7. The Diversity Cult
1. Ann Coulter, “At the End of the Day, Diversity Has Jumped the Shark,” Human Events, Nov. 18, 2009.
2. Peter Skerry, “Beyond Sushiology: Does Diversity Work?” Brookings Institution, Winter 2002.
3. “Brigadier General Pinckney to Head New Diversity Task Force,” Army News Service, Dec. 3, 2007.
4. Ben Wattenberg, The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong (Washington, D.C.: AEI Press, 1984), 84.
5. John Derbyshire, “Ethnomasochism: The Musical,” Cultural Caviar, Nov. 10, 2010, takimag.com.
6. Ibid.
7. Christopher Lydon, “Carter Defends All-White Areas: Says Government Shouldn’t Try to End ‘Ethnic Purity’ of Some Neighborhoods,” New York Times, April 6, 1976.
8. Ibid.
9. Dan Quayle, “Murphy Brown Speech,” Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, May 19, 1992, commonwealthclub.org.
10. Peter Wood, Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (San Francisco: Encounter, 2003), 5.
11. Ibid., 5–6.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid., 6.
14. John Derbyshire, We Are Doomed: Reclaiming Conservative Pessimism (New York: Crown Forum, 2009), 22.
15. Bill Clinton, “Transcript of Clinton’s 1997 State of the Union—Jan. 21, 1997,” cnn.com.
16. Steve Sailer, “The Michigan Mess: On Cognitive Dissonance About Quotas—and the Need for a Constitutional Amendment,” vdare.com, June 29, 2003.
17. Wesley Clark, Amicus Brief to the United States Supreme Court, Feb. 19, 2003, Issue Briefs—Affirmative Action, Clark 04, texasforclark.com.
18. Wood, Diversity, 81.
19. Ben Franklin, “Letter to Peter Collinson,” May 9, 1753, The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1726–1757, historycarper.com; “Ben Franklin on ‘Stupid, Swarthy Germans,’” dialoginternational.com.
20. John Jay, Federalist No. 2, “Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence,” Oct. 31, 1787, Independent Journal, americanconservativedaily.com.
21. Ibid.
22. Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America’s Immigration Disaster (New York: Random House, 1995), 76–77.
23. Ibid., 77.
24. Hua Hsu, “The End of White America?” The Atlantic, Jan.–Feb. 2009.
25. Skerry, “Beyond Sushiology.”
26. Orlando Patterson, “Equality,” Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Winter 2009, 9, democracyjournal.org.
27. “Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Attorney General Eric Holder at the Department of Justice African American History Month Program,” Department of Justice, Feb. 18, 2008, doj.gov.
28. Orlando Patterson, “Race and Diversity in the Age of Obama,” New York Times, Aug. 16, 2009.
29. Ibid.
30. Mireya Navarro, “National Parks Reach Out to Blacks Who Aren’t Visiting,” New York Times, Nov. 2, 2010.
31. Amanda Paulson, “Resegregation of American Schools Deepening,” Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 25, 2008.
32. Ibid.
33. Bill Bishop, “An Election Story for Those Who Like to Watch,” slate.com, Oct. 21, 2008.
34. Robert J. Samuelson, “Political Perils of a ‘Big Sort,’” Washington Post, Aug. 6, 2008.
35. The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley (New York: Ballantine, 1964), 348; Edward Banfield, The Unheavenly City: The Nature and Future of Our Urban Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1970), 67; Patrick J. Buchanan, Conservative Votes, Liberal Victories: Why the Right Has Failed (New York: Quadrangle, 1975), 67.
36. Scott Stossel, “Subdivided We Fall,” New York Times, May 18, 2008.
37. Ibid.
38. Rich Benjamin, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America (New York: Hyperion, 2009), p. 6.
39. Alan Ehrenhalt, “Like-Minded, Living Nearby,” Wall Street Journal, April 22, 2008.
40. Jennifer Harper, “Immigration, Loss of Culture Worry Nations,” Washington Times, Oct. 5, 2007.
41. David Gauvey Herbert, “Americans Divided Along Race, Class Lines,” nationaljournal.com, Dec. 1, 2009.
42. U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Criminal Victimization in the United States, Statistical Tables, 2007 (Washington, DC, 2010), Table 42.
43. Heather Mac Donald, “Nation of Cowards?” City Journal, Feb. 19, 2009.
44. Walter Williams, “Is Racial Profiling Racist?” townhall.com, Aug. 19, 2009.
45. “Racial Profiling of Taxi Passengers,” My Fox New York, Dec. 8, 2010, myfoxny.com; Bryce Watkins, “Un-fare: New York Taxi Driver Rep Endorses Racial Profiling,” Atlanta Post, Dec. 7, 2010.
46. Ibid.; Walter Williams, “Is Profiling Racist?” lewrockwell.com, Aug. 3, 2010.
47. “Jesse Jackson’s Car Stolen in Detroit,” Chicago Sun-Times, Sept. 4, 2010.
48. “Resegregation Now,” New York Times, June 29, 2007.
49. “Black Sorority Protests ‘Old South’ Days,” AP, Montgomery Advertiser, April 30, 2009.
50. Ibid.
51. Katherine Kington, “Kappa Alpha’s ‘Old South Week’ Bans Confederate Uniforms,” wtvm.com, April 23, 2010.
52. Skerry, “Beyond Sushiology.”
53. Ryan O’Donnell, “The Corporate Diversity Scam,” frontpagemagazine.com, Jan. 27, 2003.
54. Barbara Barrett, “Black Farmers to Share in Settlement,” Washington Post, Dec. 12, 2010.
55. “Federal Government Offers Payouts to Hispanic, Female Farmers,” aberdeennews.com, May 13, 2011; Mary Clare Jalonick, “USDA Offers Settlements to Women, Hispanic Farmers,” washingtonpost.com, Feb. 25, 2011.
56. Ibid.
57. Derbyshire, We Are Doomed, 23.
58. Fay Hansen, “Diversity’s Business Case Doesn’t Add Up,” workforce.com, April 2003.
59. Hans Bader, “Diversity Training Backfires,” openmarket.org, Dec. 26, 2007.
60. Roland S. Martin, “Commentary: Obama’s Press Office Needs Diversity,” cnnpolitics.com, Feb. 4, 2009.
61. “Blacks Equaled or Exceeded Their Relevant Civilian Labor Force Representation in 17 of 18 Executive Departments [and] … All 24 Independent Agencies,” FY 2008 FEORP, U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
62. Danielle Douglas, “Winding Down Fannie and Freddie Could Put Minority Careers at Risk,” Washington Post, Feb. 22, 2011; Chris Isidore, “Fannie, Freddie Bailout: $153 Billion … and Counting,” cnnmoney.com, Feb. 11, 2011.
63. Richard Slimbach, “The Transcultural Journey,” Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, vol. 11, 2005.
64. Richard Garnett, “The Minority Court,” Wall Street Journal, April 17, 2010.
65. Noah Feldman, “The Triumphant Decline of the WASP,” New York Times, June 27, 2010.
66. Ibid.
67. James A. Barnes, “Obama’s Team: The Face of Diversity,” National Journal, June 20, 2009.
68. Daniel de Vise, “Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity,” Washington Post, July 3, 2009.
69. Ibid.
70. Bruce Fleming, “The Cost of a Diverse Naval Academy,” The Capital, June 14, 2009, hometownannapolis.com.
71. Ibid.
72. Daniel de Vise, “Naval Academy Defends Move to Adjust Image on National TV,” Washington Post, Nov. 11, 2009.
73. Fleming, “The Cost of a Diverse Naval Academy.”
74. De Vise, “Naval Academy Defends Move.”
75. Admiral Gary Roughead, USN, “Shaping the Navy,” interview by Gina DiNicolo, Military Officer, October 2009, 73.
76. De Vise, “Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity.”
77. Fleming, “The Cost of a Diverse Naval Academy.”
78. “High Seas Segregation: The Navy Is Listing Dangerously in Politically Correct Waters,” Washington Times, July 30, 2010.
79. Ron K. Unz, “Some Minorities Are More Minor Than Others,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 16, 1998, onenation.org.
80. “Record Retrospective: Obama on Affirma
tive Action,” Harvard Law Record, Oct. 30, 2008; Harvard Law Record, vol. 91, no. 7, Nov. 16, 1990.
81. Unz, “Some Minorities Are More Minor Than Others.”
82. Patrick J. Buchanan, “Our Self-Selecting Elite,” Jan. 1, 1999, buchanan.org.
83. Russell K. Nieli, “How Diversity Punishes Asians, Poor Whites and Lots of Others,” mindingthecampus.com, July 12, 2010.
84. Ibid.
85. Ibid.
86. Ibid.
87. James Webb, “Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege,” Wall Street Journal, July 23, 2010.
88. “Harvard Tries to Diversify Portraits on Campus,” whdh.com, Nov. 7, 2010.
89. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. Henry Reeve, vol. 2 (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House), 114.
90. Ibid., p. 115.
91. Jason Richwine, “A Smart Solution to the Diversity Dilemma,” The American, Aug. 12, 2009.
92. Ibid.
93. Ibid.
94. John Leo, “Bowling with Our Own,” City Journal, June 25, 2007.
95. John Lloyd, “Study Paints Bleak Picture of Ethnic Diversity,” Financial Times, Oct. 8, 2006.
96. Ibid.
97. Leo, “Bowling with Our Own.”
98. Ibid.
99. Eduardo Porter, “Race and the Social Contract,” New York Times, March 31, 2009.
100. Ibid.
101. Ibid.
102. Skerry, “Beyond Sushiology.”
103. Ibid.
104. Schlesinger, 10.
105. Richwine, “A Smart Solution to the Diversity Dilemma.”
106. Ibid.
107. Paul Gottfried, “Multiculturalist International,” Orbis, 2002, fpri.org/orbis.
108. Samuel Francis, “The Other Face of Multiculturalism,” Chronicles, April 1998.
109. Ibid.
110. H. A. Scott Trask, “The Whale in Times Square,” Chronicles, May 2011, 30.
111. Ibid.
112. Nick Allen, “Fort Hood Gunman Had Told U.S. Military Colleagues That Infidels Should Have Their Throats Cut,” Telegraph, Nov. 8, 2009.
113. Dorothy Rabinowitz, “Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer,” Wall Street Journal, Nov. 10, 2008.
114. Bryan Bender, “Ft. Hood Suspect Was Army Dilemma: His Extreme Views Possibly Overlooked in Favor of Diversity,” Boston Globe, Feb. 22, 2010.
115. Peter Baker and Clifford Krauss, “President, at Service, Hails Fort Hood’s Fallen,” New York Times, Nov. 11, 2009.
116. Radio Derb, Transcript, Nov. 13, 2009, johnderbyshire.com.
117. “Police: Gunman in Binghamton, N.Y., Immigration Center Massacre Was a Coward,” foxnews.com, April 4, 2009.
118. Michael Vlahos, Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change (Westport, CT.: Praeger Security International, 2009), 34–35.
119. Rabinowitz, “Dr. Phil and the Fort Hood Killer.”
8. The Triumph of Tribalism
1. “Remarks by the President at the Acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize,” Dec. 10, 2009, whitehouse.gov.
2. Christopher Meyer, “A Return to 1815 Is the Way Forward for Europe,” London Times, Sept. 2, 2008.
3. Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Disuniting of America, 10.
4. Nathan Gardels, “Two Concepts of Nationalism: An Interview with Isaiah Berlin,” New York Review of Books, Nov. 21, 1991.
5. Jerry Z. Muller, “Us and Them: The Enduring Power of Ethnic Nationalism,” Foreign Affairs, March–April 2008.
6. Ibid., 19.
7. Ibid., 28.
8. Ibid., 19–20, 18.
9. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Pandaemonium: Ethnicity in International Politics (London: Oxford University Press, 1994), 10.
10. Ibid., 11.
11. Lord Byron, “The Isles of Greece,” The Oxford Book of English Verse, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1955), 708.
12. Jasper Ridley, Mussolini: A Biography (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 66.
13. Roy Denman, Missed Chances: Britain and Europe in the Twentieth Century (London: Indigo, 1997), 30; Ralph Raico, “World War I: The Turning Point,” in The Costs of War: America’s Pyrrhic Victories, John Denson, ed. (New Brunswick, NJ; Transaction, 1999), 240.
14. Moynihan, Pandaemonium, 83.
15. Wenzel Jaksch, Europe’s Road to Potsdam (New York: Praeger, 1963), 276–77.
16. H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, vol. 2 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971), 795.
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid., 793.
19. Benjamin Disraeli, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, rev. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), 182.
20. Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization (New York: Doubleday, 1995), 6.
21. Sean Clarke, “Am I a Horse,” Guardian, March 17, 2008.
22. Anthony Pagdon, “Of Skulls and Buttocks,” National Interest, March/April 2010, 90.
23. James K. Robinson and Walter B. Rideout, eds., A College Book of Modern Verse (Evanston, IL: Row, Peterson, 1960), 62–63.
24. Ibid., 65.
25. Albert Einstein, thinkexist.com.
26. Andrew Roberts, Eminent Churchillians (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994), 211.
27. Ilya Ehrenburg, “Vojna (Moscow: 1942–43),” wikipedia.org; Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, The German Expellees: Victims in War and Peace (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986), 34.
28. Jonathan Yardley, “A Distinguished Philosopher Asks If Killing Innocents Is Ever Justifiable,” Book World, Washington Post, April 9, 2006.
29. Ho Chi Minh, thinkexist.com.
30. Meyer, “A Return to 1815.”
31. Clifford J. Levy, “President of Ingushetia Is Wounded in Suicide Bombing,” New York Times, June 23, 2009.
32. “Opposition Activist Shot Dead in Ingushetia,” Guardian, Oct. 25, 2009.
33. Charles Clover, “Changing Face of Terror in Russia,” Financial Times, Apr. 3–4, 2010, 2.
34. “Suicide Bomber Kills 16 in North Caucasus,” Washington Post, Sept. 10, 2010.
35. Leon Aron, “Vladimir Putin Charts His Return,” Washington Post, Oct. 16, 2010.
36. “Islamist Rebel Urges ‘Total War’ with Russia,” AFP, Breitbart.Com March 3, 2011.
37. Shaun Walker, “Russians Name Muslim Convert as Prime Suspect for Airport Bombing,” Independent, Jan. 28, 2011.
38. Elena Milashina, “The Roots of Moscow’s Chechen Problem,” Wall Street Journal, Feb. 2, 2011.
39. Charles King and Rajan Menon, “Prisoners of the Caucasus: Russia’s Invisible Civil War,” Foreign Affairs, July/Aug. 2010, 22.
40. Ibid.
41. Ellen Barry, “Russian Protests Erupt over Soccer Fan’s Killing,” New York Times, Dec. 13, 2010; Charles Clover, “Racists Battle Riot Police in Moscow Streets,” Financial Times, Dec. 14, 2010.
42. Ibid.
43. Gregory L. White, “Russia Vows Action After Riots,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 14, 2010.
44. Charles Clover, “‘Managed Nationalism’ Turns Nasty for Putin,” Financial Times, Dec. 24, 2010.
45. Kadyr Toktogulov and Alan Cullison, “Ethnic Clashes Rekindle Kyrgyz Strife,” Wall Street Journal, June 12, 2010.
46. Sarah Lyall, “Rule, Britannia, But Maybe Not over Scotland,” New York Times, July 18, 2008.
47. Victor Mallet, “Catalonia Pays Homage to Independence,” Financial Times, Oct. 7, 2009.
48. “Catalans Turn Out for Greater Autonomy,” Washington Post, July 11, 2010.
49. Alessandra Galloni, “An Italian Fringe Firebrand Gains Votes, Power in Crisis,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 13, 2010.
50. “Europe’s Backlash Against Immigrants,” Financial Times, April 5, 2010.
51. Ibid.
52. Tony Paterson, “Far-Right Leader Claims He Is ‘Real Victor’ in Austria,” Independent, Sept. 30, 2008.
53. James Blitz, “Five European States Back Burka Ban,” Financial Times, March 1, 2010; James Blitz, “FT Poll Shows Support for Burka Ban,” Financial Times, M
arch 2, 2010.
54. “Hungarian Demons,” Financial Times, April 12, 2010.
55. Charles Kupchan, “The European Union, Going Its Separate Ways,” Washington Post, Aug. 29, 2010.
56. John F. Burns, “Rightist on BBC Panel Draws Protests and Viewers,” New York Times, Oct. 24, 2009.
57. “Court Ruling Puts Future of Belgian Far-Right Party in Doubt,” International Herald Tribune, April 23, 2004, hartford-hwp.com.
58. Burns, “Rightist on BBC Panel Draws Protests and Viewers.”
59. Diana West, “Free Susanne Winter,” April 3, 2008, dianawest.net.
60. Paul Belien, “Appeasing the Islamists: Geert Wilders’s Ordeal and the Lessons of the Past,” Washington Times, March 26, 2008.
61. “Dutch Election: Liberals Take One-Seat Lead As Far-Right Party Gains in Influence,” Telegraph, June 10, 2010.
62. Ben Berkowitz, “Muslim Cleric Calls for Beheading of Dutch Politician,” Reuters, Sept. 3, 2010, news.yahoo.com.
63. Steve Erlanger, “Racial Tinge Stains World Cup Exit in France,” New York Times, June 23, 2010.
64. Ibid.
65. Ben Hall, “Sarkozy Comes Out Fighting After Rampage in Grenoble,” Financial Times, Aug. 14–15, 2010.
66. Stanley Pignal and Peggy Hollinger, “Sarkozy Rages at EU ‘Humiliation,’” Financial Times, Sept. 16, 2010; Ben Hall and Peggy Hollinger, “Divisive and Defiant,” Financial Times, Sept. 18–19, 2010.
67. “Marine Le Pen Poll Rating Shock for French Politics,” BBC News, March 6, 2011.
68. Anthony Faiola, “Italy Closes the Door on Gypsies,” Washington Post, Oct. 11, 2010.
69. Anthony Faiola, “Official’s Views on Muslim Immigration Divide Germans,” Washington Post, Sept. 10, 2010.
70. Nicholas Kulish, “Long Dormant, Ethnic Pride Blinks and Stirs,” New York Times, Sept. 11, 2010.
71. Ibid.
72. “Merkel Says German Multicultural Society Has Failed,” BBC News, Oct. 16, 2010, bbc.co.uk.
73. Matt Falloon, “Multiculturalism Has Failed in Britain—Cameron,” Reuters, Feb. 5, 2011.
74. “Greece Follows U.S. Example by Building Giant Border Wall to Keep Out Illegal Immigrants,” Daily Mail, Jan. 4, 2011.
75. Michael Kimmelman, “With Flemish Nationalism on the Rise, Belgium Teeters on the Edge,” New York Times, Aug. 4, 2008.
76. Muller, “Us and Them,” 19.
77. Bret Stephens, “Europe Needs a Tea Party,” Wall Street Journal, Dec. 13, 2010.
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