The New Road to Serfdom (20 page)

U.S. view of, as ingrates, 121

European Union (EU)

anti-democratic propensities, 123, 134

big government and Euro-woes, 115

bureaucracy, 80

centralization of power in, 44, 52, 117, 134

Comecon nations, 82

competition, dislike of, 53–54

Constitution, 41–49, 80
(see also
Lisbon Treaty [EU Constitution])

declamatory legislation, 78–79, 129–32

dependency on state and, 99–100

economic problems, 56–57, 77–78, 81–83, 84

European integration and, 44, 47, 49, 53–54, 56, 74, 75, 84, 120, 123, 124, 138–39

exporting its ideology, 139

failures on human rights, 133–37

first foreign minister, 135

first president elected, 57

foreign policy, 120–27

GDP,
77,
78, 82, 126

Haiti earthquake relief, xxi

health system, 85

Human Rights Agency, 147–48

internationalizing its values, 140–41

lack of democracy by design, 48

lack of European
demos
and, 49

lack of national identity, 109

MEPs, 130–31

military capacity, 126

population decline, 101

response to tsunami disaster, 130–31

self-deception in, 78–79, 125, 126

shift away from elected officials, 24, 147

Social Chapter, 126

state jurisdiction into home, school, and church, 100–101

Switzerland’s refusal to join, 117

taxes, high, 77

Temporary Workers Directive, 126

unemployment, 77,
81,
127

welfare dependency, 92–93, 99–100

worker in, 79–80, 126

working days, length of, 77

euthanasia, 168

family

cradle to grave welfare, effect of, 105

European decline, 101–3, 105

European Muslims, 104–5

fertility rates, 101–2,
101–2,
104, 105

U.S. birthrates and population, 103

federal government.
See
U.S. government

federalism, xv, 115–18, 60

welfare reform and, 94–95

Fonte, John, 123

foreign policy

Africa and, 7, 133

American straight talk on, 129

Anglo-American imperium, 180–82

Anglosphere, 182

climate change and, 127–28

EU gesture politics, 78–79, 129–32

EU human rights failures, 133–37

European External Action Service, 136

Europeanizing of American, xvi, 76, 118, 128, 129

exporting of ideology and, 139

Founding Fathers and U.S., 133–34

international jurisprudence, 140–51

Israel-Palestine dispute, 137–38

Jefferson on, 119

sympathy and, 136–37

UK’s Crown prerogative, 185

U.S. aid to tsunami victims, 130

U.S. and repressive regimes, 133–34

U.S. fostering of democratic accountability, 133–34, 140

U.S. protectionism, 168

U.S. vs. Europe, 120–51

Fortuyn, Pim, 106

Founding Fathers, 46, 59, 61

design of American freedoms, 16

Europeanization as incompatible, 118

Helvetic Confederation and, 116

national sovereignty and, 57 prevention of concentration of power by, 27–29, 62, 64, 71 states’ rights and, 64

U.S. foreign policy and, 133–34

Fox, Charles James, 175, 176

France

Britain’s ascendancy over, 51–52

cynicism about government, 21, 27

pays légal and pays réel,
155

rejection of Lisbon Treaty, 43

Revolution of 1789, 110

stoning of McDonald’s, 137

“the suburb problem,” xix

freedom, xv, xxiii

America as repository of, 8, 41

as constitutional, 118

design of American, 16

as essence of America, 2

free exchange of ideas, 3

of individual vs. government, 4

liberty as virtuous application informed judgment, 3, 98

liberty in civil affairs and, 1, 2

license vs., 2–3

localism of government and, 3

New World and seekers of, 3–4

personal, 3, 16, 33, 42

of religion, 2

U.S. Constitution as guarantor of, 42

Friedman, Milton, 53, 131

Galbraith, J. K., 163

gay rights, 18, 168

GDP, 32, 82

defense budgets and, 83

Norway’s, 126

share of world,
77

George III, 174, 175, 178–80, 185

Germany

centralization of power in EU, 52

population decline, 101

Rhineland model, 77

Wirtschaftswunder
years, 82

Gibbon, Edward, 51

Gingrich, Newt, 166–67, 168

Giscard d’Estaing, Valéry, 42, 44

globalization, 182–83

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 144

Guantánamo prison, 14

Haiti earthquake relief, xxi

Hayek, F. A., 25, 160

health system, 85–91

British, 85–88

Europeanizing of American, xvi, 15, 75

European model, 85

Obama’s reforms, 12, 162

reform in the spirit of the U.S. Constitution, 90

Singapore model, 89–90

Ted Kennedy and, 157

Helvetic Confederation, 116

Henry, Patrick, 116

Heritage Foundation, 160

Hoover Institute, 160

House of Cards
(TV series), 21

Hussein, Saddam, 122

idées fixes
about Americans, xvii-xx

immigration, 106–15

American assimilation, 108–9

American Muslims, 107–8,
108,
114

deportation and, 141–42

desire to enter U.S., xxii-xxiii, 107–8

in“dish cities”of Europe, xix, 113

emigration to Europe, 105, 115

identity problems of European second-generation Muslims, 113–14

scorn of new homeland, 115

Swiss and, 117

UK’s Muslims as disaffected, 111–14

International Criminal Court (ICC), 57–58, 140, 148–51

Iran

EU relations with, 125, 133, 136

Revolution of 1979, 110

Iraq, 13, 122, 139

Ireland

Belfast Agreement, 142

Lisbon Treaty and, 43–44

Irish Republican Army (IRA), 112–13

Israel, 137–39

Italy, xx, 27

Jackson, Jesse, 11–12

Jefferson, Thomas, xiii, 17, 27–28, 42, 60, 61, 64, 183

Johnson, Lyndon B., 69

Jones, James, 149

jurisprudence.
See
law, crime, and judiciary

Kagan, Robert, 119–20, 122–23, 181–82

Karimov, Islam, 134

Keenan, Brian, 112–13

Kennedy, Edward“Ted, ”33, 94–95, 157, 166

Kennedy, John F., 157

Kipling, Rudyard, xxii, 111, 181

Kissinger, Henry, 143–44

Kosovo, 139

Latin America

anti-Americanism in, 8

GDP,
77

loss of faith in government, 21

tinpot
caudillos
in, 21

law, crime, and judiciary

American election of judges, 142

American jurisprudence, 141–42

crime in European suburbs, xix deportation and, 141–42

ECHR and, 147–48

Genocide and Torture Conventions, 145–46

gun ownership and, xix-xx

ICC and, 57–58, 140, 148–51

international jurisprudence, 140–51

judicial activism, 142–43

London and head of Metropolitan Police, 36–38

minimum/maximum sentences, 142

“new world order, ”144–45

Nuremberg trials, 143

“universal human rights, ”146–48

Lawson, Nigel, 87–88

Leonard, Mark, 124–26

libertarianism, 4, 160

Lisbon Agenda, 78

Lisbon Treaty (EU Constitution), 41–49

Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms, 42

democracy and rule of law in, 126–27

political integration and, 47, 49, 56

power of the state as focus, 42,45

ratification failure and imposition of, 43–45, 125, 134, 135

UK and, 135

workers’ rights, 80

Livni, Tzipi, 143

localism, 16, 33

American tradition of, 3, 48

benefits of, xiii, 28, 60, 116

direct election of officials, 28

limited government and, xv

as self-government, 3

state governments and, xiii, 59

Switzerland and, 116–17

welfare and, 96–98

Madison, James, 59, 62

McCain, John, 11

McCarthy, Joseph, and McCarthyism, 7

McGinnis, John, 61

media

American, xx, 20, 21

British satire of politicians, 20–21

European, 21

Mercosur, 56

Mexico, 8

Micklethwait, John, 163

Middle East

fear of Americanization, 8

GDP,
77

Milton, John, 2–3, 98

Monnet, Jean, 47

Monroe Doctrine, 180

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(film), xv

Mugabe, Robert, 143

Murder in Amsterdam
(Buruma), 113

Native Americans, 8, 9

NCPA, 160

Netherlands

assassinations in, 106, 113

rejection of Lisbon Treaty, 43

New Statesman,
15

New Statesman, The
(TV series), 20–21

New Zealand, 182

Norquist, Grover, 161

Norway, 126

nuclear disarmament, xxi, 75

Nullification Crisis, 63

Obama, Barack, xvii, 66, 73–74

actions of administration, 12–13, 14

American ideals and, 183–84

appeasement by, xxi-xxii, 74–75

cap-and-trade rules, 15

election of, 11, 40

Europeanizing and, 117–18

federal resumption of welfare, 97

health care reform and, 12, 162

ICC and, 149

inauguration, 40

Nobel Peace Prize, 13

stimulus package, 30–31

Tea Party critics of, 156–58, 162

O’Callaghan, Sean, 112–13

Of Paradise and Power
(Kagan), 119–20

Ohanian, Lee E., 68

open competition, 15

open primaries, 28, 29, 31–34, 46

O’Rourke, P. J., 131–32

Paine, Thomas, vii, 41

Pakistan, 13

Palestine, 125, 133, 137–38

patriotism, 33

American, 4–5, 109

American Muslims, 107–8, 114

derided by Euro-elite, 109

European lack of national identity, 109

non-Americans, 4–5

sense of nationhood and, 49

Perdue, Sonny, 32–33

Phillips, Kevin, 173–74

Pilger, John, 15

Pinochet, Augusto, 142

Pitt, William, the Elder, 175

pluralism, 39, 46, 49–50, 97

Poland, 101, 124

private property, 15

public choice theory, 60

Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organizations (quangos), 24–25, 38, 135, 136, 184, 185

racial issues, 11–12

Rand, Ayn, 161

Reagan, Ronald, 69, 109, 166

religion

freedom of, 2

U.S. vs. Europe, 103–4

Republican Party

birthrates and, 103

Bush family story, 163–64

Bush’s mistaken policies, 18

conservative movement and, 158–59, 163–64, 166–69

Contract with America, 166–67

elections of 2008, 154

filling Ted Kennedy’s seat, 157–58

Georgia governor, 32–33

losses under Bush policies, 169

states’ rights and, 18

Tea Party, 154–58, 161–62

think tanks and conservatives, 159–61

U.S. senators, 19

welfare reform and, 94–95

Rice, Susan, 149

Right Nation, The: Why America Is
Different
(Mickelthwait and Wooldridge), 163–64

Road to Serfdom, The
(Hayek), 25

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 63, 66–70, 71, 133–34, 163

New Deal and, 66–69

Roosevelt, Theodore, 63

Rothbard, Murray, 160

Rumsfeld, Donald, 75, 129, 142

Russell, Richard, 10–11

Russia, 101, 110

Schuman, Robert, 47

Serbia, 124

Sharon, Ariel, 142

Short, Clare, 130

Sinclair, Upton, 84

Singapore, 89–90

slavery, 8, 9–11

Slovenia, 139

small government, 16, 17, 46, 159–61.
See also
federalism; localism

Social Democrats, 84

socialism, 53–54

social policy, 98–106, 166.
See also
welfare

Solana, Javier, 120, 134

Somoza, Anastasio, 134

sovereignty, xvi, 57

Spain, 21, 120, 128

Spanish-American War, xxii

Stamp Act of 1766, 175

states’ rights and governance, xiii, 28

advantages of, 56

autonomy of, compared with European countries, 63

as constitutional, 59, 62, 64

design of political institutions and, 39

economic prosperity and, 56

federal income tax and, 65

growth of federal government at expense of, 46

health care reform and, 90

Nullification Crisis and, 63

welfare administration and, 93–98

Sudan, 149–50

Sumners, Hatton, 171

supra-nationalism

climate change and, 128

costs, 54

EU policy of, 139–40

global governance and, 57–58

U.S. and, xxi, 13, 57–58, 76, 118, 183

Switzerland

direct election of officials, 116, 117

gun ownership, xx

immigrants in, 117

income per capita, 56

localism in government, 116–17

national identity of Swiss, 116

refusal to join the EU, 117

systems competition, 53

taxes

American Revolution and, 175

Americans for Tax Reform, 161

carbon taxes, 76

Europeanizing of American, xvi, 15, 118

low, American, 16, 33

protection against, 46, 172

Sixteenth Amendment and, 64

Stamp Act of 1766, 175

state setting of, 63

systems competition and, 53

tax haven countries, 56

Tea Party and, 153–58, 161–62