Notes

Introduction: Nietzsche’s Puritan Warriors

  1. 1. Benjamin Fearnow, “Maxine Waters: ‘No Peace, No Sleep’ for Trump Cabinet Members, Applauds Public Shaming,” Newsweek, June 24, 2018, https://www.newsweek.com/maxine-waters-trump-harass-kirstjen-nielsen-stephen-miller-sarah-huckabee-993173.
  2. 2. Alexis Grenell, “White Women, Come Get Your People,” New York Times, October 6, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/06/opinion/lisa-murkowski-susan-collins-kavanaugh.html.
  3. 3. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 28.
  4. 4. Rüdiger Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, trans. Shelley Frisch (New York: Norton, 2003), 351.
  5. 5. Ibid., 352.
  6. 6. Ibid., 353.
  7. 7. Ronald Hayman, Nietzsche: A Critical Life (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 64.
  8. 8. Ibid., 66.
  9. 9. Walter Kaufmann, ed., The Portable Nietzsche, (New York: Penguin, 1976), 103–4.
  10. 10. Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, 356.
  11. 11. Ibid., 367.
  12. 12. Ibid., 315.
  13. 13. Ibid., 20.

Chapter 1: My Truth, Your Truth, God and Values

  1. 1. I realize some readers will accuse me of ignoring the distinction between sex and gender and that my argument fails if sex and gender are separable. Quite true, but this is precisely what I am denying. One does not choose one’s sex. And sex and gender are, ultimately, inseparable.
  2. 2. A brief one can be found in Paul C. Vitz, Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2013, originally published in 1999).

Chapter 2: Protest Trumps Debate

  1. 1. Scott Jaschik, “Shouting Down a Lecture,” Inside Higher Ed, March 3, 2017, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/03/03/middlebury-students-shout-down-lecture-charles-murray.
  2. 2. “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_Ideological_Echo_Chamber.
  3. 3. Rasmussen Reports, “31% Think U.S. Civil War Likely Soon,” June 27, 2018, http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/june_2018/31_think_u_s_civil_war_likely_soon.
  4. 4. The American “Revolution” is misnamed, for while the colonists threw out the British and established their own government, they had no intention of remaking their society according to some perfectionist vision. As Russell Kirk insists, it was a revolution not made but prevented. Americans at the time tended to be deeply skeptical of utopian aspirations. They were sober enough—Augustinian enough, even if the Christian commitments of some were wavering—not to be taken in by promises of social perfection.

Chapter 3: Democracy as Decadence

  1. 1. It is important to note that though democracy was born in ancient Greece, modern democracy emerged much later. In Greek democracy, citizenship was restricted to a relatively small class of men, whereas modern democracy is characterized by an expanding view of citizenship in keeping with the notion of universal dignity, rights, and equality.

Chapter 5: Memory, Monuments, and Manipulation

  1. 1. “ALA, ALSC Respond to Wilder Medal Name Change,” American Library Association, June 25, 2018, http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2018/06/ala-alsc-respond-wilder-medal-name-change.
  2. 2. Rozina Sabur, “Harper Lee and Mark Twain Banned by Minnesota Schools Over Racial Slurs,” Telegraph, February 12, 2018, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/12/harper-lee-mark-twain-banned-minnesota-schools/.
  3. 3. Zachery Eanes, “Durham Confederate Statue: Tribute to Dying Veterans or Political Tool of Jim Crow South?” News & Observer, August 16, 2017, https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/counties/durham-county/article167672037.html.
  4. 4. Emily Ferguson, “Pepperdine Will Remove Christopher Columbus Statue,” Washington Free Beacon, February 2, 2017, http://freebeacon.com/culture/pepperdine-will-remove-christopher-columbus-statue/.

Chapter 6: OMG! The Weaponization of Language

  1. 1. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals (New York: Vintage Books, 1989), 3.
  2. 2. Ibid., 10.
  3. 3. Ibid., 4.
  4. 4. Ibid., 36.

Chapter 7: Life, Death, Sex, Babies, and Gender

  1. 1. Peter Singer, “Heavy Petting,” Utilitarian.net, 2001, https://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/2001----.htm.

Chapter 8: Creating the Overman: Technology and the Promise of Unlimited Power

  1. 1. Richard Freed, “The Tech Industry’s War on Kids,” Medium, March 12, 2018, https://medium.com/@richardnfreed/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce.
  2. 2. See Transcendent Man, https://transcendentman.com/.
  3. 3. “Sprint I Am Unlimited Ad,” YouTube, January 31, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCUO3-yq3eg.

Conclusion: In Search of a Saving Myth

  1. 1. Ronald Hayman, Nietzsche: A Critical Life (New York: Penguin Books, 1982), 336.
  2. 2. Walter Kaufmann, ed., The Portable Nietzsche, (New York: Penguin, 1976), 685.
  3. 3. Hayman, 350.