Ominous Parallels (46 page)

24
Cf.
Jean-François Steiner,
Treblinka,
trans. H. Weaver (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1967), pp. 176-77.

25
Origins,
p. 454, n. 159.

26
Ibid.,
p. 445.

27
Des Pres,
op. cit.,
pp. 226ff. Bettelheim,
op. cit.,
p. 260.

28
Origins,
pp. 457, 470, 473, 471, 351.

Chapter Fourteen

1
Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.,
Progressivism in America
(New York, Franklin Watts, 1974), p. 151; quoting Van Hise,
The Conservation of Natural Resources in the United States
(New York, 1910). Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.,
Ideologies and Utopias
(Chicago, Quadrangle, 1971), p. 116; quoting Tugwell,
The Battle for Democracy
(New York, 1935). Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961. Rudd quoted in Roy Bongartz, “Three Meanies,”
Esquire,
August 1970, p. 114. Kristol,
On the Democratic Idea in America
(New York, 1972), p. 27.

2
Fine,
op. cit.,
p. 173; quoting Charles Worcester Clark, “Applied Christianity: Who Shall Apply It First?”
Andover
Review
(Jan. 1893).
Ibid.,
p. 205; this is Fine’s summary of views held by Henry Carter Adams, George B. Newcomb, Richard Ely, and John R. Commons;
cf
. p. 205, n. 15.

3
Ibid.,
p. 210; quoting Ely, “The Evolution of Industrial Society” (address to the Madison Literary Society, 1897).

4
Ibid.,
p. 115; quoting Carnegie, “Wealth,”
North American Review
(June 1889).
Ibid.,
n. 65; quoting a letter to William Gladstone (Nov. 24, 1890).

5
Ibid.,
p. 341; quoting Lloyd,
Wealth against Commonwealth
(New York, 1894).
Ibid.,
p. 342; quoting Lloyd, “The New Conscience,”
North American Review
(Sept. 1888). Ekirch,
Progressivism in America,
p. 23; quoting Ward,
Dynamic Sociology
(1883).

6
Congressional Record,
51st Cong., 1st sess. (March 21, 1890), p. 2460. Donald J. Dewey, “Antitrust Legislation,”
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences,
ed. D.L. Sills (New York, Macmillan, 1968), p. 350.

7
Ekirch,
Progressivism in America,
pp. 158-59; quoting Croly,
The Promise of American Life
(New York, 1909). Comte,
The Catechism of Positive Religion,
trans. R. Congreve (London, John Chapman, 1858), pp. 332- 33.

8
Ekirch,
Progressivism in America,
p. 170; quoting a 1912 campaign speech.

9
Ibid.,
p. 110.
Ibid.,
quoting Frederic C. Howe,
Wisconsin: An Experiment in Democracy
(New York, 1912). Ibid., p. 14; quoting Addams,
Newer Ideals of Peace
(New York, 1907).

10
Ibid.,
p. 229; quoting Roosevelt, “Social and Industrial Justice,”
Century,
Oct. 1913.

11
Ideals and Self-Interest in America’s Foreign Relations
(Chicago, U. of Chicago P., 1953), p. 47.

12
Ekirch,
Progressivism in America,
p. 266; quoting Croly, “The Effect on American Institutions of a Powerful Military and Naval Establishment,”
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
(July 1916).

13
Quoted in Robsjohn-Gibbings,
op. cit.,
p. 241.

14
Quoted in Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr.,
The Decline of American Liberalism
(New York, Atheneum, 1969), pp. 258- 59.

15
Ekirch,
Ideologies and Utopias,
p. 46; quoting Lippmann, “The Permanent New Deal,”
Yale Review
(June 1935).

16
Ibid.,
p. 63; quoting Beard, “The Myth of Rugged American Individualism,”
Harper’s Magazine
(Dec. 1931).
Ibid
., p. 35; quoting Wilson, “The Literary Consequences of the Crash” (1932).

17
Ibid.,
p. 64; quoting Fairchild, “The Great Economic Paradox,”
Harper’s Magazine
(May 1932).

18
Ibid.,
p. 57; quoting a special study commission of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America (document to be read in the churches on Labor Day Sunday 1931).
Ibid.,
p. 134; quoting Arnold,
The Folklore of Capitalism
(New Haven, 1937).
Ibid.,
p. 133; quoting Arnold,
The Symbols of Government
(New Haven, 1935).

19
Ibid.,
p. 68; quoting “The Principle of Planning and the Institution of Laissez Faire,”
American Economic Review
(March 1932).

20
Individualism Old and New,
p. 118.

21
Eric Goldman,
Rendezvous with Destiny
(New York, Knopf, 1952), p. 329. Carl N. Degler,
Out of Our Past
(New York, Harper & Row, 1962), p. 413; quoting Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club address (Sept. 1932). Ekirch,
Ideologies and Utopias,
p. 79; quoting a speech at Oglethorpe U. (May 22, 1932).

22
Degler,
op. cit.,
p. 415.

23
Ekirch,
Ideologies and Utopias,
p. 83; quoting Roosevelt, San Francisco speech (Sept. 1932). Chicago speech quoted in Degler,
op. cit.,
p. 412.

24
Mill,
Auguste Comte and Positivism
(Ann Arbor, U. of Michigan P., 1961), p. 148.

25
The Roosevelt Myth
(Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Publishing, 1949), p. 303.

Chapter Fifteen

1
Rev. ed. (New York, Free Press, 1965), pp. 393, 402.

2
Ibid.,
p. 16.

3
“Philosophical Implications of Physics,”
Bulletin,
VoL III, No. 5.

4
Richard Rorty, review of Ian Hacking,
Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?, The Journal of Philosophy,
Vol. LXXIV, No. 7, July 1977, p. 432.

5
Melvin Maddocks,
Time,
March 13, 1972, p. 51.

6
The Anxious Object
(New York, Horizon, 1964), p. 41.

7
Donald Heiney and Lenthiel H. Downs,
Recent American Literature after 1930;
Vol. 4 of
Essentials of Contemporary Literature of the Western World
(Woodbury, N.Y., Barron’s Educational Series, 1974), p. 271. Robert Brustein, “Drama in the Age of Einstein,”
The New York Times,
Aug. 7, 1977, Sec. 2, p. 1.

8
Silberman quoted in “Back to Basics in the Schools,”
Newsweek,
Oct. 21, 1974, p. 94B. For “Treasonable Activities” as a course,
cf. The New York Times Magazine,
Jan. 11, 1970, p. 62.

9
Theodore Roszak,
The Making of a Counter Culture
(Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1969), p. 50. The course was “Physics for Poets,” No. A85.0004, Spring 1973, Prof. Robert Schwartz. Interview by Bennett Kremen, “Unrequired Reading,”
The New York Times Book Review,
Feb. 15, 1970, p. 5.

10
The New York Times Book Review,
April 6, 1970, pp. 1-2.

11
Remark made in a debate with Gore Vidal; quoted in Sidney Hook, “Student Revolts Could Destroy Academic Freedom,”
The New York University Alumni News,
May 1968, p. 3.

12
George Stade, review of Irving Howe,
Decline of the New, The New York Times Book Review,
April 12, 1970, p. 43.

13
Stephen Tonsor, “Science, Technology and the Cultural Revolution,”
The Intercollegiate Review,
Vol. 8, No. 3, Winter 1972-73, p. 85.

14
Beck quoted in
The New York Times Magazine
, Oct. 13, 1968, p. 102. J. Edward Murray of the Arizona
Republic,
quoted in Martin Nolan, “ ‘A code word for playing it safe,’ ”
The Village Voice,
April 29, 1971. Roszak, op.
cit.,
p. 55.

15
Kremen,
op. cit.,
p. 24.

16
Robert Gorham Davis, “Rimbaud and Stavrogin in the Harvard Yard,”
Book Review,
June 28, 1970, p. 2.

17
Quine,
From a Logical Point of View
(2nd ed., New York, Harper & Row, 1963); “Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” p. 44.

18
The New Left;
“The Cashing-In: The Student Rebellion,” p. 55.

19
The New York Times,
May 12, 13, 21, 1970; quoting Peter J. Brennan, Leonard Lavoro, Walter Flynn, and Cliff Sloane.

20
The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnics
(New York, Macmillan, 1972); quoted by William V. Shannon, “The Need for Authority,”
The New York Times,
Op-Ed page, July 30, 1972.

21
Keith Murray, “Four ‘Changes,’ ”
The Environmental Handbook,
ed. G. De Bell (New York, Ballantine, 1970), p. 329. John B. Cobb, Jr., speech at a conference on the “theology of survival” at the School of Theology at Claremont;
The New York Times,
May 1, 1970. (The first phrase quoted is a summary by the Times writer, Edward B. Fiske, of the consensus of the conference.)

22
“National Humility,”
A Treasury of Great American Speeches,
ed. C. Hurd (New York, Hawthorn, 1959), pp. 339-40.

23
“The Tragedy of the Commons,” De Bell,
op. cit.,
p. 46. The Mobil ad appeared on the Op-Ed page, Sept. 7, 1972.

24
A Theory of Justice
(Cambridge, Harvard U.P., 1971).

25
Louis Heren, deputy editor of
The Times
(London); quoted in
The New York Times,
March 23, 1975.

26
Israel Shenker, “ ‘Life of a Nation’ Is Ponderous Event,” Oct. 10, 1976; the professor quoted is Bruce Kuklick, U. of Pennsylvania.

Chapter Sixteen

1
For an example of the latter,
cf.
Garry Wills,
Inventing America
(Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1978).

2
Quoted in Milton Mayer,
They Thought They Were Free
(Chicago, U. of Chicago P., 1966), pp. 169-70.

3
Ibid.,
pp. 167-68.

4
Ayn Rand,
The Fountainhead
(25th anniv. ed., New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1968), pp. 715, 717.

5
Ayn Rand,
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology
(New York, New American Library: Mentor, 1979). Ayn Rand,
The Virtue of Selfishness
(New York, New American Library, 1964). For the Objectivist politics, see Ayn Rand,
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
(New York, New American Library, 1966). For esthetics: Ayn Rand,
The Romantic Manifesto
(New York, World, 1969). For philosophy of history: Ayn Rand,
For the New Intellectual
(New York, Random House, 1961); title essay.

6
Atlas Shrugged,
p. 1015.

7
Ibid.,
p. 1016.

8
The Virtue of Selfishness;
“The Objectivist Ethics,” p. 13.

9
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology,
pp. 15 (statement italicized in original), 22.

10
For the New Intellectual;
title essay, p. 33.

11
The Virtue of Selfishness;
“The Objectivist Ethics,” p. 16.
Atlas Shrugged,
pp. 1014, 1012.

12
Ibid.,
p. 1014.

13
Ibid.,
p. 1061.

14
Waite,
op. cit.,
Preface.

15
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
(15th ed., Boston, Little Brown, 1980), p. 348; quoting Benjamin Franklin.