Chapter 1: Identitarianism
1. K-Sue Park, “The A.C.L.U. Needs to Rethink Free Speech,” New York Times, August 17, 2017.
2. Laura Weinrib, “The ACLU’s free speech stance should be about social justice, not ‘timeless’ principles,” Los Angeles Times, August 30, 2017.
3. Joseph Goldstein, “After Charlottesville, A.C.L.U. Braces for the Next Alt-Right Case,” New York Times, October 4, 2017.
4. “White, Right, and Pretentious: How ‘Identitarian’ Politics is Changing Europe,” Economist, March 28, 2018.
5. Eugene Volokh, “You can be fined for not calling people ‘ze’ or ‘hir,’ if that’s the pronoun they demand that you use,” Washington Post, May 17, 2016.
6. Emily Rella, “Citigroup just changed the game with this unbelievable work perk for millennials,” AOL, March 16, 2016, https://www.aol.com/article/2016/03/16/citigroup-inc-just-changed-the-game-with-this-unbelievable-work/21328736/.
7. Susan Johnston Taylor, “Could ‘Social Justice Benefits’ Be the Newest Employment Trend?” Fast Company, April 20, 2017.
8. UCLA Diversity & Faculty Development, “Diversity in the Classroom,” 2014, adapted from Derald Wing Sue, Microaggressions in Everyday Life: Race, Gender and Sexual Orientation (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2010), https://academicaffairs.ucsc.edu/events/documents/Microaggressions_Examples_Arial_2014_11_12.pdf.
9. Jonathan Foreman, “The Timothy Hunt Witch Hunt,” Commentary, September 1, 2015.
10. Lisa Respers France, “Philae researcher criticized for shirt covered in scantily clad women,” CNN, November 14, 2014.
11. Matthew Reade, “Students Demand Administrators ‘Take Action’ Against Conservative Journalists,” Claremont Independent, April 17, 2017.
12. Morton Schapiro, “I’m Northwestern’s president. Here’s why safe spaces for students are important,” Washington Post, January 15, 2016.
13. Bre Payton, “University Of Michigan Protesters Demand a Separate But Equal Safe Space For Black Students,” The Federalist, November 16, 2016.
14. Frank Furedi, “Campuses are breaking apart into ‘safe spaces,’ ” Los Angeles Times, January 5, 2017.
15. Kimberlé Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color,” Stanford Law Review 43, No. 6. (July 1991), 1241–99.
16. Noah Rothman, “The ‘Intersectionality’ Trap,” Commentary, July 18, 2017.
17. Christina Cauterucci, “Embracing Farrakhan Betrays the Most Essential Principles of the Women’s March,” Slate, March 8, 2018, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/03/the-womens-marchs-embrace-of-louis-farrakhan-betrays-its-most-essential-principles.html.
18. Noah Rothman, “Otto Warmbier, Moral Perversion, and the Social Justice Left,” Commentary, June 19, 2017.
19. Eileen Reynolds, “What if Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Had Swapped Genders?” New York University News, February 28, 2017.
20. Rebecca Savransky, “Text ‘you have right to be believed’ edited out of Clinton website,” The Hill, August 15, 2016.
21. Steve Gorman, “Rolling Stone to pay Virginia fraternity $1.65 million in defamation suit,” Reuters, June 13, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-rollingstone-idUSKBN1942ZN.
22. William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book 4, Chapter 27 (1769).
23. Alex Griswold, “Dem Rep. on Campus Rape: Better to Expel More Students, Even if 80% Are Innocent,” Mediaite, September 10, 2015.
24. William Voegeli, “Liberals, Shipwrecked: Democrat Mark Lilla seeks an alternative to identity politics, but it’s a lonely quest,” City Journal, August 24, 2017.
25. Edmund Kozak, “Alt-Right vs. Conservative Inc.,” LifeZette, August 21, 2016, https://www.lifezette.com/2016/08/alt-right-vs-conservative-inc/.
26. Ramesh Ponnuru, “The Great Immigration Non-Debate,” Bloomberg, February 20, 2015.
27. Ben Domenech, “Are Republicans for Freedom or White Identity Politics?” The Federalist, August 21, 2015.
Chapter 2: A Nation or a People?
1. Thomas Patrick Burke, “The Origins of Social Justice: Taparelli d’Azeglio,” Modern Age, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Spring 2010), 99.
2. Gene Van Son, “Catholic Social Justice Is Not What the SJWs Are Pitching,” Catholic Stand, June 20, 2016.
3. Thomas Behr, “Luigi Taparelli and a Catholic Economics,” Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Fall 2011), 610, quoted in Van Son, supra.
4. Caitlin Fitz, Our Sister Republics: The United States in the Age of American Revolutions (New York: Norton, 2016), 32–33.
5. Ibid., 60.
6. Walter F. Willcox, ed., International Migrations, Volume II: Interpretations (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1931), 86–93.
7. Lorraine Boissoneault, “How the 19th-Century Know Nothing Party Reshaped American Politics,” Smithsonian, January 26, 2017.
8. Douglas R. Egerton, Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2013), 134–35.
9. Evening Post, New York, April 25, 1817.
10. Terry Golway, Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics (New York: Norton, 2014), 4.
11. Padraig McAuliffe, Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Reconstruction: A Contentious Relationship (New York: Routledge, 2013), 244.
12. Michael Perman, Reunion Without Compromise: The South and Reconstruction: 1865-1868 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973), 4–5.
13. Charles Sumner, “Clemency and Common Sense: A Curiosity of Literature; with a Moral, Atlantic Monthly 16, no. 98 (December 1865), 759.
14. Edwin Percy Whipple, “Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage, Atlantic Monthly 16, no. 94 (August 1865), 238.
15. Ibid., 241–42, 244.
16. C. C. Pearson, “The Readjuster Movement in Virginia,” American Historical Review 21, no. 4 (July 1916), 734–49.
17. Terry Martin, The Affirmative Action Empire: Nations and Nationalism in the Soviet Union, 1923–1939 (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2001), 17.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid., 334.
20. Hubert Poetschke, Memoirs from the Turbulent Years and Beyond: Analysis and Consequences of the World War II (Xlibris, 2008), 293–94.
21. Emily Badger, “How Redlining’s Racist Effects Lasted for Decades,” New York Times, August 24, 2017.
22. Ibid.
23. New York: A Documentary Film, Episode 6: “A City of Tomorrow,” directed by Ric Burns, Public Broadcasting Service, 1999.
24. Jeremy Bauer-Wolf, “ACLU Speaker Shouted Down at William & Mary,” Inside Higher Ed, October 5, 2017.
25. Bruce Bawer, The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 251.
26. Aimee Picchi, “Nobel winner Stiglitz: ‘American Dream is a myth,’ ” CBS News, April 23, 2015.
27. Carlos Lozada, “A Berkeley sociologist made some tea party friends—and wrote a condescending book about them,” Washington Post, September 1, 2016.
28. Jason D. Hill, “An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates,” Commentary, September, 2017.
29. Peter Edelman, “Poverty in America: Why Can’t We End It?” New York Times, July 28, 2012.
30. Aparna Mathur, “Families are the real issue for opportunity, not inequality,” Brookings Institution, May 26, 2015.
31. William J. Clinton, Remarks on the National Homeownership Strategy, June 5, 1995. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=51448.
Chapter 3: Truths and Transgressions
1. In re Tam, 808 F.3d 1321 (D.C. Cir. 2015); Associated Press, “The Slants, Washington Football Team Battle Government in Trademark Fight,” September 21, 2016.
2. Matal v. Tam. 582 U.S. ____ (2017).
3. Ann Marimow and Ian Shapira, “Washington Redskins win trademark fight over the team’s name,” Washington Post, June 29, 2017.
4. Kate Conger, “Exclusive: Here’s The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google,” Gizmodo, August 5, 2017.
5. Nash Jenkins, “The Mark Zuckerberg vs. Ted Cruz Showdown Was the Most Explosive Part of Today’s Facebook Testimony,” Time, April 10, 2018.
6. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), October, 2016, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_318.45.asp?current=yes.
7. Deborah Bach, “Why do some STEM fields have fewer women than others? UW study may have the answer,” University of Washington News, October 12, 2016.
8. Melanie Ehrenkranz, “Google Reportedly Fires Author of Anti-Diversity Screed,” Gizmodo, August 7, 2017.
9. Jackie Wattles, “Storm at Google over engineer’s anti-diversity manifesto,” CNN, August 7, 2017.
10. Bill Chappell and Laura Sydell, “Google Reportedly Fires Employee Who Slammed Diversity Efforts,” August 7, 2017.
11. Mahita Gajanan, “Read Google CEO Sundar Pichai’s Letter About the Controversial Anti-Diversity Memo,” Fortune, August 7, 2017.
12. Scott Thurm, “The Guy Who Wrote the ‘Google Memo’ Might Just Sue,” Wired, August 8, 2017.
13. Ulrich Baer, “What ‘Snowflakes’ Get Right about Free Speech, New York Times, April 24, 2017.
14. Noah Rothman, “The Courage to Confront Campus Radicalism,” Commentary, February 14, 2018.
15. Daniel Cox, Betsy Cooper, Rachel Lienesch, and Robert P. Jones; “Majority of Americans Oppose Transgender Bathroom Restrictions,” PRRI, 2017, http://www.prri.org/research/lgbt-transgender-bathroom-discrimination-religious-liberty/.
16. Noah Rothman, “Charleston and Our Tragic Impotence,” Commentary, June 22, 2015.
17. Katie Reilly, “Here Are All the Times Donald Trump Insulted Mexico,” Time, August 31, 2016.
18. Jenna Johnson, “Trump calls for ‘total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,’ ” Washington Post, December 7, 2015.
19. Eric Bradner, “Donald Trump stumbles on David Duke, KKK,” CNN, February 29, 2016.
20. Alex Altman, “How Donald Trump Is Bringing the Alt-Right to the White House,” Time, November 14, 2016.
21. Jacob Levy, “The Defense of Liberty Can’t Do Without Identity Politics,” Niskanen Center, December 13, 2016.
22. Roland G. Fryer, “An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force,” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper No. 22399, July 2016, revised January 2018.
23. Tami Luhby, “Worsening wealth inequality by race,” CNN Money, June 21, 2012.
24. Noah Rothman, “Capitalism: Bad Again After All These Years,” Commentary, May 17, 2018.
25. Kurt Bauman and Camille L. Ryan, “Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015,” U.S. Census Bureau, March 2016.
26. Lisa Selin Davis, “My Daughter Is Not Transgender. She’s a Tomboy,” New York Times, April 18, 2017.
27. Debra Soh, “No, the Google manifesto isn’t sexist or anti-diversity. It’s science,” Globe and Mail, August 8, 2017.
28. Karalee Katsambanis, “At four years old, identifying a child as transgender is too early,” Sydney Morning Herald, September 6, 2016.
29. Daniel Trotta, “U.S. parents accept children’s transgender identity by age three,” Reuters, December 22, 2016.
30. Editor, “The Controversial Research on ‘Desistance’ in Transgender Youth,” KHSU, May 23, 2018.
31. BBC News Magazine, “The extraordinary case of the Guevedoces,” September 20, 2015.
32. Michelle Goldberg, “What Is a Woman? The Dispute Between Radical Feminism and Transgenderism,” New Yorker, August 4, 2014.
33. Anne Barnhill and Jessica Martucci, “Unintended Consequences of Invoking the ‘Natural’ in Breastfeeding Promotion,” American Academy of Pediatrics, March 4, 2016.
34. Rachael Pells, “Oxford University Student Union denies telling students to use gender neutral pronoun ‘ze,’ ” Independent, December 13, 2016.
35. Scott Jaschik, “Fear of New Pronouns,” Inside Higher Ed, September 8, 2015.
36. Sohrab Ahmari, “The Associated Press and the Pronoun Wars,” Commentary, October 11, 2017.
37. Jason Phipps and Ian Sample, “Science Weekly Extra: Simon Baron-Cohen on empathy and evil,” Guardian, May 5, 2011.
38. UNESCO, “The Race Question,” July 18, 1950.
39. Robert Wald Sussman, “There Is No Such Thing as Race,” Newsweek, November 8, 2014.
40. Guilaine Kinouani, “Why black women feel so betrayed by Rachel Dolezal,” Telegraph, June 26, 2015.
41. Denene Millner, “Why Rachel Dolezal Can Never Be Black,” NPR, March 3, 2017.
42. Jesse Singal, “This Is What a Modern-Day Witch Hunt Looks Like,” New York Magazine, May 2, 2017.
43. Pew Research Center, “First- and Second-Generation Share of the Population to Reach Record High in 2065,” September 23, 2015, http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/09/28/modern-immigration-wave-brings-59-million-to-u-s-driving-population-growth-and-change-through-2065/ph_2015-09-28_immigration-through-2065-11/.
44. Pew Research Center, “Second-Generation Americans: A portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants,” February 7, 2013.
45. Amy Wax and Larry Alexander, “Paying the price for breakdown of the country’s bourgeois culture,” Philadelphia Inquirer, August 9, 2017.
46. Jack Citrin et al., “Testing Huntington: Is Hispanic Immigration a Threat to American Identity?” Perspectives on Politics 5, no. 1 (2007), 31–48.
47. Stephen Dinan, “Mexican, Central American immigrants lag behind at assimilating into U.S. culture,” Washington Times, September 21, 2015.
48. Nate Cohn, “More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White” New York Times, May 21, 2014.
49. Pew Research Center, “Muslim Americans: Middle Class and Mostly Mainstream,” May 22, 2007.
50. Pew Research Center, “Muslim Americans: No Signs of Growth in Alienation or Support for Extremism,” August 30, 2011.
51. Noah Rothman, “Are American Muslims Assimilating?” Commentary, June 16, 2016.
52. Pew Research Center. “Demographic portrait of Muslim Americans,” July 26, 2017.
Chapter 4: Lifting the Veil
1. Stephanie Saul, “Arizona Republicans Inject Schools of Conservative Thought into State Universities,” New York Times, February 26, 2018.
2. Lucy Pasha-Robinson, “SOAS students call for ‘white philosophers to be dropped from curriculum,’ ” Independent, January 8, 2017.
3. Minna Salami, “Philosophy has to be about more than white men,” Guardian, March 23, 2015.
4. Pbier, “Courageous Students Demand Ban of White Philosophers Such as Plato, Socrates and Kant,” Accredited Times, January 9, 2017, https://www.accredited-times.com/2017/01/09/courageous-students-demand-ban-on-white-philosophers-like-plato-socrates-and-kant/.
5. Aristotle, The Politics, Benjamin Lowett, trans. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885), Vol. 1, Book 3.
6. Leo XIII, Rerum novarum (On the Condition of Workers), 15 May 1891, in Acta Sanctae Sedis No. 23.
7. David Harvey, Social Justice and the City (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1973), 109.
8. Carl L. Bankston, “Social Justice: Cultural Origins of a Perspective and a Theory,” Independent Review 15, no. 2 (Fall 2010), 174.
9. Ibid., 173.
10. Andrew Lister, “The ‘Mirage’ of Social Justice: Hayek Against (and for) Rawls,” Centre for the Study of Social Justice, Working Paper SJ017, June 2011, 2–4.
11. “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.,” Public Broadcasting Service, Episode S0300, November 7, 1977.
12. F. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation, and Liberty, Volume 2: The Mirage of Social Justice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), 74.
13. Hayek quoted by Lister, 27.
14. Lister, 18.
15. Lister, 24.
16. Richard Arneson, “Luck Egalitarianism and Prioritarianism,” Ethics 110, no. 2 (January 2000), 339.
17. Anca Gheaus, “Hikers in Flip-Flops: Luck Egalitarianism, Democratic Equality and the Distribuenda of Justice,” Journal of Applied Philosophy 35, no. 1 (February 2016), 66.
18. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Vintage, 1961), 4.
19. Karl Detzer, “Our Great Big Highway Bungle,” Reader’s Digest, July 1960, 46.
20. Arthur Brooks, “The Social Justice Fight,” USA Today, March 5, 2014.
21. Fisher v. University of Texas, 579 U.S. ___ (2016).
22. Ariane de Vogue, “Supreme Court releases audio of Justice Antonin Scalia saying maybe black students don’t belong at elite universities,” CNN, December 11, 2015.
Chapter 5: Entry-Level Politics
1. Jason Rhode, “The Girl On Wall Street: Why a Statue is Not Enough,” Paste, March 8, 2017.
2. Colin Kruger, “Stereotypes aplenty as global wealth group State Street Global Advisors hunts alpha female investors,” Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 2017.
3. Matt Stevens, “Firm Behind ‘Fearless Girl’ Statue Underpaid Women, U.S. Says,” New York Times, October 6, 2017.
4. Kieran Shiach, “Is Marvel’s fascist Captain America losing command of his fans?” Guardian, May 19, 2017.
5. Abraham Riesman, “First Captain America Became Evil, Then the Comics World Erupted,” Vulture, June 27, 2017.
6. Michael Rothman, “Marvel on Captain America’s turn to Hydra: ‘We hear your concerns,’ ” ABC News, May 2, 2017.
7. Alex Abad-Santos, “The outrage over Marvel’s alleged diversity blaming, explained,” Vox, April 8, 2017, https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/4/4/15169572/marvel-diversity-outrage-gabriel.
8. Ashley Rodriguez, “Too much diversity? Marvel says some comic-book readers are pushing back against its relaunched titles,” Quartz, April 4, 2017.
9. Brad Slager, “Yes, Marvel Comics, Going Full Identity Politics Is Hurting Your Sales,” The Federalist, April 25, 2017.
10. Wesley Morris, “The Year We Obsessed Over Identity,” New York Times, October 6, 2015.
11. M. Choueiti, K. Pieper, and S.L. Smith; “Inequality in 700 popular films: Examining portrayals of gender, race, & LGBT status from 2007 to 2014,” (Los Angeles, CA: USC Annenberg, 2015).
12. Reece Ristau, “Study: Film Still Mostly White, Straight and Male,” Variety, August 5, 2015.
13. Stephen Miller, “If the Oscars Are So Liberal, Why Are the #OscarsSoWhite?” National Review, January 27, 2016.
14. Noah Rothman, “How to Manipulate a Democrat,” Commentary, October 6, 2017.
15. Kat Rosenfield, “The Toxic Drama on YA Twitter,” Vulture, August 7, 2017, http://www.vulture.com/2017/08/the-toxic-drama-of-ya-twitter.html.
16. Ruth Graham, “YA Novel About ‘Mob Mentalities’ Punished After Online Backlash” Slate, October 16, 2017.
17. “A Note from the Editor in Chief,” Kirkus, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/statement/laura-moriarty/american-heart/.
18. Noah Rothman, “To Get History Right, Democrats Would Erase It,” Commentary, July 24, 2015.
19. Thomas Jefferson, “Sixth Annual Message,” December 2, 1806. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29448.
20. Noah Rothman, “Whitewashing the $20 Controversy,” Commentary, September 12, 2017.
21. Jackie Calmes, “Success of ‘Hamilton’ May Have Saved Hamilton on the $10 Bill,” New York Times, April 15, 2016.
22. Emily Shire, “The Dumbest College Renaming Debate Yet,” The Daily Beast, December 10, 2015, https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-dumbest-college-renaming-debate-yet.
23. Susan Scafidi, Who Owns Culture? Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 9, quoting Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao, “Introduction to Cultural Appropriation: A Framework for Analysis,” in Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation, ed. Bruce Ziff and Pratima V. Rao (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998), 100.
24. Katie J. M. Baker, “A Much-Needed Primer on Cultural Appropriation,” Jezebel, November 13, 2012, https://jezebel.com/a-much-needed-primer-on-cultural-appropriation-30768539.
25. Marcus Gilmer, “Yale students rally against racism in campus ‘March of Resilience,’ ” Mashable, November 9, 2015, https://mashable.com/2015/11/09/racism-yale-rally/#VS2vPEWt3iqy.
26. Isaac Stanley-Becker, “A confrontation over race at Yale: Hundreds of students demand answers from the school’s first black dean,” Washington Post, November 5, 2012.
27. Karin Agness Lips, “Yale vs. Princeton: The Battle For Free Speech On Campus,” Forbes, November 12, 2015.
28. Redbook Editor, “Maybe Don’t Dress Your Kid Up As Moana This Halloween?” Cosmopolitan, October 23, 2017.
29. Mary Wakefield, “The mad, bad crusade against ‘cultural appropriation,’ ” Spectator, April 1, 2017.
30. Michael Harriot, “This White Woman’s Painting of Emmett Till Belongs Under the Definition of White-Peopleing, Not on a Museum Wall,” The Root, March 21, 2017, https://www.theroot.com/this-white-womans-painting-of-emmett-till-belongs-under-1793483717.
31. Roberta Smith, “Should Art That Infuriates Be Removed?” New York Times, March 27, 2017.
32. Jamilah King, “These White Cooks Bragged About Stealing Tortilla Recipes from Mexico to Start a Business,” May 19, 2017, https://mic.com/articles/177642/these-white-cooks-bragged-about-stealing-tortilla-recipes-from-mexico-to-start-a-portland#.PeNe8vqaA.
33. Tim Carman, “Should white chefs sell burritos? A Portland food cart’s revealing controversy,” Washington Post, May 26, 2017.
34. Steven Humphrey, “Regarding This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week,” Portland Mercury, May 21, 2017.
35. Sam Meier, “You Could Be the Writer PolicyMic’s New Vertical Is Looking For,” October 8, 2013, https://mic.com/articles/66885/you-could-be-the-writer-policymic-s-new-vertical-is-looking-for#.2wn9RfFnS.
36. Adrianne Jeffries, “Mic’s Drop,” The Outline. August 22, 2017, https://theoutline.com/post/2156/mic-com-and-the-cynicism-of-modern-media?zd=1&zi=tcfurqpo.
37. Manil Suri, “Why Is Science So Straight?” New York Times, September 4, 2015.
38. Glenn Nelson, “Why Are Our Parks So White?” New York Times, July 10, 2015.
39. Maura Judkis, “Discomfort food: Using dinners to talk about race, violence and America,” Washington Post, August 23, 3016.
40. Jesse Byrnes, “Trump on transgender bathroom debate: ‘Leave it the way it is,’ ” The Hill, April 21, 2016.
41. Corinne Jurney, “North Carolina’s Bathroom Bill Flushes Away $630 Million In Lost Business,” Forbes, November 23, 2016.
42. Erik Eckholm, “Pfizer Blocks the Use of Its Drugs in Executions,” New York Times, May 13, 2016.
43. Jeff Swiatek, “Salesforce packed a punch in galvanizing RFRA opposition,” IndyStar, April 2, 2015, https://www.indystar.com/story/money/2015/04/02/salesforce-packed-punch-galvanizing-rfra-opposition/70842680/.
44. Tony Romm, “Apple, Amazon and Google spent record sums to lobby Trump earlier this summer,” Recode, July 21, 2017, https://www.recode.net/2017/7/21/16008504/apple-amazon-google-record-lobby-trump-immigration-science-privacy.
45. Joanna Piacenza, “Consumers Want Brands to Get Political, but Companies Need to Tread Carefully,” Morning Consult, February 6, 2018, https://morningconsult.com/2018/02/06/consumers-want-brands-to-get-political-but-companies-need-to-tread-carefully/.
46. Daniel Gross, “Corporations are suddenly jumping into political fights. Here’s why,” Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2016.
47. Stephen J. Dubner, prod. Greg Rosalsky, “The True Story of the Gender Pay Gap.” Freakonomics, January 7, 2016, http://freakonomics.com/podcast/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/.
48. White House website archives, “Did You Know That Women Are Still Paid Less Than Men?” https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/equal-pay/myth.
49. Lawrence H. Leith, “Why do women still earn less than men?” Bureau of Labor Statistics, June, 2014.
50. Andrew Biggs and Mark Perry, “The ‘77 Cents on the Dollar’ Myth About Women’s Pay,” Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2014.
51. Shira Tarlo, “What Is Equal Pay Day? Here’s Everything You Need to Know,” NBC News, April 4, 2017.
52. Jessica Guynn, “Sheryl Sandberg’s new mission on Equal Pay Day: #20PercentCounts,” USA Today, April 3, 2017.
53. ThinkProgress, “The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Don’t Believe in Science (or Many Other Inconvenient Truths),” November 8, 2011, https://thinkprogress.org/the-republican-brain-the-science-of-why-they-dont-believe-in-science-or-many-other-inconvenient-5e079356463/.
54. Katie Palmer, “Cool Catchphrase, Hillary, But Science Isn’t About Belief,” Wired, July 29, 2016.
55. Emily Atkin, “Is the March for Science Bad for Scientists?” New Republic, March 1, 2017.
56. Benedict Carey, “For sex researcher, a never-ending backlash,” New York Times, August 21, 2017.
57. Alice Dreger, Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and One Scholar’s Search for Justice, (New York: Penguin Books, 2016), 10–11.
58. Indrek Wichman, “Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering,” The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, August 2, 2017.
59. Kyle Smith, “Bill Nye, the Scientism Guy,” National Review, April 27, 2017.
60. Christine Roussell, “Bill Nye The Eugenics Guy: Maybe We Should Penalize People With ‘Extra Kids,’ ” TownHall, April 26, 2017, https://townhall.com/tipsheet/christinerousselle/2017/04/26/bill-nye-the-eugenics-guy-maybe-we-should-penalize-people-with-extra-kids-n2318527.
Chapter 6: Victimocracy
1. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (New York: Continuum, 1970), 66.
2. Sol Stern, “Pedagogy of the Oppressor,” City Journal, Spring 2009.
3. Freire, 46.
4. Noah Rothman, “Blameless,” Commentary, May 26, 2017.
5. Issie Lapowsky, “Author of Trump’s Favorite Voter Fraud Study Says Everyone’s Wrong,” Wired, January 25, 2017.
6. Ilya Somin, “Political ignorance, partisan bias, and belief in conspiracy theories,” Washington Post, December 30, 2016.
7. Rush Transcript, “Hillary Clinton Speaks at Women for Women International,” CNN, May 2, 2017, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1705/02/wolf.02.html.
8. Callum Borchers, “Hillary Clinton’s revisionist history of debating Donald Trump,” Washington Post, May 2, 2017.
9. CBS/AP, “Center Of Debate: An ‘SNL’ Skit,” CBS News, February 28, 2008.
10. Abe Greenwald, “Because It’s 2015,” Commentary, November 5, 2015.
11. Rush Transcript, “Transcript of the Democratic Presidential Debate in Milwaukee,” Federal News Service, New York Times, February 11, 2016.
12. Amanda Jackson, “Hillary Clinton to hold election night party under real glass ceiling,” CNN, October 26, 2016
13. Edwin Rios, “How Campus Racism Just Became the Biggest Story in America,” Mother Jones, November 9, 2015.
14. Elahe Izadi, “The incidents that led to the University of Missouri president’s resignation,” Washington Post, November 9, 2015.
15. Kendall Foley, “How MU has come face-to-face with racism on campus,” Columbia Missourian, October 21, 2015.
16. Kasia Kovacs, “Protesters say talks with President Wolfe did not achieve resolution,” Columbia Missourian, October 27, 2015.
17. Rush Transcript, “Univ. of Missouri President Resigns; Giant Hole Swallows Cars,” CNN, November 9, 2015.
18. John Elignon, Richard Perez-Pena, “University of Missouri Protests Spur a Day of Change,” New York Times, November 9, 2015.
19. Anemona Hartocollis, “Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri,” New York Times, July 9, 2017.
20. Noah Rothman, “A Plague of Racial Hoaxes on Campus,” Commentary, November 12, 2015.
21. William Jacobson, “Psychoanalyzing The Great Oberlin College Racism Hoax of 2013,” Legal Insurrection, July 24, 2015, https://legalinsurrection.com/2015/07/psychoanalyzing-the-oberlin-college-2013-racism-hoax/.
22. Sharita Erves, Henry Rosoff, “21-year-old UW-Parkside junior created hit list,” February 6, 2012, https://fox6now.com/2012/02/06/student-on-uw-parkside-hit-list-admits-to-hoax/.
23. William Wier, “After Threats To Gay Students, CCSU Holds Rally Against Hate Crimes,” Hartford Courant, March 13, 2012.
24. Hilda Munoz, David Owens, “CCSU Police Say Student Faked Anti-Gay Notes,” Hartford Courant, July 2, 2012.
25. Robby Soave, “Exclusive: Shocking Discovery in Hoax Bias Incident at Vassar College,” The Daily Caller, November 27, 2013, https://dailycaller.com/2013/11/27/exclusive-shocking-discovery-in-hoax-bias-incident-at-vassar-college/.
26. Jennifer Brooks, Paul Walsh, “St. Olaf: Report of racist note on black student’s windshield was ‘fabricated,’ ” Star Tribune, May 11, 2017.
27. Vivian Yee, “Racism Charges in Bus Incident, and Their Unraveling, Upset University at Albany,” New York Times, March 1, 2016.
28. Kristine Phillips, “A Muslim student in Michigan claimed a man threatened to set her on fire. Police say it’s a hoax,” Washington Post, December 21, 2016.
29. Emma Green, “A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump,” The Atlantic, November 2, 2016.
30. Camila Domonoske, “ ’Parishioner Arrested For November Arson Of Black Church In Mississippi,” NPR, December 22, 2016.
31. Sarah Larimer, “This Indiana church was defaced with ‘HEIL TRUMP’ graffiti — and is keeping it,” Washington Post, November 15, 2016.
32. Max Greenwood, “Air Force general: ‘If you can’t treat someone with dignity and respect get out’ of Academy,” The Hill, September 29, 2017.
33. Joshua Rhett Miller, “Black cadet admits to writing racial slurs outside Air Force Academy dorm room,” New York Post, November 8, 2017.
34. Aaron Blake, “Trump is flirting with the idea that anti-Semitic incidents are false flags again,” Washington Post, February 28 2017.
35. Aaron Rupar, “Trump echoes David Duke, reportedly suggests Jews are behind threats to Jewish schools,” ThinkProgress, February 28, 2017, https://thinkprogress.org/trump-anti-semitism-false-flag-david-duke-ee29668fa101/.
36. Mark Berman, “Trump questions who is really behind anti-Semitic threats and vandalism,” Washington Post, March 1, 2017.
37. Reuters, “Israeli-U.S. teen indicted for bomb threats, hate crimes: U.S. Justice Department,” February 28, 2017, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-jewish/israeli-u-s-teen-indicted-for-bomb-threats-hate-crimes-u-s-justice-department-idUSKCN1GD3MN.
38. Jamiles Lartey, “Jewish community center threats: man arrested in alleged cyberstalking plot,” Guardian, March 3, 2017.
39. K. C. Johnson, Stuart Taylor, “The path to Obama’s ‘Dear Colleague’ letter,” “The Volokh Conspiracy,” Washington Post, January 31, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/01/31/the-path-to-obamas-dear-colleague-letter/?utm_term=.84c17f48130d.
40. U.S. Department of Education, “Dear Colleague Letter,” Office of the Assistant Secretary, April 4, 2011, https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201104.html?exp=1.
41. David Lisak, “Understanding the Predatory Nature of Sexual Violence,” Sexual Assault Report 14, no. 4 (March/April 2011), 56–57.
42. Lynn Langton, Sofi Sinozich, “Rape And Sexual Assault Among College-Age Females, 1995-2013,” Bureau of Justice Statistics, December 11, 2014, http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5176.
43. Beatrice Dupuy, “Women who didn’t go to college are twice as likely to be sexually assaulted than those with a degree,” Newsweek, November 23, 2017.
44. Emily Yoffe, “The College Rape Overcorrection,” Slate, December 7, 2014, http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2014/12/college_rape_campus_sexual_assault_is_a_serious_problem_but_the_efforts.html.
45. Robby Soave, “Here Is Every Crazy Title IX Rape Case Betsy DeVos Referenced, Plus a Bunch More,” Reason, September 7, 2017.
46. Laura Kipnis, “Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe,” Chronicle of Higher Education, February 27, 2015.
47. Laura Kipnis, “Eyewitness to a Title IX Witch Trial,” Chronicle of Higher Education, April 2, 2017.
48. Noah Rothman, “This Is Not Justice,” Commentary, September 8, 2017.
49. Noah Rothman, “What Has Conservatism Conserved,” Commentary, October 18, 2016.
50. Nicholas Eberstadt, “Our Miserable 21st Century,” February 15, 2017.
51. Rosie Gray, “Behind the Internet’s Anti-Democracy Movement,” The Atlantic, February 10, 2017.
52. Peter Thiel, “The Education of a Libertarian,” Cato Unbound, April 13, 2009, https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian.
53. Klint Finley, “Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries,” Tech Crunch, November 23, 2013, https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/.
54. Eliana Johnson, Eli Stokols, “What Steve Bannon Wants You to Read,” Politico Magazine, February 7, 2017.
55. Nick Land, “The Dark Enlightenment: Part 4: Re-running the race to ruin,” 2008, http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/.
56. Nick Land, “The Dark Enlightenment: Part 4a: A multi-part sub-digression into racial terror,” 2008, http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/.
Chapter 7: Violent Delights
1. Peter Kreeft, “A Refutation of Moral Relativism,” transcription, Integritas Institute, February 24, 2003, http://www.peterkreeft.com/audio/05_relativism/relativism_transcription.htm.
2. James Madison, “The Same Subject Continued The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection,” The Federalist Papers No. 10, November 23, 1787.
3. Bruce Bawer, The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 18.
4. Eden Gordon, “The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Zuccotti Park,” Untapped Cities, June 12, 2017, https://untappedcities.com/2017/06/12/the-top-10-secrets-of-nycs-zuccotti-park/.
5. Ian Schwartz, “Pelosi On Occupy Wall Street Activists: ‘God Bless Them,’ ” RealClearPolitics, October 6, 2011.
6. Ian Schwartz, “Obama: Wall St. Protesters Giving ‘Voice’ To Frustration,” RealClearPolitics, October 6, 2011.
7. Transcript, “Full text: President Obama’s speech at MLK Memorial,” Washington Post, October 16, 2011.
8. conservARTive, “Occupy Atlanta Silences Civil Rights Hero John Lewis!” October 8, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QZlp3eGMNI&feature=youtu.be.
9. OccupyRichmond2011, “Occupy Richmond 10/6/11 Intro to ‘Progressive Stack,’ ” October 8, 2011, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCwhlZtHhWs.
10. Kenneth Rapoza, “Global ‘Occupy’ Protests Lead To Violence In Rome, Arrests In Chicago,” Forbes, October 16, 2011.
11. Emma Brown, Wilber Del Quentin, “Air and Space Museum closes after guards clash with protesters,” Washington Post, October 8, 2011.
12. CNN Wire Staff, “DA: 3 Occupy Denver activists charged with felonies,” CNN, November 18, 2011.
13. Matt Flegenheimer, Sarah Maslin Nir, “Hundreds Held in Oakland Occupy Protest,” New York Times, January 29, 2012.
14. Michael Scott, “FBI arrests 5 accused of plotting to blow up Ohio 82 bridge in Cuyahoga valley,” Plain Dealer, May 1, 2012.
15. Noah Rothman, “When Will Colleges Fight Back Against Their Coddled Student Bodies?” April 24, 2015, https://hotair.com/archives/2015/04/24/when-will-colleges-fight-back-against-their-coddled-student-bodies/.
16. Alice Lloyd, “Wellesley’s Student Paper Mounts a Barely Literate Defense of Censorship,” Weekly Standard, April 14, 2017.
17. Noah Rothman, “Conservatives are increasingly hostile to higher ed. Who can blame them?” USA Today, July 20, 2017.
18. Kyung Lah, Madison Park, “Berkeley protests of Yiannopoulos caused $100,000 in damage,” CNN, February 2, 2017.
19. Stephanie Saul, “Dozens of Middlebury Students Are Disciplined for Charles Murray Protest,” New York Times, May 24, 2017.
20. Sean Rossman, “U.S. drops charges against 129 inauguration day protesters,” USA Today, January 18, 2018.
21. Jess Zimmerman, “The Myth of the Well-Behaved Women’s March,” New Republic, January 24, 2017.
22. Noah Rothman, “Whose Violence Is It?” Commentary, August, 2016.
23. Elias Groll, Jana Winter, “Here’s the Memo that Blew Up the NSC,” Foreign Policy, August 10, 2017.
24. Sarah Larimer, Justin Moyer, Jenny Starrs, “Trump supporter charged after sucker-punching protester at North Carolina rally,” Washington Post, March 11, 2016.
25. Jeremy Diamond, “Donald Trump on protester: ‘I’d like to punch him in the face,’ ” CNN, February 23, 2016.
26. Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, “Will Donald Trump Pay Supporter’s Legal Fees?” NBC News, March 13, 2016.
27. Jim Geraghty, “No, Let’s Not Burn the System Down,” National Review, March 14, 2016.
28. Charles Bramesco, “Protesters Shut Down Trump Rally, Clash with Supporters in Chicago,” Vanity Fair, March 12, 2016.
29. Noah Rothman, “Whose Violence Is It?” Commentary, August, 2016.
30. Joseph Serna, “Neo-Nazis didn’t start the violence at state Capitol, police say.” Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2016.
31. Paige St. John, “Hundreds of Trump supporters and counter-protesters clash at Berkeley rally,” Los Angeles Times, April 15, 2017.
32. Alan Blinder, Richard Fausset, Manny Fernandez, “Micah Johnson, Gunman in Dallas, Honed Military Skills to a Deadly Conclusion,” New York Times, July 9, 2016.
33. Ishaan Tharoor, “An act of American terror in Trump’s heartland,” Washington Post, February 27, 2017.
34. Mark Berman, “Fatal stabbing in New York was ‘practice’ for more attacks on black men, police say,” Washington Post, March 23, 2017.
35. CBS/AP, “Fresno shooting spree suspect charged with 3 counts of first-degree murder,” CBS News, April 26, 2017.
36. David Love, “Lynching re-emerges in new rhetoric of hate,” CNN, May 23, 2017.
37. Lydia O’Connor, “Portland Murder Suspect Calls Stabbings ‘Patriotism’ In First Court Appearance,” Huffington Post, May 30, 2017.
38. KGW-TV, “14 arrested during competing protests in Portland in wake of train stabbing,” USA Today, June 5, 2017.
39. Joe Heim, “Recounting a day of rage, hate, violence and death,” Washington Post, August 14, 2017.
40. Hawes Spencer, “A Far-Right Gathering Bursts Into Brawls,” New York Times, August 13, 2017.
41. Alan Blinder, Jonah Engel Bromwich, “What We Know About James Alex Fields, Driver Charged in Charlottesville Killing,” New York Times, August 13, 2017.
42. George Joseph, “White Supremacists Joked About Using Cars to Run Over Opponents Before Charlottesville,” August 28, 2017, https://www.propublica.org/article/white-supremacists-joked-about-using-cars-to-run-over-opponents-before-charlottesville.
43. Noah Rothman, “What Trump Voters Heard,” Commentary, August 16, 2017.
44. Alex Pfeiffer, “Major Figures Work to Mainstream Violent Antifa Protesters,” The Daily Caller, August 16, 2017.
45. Chelsea Bailey, “What Is ‘Antifa’? Meet the Fascist-Fighting Coalition Dubbed the ‘Alt-Left’ by President,” NBC News, August 16, 2017.
46. Mark Bray, “Who Are the Antifa?” Washington Post, August 16, 2017.
47. Natasha Lennard, “Anti-Fascists Will Fight Trump’s Fascism in the Streets,” Nation, January 19, 2017.
48. Natasha Lennard, “Not Rights but Justice: It’s Time to Make Nazis Afraid Again,” Nation, August 16, 2017.
49. Madison Pauly, “A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants Is Ready to Rumble in Portland—and Beyond,” Mother Jones, (May/June, 2017).
50. Mary Nardini Gang, “Toward the queerest insurrection,” The Anarchist Library, 2014, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/mary-nardini-gang-toward-the-queerest-insurrection.
51. Anonymous, “Dangerous Spaces: Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender,” (Untorelli Press, 2012), https://untorellipress.noblogs.org/files/2011/12/dangerous.pdf.
52. Gretchen Kell, “Campus investigates, assesses damage from Feb. 1 violence,” Berkeley News, February 2, 2017, http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/02/02/campus-investigates-assesses-damage-from-feb-1-violence/.
53. Phillip Matier, Andrew Ross, “After melees, Berkeley mayor asks Cal to cancel right-wing Free Speech Week,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2017.
54. Daniel Uria, “California rally accused of attracting white supremacists is canceled,” August 26, 2017, https://www.upi.com/California-rally-accused-of-attracting-white-supremacists-is-canceled/7781503754400/.
55. Matt Labash, “A Beating in Berkeley” Weekly Standard, September 1, 2017.
56. Paul Elias, Jocelyn Gecker, “Black-clad anarchists swarm anti-hate rally in California,” AP, August 28, 2017.
57. Noah Rothman, “A Revolt of the Comfy and Bored,” Commentary, June 9, 2016.
58. Bruce Hoffman, “Today’s Highly Educated Terrorists,” National Interest, September 15, 2010.
59. Elias Canetti, “Crowds and Power,” (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1960), 58–59, 77–78.
60. Liz Sawyer, “Alt-right nationalists, protesters clash at Minnesota State Capitol,” Star Tribune, May 6, 2017.
Chapter 8: "Throw It the Hell Out"
1. Thomas Mallon, “A View from the Fringe,” New Yorker, January 11, 2016.
2. Alvin Felzenberg, “How William F. Buckley Became the Gatekeeper of the Conservative Movement,” National Review, June 19, 2017.
3. Alvin Felzenberg, “The Inside Story of William F. Buckley Jr.’s Crusade Against the John Birch Society,” National Review, June 20, 2017.
4. William F. Buckley, “Goldwater, the John Birch Society, and Me,” Commentary, March, 2008.
5. Alvin Felzenberg, “A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.,” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 142.
6. Alvin Felzenberg, “A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr.,” (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017), 136.
7. Matthew Boyle, “Conservatives Question Whether John Birch Society Should Be Accepted as Part of the Tea Party Movement,” The Daily Caller, December 3, 2010.
8. James Kirchick, “The Ron Paul Institute: Be Afraid, Very Afraid,” The Daily Beast, April 25, 2013.
9. Alvin Felzenberg, “The Inside Story of William F. Buckley Jr.’s Crusade Against the John Birch Society,” National Review, June 20, 2017.
10. John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr, Early Cold War Spies: The Espionage Trials that Shaped American Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 18.
11. Simeon Larson and Bruce Nissen, Theories of the Labor Movement (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987), 5.
12. Harvey Klehr, “Lenin on American socialist leaders and on Samuel Gompers,” Labor History 17 no. 2 (2008), 265-70.
13. Industrial Workers of the World, “Preamble to the IWW Constitution,” July 7, 1905. https://www.iww.org/PDF/Constitutions/CurrentIWWConstitution.pdf.
14. Benjamin Gitlow, “How to Think About Communism,” (New York: Graphics Group, 1949), https://archive.org/stream/HowToThinkAboutCommunism/Howtothinkaboutcommunism_djvu.txt.
15. William H. Chartener, “Reds in Trade Unions,” CQ Press, 1949, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1949072200.
16. Ronald L. Filippelli and Mark D. McColloch, Cold War in the Working Class: The Rise and Decline of the United Electrical Workers, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), 107.
17. William H. Chartener, “Reds in Trade Unions,” CQ Press, 1949, http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1949072200.
18. Ibid.
19. Gary Donaldson, Truman Defeats Dewey (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2000), 199–201.
20. Ibid., 201.
21. Paul D’Amato, “Labor and the Cold War,” Socialist Worker, October, 1990.
22. Jen Kalaidis, “Bring Back Social Studies,” The Atlantic, September 23, 2013.
23. Robert Townsend, “ ‘No Child’ Leaves the Social Studies Behind,” American Historical Association, July 30, 2007.
24. Ken Shepherd, “37 percent of Americans can’t name any of the rights guaranteed by First Amendment: Survey,” Washington Times, September 13, 2017.
25. Emily Ekins, “82% Say It’s Hard to Ban Hate Speech Because People Can’t Agree What Speech Is Hateful,” Cato Institute, November 8, 2017.
26. Arne Duncan, “The Social Studies are Essential to a Well-Rounded Education,” National Council for the Social Studies, 2011, https://www.socialstudies.org/publications/a_well_rounded_education.