Our Divided Political Heart (46 page)
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Authors: E. J. Dionne Jr.
93
“veil of ignorance”:
John Rawls,
A Theory of Justice
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971).
93
“ideally rational men and women”:
Michael Walzer,
Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality
(New York: Basic Books, 1983), 5.
93
“the particularism of history, culture and membership”:
Ibid.
93
“Even if they are committed to impartiality”:
Ibid.
94
“every substantive account of justice is a local account”:
Ibid., 314.
94
“barren of essential aims and attachments”:
Michael Sandel,
Liberalism and the Limits of Justice
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 176.
94
“we cannot regard ourselves as independent in this way”:
Ibid., 179.
94
“members of this family or community or nation or people”:
Ibid.
94
Sandel himself has been wary of being labeled “communitarian”:
Michael Sandel,
Democracy’s Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996).
94
“a sense of belonging, a concern for the whole”:
Ibid., 10.
95
“The public philosophy by which we live”:
Ibid., 10.
95
“Community demands a place where people can see”:
Robert F. Kennedy, cited in Sandel,
Democracy’s Discontent
, 301.
95
“no place for people to walk, for women and their children”:
Ibid., 301–2.
96
“terminal wistfulness”:
Richard Rorty,
Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 194.
96
“want us to live in Salem but not believe in witches”:
Amy Gutmann, “Communitarian Critics of Liberalism,”
Philosophy and Public Affairs
14, no. 3 (Summer 1985): 319.
96
“the first claim is unconvincing while the second claim is unexciting”:
Stephen Holmes,
The Anatomy of Antiliberalism
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1993), 180.
96
“Liberalism is dissatisfying, these critics contend”:
Ibid.
96
“an implicitly utopian character”:
Jeffrey Stout,
Ethics After Babel: The Languages of Morals and Their Discontents
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1988), 229.
97
“the sense of community and civic engagement that liberty requires”:
Sandel,
Democracy’s Discontents
, 6.
97
“social capital”:
Robert Putnam,
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000).
98
“Our failure as progressives to tap into the moral underpinnings”:
Barack Obama, keynote address at the conference “Call to Renewal’s Building a Covenant for a New America,” Washington, D.C., 28 June 2006.
98
“a trillion dollars being taken out of social programs”:
Ibid.
128
“Conservatism, as a distinguishable social philosophy”:
Robert A. Nisbet, “Conservatism and Sociology,”
American Journal of Sociology
58, no. 2 (September 1952): 168.
128
“in reaction to the individualistic Enlightenment”:
Ibid.
128
“a mechanical aggregate of individual particles”:
Ibid.
128
“delicate interrelation of belief, habit, membership and institution”:
Ibid.
128
the best one-volume collection of Nisbet’s work:
Robert A. Nisbet,
Tradition and Revolt
(New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1999).
129
“thin gruel . . . caught in the web”:
George F. Will,
Statecraft as Soulcraft
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983), 152.
129
“Just as all education is moral education”:
Ibid., 276.
129
“sentiments, manners and moral opinions”:
Ibid., 19.
129
“It is generally considered obvious that government”:
Ibid., 120.
129
“Conservatism is something more than mere solicitude for tidy incomes”:
Russell Kirk, quoted in George H. Nash,
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America
(New York: Basic Books, 1979), 81.
103
“a fundamental challenge to their power and their place in American society”:
Kim Phillips-Fein,
Invisible Hands
(New York: W. W. Norton), xi.
103
“to resist liberal institutions and ideas, and to persuade others”:
Ibid.
103
“the rise of fascism and Nazism was not a reaction”:
Friedrich A. Hayek,
The Road to Serfdom
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944) 59.
103
“it is the control of the means for all our ends”:
Ibid.
104
“Unless this complex society is to be destroyed”:
Ibid.
104
“faith in the spontaneous forces of adjustment”:
Friedrich A. Hayek,
The Constitution of Liberty
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960), 400.
104
“a thorough sweeping away of the obstacles to free growth”:
Ibid.
104
“Frank Meyer, Buckley’s chief ideologist”:
Frank Meyer,
Principles and Heresies
(Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2002).
105
“objective moral order”:
For a superb summary of Meyer’s thinking, see George H. Nash,
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
(New York: Basic Books, 1979), 171–81.
105
“utilizing libertarian means in a conservative society for traditionalist ends”:
Donald Devine, quoted in Dionne,
Why Americans Hate Politics
, 161.
105
“the primacy of society to the individual”:
Nisbet, “Conservatism and Sociology,” 169.
106
“family, work, neighborhood”:
Ronald Reagan, acceptance speech at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Detroit, 17 July 1980.
106
“
those institutions standing between the individual”:
Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus,
To Empower People: From State to Civil Society
(Washington, DC: AEI Press, 1996).
106
“the modern state itself . . . the large economic conglomerates”:
Ibid.
106
“double crisis . . . who must carry on a balancing act”:
Ibid.
106
“Such institutions have a private face”:
Ibid.
107
“argued persuasively that the loss of community”:
Ibid.
107
“The concrete particularities of mediating structures”:
Ibid.
107
“little that is helpful . . . what is now called conservatism”:
Ibid.
107
“We believe it is proper and humane”:
Ibid.
108
“liberalism has a hard time coming to terms”:
Ibid.
108
“a great American
national
community”:
William Schambra, “Conservatism and the Quest for Community,”
National Affairs
, Summer 2010,
http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/conservatism-and-the-quest-for-community
.
108
“the sense of community, belonging, and purpose”:
Ibid.
109
“If conservatism’s only idea of a civil-rights program”:
Ibid.
109
“drained the strength and moral authority”:
William Schambra, “Local Groups Are the Key to America’s Civic Renewal,” Brookings Institution, Fall 1997,
http://www.brookings.edu/articles/1997/fall_communitydevelopment_schambra.aspx
.
109
“popularly rooted voluntary organizations”:
Theda Skocpol, “Don’t Blame Big Government: America’s Voluntary Groups Thrive in a National Network,” in
E. J. Dionne, ed.,
Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America
(Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1998).
110
“Talk of a social citizenship as extensive as the nation”:
Daniel Rodgers,
The Age of Fracture
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011), 198.
110
“For those working within the tradition of civic republicanism”:
Ibid., 196.
110
“Most novel about the new market metaphors”:
Ibid., 76, 5.
111
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son”:
John 3:16.
112
“the sort of faith with which most traditionalists are comfortable”:
Schambra, “Conservatism and the Quest for Community.”
112
“would have been a bit lukewarm”:
Ibid.
113
“wonder-working power”:
George W. Bush, State of the Union address, 28 January 2003.
113
“the human heart”:
George W. Bush, “The Duty of Hope,” speech in Indianapolis, Indiana, 22 July 1999.
113
“is that government provides the only real compassion”:
Ibid.
113
“The idea that if government would only get out of our way”:
Ibid.
114
“This will not be the failed compassion of towering, distant bureaucracies”:
Ibid.
114
“The invisible hand works many miracles”:
Ibid.
114
“We are a nation of rugged individuals”:
George W. Bush, First Inaugural Address, 20 January 2001.
114
“In the quiet of American conscience”:
Ibid.
116
“‘Compassionate conservatism’ and fiscal conservatism”:
Michelle Malkin, “Bush the Pre-Socializer: I Readily Concede I Chucked Aside My Free Market Principles,” 12 January 2009,
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/01/12/bush-the-pre-socializer-i-readily-concede-i-chucked-aside-my-free-market-principles
.
116
“Traditional conservatism has a piece missing”:
Michael J. Gerson,
Heroic Conservatism
(New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 272.
116
“any idea of the common good”:
Ibid., 63.
116
“Where does someone belong who is pro-life
and
pro-poor?”:
Ibid., 288–89.
117
“If Republicans run in future elections”:
Ibid., 16.
117
“can appeal to the conscience”:
Ibid., 289.
117
“If heroic conservatism really can rally the nation”:
David Frum, “Writing Checks,”
National Review
, 3 December 2007.
118
“Americans are deeply compassionate people”:
Ibid.
118
“It’s a stirring vision in its way”:
Ross Douthat, “The Future of the GOP,”
Slate
, 26 November 2007.
119
“From the 1970s onward, the Republican Party built its majority”:
Ibid.
119
“Why the Tea Party Is Toxic for the GOP”:
Michael J. Gerson, “Why the Tea Party Is Toxic for the GOP,”
Washington Post
, 25 August 2010.
120
“The Constitution,” Gerson insisted, “in contrast to”:
Ibid.
120
“Most Americans who identify with the Tea Party movement”:
Ibid.
121
“custom and convention”:
Russell Kirk,
The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
(Washington, DC: Regnery, 2001), 9.
121
“are checks both upon man’s anarchic impulse”:
Ibid.
122
“pseudo-conservative”:
Peter Viereck,
Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1949), 60.
122
“two cheers for capitalism”:
Irving Kristol,
Two Cheers for Capitalism
(New York: Basic Books, 1978).
127
“The federal government was created by the states”:
Rick Perry, quoted in Jim Rutenberg, “Perry Speaks, but Avoids Big Question,”
New York Times
, 14 June 2011.
127
“The Union is older than any of the States”:
Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress in Special Session, 4 July 1861.
