Prologue
1. Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind from Burke to Eliot (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953), 472.
2. Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative (London: Bloomsbury, 2014), 1.
3. T. S. Eliot, “Excerpts from ‘Francis Herbert Bradley,’ ” Times Literary Supplement, December 29, 1927, http://tseliot.com/prose/francis-herbert-bradley.
4. T. S. Eliot, “Thoughts After Lambeth” (London: Faber & Faber, 1931).
5. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution, excerpted in Charles W. Elliot, The Harvard Classics, Vol. XXIV, Part 3 (New York: P.F. Collier & Son, 1909-14), Paragraph 75, http://www.bartleby.com/24/3/4.html.
6. G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, (London: Houghton & Stodden, 1925), Part II, Chapter Six.
7. Reinhold Niebuhr, Does Society Need Religion? (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010), 235-237.
8. Rod Dreher, The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation (New York: Sentinel, 2017). For a good overview of the Benedict Option, we suggest: “Interview by Dr. Albert Mohler with Rod Dreher,” February 13, 2017, https://albertmohler.com/2017/02/13/benedict-option-conversation-rod-dreher/.
9. James Kurth, “The American Way of Victory,” National Interest, Summer 2000.
10. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 280.
11. David Brooks, “Upswingers and Downswingers,” New York Times, October 16, 2017, p. 23, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/16/opinion/american-economy-progress-mobility-.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region.
12. Stephen Prothero, “Millennials Do Faith and Politics Their Way,” USA Today, March 29, 2010.
13. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, speech, House of Commons, June 18, 1940. Winston Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, ed. Robert Rhodes James, vol. 6, p. 6238.
14. T. S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society, (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 1949) 27.
15. Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale
16. Chris and Sarah Padbury. Sarah was Craig’s assistant back in the mid-1990s when he was at Focus on the Family.
17. Jessica Skropanic, “ ’Ocean of Compassion’: Support Pours in for Couple Who Accidently Started Carr Fire,” USA Today, August 15, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/15/carr-fire-messages-support-couple-who-accidentally-started-blaze/1004016002/.
Chapter 1: Restoring America’s Founding Principles
1. John Baille, What is Christian Civilization? (London: Oxford University Press, 1945), 59.
2. Russell Kirk, “Civilization Without Religion?” Modern Age: A Quarterly Review, Summer 1990.
3. Fisher Ames, Statement Concerning Education, cited in Peter Marshall and David Manual, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart ‘N Home, Inc, 1991), 12.27.
4. Dennis Prager, “My Quest to Help Americans Rediscover the Bible,” Daily Signal, January 9, 2018, https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/01/09/quest-help-americans-rediscover-bible/.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Cited in David Gelernter, “The Bible and American History,” Washington Times, December 11, 2014, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/11/the-bibles-influence-the-bible-and-america-history/.
8. Gabriel Sivan, The Bible and Civilization, (New York: Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Club Co., 2002), 236.
9. Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 279–280, 519.
10. Ibid., 282.
11. Ibid., 303.
12. Mark David Hall, “Faith of our Founders: The Role of Religion in America’s Founding,” Intercollegiate Review Online, Spring 2018 and Mark David Hall, “Did America Have a Christian Founding,” the Heritage Foundation, June 7, 2011, http://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/did-america-have-christian-founding.
13. Abraham Lincoln, “Reply to the Colored People of Baltimore Upon Presentation of a Bible,” September 7, 1864, https://albertmohler.com/2017/02/13/benedict-option-conversation-rod-dreher/.
14. Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953, https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/inaugural-address-3.
15. J. Fitzpatrick, ed, The Writings of George Washington (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1931-39), 229.
16. Hall, “Did America Have a Christian Founding.”
17. Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, “Cultural Climate Change,” lecture delivered at the Chautauqua Institution, July 13, 2017.
Chapter 2: Restoring Religious Liberty
1. Baer v. Kolmorgen, 14 Misc.2d 1015 (1958) Supreme Court, Westchester County, December 15, 1958. 14 Misc.2d 1015 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. 1958) https://www.ravellaw.com/opinions/bde4c8fbd72c7c302333631d4b8f704f.
2. "Declaration on Religious Freedom," Dignitatis Humanae, On the Right of the Person and of Communities to Social and Civil Freedom in Matters Religious Promulgated by His Holiness Pope Paul VI on December 7, 1964, http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651207_dignitatis-humanae_en.html.
3. Archbishop Charles Chaput, “Things to Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World,” Lecture Delivered at the Matthew J. Ryan Center at Villanova University, http://www.catholicworldreport.com/2018/02/22/things-to-come-faith-state-and-society-in-a-new-world/.
4. G. K. Chesterton, Autobiography of G. K. Chesterton, (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2006), 230.
5. Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township, 330 U.S. 1 (1947).
6. Baer v. Kolmorgen.
7. Wallace v. Jaffree, 472 U.S. 38, 61 (1985).
8. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Danbury Baptists, January 1, 1802.
9. Daniel Dreisbach, Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation, (New York: New York University Press, 2002), 29.
10. See https://www.chusa.org/about/about/facts-statistics.
11. Alexandra DeSanctis, “FiveThirtyEight Smears Catholic Hospitals,” National Review, July 27, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/catholic-hospitals-fivethirtyeight-smears-hit-piece/.
12. David French, “Why Christians Can’t Compromise on Conscience,” National Review, August 1, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/catholic-hospitals-abortion-comprimise-conscience/.
13. Ibid.
14. Michael Barone, “Liberals Against Freedom of Conscience,” Washington Examiner, August 2, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/michael-barone-liberal-against-freedom-of-conscience.
15. Nadine Strossen, Testimony in favor of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, September 18, 1992, 171, https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/jmd/legacy/2014/02/13/hear-j-102-82-1992.pdf.
16. Ibid.
17. David French, “This is How Religious Liberty Really Dies,” National Review, February 13, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/religious-liberty-threatened-culture-government/.
18. French, “Why Christians Can’t Compromise Conscience.”
19. Ibid.
20. Daniel Mark, “Domestic Challenges to Religious Liberty – From the Left and Right,” Public Discourse, April 2, 2018, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/04/21175/.
Chapter 3: Restoring Medicine and Medical Ethics
1. Philip Hawley Jr, “A Tragic Case of Modern Bioethics: Denying Life-Sustaining Treatment to a Patient Who Wanted to Live,” Public Discourse, January 7, 2016, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2016/01/16211/.
2. “The Hippocratic Oath Today,” https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/hippocratic-oath-today/.
3. Wesley J, Smith, “Forcing Doctors to Perform Abortions,” National Review, August 8, 2018 https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/forcing-doctors-perform-abortion/.
4. Ibid.
5. International Women’s Health Coalition, “Unconscionable: When Providers Deny Abortion Care,” https://iwhc.org/resources/unconscionable-when-providers-deny-abortion-care/.
6. Wesley J, Smith, “Forcing Doctors to Perform Abortions.”
7. “Bioethics Founder, Georgetown Professor Pellegrino Passes Away,” June 18, 2013, https://www.georgetown.edu/news/pioneering-bioethicist-edmund-pellegrino-dies.html.
8. Lincoln Caplan, “Edmund Pellegrino,” Washington Post, April 27, 1986, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1986/04/27/edmund-pellegrino/334406d8-cf5a-4349-8655-0cdbf656f6f3/?utm_term=.0c52be5311c8.
9. For detailed info on the evil done by Dr. Mengele, see “In the Matter of Dr. Joseph Mengele: A Report to the Attorney General of the United States,” U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, October 1992, https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/criminal-hrsp/legacy/2011/02/04/10-01-92mengele-rpt.pdf.
10. Caplan, “Edmund Pellegrino.”
11. Emily Langer, “Edmund Pellegrino: Bioethics Pioneer Dies at 92,” Boston Globe, June 20, 2013, https://www.boston.com/news/education/2013/06/20/edmund-pellegrino-bioethics-pioneer-dies-at-92.
12. For Dr. Pellegrino’s views on euthanasia and physician assisted suicide see Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, “Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: Rebuttals of Rebuttals–The Moral Prohibition Remains,” Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, 2001, https://academic.oup.com/jmp/article-abstract/26/1/93/888984?redirectedFrom=fulltext (Need subscription to access).
13. Emily Langer, “Edmund Pellegrino: Bioethics Pioneer Dies at 92.”
14. Phillip Hawley Jr., “The American Medical Association vs. Human Nature,” Public Discourse, September 6, 2017, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2017/09/19980/.
15. Philip Hawley Jr., “A Tragic Case of Modern Bioethics: Denying Life-Sustaining Treatment to a Patient Who Wanted to Live.”
16. Gerald T. Mundy, “Physicians Cannot Serve Both Life and Death,” Public Discourse, January 2, 2018, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/01/20366/.
17. Caplan, “Edmund Pellegrino.”
Chapter 4: Restoring a Culture of Life
1. John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, 1995, http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_25031995_evangelium-vitae.html.
2. Number of Abortions (website), http://www.numberofabortions.com/.
3. Brittany Raymer, “A World With No Down Syndrome Babies” Focus on the Family, 2018, https://www.focusonthefamily.com/socialissues/life-issues/down-syndrome/a-world-with-no-down-syndrome-babies.
4. Wesley Smith, “Peter Singer Says an Intellectually Disabled Person is Less Valuable than Animals,” Lifenews.com, February 27, 2017, http://www.lifenews.com/2017/02/27/peter-singer-says-an-intellectually-disabled-person-is-less-than-valuable-than-animals.
5. Ruth Marcus, “I Would Have Aborted a Fetus with Down Syndrome. Women Need That Right,” Washington Post, March 9, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-wouldve-aborted-a-fetus-with-down-syndrome-women-need-that-right/2018/03/09/3aaac364-23d6-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html?utm_term=.cde0d1d65b78.
6. Ibid.
7. Sara Miller Llana, “Slippery Slope? Belgium Moves to Extend Euthanasia Rights to Children,” Christian Science Monitor, February 13, 2014, https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2014/0213/Slippery-slope-Belgium-moves-to-extend-euthanasia-rights-to-children, and Douglas Murray, “Grim Reaper, M.D.” National Review, April 25, 2016, https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/04/euthanasia-belgium-netherlands-slippery-slope/.
8. “A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy,” People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, https://www.peta.org/blog/rat-pig-dog-boy.
9. Elliot Hosman J.D, “The Short Life and Eugenic Death of Baby John Bollinger,” Psychology Today, October 12, 2015, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/genetic-crossroads/201510/the-short-life-and-eugenic-death-baby-john-bollinger.
10. Kathryn Jean Lopez, “Mercy!” National Review, March 30, 2005.
11. Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography, Chapter 30, (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1938) 374-375, https://archive.org/stream/margaretsangerau1938sang/margaretsangerau1938sang_djvu.txt.
12. “Apostle of Birth Control Sees Cause Gaining Here”, New York Times, April 8, 1923, p. XII, https://www.nytimes.com/1923/04/08/archives/apostle-of-birth-control-sees-cause-gaining-here-hearing-in-albany.html.
13. Mike Wallace, Interview with Margaret Sanger, September 21, 1957, https://www.c-span.org/video/?288555-1/mike-wallace-interview-margaret-sanger.
14. Ibid.
15. “NFL Football Star Ben Watson Helps Pregnancy Center Save Babies From Abortion,” LifeNews.com, August 7, 2018, https://www.lifenews.com/2018/08/07/nfl-football-star-ben-watson-helps-pregnancy-center-save-babies-from-abortion/.
16. Daniel Darling, “On the Brink of a Post-Roe World, Pro-Life Movement Needs a Future Beyond Abortion,” USA Today, August 7, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/08/07/abortion-roe-v-wade-pro-life-movement-brett-kavanaugh-column/865843002/.
17. Ibid.
Chapter 5: Restoring Marriage, Family, and Social Capital
1. Ronald Reagan, “Radio Address to the Nation on Family Values,” December 20, 1986, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=36826.
2. Scott Yenor, “The True Origin of Society: The Founders on the Family,” the Heritage Foundation, October 16, 2013, http;//www.heritage.org/node/11602/print-display.
3. James Q. Wilson, The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, (New York: Harper, 2002), 168-74.
4. Mary Eberstadt, “Two Nations, Revisited,” National Affairs, Summer 2018, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/two-nations-revisited.
5. Jim Daly, “Marriage Done Right,” (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Faith, 2016), xvii.
6. Wilson, The Marriage Problem.
7. “Births to Unmarried Women,” ChildTrends Data Bank, October 2016, https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/75_Births_to_Unmarried_Women.pdf.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Robert Samuelson, “Trump is Not Destiny, Here’s What Is,” Washington Post, June 11, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-not-destiny-heres-what-is/2017/06/11/1dc9f7c6-4d33-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2d021baa9afb.
12. Yenor, “The True Origin of Society: The Founders on the Family.”
13. Jason Riley, “Modern Liberalism’s False Obsession with Civil War Monuments,” Wall Street Journal, April 29, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/modern-liberalisms-false-obsession-with-civil-war-monuments-1504045658.
14. Edwin J. Feulner Jr., “Assessing the Great Society,” the Heritage Foundation, June 30, 2014, https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/commentary/assessing-the-great-society.
15. “Children in Poverty,” ChildTrends Data Bank, December 2016, https://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/04_Poverty.pdf.
16. Jason Riley, “Still Right on the Black Family After All These Years,” Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2015, https://www.wsj.com/articles/jason-l-riley-still-right-on-the-black-family-after-all-these-years-1423613625.
17. James Q, Wilson, “Why We Don’t Marry,” City Journal, Winter 2002, https://www.city-journal.org/html/why-we-don%E2%80%99t-marry-12215.html.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Eberstadt, “Two Nations-Revisited.”
22. Ibid.
23. Barnini Chakraborty, “Rahm Emanuel Under Increasing Fire for Linking Chicago Violence and Morals in Minority Neighborhoods,” Fox News, August 17, 2018, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/08/17/rahm-emanuel-under-increasing-fire-for-linking-chicago-violence-and-morals-in-minority-neighborhoods.html.
24. Cynthia Harper and Sara S. McLanahan, “Father Absence and Youth Incarceration.” Journal of Research on Adolescence 14, (September 2004), 369- 397.
25. “Births to Unmarried Women.”
26. “Births: Final Data for 2010,” Centers for Disease Control, August 28, 2012, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.259.443&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
27. Glenn Stanton, “The Research Proves the No. 1 Social Justice Imperative is Marriage,” Federalist, November 3, 2017, http://thefederalist.com/2017/11/03/research-proves-no-1-social-justice-imperative-marriage/.
28. Robert Rector, “Marriage: America’s Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty,” the Heritage Foundation, September 16, 2010, https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/marriage-americas-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty-0.
29. Peter Shuck, One Nation Undecided: Clear Thinking about Five Hard Issues That Divide Us, (Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2017) 44.
30. McKenna Myers, “Fatherless Daughters: 5 Ways Growing Up Without a Dad Affects Women,” July 6, 2018, https://wehavekids.com/family-relationships/When-Daddy-Dont-Love-Their-Daughters-What-Happens-to-Women-Whose-Fathers-Werent-There-for-Them.
31. Suzanne Venker, “Missing Fathers and America’s Broken Boys – The Vast Majority of Mass Shooters Come from Broken Homes,” Fox News, February 19, 2018, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/02/19/missing-fathers-and-americas-broken-boys-vast-majority-mass-shooters-come-from-broken-homes.html.
32. W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang, “The Class Divide in Marriage,” American Enterprise Institute, September 2017, http://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Marriage-Divide.pdf.
33. Tim Henderson, “Growing Number of People Living Alone Can Present Challenges,” Stateline, September 11, 2014, http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2014/09/11/growing-number-of-people-living-solo-can-pose-challenges.
34. John Cacioppo, Loneliness, (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2008).
35. Catherine Saint Louis, “Rise in Infant Drug Dependence in U.S. is Felt Mostly in Rural Areas,” New York Times, December 12, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/12/health/rise-in-infant-drug-dependence-in-us-is-felt-most-in-rural-areas.html.
36. Centers for Disease Control, “U.S. drug overdose deaths continue to rise; increase fueled by synthetic opioids,” March 29, 2018, https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0329-drug-overdose-deaths.html.
37. National Institute on Drug Abuse, https://www.drugabuse.gov/related-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates.
38. Catherine Saint Louis, “Rise in Infant Drug Dependence in U.S. is Felt Mostly in Rural Areas.”
39. “Report: Married Parents Raising Children Best Bet for Economic Prosperity of Family, Society,” October 27, 2015, http://www.cnsnews.com/print/4077734.
40. Alex Hogan, “ ‘Like you’re living in hell’: A survivor on what opioid withdrawal did to his body,” May 5, 2015, https://www.statnews.com/2016/05/25/opioid-addiction-withdrawal-survival/.
41. Kelly Tatera, “What Happens When a Baby Is Born Addicted to Drugs? Science Explorer, December 16, 2015, http://thescienceexplorer.com/brain-and-body/what-happens-when-baby-born-addicted-drugs.
42. Hannah Rappleye, Rich McHugh, and Ronan Farrow, “Born Addicted: The Number of Opioid Addicted Babies is Soaring,” NBC News, October 9, 2017, https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/americas-heroin-epidemic/born-addicted-number-opioid-addicted-babies-soaring-n806346.
43. Nicholas Zill, “Substance Abuse, Mental Illness, and Crime More Common in Disrupted Families,” Institute for Family Studies, March 24, 2015, https://ifstudies.org/blog/substance-abuse-mental-illness-and-crime-more-common-in-disrupted-families.
44. Timothy P. Carney, “Failing Families,” Washington Examiner, June 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/american-culture-is-moving-into-a-post-family-era.
45. Tyler J. VanderWeele, “Religious Service Attendance, Marriage, and Health,” Institute for Family Studies, November 29, 2016, https://ifstudies.org/blog/religious-service-attendance-marriage-and-health/.
46. Kenneth Pargament and Annette Mahoney, “Sacred Matters: The Spiritual Dimensions of Marital and Family Ties,” Bowling Green University cited in David Yonke, “Happy Marriage Begins at Church Door, BGSU Report Finds,” Toledo Blade, April 14, 2007, http://www.toledoblade.com/Religion/2007/04/14/Happy-marriage-begins-at-church-door-BGSU-study-reports.html.
47. VanderWeele, “Religious Service Attendance, Marriage, and Health.”
48. Glenn Stanton, “Does Faith Reduce Divorce Risk?” Public Discourse, March 22, 2018, http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2018/03/20935/.
49. Wilson, “Why We Don’t Marry.”
50. W. Bradford Wilcox and Wendy Wang, “The Class Divide in Marriage.”
51. “Five Key Findings on Religion in the U.S.” Gallup.com, December 23, 2016, https://news.gallup.com/poll/200186/five-key-findings-religion.aspx.
52. Josh McDowell, Why True Love Waits: A Definitive Book on How to Help Your Youth Resist Sexual Pressure (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers 2002), 158.
53. “Foster Care & Adoption,” Focus on the Family (website), https://www.focusonthefamily.com/pro-life/orphan-care.
54. Project 1.27 (website), https://www.project127.com/.
55. Bethany Christian Services (website), https://www.bethany.org/.
Chapter 6: Restoring the Concept of the Gentleman
1. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution, (Boston: The Harvard Classics, 1909-1914), Paragraphs 125-149, https://www.bartleby.com/24/3/6.html.
2. Cardinal John Henry Newman, “The Idea of the University,” (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982), 180-181.
3. George Gilder, Men and Marriage, (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing, 1986), 17.
4. Ibid.
5. Peggy Noonan, “America Needs More Gentleman,” Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/america-needs-more-gentlemen-1516320167.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. Ben Shapiro, “Men, Stop Virtue-Signaling and Return to Rules,” National Review, November 21, 2017, http://www.nationalreview.com/node/453962/print.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, (London: Oxford University Press,1943), 26.
12. Fay Vincent, “ ’Always Be a Gentleman’ and Other Fatherly Advice,” Wall Street Journal, June 13, 2013, https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443675404578056291818726864.
1. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution.
2. John Adams, “To the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts-Bay,” February 6, 1775, http://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/view?id=ADMS-06-02-02-0072-0004.
3. Christine Emba, “Let’s Rethink Sex,” Washington Post, November 26, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-rethink-sex/2017/11/26/d8546a86-d2d5-11e7-b62d-d9345ced896d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f298e0a2bfa.
4. Cal Thomas, “The Return of Virtue,” Washington Times, November 29, 2017, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/nov/29/the-value-of-high-moral-standards-has-never-been-m/.
5. Lewis, The Abolition of Man.
6. Harry Stein and Kay S. Hymowitz, “Earth to Ivory Tower: Get Real!” City Journal, Autumn 2001, https://www.city-journal.org/html/earth-ivory-tower-get-real-12201.html.
7. Jared Sparks, ed., The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, (Boston: Tappan, Whittemore and Mason, Boston, 1840), Vol. 10, 297.
8. “Saint Thomas Aquinas on Virtues,” http://www.aquinasonline.com/Topics/virtues.html.
9. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book III, Chapter 11, 1118b-1119a.
10. Aristotle, Politica, 1129 a. 6 f.
11. John A. Hardon, Modern Catholic Dictionary, (Bardstown, KY: Eternal Life Publications, 2000).
Chapter 8: Restoring Education
1. G. K. Chesterton, The Common Man, (London: Sheed & Ward, 1950), 166.
2. William Bennett, forward in Josiah Bunting, An Education for Our Time, (Washington, D.C: Regnery Publishing, 1998), xv.
3. Ulrich Boser, Perpetual Baffour, and Steph Vela, “A Look at the Education Crisis: Tests, Standards, and the Future of American Education,” January 2016, https://cdn.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/26105959/TUDAreport2.pdf.
4. Kevin Roberts, “How to Fix American Schools,” March 16, 2017, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-to-fix-american-schools/.
5. Kimberly Amadeo, “U.S. Education Ranking is Falling Behind the Rest of the World,” May 11, 2018, https://www.thebalance.com/the-u-s-is-losing-its-competitive-advantage-3306225.
6. “2015 Reading Trial Urban District Snapshot Report Detroit Grade 8,” https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/dst2015/pdf/2016048XR8.pdf.
7. Ibid.
8. For detailed information on this issue see: Richard Arum, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses,” (Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2011.
9. Craig Silverman, “Here are 50 of the Biggest Fake News Hits on Facebook From 2016,” https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/top-fake-news-of-2016?utm_term=.jiznNzzEV#.rlaJjbbeO.
10. “Dig Deeper: Critical Thinking in the Digital Age,” https://mindedge.com/page/dig-deeper.
11. George A. Panichas, “School and Society: A Conservative Perspective,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Vol. 48, No. 2, Spring 2006, https://home.isi.org/school-and-society-conservative-perspective.
12. James Coleman, et al, “Equality of Educational Opportunity,” National Center for Educational Statistics, https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED012275.pdf.
13. Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon and Schuster), 2000, cited in Karen Bogenschneider and Carol Johnson, “Family Involvement in Education: How Important Is It? What Can Legislators Do? Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars, February 2004, https://www.purdue.edu/hhs/hdfs/fii/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/fia_brchapter_20c02.pdf.
14. Laurence Steinberg, Why School Reform Has Failed and What Parents Need to Do,” (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), cited in Bogenschneider and Johnson, “Family Involvement in Education.”
15. Karen Bogenschneider and Carol Johnson, “Family Involvement in Education.”
16. “The Math on School Meals,” New York Times, September 5, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/dining/school-lunch-data.html.
17. For examples, see Dan Lips, “Teachers Unions Block School Choice,” Salt Lake City Tribune, November 13, 2007, https://www.heritage.org/education/report/teachers-unions-block-school-choice, Jason Bedrick, “Obama’s War on School Choice,” National Review, January 28, 2016, https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/01/barack-obama-school-choice-war/, and “Milwaukee May Create Zoning Rule to Block School Choice,” Education Action Group Foundation, July 18, 2012, http://eagnews.org/milwaukee-may-create-zoning-rule-to-block-school-choice/.
18. John Dewey, “Sense of Power Is Aim” speech given at Teachers College, Columbia University reprinted in New York Times, August 23, 1933, http://www.yorku.ca/rsheese2/3410/utopia.htm.
19. Chris Talgo and Lennie Jarratt, “Government Can’t Cure Our Education Problem, Only Parental Choice Can,” American Thinker, June 3, 2018, https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/06/government_cant_cure_our_education_problem_only_parental_choice_can.html.
20. Ibid.
21. George Will, “A California Election That Might Actually Matter,” Washington Post, August 1, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-california-election-that-might-actually-matter/2018/07/31/6a046e70-94e8-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html?utm_term=.ad5632db757b.
Chapter 9: Restoring Civility
1. David French, “Civility Isn’t Surrender,” National Review, March 9, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/civility-isnt-surrender/.
2. Louis Sarkozy, “No One Knows How to Agree to Disagree Anymore,” Washington Examiner, July 25, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/no-one-knows-how-to-agree-to-disagree-anymore.
3. Victor Davis Hanson, “The Origins of our Second Civil War,” National Review, July 31, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/origins-of-second-civil-war-globalism-tech-boom-immigration-campus-radicalism/.
4. Barack Obama, Remarks at the 100th Birthday of Nelson Mandela, July 18, 2018, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/barack-obama-speech-in-full-nelson-mandela-lecture-transcript-south-africa-a8452331.html.
5. Arthur Brooks, “Empathize with Your Political Foe,” New York Times, January 22, 2018, http://www.aei.org/publication/empathize-with-your-political-foe/.
6. Ibid.
7. Richard Reeves, “Trickle-Down Norms,” National Affairs, Winter 2018, 123-134, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/trickle-down-norms.
8. Gary Varvel, “Why America is So Uncivil and How to Fix It,” Indianapolis Star, June 25, 2018, https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/varvel/2018/06/25/varvel-why-america-so-uncivil-and-how-fix/730740002/.
9. Text of John Edwards’s Speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 28, 2004, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22230-2004Jul28.html.
10. “The Partisan Divide on Political Values Grows Even Wider,” http://www.people-press.org/2017/10/05/the-partisan-divide-on-political-values-grows-even-wider/.
11. Ibid.
12. Lara Brown, “State of American Democracy,” Hill, May 1, 2018, http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/385469-the-state-of-american-democracy-mean.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Glenn Harlan Reynolds, “Is America Headed Toward a Civil War?” USA Today, June 25, 2018, https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/06/25/sanders-nielsen-incidents-suggest-new-us-civil-war-underway-column/729141002/.
17. Jeremy W. Peters “If You Think the Political Divide is Worse Than Ever, You May Be Right,” Seattle Times, August 17, 2018, https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/if-you-think-the-political-divide-is-worse-than-ever-you-may-be-right/.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. “31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon,” Rasmussen Reports, June 27, 2018, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2018/31_think_u_s_civil_war_likely_soon.
21. Paul Bedard, “Poll: 39 Percent Back Secession, Strongest Among Democrats, Blacks,” Washington Examiner, August 12, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/poll-39-back-secession-strongest-among-democrats-blacks.
22. Reynolds, “Is America Headed Toward a Civil War.”
23. Janet Hook, “Political Divisions in U.S. are Widening, Long-Lasting, Poll Shows,” Wall Street Journal, September 6, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/political-divisions-in-u-s-are-widening-long-lasting-poll-shows-1504670461.
24. Ibid.
25. Hanson, “The Origins of our Second Civil War.”
26. “Read Hillary Clinton’s ‘Basket of Deplorables’ Remarks About Donald Trump Supporters,” Time, September 10, 2016, http://time.com/4486502/hillary-clinton-basket-of-deplorables-transcript/.
27. Sarkozy, “No One Knows How to Agree to Disagree Anymore.”
28. See Number 1593, Benjamin Franklin, http://www.bartleby.com/73/1593.html.
29. “The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner,” https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm.
30. Kate Nocera and Lissandra Villa, “The 9 Minutes that Almost Changed America,” BuzzFeed, May 14, 2018, https://www.buzzfeed.com/katenocera/baseball-shooting?utm_term=.sy5EWmvxwM#.nrRbwjAOWZ.
31. Examples include Joe Berkowitz, “It’s Your Civic Duty to Ruin Thanksgiving by Bringing Up Trump,” GQ, November 21, 2017, https://www.gq.com/story/the-case-for-ruining-thanksgiving, Peter Van Buren, “How to Talk with Trump-Hating Millennials This Thanksgiving,” American Conservative, November 22, 2017, http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-to-talk-to-trump-hating-millennials-this-thankgiving/, Derrick Lemos, “This Thanksgiving, Stand Up to Your Relatives Who Helped Elect Trump,” Establishment, November 10, 2016, https://theestablishment.co/your-friends-and-relatives-did-this-now-what-can-you-do-695ff8ddc260.
32. Berkowitz.
33. French, “Civility isn’t Surrender,” National Review.
34. Chuck Colson, “Embracing Courtesy,” BreakPoint, January 10, 2011, http://www.breakpoint.org/2017/07/breakpoint-embracing-courtesy-2/.
35. Brit Hume, “Maxine Waters Needs to Keep a Civil Tongue and So Do We All.”
36. Hanson, “The Origins of our Second Civil War.”
37. Varvel, “Why America is So Uncivil and How to Fix It.”
38. Sarkozy, “No One Knows How to Agree to Disagree Anymore.”
39. Thomas O’Neill, “Frenemies: A Love Story,” New York Times, October 5, 2012, http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/frenemies-a-love-story/.
40. Neal Urwitz and Harry J. Kazianis, “Political Hatred Has Gone Wild – Americans Need to Work Together,” Fox News, August 8, 2018, http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/08/08/political-hatred-has-gone-wild-americans-need-to-work-together.html.
41. Brooks, “Empathize with Your Political Foe.”
Chapter 10: Restoring Citizenship and Duty
1. Russell Kirk, “The Marriage of Rights and Duties,” Intercollegiate Review, Spring 1992, http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2012/02/russell-kirk-marriage-of-rights-and-duties.html.
2. Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953, https://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/research/online_documents/inauguration_1953/1953_01_20_Inaugural_Address.pdf.
3. Daniel Webster, “Speech on the 200th Anniversary of the Landing at Plymouth Rock,” December 22, 1820, https://www.dartmouth.edu/~dwebster/speeches/plymouth-oration.html.
4. Russell Kirk, ed. “Orestes Brownson: Selected Political Essays,” (New Brunswick, N.J.:Transaction Publishers, 1990), 2.
5. Tom Ziglar, “Gratitude Creates Integrity,” https://www.ziglar.com/articles/gratitude-creates-integrity/.
6. US Debt Clock (website), http://www.usdebtclock.org/.
7. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956, (1973).
8. Jennifer Breheny Wallace, “How to Raise More Grateful Children,” Wall Street Journal, February 23, 2018.
9. Poll cited in ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Brit Hume, “Zogby Poll: Most Americans Can Name Three Stooges But Not Three Branches of Government,” Fox News, August 15, 2006, http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/08/15/zogby-poll-most-americans-can-name-three-stooges-but-not-three-branches-govt.html.
14. “State of the First Amendment,” https://www.freedomforuminstitute.org/first-amendment-center/state-of-the-first-amendment/.
15. Stephen Macedo, “Crafting Good Citizens,” Education Next, Sprint 2004, http://educationnext.org/files/ednext20042_10.pdf.
16. Adam Taylor, “American Voter Turnout is Still Lower than Most Other Wealthy Nations,” Washington Post, November 10, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/11/10/even-in-a-historic-election-americans-dont-vote-as-much-as-those-from-other-nations/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5eb7663050c3.
17. “Three Methods Of Reform” in Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian (1900) as translated by Aylmer Maude, 29.
18. Justice Clarence Thomas, “Freedom and Obligation,” Commencement Address at Hillsdale College, May 14, 2016, https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/freedom-obligation-2016-commencement-address/.
19. Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union address, December 3, 1861, http://presidentialrhetoric.com/historicspeeches/lincoln/stateoftheunion1861.html.
20. Wallace, “How to Raise More Grateful Children.”
21. Ronald Reagan, “Farewell Address to the Nation,” January 11, 1989, https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/01189i.
22. Ibid.
Chapter 11: Restoring Community
1. Dan Edmunds, “Distress and the Breakdown of Community,” Psychology Today, March 4, 2013, https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/extreme-states-mind/201304/distress-and-the-breakdown-community?quicktabs_5=1.
2. It’s a Wonderful Life, 1946, Liberty Films.
3. Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
4. Ben Shapiro, “On the Super Bowl and the Social Fabric,” CNSNews.com, February 8, 2018, https://cnsnews.com/print/20641777.
5. Cheryl Stutzman, “Don’t Be a Stranger,” Washington Times, August 19, 2014, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/19/stutzman-don’t-be-stranger.
6. Meaghan McDonough, “We Don’t Know Our Neighbors Anymore. Here’s What That Costs Us,” Boston Globe Magazine, October 10, 2017, https://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2017/10/10/don-know-our-neighbors-anymore-here-what-that-costs/m9sTUVbmi3XFfxRN96Ft9M/story.html.
7. Tyler Schmall, “Millennials Don’t Know Their Neighbors at All,” New York Post, July 10, 2018, https://nypost.com/2018/07/10/millennials-are-horrible-neighbors/.
8. Peter Lovenheim, “How Well Do You Know Your Neighbors?” Washington Post, May 10, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-well-do-you-know-your-neighbors/2013/05/10/1d1488da-b824-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html?utm_term=.59f19fcbbc9b.
9. "Learner’s Dictionary," Merriam-Webster (website), http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/tribalism.
10. Cited by David Brooke, “The Retreat to Tribalism,” New York Times, January 1, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/01/opinion/the-retreat-to-tribalism.html.
11. Andrew Sullivan, “America Wasn’t Built for Humans,” New York Magazine, September 19, 2017, http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/09/can-democracy-survive-tribalism.html (Retrieved July 16, 2018).
12. “The Great Decline: 60 Years of Religion in One Graph,” Religion News Service, January 27, 2014, https://religionnews.com/2014/01/27/great-decline-religion-united-states-one-graph/.
13. Leeta-Rose Ballester, “Service Clubs Have Suffered Declining Membership in the Past 30 Years,” San Jose Mercury-News, August 27, 2014, https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/08/27/service-clubs-have-suffered-declining-membership-in-the-past-30-years/ and Active Participation in Voluntary Organizations Declining Faster Than Checkbooks Can Keep Up,” UT News, August 23, 2011, https://news.utexas.edu/2011/08/23/sociology_paxton_associations.
14. Salena Zito, “America’s Dearth of Civil Society,” Washington Examiner, June 26, 2018, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/salena-zito-americas-dearth-of-civil-society.
15. Emma Green, “The Quiet Religious Freedom Fight That is Remaking America,” Atlantic, November 2017, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/rluipa/543504/.
16. David Davenport and Hanna Skandera, “Civic Associations,” https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/uploads/documents/0817939628_59.pdf.
17. Inaugural address of President John F. Kennedy, Washington, D.C., January 20, 1961, https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Inaugural-Address.aspx.
18. Ibid.
19. Fred Bauer, “How to Renew Our Civic Culture,” National Review, October 20, 2017, https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/10/renewing-civic-culture-politics-less-tribalism-moralism-more-community-ethics/.
Chapter 12: Restoring the Balance between Politics and Culture
1. “The Great Seduction of Modern Politics,” http://www.estatevaults.com/bol/archives/2009/09/22/the_great_seduc.html.
2. Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948) 33-34.
3. See U.S. Debt Clock, http://www.usdebtclock.org/.
4. C. Northcote Parkinson, The Law of Longer Life, (Troy, AL: Troy State University Press, 1978).
5. Robert Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah, (New York: Regan Books, 1996).
6. Jesse Norman, “Edmund Burke – The great conservative who foresaw the discontents of our era,” Telegraph, May 9, 2013 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10046562/Edmund-Burke-the-great-conservative-who-foresaw-the-discontents-of-our-era.html.
7. John Stonestreet, “Let’s Talk About Christians and Politics,” BreakPoint, February 26, 2018 http://www.breakpoint.org/2018/02/breakpoint-lets-talk-about-christians-and-politics/.
8. David Dayen, “The ‘Deplorables’ Got the Last Laugh,” New Republic, November 9, 2016 https://newrepublic.com/article/138615/deplorables-got-last-laugh.
9. “Blaine Amendments,” http://ij.org/issues/school-choice/blaine-amendments/.
10. “Timothy Leary,” https://www.biography.com/people/timothy-leary-37330.
11. Adam Gopnick, “Hugh Hefner, Playboy, and the American Male,” New Yorker, September 29, 2017 https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/hugh-hefner-playboy-and-the-american-male.
12. Roger Kimball, “What the Sixties Brought,” January 23, 2008 https://www.weltwoche.ch/ausgaben/2008-4/artikel/artikel-2008-04-what-the-sixties-brought.html.
13. David Masci and Michael Lipka, “Where Christian Churches, Other Religions Stand on Gay Marriage,” Pew Research Center, December 21, 2015 http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/12/21/where-christian-churches-stand-on-gay-marriage/.
14. W. Bradford Wilcox, “The Evolution of Divorce,” National Affairs, Fall 2009 https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce.
15. Jason Willick, “The Man Who Discovered ‘Culture Wars,’ ” Wall Street Journal, May 25, 2018 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-discovered-culture-wars-1527286035.
16. Ronald Reagan, “National Affairs Campaign Address On Religious Liberty,” August 22, 1980, http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganreligiousliberty.htm.
17. Alex Roraty, “Abortion Debate is Over in the Democratic Party,” McClatchy Newspapers, March 13, 2018 https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article204751989.html.
18. “Interview by Dr. Albert Mohler with Rod Dreher,” February 13, 2017, op.cit.
19. Jonah Goldberg, “Politics Can’t Fill the Holes in Our Souls,” National Review, June 27, 2018 https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/when-partisan-identity-like-religion-bad-for-america/.
20. Ibid.
Chapter 13: Restoring the Constitution
1. Matthew Spalding, We Still Hold These Truths, (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2009), 99.
2. Charles Evans Hughes, Speech before the Chamber of Commerce, Elmira, New York, May 3, 1907, published in Addresses and Papers of Charles Evans Hughes, Governor of New York, 1906–1908 (1908), 139.
3. James Madison, “The Particular Structure of the New Government and the Distribution of Power Among Its Different Parts,” The Federalist No. 47, February 1, 1788, https://www.congress.gov/resources/display/content/The+Federalist+Papers#TheFederalistPapers-47.
4. Clarence Thomas, “Be Not Afraid,” Speech at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., February 13, 2001, http://www.aei.org/publication/be-not-afraid/.
5. Jack M. Balkin and Reva B. Siegel, The Constitution in 2020, (London: Oxford University Press, 2009).
6. Woodrow Wilson, “The New Freedom,” Chapters 1 and 2, 1913, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-new-freedom/.
7. Ronald J. Pestritto, “Woodrow Wilson: Godfather of Liberalism,” the Heritage Foundation, First Principles, No. 1, July 31, 2012, http://thf_media.s3.amazonaws.com/2012/pdf/PB01.pdf.
8. Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).
9. Planned Parenthood v. Casey 505 U.S. 833 (1992), https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/505/833/case.pdf.
10. Speech by Attorney General Edwin Meese, III before The Federalist Society Lawyers Division on November 15, 1985, https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/the-great-debate-attorney-general-ed-meese-iii-november-15-1985.
11. Antonin Scalia, “Constitution Interpretation,” Wilson Center, March 13, 2005, https://www.c-span.org/video/?185883-1/constitutional-interpretation.
12. “From John Adams to Massachusetts Militia, 11 October 1798,” Founders Online, National Archives, last modified November 26, 2017, http://founders.archive.gov/documents/Adams/99-02-3102.
13. Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 137 (1803).
14. Roe v. Wade, https://www.history.com/topics/roe-v-wade.
15. Scalia, “Constitution Interpretation.”
16. Adam J. White, “Soulcraft as Statecraft,” Weekly Standard, October 9, 2017, https://www.weeklystandard.com/adam-j-white/soulcraft-as-statecraft.
17. Peggy Lamson, Roger Baldwin: Founder of the American Civil Liberties Union, (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1976), 51.
18. Victor Davis Hanson, “Ten Commandments of the Supreme Court,” National Review, July 17, 2018, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/supreme-court-whatever-advances-progressive-causes-is-sacrosanct/.
19. “Read the Statements of Supreme Court Justices on Antonin Scalia’s Death,” Washington Post, February 14, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/02/14/read-the-statements-of-supreme-court-justices-on-antonin-scalias-death/?utm_term=.59d6655a21f2.
20. Scalia, Speech to Archbishop Rummel High School, Metairie, Louisiana, January 2, 2016, https://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/01/listen_to_justice_antonin_scal.html.
Chapter 14: Restoring Patriotism and Sacrifice
1. Bradley Lecture: Walter Berns on Patriotism, September 16, 1996, http://www.citizenship-aei.org/1996/09/bradley-lecture-walter-berns-on-patriotism/#.W4bEbuhKiUk.
2. Irving Berlin, St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: Five Volumes, (Farmington Hills, MI: St. James Press, 2000). See http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/irving-berlin/.
3. Lydia Hutchinson, “Irving Berlin’s ‘God Bless America,’ ” May 11, 2014, http://performingsongwriter.com/god-bless-america/.
4. Michael E. Ruane, “Long entombed at National Cathedral, a forgotten hero of WWI is recalled,” Washington Post, October 13, 2016, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/long-entombed-at-national-cathedral-a-forgotten-hero-of-wwi-is-recalled/2016/10/12/c8bd2fc4-8fd6-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html?utm_term=.4c72df697149.
5. Ibid.
6. “From Peace to Patriotism: The Shifting Identity of ‘God Bless America,’ Interview of Sheryl Kaskowitz by Robert Siegel, National Public Radio, September 2, 2013, https://www.npr.org/2013/09/02/216877219/from-peace-to-patriotism-the-shifting-identity-of-god-bless-america.
7. Peggy Noonan, “The Spirit of America is Alive in Texas,” Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-american-spirit-is-alive-in-texas-1504221483.
Chapter 15: Restoring America
1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, “Radio Address Before the Eighth Pan American Scientific Congress. Washington, D.C., May 10, 1940,” http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15948.
2. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks in New Orleans, Louisiana, at the Annual Meeting of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, September 28, 1981,” http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=44300.
3. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “A World Split Apart,” Harvard University, June 8, 1978, https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm.
4. T. S. Eliot, Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society, op.cit. 76.
5. Roger Scruton, Liberty and Civilization: The Western Heritage, (New York: Encounter Books, 2010), vii.
6. Ibid.
7. Russell Kirk, “Is Life Worth Living?” found in The Sword of Imagination: Memoirs of a Half-Century of Literary Conflict, (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1995), 471-76.
8. Cited by Lee Edwards in “Our Cultural Crisis: A Kirkian Response,” speech delivered at the Heritage Foundation, March 14, 2018, https://www.heritage.org/conservatism/commentary/our-cultural-crisis-kirkian-response.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Pope John Paul II, Dilecti Amici, (To the Youth of the World), Apostolic Letter dated March 31, 1985, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/document/dilecti-amici-to-the-youth-of-the-world-686.
13. David Brooks, “The American Renaissance Is Already Happening,” New York Times, May 14, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/opinion/the-american-renaissance-is-already-happening.html.
14. Ibid.
15. Brooks, “Where American Renewal Begins,” New York Times, July 26, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/opinion/thread-baltimore-american-renewal-community-program.html.
16. John 18:36.
17. Matthew 5:14.
18. Mark 16:15.
19. Romans 12:2.
20. Gertrude Himmelfarb, “For the Love of Country,” Commentary Magazine, May 1, 1997, https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/for-the-love-of-country-2/.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Mark, “Domestic Challenges to Religious Liberty—From the Left and Right.”
24. Ibid.
25. See https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/buzzfeedpolitics/government-is-the-only-thing-we-all-belong-to.
26. Romans 13:1.
27. Eberstadt, “Two Nations—Revisited.”
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Burke, Reflections on the French Revolution, para. 75.
33. Himmelfarb, “For the Love of Country.”