Aaron, Hank, 202, 290 (note 23)
“Access” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Adams, John, 64
Adversaries, 2–4, 5, 26, 84, 242, 250
Africa, 68
African Americans (see Race and racism)
Afrikaners, 36
AIDS, 91, 98, 143, 164–167, 197, 209, 216, 217, 243, 249, 253
Alameda County (Calif.), 161
Alan Guttmacher Institute, 16, 18–19
Alaska, 21
Alcohol, 86
Allegheny County (Pa.), 178
All-or-nothing reasoning, 90–94, 219
American Association of Blood Banks, 165
American Biology Teacher, 19
American Civil Liberties Union, 150, 166, 179
American School Board Journal, 17
Americans for Democratic Action, 6
Americorp, 185
Anointed, 59, 113–115, 128, 129, 135, 152–153, 154, 161–162, 197, 211, 242, 247, 250, 260, 276 (note 55)
condescension, 2–3, 76, 84–85, 87
ego and vision, 5, 204, 241, 242–243, 250
moral preening, 152, 163, 248, 253
self-congratulation, 2–3, 90, 94, 110, 152–153, 162
“Anti-war” (see Vocabulary of the anointed; War and peace)
Apple Computers, 66
Arendt, Hannah, 244
Argentina and Argentines, 36
Arguments without arguments, 1–2, 5–6, 71, 87–103, 206–207, 234
Armenians, 35
Ashkenazic Jews, 38
Asia, 91
“Ask” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Assam and Assamese, 36
Associated Press, 46
Astronomy, 89
Atlantic Ocean, 218
Bach, 138
Balkans, the, 68
Banco de Buenos Aires, 36
Banfield, Edward, 6
Bazelon, David L., 21–22, 23, 24, 27, 106, 155–156, 158–159, 191, 198, 214, 222–223
Beethoven, 138
Benighted, the, 119–124, 135, 154, 155, 163, 187–189, 200–201, 202, 220, 247
opponents of the anointed, 2–5, 26, 30, 84–85
public, the, 22, 23, 24, 30, 76, 85, 116, 119–124, 248
Blackmun, Harry, 90, 149, 178, 179
Blacks (see Race and racism)
Bok, Derek, 199
Bombay, 36
Bork, Robert H., 227, 228, 229
Bosnia, 243
Boston, 132
Boston Globe, 46
Brazil, 36
Brennan, William J., 22, 26, 110, 163, 206, 214, 229, 230, 232
Britain and the British, 4, 34, 36
Brown, Lester, 75
Brown, Murphy, 58
Burden of proof, 8, 25, 77, 93, 98, 110, 156, 222
Burke, Edmund, 3, 95, 112, 118–119, 205
Bush, George, 185
Business, 65–66, 168–172, 187–189, 203, 206
California, 24, 53, 154, 161, 168, 224, 257
California Supreme Court, 159–161
Capitalism, 207
“Casual contact” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Categorical decisions (see Decisions)
Caucasus, the, 147
Causation, 104, 105, 124–142, 245
intentional, 105, 124–142, 242
systemic, 48, 75, 78, 105, 112, 116, 123, 124–142, 187–189, 195, 197, 200, 220, 242, 256
CBS Evening News, 46
“Censorship” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Centers for Disease Control, 36, 63
Chamberlain, Neville, 108
“Change” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Chattanooga, 122
Chevron, 169
Chicago Tribune, 173
Child abuse (see Families)
Children’s Defense Fund, 33, 55, 175, 267–268 (note 7)
Chile, 37
China, 108
Chinese Americans, 32
Chomsky, Noam, 223
Christianity, 179
Christian Science Monitor, 173
Chrysler Corporation, 66
Churchill, Winston, 109
Church of England, 178
Circuit Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, 21, 24, 155, 222
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 218, 232, 233, 234
Clark, Kenneth B., 217
Clark, Ramsey, 21, 22–23, 27, 97, 107–108, 192
Clifford, Clark, 84
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 63, 121
Coke, Sir Edward, 219
Condorcet, Antoine-Nicolas, Marquis de, 3, 108, 119, 122, 153
Congressional Budget Office, 45
Congressional Quarterly, 10
Connecticut, 20
“Conservatives” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Constitution of England, 229
Constitution of the United States, 94, 100, 116, 160, 178, 179, 181, 182, 220, 221, 226, 227, 228, 229–231, 232, 233, 235–237, 238, 239–240, 253
First Amendment, 150, 178, 180, 182
Fifth Amendment, 222, 223, 236
Fourteenth Amendment, 233–234, 237, 238
Constraints, 135, 137, 141, 144, 256
Consumers Union, 73
Copernican system, 89
Correlation versus causation (see Statistics)
Corry, John, 143
Cosmic viewpoint (see Justice)
Council of Community Blood Centers, 165
Council of Economic Advisers, 12
Crime, 21–30, 85, 86, 106–107, 153–162, 192, 198, 209
rehabilitation, 22, 23, 109, 153, 245
“root causes,” 27, 30, 158–159, 250, 255
trends, 21
“Crisis” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Cubans, 200
“Cutbacks in social programs” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Danziger, Sheldon, 15
Death penalty (see Law)
Decisions
choice of decision-maker, 135–136
collective, 78, 136, 175, 190, 212, 213
incremental versus categorical, 105, 137–138, 139–140, 209–211
processes, 105, 129–130, 137, 191, 206, 221, 224, 253–256
surrogate decision-makers, 20, 33, 70–71, 72, 74–75, 78, 115–116, 172, 187, 189, 200, 211, 212, 254–255
Declaration of Independence, 116, 247
de Jouvenel, Bertrand, 219, 220
Democratic Party and Democrats, 83, 84
Department of Agriculture, 46
Department of Health and Human Services, 164
Department of Transportation, 73
Dependency (see Poverty and dependency)
Design (see Order and design)
Diminishing returns, 102, 210, 223–224, 225
Dingell, John, 75
Discrimination, 34–35, 37, 41–42, 131, 132, 162–163, 209, 216, 233, 234, 244
“Dismiss” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Disparities between groups (see Statistics)
Dispositions (see Incentives and dispositions)
“Distribution” of income (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
“Diversity” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Douglas, William O., 22, 149, 206, 236
Durant, Ariel, 112
Durant, Will, 112
Durham v. United States, 24, 155–156, 214
Dworkin, Ronald, 93, 115, 206, 209, 211, 228, 230
Eastern Europe, 256
Economics (see also Income and wealth), 87, 88, 136, 139, 206, 215
markets, 75, 77, 78, 120, 125, 126, 129, 142, 187–189, 200, 245, 255
minimum wage laws, 126–128, 257
systemic interactions, 75
tax rates versus tax receipts, 82–83
Edelman, Marian Wright, 33, 55
Education, 38–40, 106, 113, 206
Egyptians, 225
Ehrenreich, Barbara, 59, 243–244
Ehrlich, Paul, 64, 67–70, 77, 121
Emerson, 97
“Emotional issue” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Engineering analogies, 111
England (see Britain)
Environmentalism, 123
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), 169
“Epidemic” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Episcopalians, 20
Escobido v. Illinois, 24
Esperanto, 125
Estonia, 35
Europe and Europeans, 1, 68, 91, 144, 145, 146, 200, 218, 235
Evidence, 2, 7, 8, 12, 14, 15, 21, 24, 25, 26–27, 30, 31, 34, 35, 39, 40, 64–103, 120, 131, 132, 202, 241, 242–243, 249, 254
“Evolving standards” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Exactness, 94
“Exclude” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
“Experts,” 20, 22, 24, 25, 175
Extrapolations, 67–68, 77, 102
Fallacy of composition, 98
Families, 49, 50, 51, 58–63, 79–81, 172–177, 191, 193–194
autonomy, 20, 62, 122–123, 172, 174–175, 177, 186–187
family ties, 131, 174, 193–194
marriage and divorce, 57, 58–62, 80, 81
wife-beating, 47, 172–173, 258
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 41, 42, 132
Fiji and Fijians, 36
Filipino American, 32
Fleming, Macklin, 225
Flemings, 68
Food, 138
Food and Drug Administration, 141, 144, 171
Forbes magazine, 42
France, Anatole, 221
Friedman, Milton, 4, 6, 95, 208
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 64, 65–66, 67
Gates, Bill, 66
Genetic inferiority, 37
Georgia, 258
Gideon v. Wainwright, 24
“Glass ceiling” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Godwin, William, 3, 107, 108, 111, 122, 153
Goldwater, Barry, 11
Graflex Corporation, 66
“Greed” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Greeks, 35
Greenfield, Meg, 84
Greenhouse, Linda, 149
Greenland, 145
Haiti, 243
Hamilton, Alexander, 117
Hanoi, 120
Harlan, John Marshall, 26
Harvard Corporation, 96
Harvard School of Public Health, 33
Harvard University, 96, 199, 229
Hasidim, 180
Hawaii, 21
Hawking, Stephen, 87
Hayek, Friedrich, 3–4, 6, 125, 128, 129, 192, 208
Hazlitt, Henry, 12
Heckler, Margaret, 165
Helvetius, 122
Herbert, Bob, 185
Higher Education Act, 14
Hiroshima, 90
Hispanics (see Race and racism)
History, 79–87, 225, 227, 229, 238, 239, 245, 251–253
Hitler, Adolf, 1, 96, 101, 108, 220
Holder v. Hall, 240
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 112, 118, 128–129, 205, 227–228, 229
Holocaust, 96
Homeless, the (see Vagrants)
“Homophobia” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Homosexuals, 20, 164, 172–173, 216–217
Honda, 66
Hopelessness (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
House Ways and Means Committee, 83
Human nature, 104, 105–106, 111–112, 113, 119, 128, 190, 245
Ibo, 36
Incentives and dispositions, 23, 105, 107–108, 128–135, 139–140, 153, 166–167, 254
Income and wealth, 39, 40, 41, 44–45, 48–54, 58, 64, 82, 83, 106, 139, 211–213, 250, 272 (note 75)
Incremental decisions (see Decisions)
India, 36
Indo-China, 258
Insanity defense (see Law)
Intellectuals, viii, ix, 91, 125, 129, 203, 244
Intentions, 14, 18, 154, 243–244
“Interdisciplinary” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
International Harvester, 168–169
“Investment” in social programs (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Irish Americans, 81
Israel, 38
Italians, 36
Ivy League colleges, 186
James (King), 219
Japan and Japanese, 66, 68, 108, 133–134, 200
Japanese Americans, 32
Jay, John, 109
Jencks, Christopher, 83
Jobs, Steve, 66
Johnson, Haynes, 59
Johnson, Lyndon B., 9, 10, 11, 15, 22, 25, 109, 194, 204
Johnson, Mrs. Lyndon B., 15
Journal of School Health, 20
Journal of Social Issues, 62–63
Journal of the American Medical Association, 175
Judaism, 179
Judicial activism (see Law)
Judicial restraint (see Law)
cosmic, 158, 191–197, 204, 221–226, 232, 237, 238
Justice Department, 186
Kamisar, Yale, 266–267 (note 102)
Kampuchea, 258
Kennedy, Edward M., 77
Keynes, John Maynard, 204
Kilpatarick, James J., 180
King, Rodney, 223
Knowledge, 69–70, 104, 109–124, 129, 158, 171, 204, 254–255
Koerner Commission, 11
Kozol, Jonathan, 217
Kreimer, Richard F., 150–152, 153
Kristol, Irving, 6
Las Vegas, 43
Latinos, 34
Law (see also Crime; Justice) ix, 130, 138–139, 149, 155, 167, 170, 176–182, 195, 206, 219–239
constitutional, 150, 178–182, 221, 222, 223, 227, 228, 229–230, 231, 233–234, 235, 236, 237–240
death penalty, 90, 94, 158–161, 235, 237
insanity defense, 155–157, 160
judicial activism, 106, 130, 158–161, 226–240
judicial restraint, 226, 227–229, 235–236, 237, 238, 239, 240
tort liability, 168–172, 231, 244
“Left,” the (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Lekachman, Robert, 78
Lester, Richard A, 127
Life magazine, 66
Lincoln, Abraham, 75
“Living constitution” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Louis Harris poll, 47
McCormick, Marie, 33
McDonald’s, 171
Macedo, Stephen, 229
Madison, James, 229
Maharashtra and Maharashtrians, 36
Male-female differences, 35, 38–40, 187–188
Mantle, Mickey, 202
Mapp v. Ohio, 24
Marin County (Calif.), 162
Maris, Roger, 202, 290 (note 23)
Markets (see Economics)
Marriage (see Families)
Mars, 89
Marshall, Thurgood, 239
Mascots of the anointed, 101, 143, 149–167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 209, 243, 247
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 186
Matthews, Eddie, 202
Media, viii, 6, 17, 34, 38, 46, 47, 54, 58, 73, 82, 123, 148, 152, 161, 243, 256–259
Meese, Edwin, 229
Melbourne, 37
Menninger, Karl, 28, 110–111, 120
Mercator Projection, 145, 146, 147
Metzenbaum, Howard, 75
Mexican Americans, 32
“Microcosm” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Microsoft Corporation, 66
Military force (see War and peace)
Mill, John Stuart, 69, 77, 113–115
Minimum wage laws (see Economics)
Miranda v. Arizona, 24, 25, 28, 193, 221, 222
Moors, 225
Morristown, 150
Mortgage lending, 33–34, 40–42, 188
Mother Teresa, 101
Munnell, Alicia, 42
Muskie, Edmund, 25
Mussolini, Benito, 108
Myrdal, Gunnar, 78
Nagasaki, 90
National Center for Health Statistics, 32
National Child Rights Alliance, 175
National Council of Churches, 146
National Education Association, 16
NEA Journal, 16
New England Journal of Medicine, 33
New Jersey, 150
New Republic magazine, 23
Newsweek magazine, 46, 75, 166
New York City, 17, 26, 43, 257
New York Times, 10, 18, 23, 25, 26, 28, 32, 47, 50, 51, 76, 90, 98, 101, 108, 109, 120, 149, 161, 166, 167, 173, 185, 197, 218, 229, 233, 239
Nigeria, 36
Nile, 225
1960s, x, 21, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30, 35, 55, 85, 107, 155, 168, 170, 224, 248, 259
North America, 145
Northern Ireland, 38
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 234, 240
Office of Economic Opportunity, 12, 13, 15
Order and design, 125
Overseas Chinese, 200
“Ozzie and Harriet” (see Family)
Pakistanis, 34
Pan American Airways, 66
“Parameters” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Parents, 20
Patriotism, 121
“Peace movement” (see vocabulary of the anointed)
People for the American Way, 180
Persian Gulf War of 1991, 121, 137
Peters, Arno, 146
Physiocrats, the, 125
Pittsburgh, 178
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 234, 240
Podhoretz, Norman, 6
Popper, Karl, 6
Population Bomb, The (see Ehrlich, Paul)
Posner, Richard, 227
Poverty and dependency (see also Income and wealth), 9–10, 11, 12, 13, 15
Price control (see Economics)
Princeton University, 127
Processes and process costs, 105, 129–130, 137, 191, 206, 221, 224, 249, 253–256
“Progressive” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Protestants, 38
Psychiatry and psychology, 22, 24, 28, 120, 121, 134, 156–157, 171, 175, 177, 214, 243
PTA Magazine, 17
Ptolemaic system, 89
Public, the (see Benighted, the)
“Public service” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Quindlen, Anna, 47, 98, 120, 121, 197
Race and racism, 32, 33, 37, 50, 56–58, 60, 79–81, 132, 133, 209, 233
Rakove, Jack, 229
Rather, Dan, 46
Reagan, Ronald, 14, 45, 76, 82, 83, 84–85, 109, 185
Red Cross, 165
Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 162
Republican Party, 84
Respect, 101
Responsibility, 183, 189–190, 198–201, 203, 243, 246
Revel, Jean-François, 4, 113, 151, 241, 252
Ribicoff, Abraham, 73
“Rich” and “poor” (see Income and wealth)
Richards, Ann, 59
“Right,” the (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Rights (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Roman Empire, 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 236
R.O.T.C., 96
Rousseau, 122
Russell, Bertrand, 104
Ruth, Babe, 202
Safety, 71–75, 136, 137, 139–142, 144–145
St. Petersburg Academy of Science, 36
San Francisco, 11, 53, 139, 157, 161, 162, 165
San Jose, 154
San Jose State University, 154
Santa Cruz County (Calif.), 162
Santiago, 37
São Paulo, 36
Saturday Review, 23
Scalia, Antonin, 181, 238, 240
Scheuer, James H., 19
Schlesinger, James, 76
Scholastic Aptitude Test, 36, 201, 218
Schumpeter, Joseph A., 7
Science and pseudo-science, 21, 22, 31, 72, 78, 126, 148, 156–157, 214–215
Selectively applied standards, 115, 151, 163, 167, 176, 177, 223
Senate Judiciary Committee, 149
Sephardic Jews, 38
Seriatim versus simultaneous “solutions,” 113, 136, 137
Shaw, George Bernard, 122
Sherman Antitrust Act, 43
Shilts, Randy, 217
Shirer, William, 120
Shriver, Sargent, 18
Simon, Julian, 69
“Simplistic” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Smith, Adam, 106, 107, 112, 125, 128, 205
Smithsonian, 121
Social workers, 158, 176, 178, 214
“Society” (see Vocabulary of the anointed)
Solutions and trade-offs, 8, 71, 73, 107, 110, 111, 113, 135–142, 145, 146–147, 178, 213, 224–225, 242, 246, 247, 250–251, 256
Souter, David, 149, 181, 182, 234, 240, 284
Southeast Asia, 200
Spain, 225
Spanish Empire, 1
Specialization, 105, 106, 204–206
aggregation and disaggregation, 37–40
changing assortments, 43–54, 61
correlation versus causation, 54–56, 158
disparities between groups, 32–37, 56–58
survey research, 128
trends, 102
Steffen, Lincoln, 93
Stephen, James Fitzjames, 183, 197
Stevens, John Paul, 181–182, 235
Stigler, George J., v
Sub-Saharan African, 68
Supreme Court of the United States, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25–26, 30, 65, 90, 149, 155, 159, 162, 164, 178, 179, 181, 182, 193, 206, 219, 228, 233, 235–237, 239, 240, 284 (note 12)
Surrogate decision-makers (see Decisions)
Survey research (see Statistics)
Sweden, 81
Systemic interactions (see Causation)
Takahashi, Yoshio, 133
Targets of the anointed, 163, 167, 168–182
Tax rates versus tax receipts (see Economics)
Tchaikovsky, Peter I., 69
Tennessee, 179
Texas Education Agency, 146
Third party decision-making (see Decisions, surrogate decision-makers)
Third World, 139, 146, 201, 249
Thomas, Clarence, 240
Time magazine, 23
Times Literary Supplement, 23
Tort liability (see Law)
Toyota, 66
Trade-offs (see Solutions and trade-offs)
Tragic vision, the, 104–109, 111–113, 116–119, 125, 128–129, 130, 135, 153, 220, 244, 256
Treanor, John, 157
Trends (see Statistics)
United Nations, 146
United States, ix, 9, 21, 29, 32, 34, 36, 38, 46, 62, 65, 66, 70, 88, 109, 121, 141, 146, 167, 174–175, 200, 208, 211, 212, 218, 256, 259
United Steelworkers of America v. Brian F. Weber, 233
University of California at Berkeley, 60, 161
University of California at Santa Cruz, 162
University of Michigan, 44
University of Wisconsin, 15
U.S. News and World Report, 120, 165
Uzbekistan, 35
Venereal disease, 17, 18, 19, 56
Venus, 89
Vicksburg, 258
Vidal, Gore, 84
Vietnam War, 120
Virginia, 176
Violence (see also Vocabulary of the anointed), 11, 14, 23, 96, 97, 109, 172–174, 217
Visions, 244
Vocabulary of the anointed, 183–218
“anti–war,” 4
“blaming the victim,” 243
“capitalism,” 207
“casual contact,” 243
“censorship,” 123
“choice,” 223
“compassion,” 4
“conservative,” 208
“cutbacks in social programs,” 83–84
“dismiss,” 213
“distribution” of income and wealth, 211–213, 250
“diversity,” 95
“earlier and simpler times,” 118
“epidemic” of social problems, 249
“evolving standards,” 236, 253
ex ante words for ex post results, 43, 198, 199
“exclude,” 199
“fairness,” 77, 192, 193, 194–195, 211
“glass ceiling,” 198
“innovative,” 96
“investment” in social programs, 33
“living constitution,” 253
“making a difference,” 241
“microcosm,” 205
“parameters,” 215
“parenting skills,” 245
“participation,” 196
“peace movement,” 184
“privilege,” 200
“public service,” 184–185, 186
“root causes” of crime, 27, 30, 242, 250, 255
“science,” 72, 148, 156–157, 214–215
“simplistic,” 8, 19, 87, 88, 91, 234
“thinking people,” 6, 114, 190, 191, 260
“violence,” 217
Voting Rights Act, 240
War and peace, 107–109, 131, 258, 260
Warren, Earl, 21, 26, 29, 30, 110, 191, 230
Washington, D.C., 16, 55, 83, 84, 85, 212
Washington, George, 228
Washington Newspeak, 84
Washington Post, 32, 33–34, 59, 84, 155, 157, 173
Wealth (see Income and wealth)
Weaver, Paul, 259
Weber, Brian F., 233
Welfare (see Poverty and dependency; “War on Poverty”)
Western Hemisphere, 200
White, Byron R., 26
Whites, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 50, 57–58, 60, 81, 122, 132
Wicker, Tom, 23, 51, 76, 96–97, 101, 108, 120, 161, 218, 233, 239
Will (see Commitment)
Will, George F., 180
Williams, Ted, 202, 290 (note 23)
Wilson, Edmund, 122
Wilson, James Q., 28
World War I, 122
World War II, 1, 121, 128, 131, 256
W. T. Grant, 66
Young Men’s Christian Association, 86