Our Divided Political Heart (45 page)

70
“In no other country in the world is the love of property keener”:
Ibid., 639.

70
“I have already shown, in several parts of this work, by what means the inhabitants”:
Ibid., 525.

70
“Take a penny from your pocket,”:
William Clinton,
Between Hope and History: Meeting America’s Challenges for the 21st Century
(New York: Times Books, 1996), 117.

71
“That humble penny”:
Ibid.

72
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer’”:
Sarah Palin, speech at the Republican National Convention, 3 September 2008.

72
“the political philosophy by which we live”:
Michael Sandel,
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 4.

72
“a moral unanimity”:
Louis Hartz,
The Liberal Tradition in America
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1955), 46.

72
“fixed, dogmatic liberalism”:
Ibid.

72
“the reality of atomistic social freedom”:
Ibid.

72
“as a shorthand for the self-interested, profit maximizing behaviors of liberal capitalism”:
James T. Kloppenberg, “From Hartz to Tocqueville: Shifting the Focus from Liberalism to Democracy in America,” in Meg Jacobs, William J. Novak and Julian E. Zelizer, eds.,
The Democratic Experiment: New Directions in American Political History
(Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2003), 352.

72
“elegant and dazzling”:
Ibid.

73
Daniel Bell’s
The End of Ideology:
Daniel Bell,
The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).

73
“seems suddenly to shrink our domestic struggles to insignificance”:
Kloppenberg, “From Hartz to Tocqueville,” 354.

73
“sharing in self-government”:
Sandel,
Democracy’s Discontent
, 5.

73
“a knowledge of public affairs and also a sense of belonging”:
Ibid.

73
“one of the largest accomplishments of modern historical scholarship”:
Cass Sunstein, “Beyond the Republican Revival,”
Yale Law Journal
97, no. 8 (July 1988): 1540.

74
“is no longer possible to see a Lockean consensus”:
Ibid.

74
“it incorporates central features of the liberal tradition”:
Ibid.

74
“a balanced view that sees the continuous presence of rights talk and the continuous presence”:
James T. Kloppenberg,
The Virtues of Liberalism
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 200.

74
“arguments for freedom and arguments for community”:
Sunstein, “Beyond the Republican Revival,” 1540.

74
“providing a language of restrained and chastened communitarianism”:
Robert Booth Fowler,
The Dance with Community
(Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1991), 78.

74
“The preservation of liberty, which is the preservation of individualism”:
William M. Sullivan,
Reconstructing Public Philosophy
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), 215.

75
“more destructive potentialities”:
Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, and William M. Sullivan,
Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), xlviii.

75
“the archetypal poor boy who made good”:
Ibid., 33.

75
“what many felt in the eighteenth century—and many have felt ever since”:
Ibid.

76
“If they are poor, they begin first as Servants or Journeymen”:
Benjamin Franklin, “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America,” in Franklin,
The Autobiography and Other Writings
, ed. Kenneth Silverman (New York: Penguin, 2003), 218.

76
“utilitarian individualism”:
Bellah et al.,
Habits of the Heart
, 33.

76
“expressive . . . success had little to do with material acquisition”:
Ibid., 34. On Walt Whitman’s politics, see Edward L. Widmer,
Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 81–85.

76
“self-sufficient farmer or artisan capable of participation”:
Ibid., 35.

76
“the ultimate use of the American’s independence was to cultivate”:
Ibid.

77
“a city set upon a hill”:
John Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity” (
Arbella
sermon), 1630, excerpted in Timothy Hill,
Religion in America
(New York: Infobase, 2007), 41.

77
“archetypal . . . understanding of what life in America was to be”:
Bellah et al.,
Habits of the Heart
, 32.

77
“We must delight in each other”:
Winthrop, “A Model of Christian Charity,” 41.

77
“every man might have need of other, and from hence they might all be knit more nearly”:
Ibid.

77
“A quarterback who begins to act as though he is better than the line-men”:
Wilson Carey McWilliams,
The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey Mc-Williams Reader
, ed. Patrick J. Deneen and Susan J. McWilliams (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011), 27.

77
“can be seen as the first of many efforts to create utopian communities”:
Bellah et al.,
Habits of the Heart
, 29.

78
“moral freedom . . . to that only which is good, just and honest”:
Ibid.

78
“I suppose the most flagrant examples of present-mindedness”:
Gordon S. Wood,
The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History
(New York: Penguin, 2008), 308.

79
“I am reminded of Rebecca West’s wise observation”:
Ibid.

79
“liberty had been misunderstood and falsely equated”:
Gordon S. Wood,
The Creation of the American Republic: 1776–1787
(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969), 60.

79
“True liberty was ‘natural liberty restrained in such a manner’”:
Ibid., 60–61.

79
“ideally, republicanism obliterates the individual”:
Ibid., 61.

79
“republicanism was essentially anti-capitalistic”:
Ibid., 418.

80
“as radical and as revolutionary as any in history”:
Gordon S. Wood,
Radicalism of the American Revolution
(New York: Vintage Books, 1991), 5.

80
“explosion of entrepreneurial power”:
Gordon S. Wood, “The Significance of the Early Republic,”
Journal of the Early Republic
8, no. 1 (Spring 1988): 14.

80
“America’s conception of its national character”:
Gordon S. Wood,
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 732.

80
“a new character ideal . . . . . . the man who developed inner resources”:
Joyce Appleby, quoted in Wood,
Empire of Liberty
, 732.

81
“In France . . . usually carried, and still carries, a pejorative connotation”:
Steven Lukes,
Individualism
(Essex: ECPR Press, 2006), 23.

81
“realization of the final stage of human progress”:
Ibid., 37.

81
“a calm and considered feeling which disposes each”:
Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, 477.

81
“supplied the nation with a rationalization of its characteristic attitudes”:
Yehoshua Arieli,
Individualism and Nationalism in American Ideology
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966), 341–42.

81
“Individualism, the love of enterprise, and the pride in personal freedom”:
James Bryce,
The American Commonwealth
(London: Macmillan, 1889), 2:406–7.

82
“we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor”:
Declaration of Independence,
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
.

84
“the quest for a public philosophy that could take account”:
Philip Selznick,
The Communitarian Persuasion
(Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2002), 5.

84
“created an overly regulated, overly bureaucratic and overly professionalized welfare state”:
Rudolph Scharping, quoted in Selznick,
The Communitarian Persuasion
, 5.

84
“We did not believe in people’s capacity for spontaneously helping”:
Ibid.

84
Amitai Etzioni:
Amitai Etzioni,
The Spirit of Community
(New York: Touchstone, 1993).

84
“the critical arena in which independence and a host of other virtues”:
William Galston, “Liberal Virtues,”
American Political Science Review
82, no. 4 (December 1988): 1282.

84
“The weakening of families is thus fraught with danger”:
Ibid.

85
“Communitarians do not seek to found a new school of thought on the ruins of liberalism”:
Bruce Frohnen,
The New Communitarians and the Crisis of Modern Liberalism
(Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1996), 10.

86
“master of the universe”:
Tom Wolfe,
The Bonfire of the Vanities
(New York: Bantam, 1988).

86
“comic sociology”:
David Brooks,
Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), 12.

87
“community and common good seriously without abnegating”:
Avital Simhony and David Weinstein,
The New Liberalism: Reconciling Liberty and Community
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 2.

88
“We Decade”:
Paul Taylor, “The Coming of the ‘We’ Decade,”
Washington Post
, 20 July 1985.

88
“We are all part of one another”:
William J. Clinton, remarks at Metropolitan Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., 7 December 1997.

88
“little platoons”:
Edmund Burke,
Reflections on the Revolution in France
(London: J. Dodsley, 1790), 68.

88
“There is no such thing as society”:
Margaret Thatcher, quoted in Douglas Keay, “Aids, Education, and the Year 2000,”
Women’s Own
, 23 September 1987.

89
“There
is
such a thing as society”:
David Cameron, speech after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest, 6 December 2005.

89
“compassionate conservatism”:
George W. Bush, “Rallying the Armies of Compassion,” January 2001,
http://archives.hud.gov/reports/rally.pdf
.

89
“common ownership of the means of production”:
Clause IV, Labour Party Constitution, 1918.

89
“To secure for the workers by hand or by brain”:
Ibid.

90
“The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party”:
Clause IV, Labour Party Constitution, 1995.

90
“It allows us to unite old and new”:
Tony Blair, “Values and the Power of Community,” First Global Ethics Lecture at Tübingen University, Germany, 30 June 2000.

90
“They need to be matched by responsibility and duty”:
Ibid.

91
“opportunity, responsibility, community”:
William Clinton, keynote address to the Democratic Leadership Council, Cleveland, Ohio, 6 May 1991.

92
“used as a slogan to advance the cause of community”:
Adam Seligman,
The Idea of Civil Society
(New York: Free Press, 1992), 203.

92
In
Whose Keeper?
:
Alan Wolfe,
Whose Keeper? Social Science and Moral Obligation
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

92
“where everybody knows your name”:
“Where Everybody Knows Your Name,” written by Gary Portnoy and Judy Hart Angelo and performed by Portnoy.

93
his Harvard colleague Robert Nozick:
Robert Nozick,
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
(New York: Basic Books, 1974).

93
“the closest thing to a book that people”:
Alexander Nehamas, “Trends in Recent American Philosophy,”
Daedalus
126, no. 1 (Winter 1997): 222.