genuinely Color-Blind Society,” Lincoln Review Letter Digest, May–June 2009, 2.
26. Lyndon B. Johnson, “To Fulfill These Rights,” Commencement Address at Howard University, June 4, 1965, lbjlib.utexas.edu.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. William J. Quirk and Randall J. Bridwell, Judicial Dictatorship (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1995), 21.
31. James Fenimore Cooper, On the Disadvantages of a Monarchy.
32. Quirk and Bridwell, Judicial Dictatorship, 23.
33. Lyndon B. Johnson, “To Fulfill These Rights.”
34. Rothbard, “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.”
35. Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History, 19.
36. Ibid., 19–20.
37. Ibid., 20.
38. Ibid.
39. Jude P. Dougherty, “Two Treatises on the Acquisition and Use of Power,” Modern Age, Spring 2010, 110–11.
40. Pierre Thomas and Jason Ryan, “U.S. Prison Population Hits All-Time High: 2.3 Million Incarcerated,” ABC News, June 6, 2008.
41. Duncan Williams, Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 1991), 131.
42. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (New York: Avenel Books, Crown Publishing), 33, 34.
43. Gillis J. Harp, “Are We All Ideologues Now?” St. Croix Review, Oct. 2010, 56.
44. Ibid.
45. Will and Ariel Durant, Lessons of History, 20.
46. W. E. B. DuBois, “The Talented Tenth,” September 1903, teachingamericanhistory.org.
47. Sarah O’Connor, “Men Bear the Brunt of US Jobs Lost,” Financial Times, April 19, 2009; Gabriella Boston, “Recession Slams Blue-Collar Workers,” Washington Times, March 26, 2009; Mark J. Perry, “The Man-Cession Continues,” Carpe Diem, March 9, 2009; Catherine Rampell, “As Layoffs Surge, Women May Pass Men in Job Force,” New York Times, Feb. 6, 2009.
48. Rothbard, “Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature.”
49. Leo Congdon, George Kennan: A Writing Life (Wilmington, DE.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008), 145.
50. Ibid., 143.
51. Monica Gabriel, “Former Bush Solicitor General Ted Olson Files Suit Claiming Same-Sex Marriage Is Constitutional Right,” cnsnews.com, June 23, 2009.
52. Thomas Jefferson, “A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments,” 1778, Amendment VIII, The Founders Constitution, press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders.
53. Charles Murray, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality (New York: Crown Forum, 2008), 58.
54. Daniel Goleman, “Richard Hernnstein Dies; Backed Nature over Nurture,” New York Times, Sept. 16, 1994.
55. Murray, Real Education, 60, 62, 66.
56. Heather Mac Donald, “Nation of Cowards?” City Journal, Feb. 19, 2009.
57. Sewell Chan, “The Highest Per-Pupil Spending in the U.S.,” New York Times, May 24, 2007.
58. Stacy Teicher Kadaroo, “Graduation Rate for U.S. High Schoolers Falls for Second Straight Year,” Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 2010.
59. Joel Schectman and Rachel Monahan, “Cuny’s Got Math Problem: Report Shows Many Freshmen from City HS Fail at Basic Algebra,” New York Daily News, Nov. 12, 2009.
60. Sharon Otterman and Robert Gebeloff, “Triumph Fades on Racial Gap in City Schools,” New York Times, Aug. 15, 2010.
61. Meredith Kolodner, Rachel Monahan, and Adam Lisberg, “Just Who Is Cathie Black?” New York Daily News, Nov. 10, 2010.
62. Trip Gabriel, “Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected,” New York Times, Nov. 9, 2010.
63. Ibid.
64. Ibid.
65. Robert Weissberg, Bad Students, Not Bad Schools (New Brunswick:
Transaction Publishers, 2010), 7.
66. Ibid.
67. Sam Dillon, “Top Test Scores from Shanghai Stun Educators,” New York Times, Dec. 7, 2010; Christine Armario, “‘Wake-Up Call: U.S. Students Trail Global Leaders,” AP, Dec. 7, 2010, msnbc.com.
68. Ibid.
69. Steve Sailer, “PISA Scores Show Demography Is Destiny in Education, Too—But Washington Doesn’t Want You to Know,” vdare.com, Dec.19, 2010.
70. Jason Richwine, “The Myth of Racial Disparities in Public School Funding,” Backgrounder, Heritage Foundation, April 20, 2011, 1.
71. Weissberg, Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, vii.
72. Michelle Rhee, “New York Needs Its Best Teachers in the Classroom,” Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2011.
73. Jonah Lehrer, “Why Rich Parents Don’t Matter,” Wall Street Journal, Jan. 22, 2011.
74. Justin Pope, “Transcript Shows Harvard Professor Arguing Differences Between Genders Play a Role in Science Careers,” Seattle Times, Feb. 17, 2005; Patrick D. Healy and Sara Rimer, “Furor Lingers as Harvard Chief Gives Details of Talk on Women,” New York Times, Feb. 18, 2005; Leonard Fein, “The ‘Availability’ of Aptitude,” Jewish Daily Forward, Feb. 25, 2006.
75. Sam Dillon, “Harvard Chief Defends His Talk on Women,” New York Times, Jan. 18, 2005; Marcella Bombardieri, “Summers’ Remarks on Women Draw Fire,” Boston Globe, Jan. 17, 2005; Christina Hoff Sommers and Sally Satel, “Where Were You on 1/14?” American Enterprise Institute, Aug. 14, 2005, aei.org.
76. Cahal Milmo, “Fury at DNA Pioneer’s Theory: Africans Are Less Intelligent Than Westerners,” The Independent, Oct. 17, 2007.
77. Ibid.
78. Charles Murray, Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950 (New York: Cox and Murray, 2003).
79. Charles Murray, “Intelligence and College,” National Affairs, Fall 2009, 96.
80. Charles Murray, “The Inequality Taboo,” Commentary, September 2005, bibleresearcher.com.
81. Williams, Trousered Apes, 139.
82. Samuel Francis, Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1993), 209.
83. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, translated by Henry Reeve, vol. 2 (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House, 2003), 320–21.
84. Dougherty, “Two Treatises on the Acquisition and Use of Power.”
85. Francis, Beautiful Losers, 209.
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