Chapter 1: The Pillars of Conservatism
1. A version of this essay was previously published in Intercollegiate Review here: www.firstprinciplesjournal.com/journal/issue.aspx?id=bb15a739-3278-41f1-94d3-bbcd1b7d4860&journal=IR.
2. Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1988).
3. Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960). See also Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944); Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).
4. Felix Morley, Freedom and Federalism (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1959).
5. Russell Kirk, The Roots of American Order (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 2003).
6. George Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America (Wilmington, DE: ISI Books, 1996).
7. Raoul Berger, Government by Judiciary (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1997).
8. Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1953).
9. M. Stanton Evans, The Theme Is Freedom (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1994).
10. Will Herberg, “Conservatives, Liberals and the Natural Law,” National Review, June 5, 1962.
11. Patrick Allen, Catholic Intellectuals and Conservative Politics in America (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993).
12. Kirk, Roots of American Order.
13. Edith Hamilton, The Greek Way to Western Civilization (New York: Norton, 1942).
14. Gilbert Murray, The Literature of Ancient Greece (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1956).
15. R. H. Barrow, The Romans (London: Penguin Books, 1951). See also Raymond Bloch, The Origins of Rome (London: Thames and Hudson, 1960).
16. Kirk, The Conservative Mind.
17. Ibid.
18. Russell Kirk, The American Cause (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1957).
19. Catherine Drinker Bowen, Miracle in Philadelphia (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1986).
20. Alfred S. Regnery, Upstream: The Ascendance of American Conservatism (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007).
21. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1936), 383–84.
22. Angelo Codevilla, The Ruling Class (New York: Beaufort Books, 2011).
23. The Mount Vernon Statement can be found at www.themountvernonstatement.com/.
Chapter 10: The Cold War, Anti-Communism, and Neoconservatism
1. Edward I. Koch and Christy Heady, Buzz: How to Create It and Win with It (New York: AMACOM, 2007), pp. 2–3.
2. Irving Kristol, Neoconservatism: Selected Essays 1949–1995 (New York: The Free Press, 1995), p. x.
3. Irving Kristol, The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942–2009 (New York: Basic Books, 2011), p. 149.
4. Norman Podhoretz, “Kissinger Reconsidered,” Commentary, June 1982, p. 23.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid., p. 24.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. “Transcript of President’s Interview on Soviet Reply; Drastic Change in Opinion,” New York Times, January 1, 1980.
10. Ronald Reagan, Address to the British Parliament, June 8, 1982. Available at millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3408.
11. The Reagan administration conducted arms control negotiations with the Soviets, but it did so with limited expectations about the good they might yield and a sensitivity to the potential for harm. Reagan took pains, for example, to protect the U.S. missile defense program from being transformed into a “chip” that could be played away in a diplomatic game with the Soviets. In the United States and abroad, public opinion generally favored arms control negotiations, and President Reagan evidently did not consider it worthwhile to defy such opinion outright. But Reagan was committed to his strategic purpose of “winning” the Cold War, not the far more modest goal of arms control, which was trying to stabilize relations between the powers.
12. Kristol, Neoconservatism, p. 40.
13. David Brooks, “The Era of Distortion,” New York Times, January 6, 2004.
Chapter 13: How Social Conservatism Can Win
1. Edward J. Larson, Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America’s Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (New York: Basic Books, 1997), p. 233.
2. Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, Creating an Opportunity Society (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2009).
3. 2012 Post-Election Survey, Public Opinion Strategies, November 6, 2012.