Slouching Towards Gomorrah (68 page)

8.
Ibid.,
pp. 143–158.

9.
Ibid.
, p. 179.

10.
Albert S. Braverman and Brian Anziska, “Challenges to Science and Authority in Contemporary Medical Education,”
Academic Questions,
Summer 1994, p. 14.

11.
See generally Roberts and Stratton,
The New Color Line.

12.
Ibid.,
p. 152.

13.
Evidence cited in Roberts and Stratton, p. 89. See also Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton, “Color Code,”
National Review,
March 20, 1995, p. 36.

14.
Sowell, p. 22.

15.
See generally Gary Becker,
The Economics of Discrimination
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).

16.
Peter Brimelow and Leslie Spencer, “When quotas replace merit, everybody suffers,”
Forbes,
February, 15, 1993, p. 102.

17.
Steele, p. 115.

18.
Christopher Lasch,
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1995), pp. 84–5.

19.
Quoted in Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton,
In Defense of Liberalism
(forthcoming).

20.
B. Drummond Ayres, Jr., “Conservatives Forge New Strategy To Challenge Affirmative Action,”
New York Times
, February 16, 1995, p. A1.

21.
“Campus Protest Against Slurs,”
New York Times
, February 16, 1995, p. A22.

22.
Mary Lefkowitz,
Not Out of Africa: How Afrocentrism Became An Excuse To Teach Myth As History
(New York: Basic Books, 1996), pp. 2–4. The following account and quotations are from this work.

23.
“Remark Ends a Job Candidacy,”
New York Times,
July 29, 1993, p. A21.

24.
Michael Pack, “Campus Culture Wars,” video distributed by Direct Cinema Limited, Santa Monica, CA, 1993.

25.
Nino Langiulli, “When It Came to ‘That’ at the University of Cincinnati”
Measure
, March 1993, p. 3.

26.
Dominic Lawson, “Taboo Or Not Taboo, That Is The Question,”
The Spectator,
November 19, 1994, p. 9.

27.
Ibid
.

28.
Paul Johnson, “Gone is the time when Americans led the world in saying what they thought,”
The Spectator,
November 26, 1994, p. 31.

29.
Lawson, p. 14.

30.
Ibid
.

31.
Michael Brenson, “Is ‘Quality’ An Idea Whose Time Has Gone?”
New York Times
July 22, 1990, Sec. 2, p. 1.

1.
Brigette Berger, “Multiculturalism and the Modern University,”
The Politics of Political Correctness,
a special issue of
Partisan Review
(1993), pp. 516, 519. Gertrude Himmelfarb expresses a similar thought: “[T]here is an intimate, pervasive relationship between what happens in our schools and universities, in the intellectual and artistic communities, and what happens in society and the polity.”
On Looking Into The Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), p. xii.

2.
Richard Hofstadter,
Anti-intellectualism in American Life
(New York: Vintage Books, 1962), p. 51.

3.
Ibid.,
p. 23.

4.
Joshua Meyrowitz, University of New Hampshire, quoted by John Leo, “Spicing up the (ho-hum) truth,”
US. News & World Report,
March 8, 1993, p. 24.

5.
National Standards for United States History: Exploring the American Experience, Grades 5–12,
National Center for History in the Schools, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994.

6.
Ibid.,
p. 44.

7.
Ibid.,
p. 47.

8.
Ibid.,
p. 56.

9.
Daniel J. Boorstin,
The Americans: The Colonial Experience
(New York: Random House, 1958), pp. 53–8.

10.
Lynne V. Cheney, “The End of History,”
Wall Street Journal,
October 20, 1994, p. A22.

11.
Susan Olasky, “History Substandards,”
World,
April 20, 1996, p. 18.

12.
National Association of Scholars,
The Dissolution of General Education: 1914–1993
(Princeton: National Association of Scholars, 1996).

13.
Robert J. Samuelson, “The Low State of Higher Ed,”
Washington Post,
September 2, 1992, p.A21.

14.
The Dissolution,
p. 47.

15.
Todd Gitlin, “Is America overdosing on entertainment?”
San Francisco Examiner,
August 23, 1994, Fourth Ed., p. C2.

16.
Paul Hollander, “Political correctness is alive and well on campus near you,”
Washington Times,
December 28, 1993, p. A19.

17.
L. H. Gann and Peter Duignan, “The New Left and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s: A Reevaluation,” Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, 1995, p. 43.

18.
On this subject, see Carl Sagan,
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
(New York: Random House, 1995).

19.
Marlise Simons,“Land of Descartes Under the Spell of Druids?,”
New York Times,
April 30, 1996, p. A4.

20.
John R. Searle, “Rationality and Realism, What is at Stake?,”
Daedalus,
Fall 1993, p. 55.

21.
Paul R. Gross and Norman Levitt.
Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).

22.
Ibid.,
p. 3.

23.
Ibid.,
p. 5.

24.
Ibid.,
pp. 223–4.

25.
Ibid.,
p. 24.

26.
Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray,
The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
(New York: The Free Press, 1994).

27.
Himmelfarb, On Looking Into The Abyss,
p. 132.

28.
David Lehman, Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul deMan
(New York: Poseidon Press, 1991).

29.
Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law
(New York: Free Press, 1990).

30.
Alan D. Sokal, “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformation Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,”
Social Text,
Spring/Summer 1996, p. 217.

31.
Alan D. Sokal. “A Physicist Experiments with Culture Studies,”
Linguafranca,
May/June 1996, p. 62.

32.
Ibid.,
p. 63.

33.
Malcolm W. Browne, “Scientists Deplore Flight From Reason,”
New York Times,
June 6, 1995, p. CI.

34.
Ibid
.

1.
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy In America
, ed. Phillips Bradley (New York: Vintage Books, 1945), vol. 1, pp. 315–8.

2.
Ibid.,
vol. 2, pp. 25–33.

3.
James Q. Wilson,
On Character
(Washington, DC: The AEI Press, 1995), p. 28.

4.
Christopher Lasch,
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1995), p. 215.

5.
Richard John Neuhaus,
The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America
(Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1984).

6.
C. S. Lewis, “On Ethics,”
The Seeing Eye and Other Selected Essays From Christian Reflections,
ed. Walter Hooper (New York: Ballentine Books, 1992), pp. 74–5.

7.
Wilson, p. 28.

8.
James Q. Wilson,
The Moral Sense
(New York: The Free Press, 1993), p. 9.

9.
Irving Kristol, “The Cultural Revolution and the Capitalist Future,”
Neoconservatism: The Autobiography of an Idea
(New York: The Free Press, 1995), pp. 132–3.

10.
Letter to the Editor,
Wall Street Journal,
February 26, 1993, p. A15.

11.
C. S. Lewis, p. 61.

12.
Ibid.,
p. 63.

13.
Jose Ortega y Gassett,
Revolt of the Masses
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1957), pp. 135–6.

14.
Recent sociological surveys are summarized in Kenneth L. Woodward, “The Rites of Americans,”
Newsweek,
November 29, 1993, p. 80.

15.
Stanley K. Henshaw and Jane Silverman, “The Characteristics and Prior Contraceptive Use of U.S. Abortion Patients,”
Family Planning Perspectives,
July/August 1988, pp. 158, 162.

16.
James Hitchcock, “Conservative Bishops, Liberal Results,”
Catholic World Report,
May 1995, p. 22.

17.
Frederic Lewis Allen,
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920’s
(New York: Harper & Row, 1959), p. 164.

18.
Charles J. Sykes,
A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992), p. 51.

19.
See Herbert Schlossberg, Idols for Destruction: Christian Faith and Its Confrontation with American Society
(Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, 1990), chapter 4.

20.
See, for example, George Gilder, “The Materialist Superstition,”
The Intercollegiate Review,
Spring 1996, p. 6.

21.
L.H. Gann and Peter Duignan, “The New Left and the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s: A Reevaluation,” Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA, 1995, p. 30.

22.
K. L. Billingsley,
From Mainline To Sideline: The Social Witness of the National Council of Churches
(Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1990), p. 180.

23.
Ernest W. Lefever,
Nairobi to Vancouver: The World Council of Churches and the World, 1973–87
(Washington, DC: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1987), pp. 4–5, 56. Dr. Lefever’s previous book on the WCC was
Amsterdam to Nairobi:
The World Council of Churches and the Third World
(1979). The WCC was formed at Amsterdam and the Assembly before Vancouver met in Nairobi.

24.
“Petition Campaign Advances,” Institute on Religion and Democracy,
Presbyterian Action Briefing,
Winter 1996.

25.
“Episcopal Women’s Unit Co-Sponsors Radical Feminist Conference,” Institute on Religion and Democracy,
Episcopal Action Briefing
, Winter 1996.

26.
“UM Board Backs Puerto Rican Terrorists,” Institute on Religion and Democracy,
UM Action Briefing,
Winter 1996.

27.
“Global Ministries Bashes Republicans, Praises UN Women’s Summit,” Institute on Religion and Democracy,
UM Action Briefing,
Winter 1996.

28.
Frederick P. Jones, Dana Preusch, and Lonni Jackson, “Documenting the Old-line/Ecumenical Anti-War Movement: Consistent Themes, Faulty Premises” (Washington, DC: Institute on Religion and Democracy, June 1991), p. 5.

29.
Alan Wisdom, “An Open Circle of Conversation,”
Mainstream,
Fall 1992, p. 1.

30.
“Religion in America,”
The Public Perspective,
March/April 1993, p. 6.

31.
Larry Witham, “Protestant Churches Unite, Push Tolerance,”
Washington Times,
July 31, 1993, p. C4.

32.
Arthur M. Matthews, “Religion Watch,”
World, July
27, 1991, p. 19.

33.
Joyce Little, The Church and the Culture War: Secular Anarchy or Sacred Order
(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995), p. 75.

34.
William Oddie, What Will Happen to God?: Feminism and the Reconstruction of Christian Belief
(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1988), p. 143.

35.
Robert Sokolowski, “Splitting the Faithful: Inclusive Language Is Wrong Biblically, Pastorally, and Doctrinally,”
Crisis,
March 1993, p. 25.

36.
Paul Mankowski, “When Words Become Weapons: Voices of Wrath,”
Crisis,
December 1992, p. 25.

37.
Donna Steichen,
UNGoDLY RaGE
(San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1992), p. 23.

38.
See Robert H. Bork, “What To Do About the First Amendment,”
Commentary,
February, 1995, p. 23. For lengthier discussions of the historical evidence, see Walter Berns,
The First Amendment and the Future of American Democracy
(Chicago: Gateway Editions, 1985); Robert Cord,
Separation of Church and State
(Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1988); and C. Antieau, A. Downey, and E. Roberts,
Freedom from Federal Establishment: Formation and Early History of the First Amendment Religion Clauses
(Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing, 1964).

39.
Abington School District v. Schempp,
374 U.S. 203,313 (1963).

40.
Fred Barnes, “Faithful Bigots,”
Forbes Media Critic,
vol. 1, no. 2, 1994, p. 10.

41.
David Brooks, “The Naked Public Cave,”
Weekly Standard,
April 22, 1996, p. 14.

42.
Joe Maxwell, “A Caveman With Convictions,”
World,
April 20, 1996, p. 12.

43.
Jason Goodwin, “Where Heretics Fought and Lost,”
New York Times,
April 14, 1996, p. 13.

44.
Hitchcock, p. 26.

45.
Joe Maxwell, “Promise Keepers’ Parachurch Paradigm,”
World,
March 2, 1996, p. 13.

46.
James Fitzjames Stephen,
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,
ed. Stuart D. Warner (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993), p. 3.

47.
Michael J. Behe, Darwin’s Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
(New York: The Free Press, 1996).

48.
Patrick Glynn, “Beyond the Death of God,”
National Review,
May 6, 1996, p. 28. See also John Gribben and Martin Rees,
Cosmic Coincidences: Dark Matter, Mankind, and Anthropic Cosmology
(New York: Bantam Books, 1989).