by Ralph Nader
19. “Reelection Rates Over the Years,” Opensecrets.org, http://www.opensecrets.org/bigpicture/reelect.php, accessed October 25, 2013.
20. Theresa Amato, Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny (New York: New Press, 2009).
21. Theodore J. Lowi, “Toward a More Responsible Three-Party System: Deregulating American Democracy,” in The State of the Parties: The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties, ed. John C. Green and Rick Farmer, 4th ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), 376.
22. James T. Bennett, Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties (New York: Springer, 2008), 7–8.
23. Jeff Gamet, “Apple Joins Digital Due Process Coalition,” Mac Observer, September 23, 2011, http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/apple_joins_digital_due_process_coalition.
24. “House Vote 412: Rejects Limits on N.S.A. Data Collection,” New York Times, July 24, 2013, http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/412.
25. “Trans-Pacific Partnership: A Plan for ‘Corporate Global Governance,” interview with Lori Wallach on Democracy Now!, June 15, 2012, http://www.democraticunderground.com/101734628.
26. Jeffrey D. Clements, Corporations Are Not People: Why They Have More Rights Than You Do and What You Can Do About It (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2011), 23.
27. Ibid.
28. Russell Kirk, “Ten Conservative Principles,” The Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal, http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/detail/ten-conservative-principles, adapted from The Politics of Prudence (1993).
29. Ben Stein, “On Buyouts, There Ought to Be a Law,” New York Times, September 3, 2006, http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/business/yourmoney/03every.html.
30. Ibid.
31. David B. Resnik, Owning the Genome: A Moral Analysis of DNA Patenting (Albany: SUNY Press, 2004), 2.
32. Martin Teitel and Kimberly A. Wilson, Genetically Engineered Food: Changing the Nature of Nature, updated and expanded 2nd ed. (Rochester, VT: Park Street, 2001).
33. David Dagan and Steven M. Teles, “The Conservative War on Prisons,” Washington Monthly (November/December 2012).
34. Dan Merica and Evan Perez, “Eric Holder Seeks to Cut Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences,” CNN, August 12, 2013, http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/12/politics/holder-mandatory-minimums/.
35. “Prison Reform: An Unlikely Alliance of Left and Right,” Economist, August 17, 2013, http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21583701-america-waking-up-cost-mass-incarceration-unlikely-alliance-left-and.
36. “Prohibition Is Finally Coming to an End,” The Drug Policy Institute, December 20, 2012, http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/2012/12/full-page-new-york-times-ad-thursday-paper-80-years-after-end-prohibition-prohibition-f.
37. George F. Will, “Seeking Sense on Sentencing,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, June 13, 2013, http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/06/seeking_sense_on_sentencing_ge.html.
38. Peter Viereck, “Conservatism: Attitudes, Types, & Present Status,” Political Education, Conservative Analysis: Politics, Society, & the Sovereign State—Website of Dr. Almon Leroy Way Jr., n.d., http://www.proconservative.net/pecapoliticalphilosophyconservatismviereck.shtml.
39. Russell Kirk, “Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists,” Times-Picayune (New Orleans), September 20, 1971.
40. John Gray, Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common Environment (New York: Routledge, 2013), 122.
41. John R. E. Bliese, The Greening of Conservative America (Boulder: Westview, 2001), x.
42. “The Pentagon and Climate Change,” Monthly Review, May 1, 2004, http://monthlyreview.org/2004/05/01/the-pentagon-and-climate-change.
43. Dr. Julie L. Gerberding, “Letter: More About Health, Less About Care,” Wall Street Journal, December 18, 2008, http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB122956383633516883.
44. Roger Cohen, “The Beauty of Institutions,” New York Times, October 24, 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/25/opinion/25iht-edcohen25.html.
Chapter 6
1. William Greider, Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993), 281.
2. Stephen Slivinski, “The Corporate Welfare Budget: Bigger Than Ever,” The Cato Institute, Cato Policy Analysis No. 415, October 10, 2001, http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-415es.html; Brian M. Riedl and John E. Frydenlund, “At the Federal Trough: Farm Subsidies for the Rich and Famous,” The Heritage Foundation, November 26, 2001, http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2001/11/at-the-federal-trough-farm-subsidies-for-the-rich-and-famous.
3. Arthur C. Brooks, “Obama Says It’s Only ‘Fair’ to Raise Taxes on the Rich; He’s Wrong,” Washington Post, April 22, 2011, http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-04-22/opinions/35230666_1_tax-code-budget-rhetoric-fairness-argument.
4. Ed Crane, e-mail message to author, 2011.
5. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, “Pro Bono Work: Good News and Bad News,” Address to the 1991 American Bar Association Annual Meeting, Pro Bono Awards Luncheon, August 12, 1991. Excerpts reprinted at the Nader Page, http://nader.org/1991/09/20/justice-oconnor-speech-need-for-legal-services/.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Matthew Mosk, “O’Connor Calls Citizens United Ruling ‘A Problem,’” ABC News, January 26, 2010, http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/oconnor-citizens-united-ruling-problem/story?id=9668044.
Chapter 7
1. Herbert Agar and Allen Tate, editors, Who Owns America? A New Declaration of Independence, with a new foreword by Edward S. Shapiro (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1999).
2. Edward S. Shapiro, “A Forgotten American Classic,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, ix.
3. Ibid., xiv.
4. Ibid., xviii, xix.
5. David Cushman Coyle, “The Fallacy of Mass Production,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 27.
6. Lyle H. Lanier, “Big Business in the Property State,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 38.
7. John C. Rawe, “Agriculture and the Property State,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 71.
8. Ibid., 65.
9. Lyle H. Lanier, “Big Business in the Property State,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 30–31.
10. Ibid., 31.
11. Allen Tate, “Notes on Liberty and Property,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 122, 125.
12. Lanier, “Big Business,” 44.
13. Ibid., 50.
14. Ibid., 47.
15. Ibid., 53, 61.
16. Herbert Agar, “But Can It Be Done?,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 130.
17. Ibid., 131.
18. Ibid., 132.
19. David Cho, “A Skeptical Outsider Becomes Bush’s ‘Wartime General,’” Washington Post, November 19, 2008.
20. Mary Shattuck Fisher, “The Emancipated Woman,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 401.
21. Ibid., 408.
22. Ibid., 410, 411.
23. T. J. Cauley, “The Illusion of State,” in Agar and Tate, Who Owns America?, 376, 377.
24. Ibid., 367.
25. Jesse Eisinger, “As Banking Titans Reflect on Errors, Few Pay Any Price,” New York Times, August 2, 2012, http://query.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/few-repercussions-in-the-conversion-of-a-former-wall-st-titan/.
26. William D. Cohan, “Rethinking Robert Rubin,” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 30, 2012, http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-19/rethinking-robert-rubin.
27. Shapiro, “Who Owns America?,” 44.
28. Franklin Roosevelt’s Address Announcing the Second New Deal, October 31, 1936, FDR Library, Marist College, http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/od2ndst.html.
29. Shapiro, “Who Owns America?,” 43.
30. Aliteracy is the state of being able to read but being uninterested in doing so. This phenomenon has been reported as a problem occurring separately from illiteracy, which is more common in the developing
world, while aliteracy is primarily a problem in the developed world.
Chapter 8
1. F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents—The Definitive Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 87, Google Books edition.
2. Carl T. Bogus, Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011), 135–136.
3. Changing America: Blueprints for the New Administration: The Citizens Transition Project, edited by Mark Green (New York: Newmarket, 1992), 30.
4. Adam Davidson, “Prime Time for Paul Ryan’s Guru (the One Who’s Not Ayn Rand),” New York Times, August 21, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/prime-time-for-paul-ryans-guru-the-one-thats-not-ayn-rand.html.
5. Russell Kirk, “Review of Democracy and Leadership (Babbitt) and Great Humanists (Hough),” Western Political Quarterly (June 7, 1954): 296–299; reprinted on the Imaginative Conservative, http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2011/05/kirks-review-of-democracy-and.html.
6. Henry Calvert Simons, A Positive Program for Laissez Faire: Some Proposals for a Liberal Economic Policy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949).
7. Changing America, 31.
8. James T. Patterson, Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972) 155.
9. Bogus, Buckley, 29.
10. Patterson, Mr. Republican, 319.
11. Ibid., 323.
12. Ibid., 331.
Chapter 9
1. Jeff Faux, e-mail message to author.
2. Robert Brent Toplin, Radical Conservatism: The Right’s Political Religion (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006), 265.
3. Nicholas D. Kristof, “Profiting from a Child’s Illiteracy,” New York Times, December 7, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/opinion/sunday/kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html.
4. Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Diaries (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 65.
5. Garry Wills, Confessions of a Conservative (New York: Penguin Books, 1980), 210.
6. Carl T. Bogus, Buckley: William F. Buckley Jr. and the Rise of American Conservatism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2011), 139–140.
7. Russell Kirk, Redeeming the Time, ed. Jeffrey O. Nelson (Wilmington, DE: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1996), 271.
8. John Bliese, The Greening of Conservative America (Boulder: Westview, 2002); Gordon Durnil, The Making of a Conservative Environmentalist (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
9. Roger Scruton, How to Think Seriously About the Planet: The Case for an Environmental Conservatism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012), 9, 2.
10. Ibid., 246.
11. Patrick J. Buchanan, Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency (New York: Macmillan, 2007), 7.
12. Ibid., 171.
13. Patrick J. Buchanan, “Patriotism in the Boardroom,” June 30, 1998, http://buchanan.org/blog/pjb-patriotism-in-the-boardroom-319.
14. Robert Kuttner, “Rethinking Free Trade,” Boston Globe, September 29, 2004.
15. Buchanan, Where the Right Went Wrong, 21.
16. Ibid., 28; “The Military–Industrial Complex; The Farewell Address of President Eisenhower,” 1961, http://coursesa.matrix.msu.edu/~hst306/documents/indust.html.
17. Thomas E. Ricks, “For Vietnam Vet Anthony Zinni, Another War on Shaky Territory,” Washington Post, December 23, 2003, C1, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22922-2003Dec22_3.html.
18. Jack Abramoff, “I Know the Congressional Culture of Corruption,” Atlantic, July 24, 2012.
Epilogue
1. Stephen P. Dunn, The Economics of John Kenneth Galbraith: Introduction, Persuasion, and Rehabilitation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 44.
2. Cass R. Sunstein, “Breaking Up the Echo,” New York Times, September 17, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/18/opinion/balanced-news-reports-may-only-inflame.html.
3. Thomas E. Ricks, “For Vietnam Vet Anthony Zinni, Another War on Shaky Territory,” Washington Post, December 23, 2003, C1, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22922-2003Dec22_3.html.
Index
AARP. See American Association of
Retired Persons
ABA. See American Bar Association
Abramoff, Jack, 178
Abrams, Elliott, 34
ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union
“The Across the Political Spectrum Conference Against War and Militarism,” 56
Adams, John, 30, 82, 88
Advertisements, 11, 95–96
Advocacy tools, 68–69
Afghanistan War, 44, 59, 60, 71, 123
Agar, Herbert, 139, 141, 148
Agnew, Spiro, 165
Agrarianism: A Program for Farmers (Cauley), 150–151
Agrarians, 139–143, 159
abilities of, 151–152
versus contemporary conservatives, 143–149
limitations of, 149–151
AIG, 103
Air bag installation, 10, 40, 53–55
ALEC. See American Legislative Exchange Council
Alliance Against Government Reading Your Email Without a Warrant campaign, 89–90
Amato, Theresa, 87, 88
Grand Illusion: The Myth of Voter Choice in a Two-Party Tyranny, 87
Amazon, 90
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), 190
American Bar Association (ABA), 58–60, 135, 136
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 88–89, 90, 108
American Conservative, 33–34
American Enterprise Institute, 49–50, 125–126, 183
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), 108
American Review, 159
American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Steve Bullock, Attorney General of Montana, 98
Americans for Tax Reform, 48, 90
Amoco, 122
Apple, 103
Arenas, and convergence, 68–69
“As Banking Titans Reflect on Errors, Few Pay Any Price” (Eisinger), 156
Ashcroft, John, 12
Associated Press, 47
Atomic Energy Commission, 1
Atomic energy industry, 73
AT&T, 90
Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 97
Austrian School of Economics, 28
Automobile industry, 53
Automobile insurance rates and regulation, 85
Automobile safety legislation, 185. See also Air bag installation
Bachmann, Michele, 32–33, 49
Bhagwati, Jagdish, 176
Baker, Howard, 3
Baker, James, 92
Ballot initiatives, 83–84, 85
Bandow, Doug, 55–56
Bank of America, 79, 103
Banks/banking
executives, and financial crisis, 2008–2009, 156–157
“too big to fail,” 65, 78–79
See also Financial crisis, 2008–2009; specific banks
Barnes, Harry Elmer, 177
Barr, Bob, 88
Barron’s Financial Weekly, 103
Beck, Glenn, 123
Becker, Gary S., 78
Bendiner, Robert, 35
Benjamin, Medea, 55–56
Bennett, Bob, 126
Bennett, James T., 87–88
Stifling Political Competition: How Government Has Rigged the System to Benefit Demopublicans and Exclude Third Parties, 88
Bennett, William, 108, 126
The Book of Virtues, 126
Berle, Adolf, 102
Berman, Howard, 3, 4
“Big Business in the Property State” (Lanier), 144
Bill of Rights amendments, 62
Bill of Rights Defense Committee, 90
Billionaires, and effective convergence, financial resources for, 181–187
Bipartisanship, corporate blockage of, 50–53
Black Swan (Taleb), 157
Blacklist
ing, 124
Blacks, 149–150
Bliese, John R. E., 173
The Greening of Conservative America, 173
Boehner, John, 31, 76, 172–173, 179
Boeing, 72
Boettke, Peter, 162
Bogle, John, 104–105
Bogus, Carl T., 161–162, 164, 171
Bollier, David, 100
Bolton, John, 132
The Book of Virtues (Bennett), 126
Booz Allen Hamilton, 51
Brave New World (Huxley), 16
Breeder Reactor project, 1–3, 133, 182
Brennan, William, 136–137
Brennan Center (NYU Law School), 136–137
Brooks, Arthur, 125–126
Brooks, David, 30, 32
Brown, Hank, 18–20
Buchanan, Patrick J., 33–34, 61, 174–177
Where the Right Went Wrong: How Neoconservatives Subverted the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency, 34, 174
Buckley, William F., Jr., 14, 107, 161, 165
Buffett, Warren, 78, 181
Buhle, Paul, 56
Burke, Edmund, 6, 25–26, 29, 101, 173–174
Burris, Roland, 52
Bush, George W., 33, 73, 76, 89, 122–123, 178
and executive overreach of power, 58–60
and financial crisis, 2008–2009, 149
and preventive war, 176–177
and public commons, 100
and Texas State Republican Platform, 2002, 12–13
Bush (George W.) administration, 45, 88–89, 91
Businessweek, xi
Buzzwords, 5. See also Labels, political
C-SPAN, 34, 67, 122, 153, 158–159
CACI, 51
Cahn, Edgar, 136
Cahn, Jean, 136
California, 63, 108
ballot initiatives in, 83–84, 85
Proposition 103, 85
Cameron, David, 32
Campaign contributions, 121–122, 132–133, 179
Campaign finance, 44, 53
reform, 31
Canada, 4, 16
Cantor, Eric, 179
Capitalism, individual versus corporate, 142–143
Carbon pollution tax, 77–78
Cardin, Ben, 52
Carlin, George, 28
Carmen, Gerald, 53–55
Carnegie, Andrew, 56