6.“Greed,” ABC News Special Report by John Stossel, February 3, 1998.
7.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), Vol. I, p. 18.
8.Cited in Gertrude Himmelfarb, The Idea of Poverty (New York: Knopf, 1984), p. 28.
9.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 2, adamsmith.org.
10.Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: Penguin, 1999), p. 117, 443; Eugene Kamenka, ed., The Portable Karl Marx (New York: Penguin, 1983), p. 177.
11.Kamenka, The Portable Karl Marx, p. 541.
12.Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness (New York: Signet, 1964), pp. vii–xi, 17, 27, 31.
13.Adam Smith, A Theory of Moral Sentiments (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1982), p. 25.
14.Albert O. Hirschman, The Passions and the Interests (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1977), pp. 32, 73, 132–33.
Chapter 11: Who’s Exploiting Whom?
1.Remarks by the president on August 15, 2011; “Teachers Paid on Par with Doctors?” August 19, 2011, factcheck.org; Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 62.
2.Eugene Kamenka, ed., The Portable Karl Marx (New York: Penguin, 1983), pp. 412–13, 415.
3.Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), pp. 94–95.
4.“Babe Ruth,” baseballreference.com.
5.Richard Wolff, Occupy the Economy (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2012), p. 30.
6.Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Penguin, 1994), p. 110.
7.Branko Milanovic, The Haves and the Have-Nots (New York: Basic Books, 2011), p. 117.
8.Tom Wolfe, “Aspirations of an American Century,” speech to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, reprinted in Advertising Age, June 12, 1989.
9.Robert Frank, “U.S. Is Minting Almost All of the World’s Millionaires,” October 9, 2013, cnbc.com.
10.“Life Expectancy Table,” 2011, data.worldbank.org; “Life Expectancy in the USA, 1900–1998,” demog.berkeley.edu.
11.Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (New York: HarperPerennial, 1976), p. 67.
12.Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, p. 44.
Chapter 12: A Global Success Story
1.Kwame Nkrumah, Neocolonialism (New York: International Publishers, 1965), p, 52.
2.P. T. Bauer, Equality, the Third World and Economic Delusion (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), pp. 67–68; P. T. Bauer, Reality and Rhetoric (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984), pp. 2, 24.
3.Karl Marx, “The British Rule in India,” June 10, 1853; “The Future Results of British Rule in India,” July 22, 1853; in Eugene Kamenka, ed., The Portable Karl Marx (New York: Penguin, 1983), pp. 329–41.
4.V. I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (London: Pluto Press, 1996).
5.Manmohan Singh, address by the prime minister at Oxford University, July 8, 2005, http://www.hindu.com/nic/0046/pmspeech.htm.
6.Chinweizu, The West and the Rest of Us (New York: Vintage, 1975), p. 256.
7.Kishore Mahbubani, The New Asian Hemisphere (New York: Public Affairs, 2008), p. 56.
Chapter 13: Empire of Liberty
1.Cited by Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis, p. 75, books.google.com.
2.Douglas Feith and Seth Cropsey, “The Obama Doctrine Defined,” Commentary, July 2011, commentarymagazine.com.
3.Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, James Lyons and James Woolsey, “Obama’s Nuclear Zero Rhetoric is Dangerous,” April 1, 2013, canadafreepress.com.
4.“Nuclear Weapons: Who Has What at a Glance,” Arms Control Association, November 2013, armscontrol.org.
5.See, e.g., letter from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, April 27, 1809.
6.Barack Obama, The Audacity of Hope (New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006), p. 316–17.
7.“Margaret Thatcher, RIP,” April 18, 2013, nationalreview.com.
8.Colin Powell, Remarks at the World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2003.
Chapter 14: The Biggest Thief of All
1.Cited by Richard McKenzie, Bound to be Free (Palo Alto: Hoover Press, 1982), p. 90.
2.William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 5, Scene 1, shakespeare.mit.edu.
3.Abraham Lincoln, “Speech at Chicago,” July 10, 1858, journalofamericanhistory.org.
4.Eugene Kamenka, ed., The Portable Karl Marx (New York: Penguin Books, 1983), p. 410.
5.Robert Reich, Aftershock (New York: Vintage, 2013), p. 131; Richard Wolff, Occupy the Economy (San Francisco: City Lights, 2012), pp. 42–43.
Chapter 15: American Panopticon
1.Franz Kafka, The Trial (New York: Tribeca Books, 2011), p. 1.
2.Mark Landler and Helene Cooper, “Obama Seeks a Course of Pragmatism,” New York Times, April 3, 2009, nytimes.com.
3.Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings (London: Verso, 2011).
4.Ryan Gallagher, “Edward Snowden: The Man Behind the NSA Leaks,” Slate, June 9, 2013, slate.com.
5.James Bamford, “They Know Much More Than You Think,” New York Review of Books, August 15, 2013, nybooks.com; Ryan Lizza, “State of Deception,” The New Yorker, December 16, 2013, pp. 48, 55.
6.Charlie Savage, “Judge Questions Legality of NSA Phone Records,” New York Times, December 17, 2013, pp. A-1, A-17.
7.Peter Nicholas and Jess Bravin, “Obama’s Civil Liberties Record Questioned,” Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2013, wsj.com.
8.George Orwell, 1984 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1983), pp. 2, 138, 183.
9.Ibid., p. 239.
10.Bradley Hope and Damian Paletta, “S & P Chief Says Geithner Warned About U.S. Downgrade,” Wall Street Journal, January 21, 2014, wsj.com.
11.Harvey Silverglate, Three Felonies a Day (New York: Encounter Books, 2011), pp. xviii–xix, xxv, xxxvii, l, 28, 264–65, 267.
Chapter 16: Decline Is a Choice
1.Martin Jacques, When China Rules the World (New York: Penguin Books, 2012), p. 12.
2.Angus Maddison, The World Economy (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institute Press, 2007).
3.John Pomfret, “Newly Powerful China Defies Western Nations with Remarks, Policies,” The Washington Post, March 15, 2010.
4.Jacques, When China Rules the World, p. 128.
5.Ibid., p. 341.
INDEX
A
Abel, 99
abortion, 22, 73
Acuna, Rodolfo, 108
Adams, John Quincy, 207
affirmative action, 16, 22, 146
Africa, 9, 51, 59–60, 122, 125–27, 134, 138, 146, 150–51, 188, 191–93, 225, 251, 253
African Americans, 12, 39, 41, 78, 121, 124, 134, 135, 137, 138, 139, 141, 144–45, 149, 151, 209
agriculture, 18, 195, 199
al Qaeda, 57–58, 233
Alinsky, Saul, 74–87, 223, 230–31, 233
Lucifer dedication of, 83–85, 87
al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 59
America
ascendancy of, 7–8
cause of, 8
debt of, 6
decline of, 3–5, 214, 248–49, 255
economy, 5, 7, 10, 16, 54, 66, 154
as evil empire, 16, 23, 57, 214, 245
foreign policy of, 12, 29, 62, 76, 202, 207, 210–13
guilt of, 16, 138
immigrant heritage of, 41
as last best hope, 8
military dominance of, 6–7, 45, 202, 205, 249
moral critique of, 4
as novus ordo seclorum, 8, 37–55
nuclear arsenal of, 6, 202–4
position in the world, 6
reconstruction of, 4
self-destruction of, 3, 257
standard of living, 5, 7, 13, 180, 249
suicide of, 1–20, 87, 255
as superpower, 7, 202, 214
and theft, 12–19, 44, 97–98, 109–10, 138–39, 154, 159, 187, 202, 208, 210, 215, 218, 221, 229
–30
America (film), 16
America (poem), 67
American Colonization Society, 122, 135
American dream, 3–4, 15, 50–51, 153–54, 196–97, 256
American era, 3–7, 10, 20, 248, 255–56
American exceptionalism, 23–24, 250
American Indians, 12, 14, 18, 41, 44, 61, 89, 91–92, 96, 99, 105, 118, 122, 125
American Revolution, 41, 45–46, 52, 75, 115, 124, 226
Americanism, 21
Americans
accomplishments of, 199
Barack Obama and, 178
foreign acquisition and, 213
ignorance of, 4
Mexican War and, 107–19
as middle class, 180, 183
Obamacare and, 231
privacy and, 235, 238–39
rights and, 145, 150
as thieves, 216
wealth gap, 184, 226
Amherst, Jeffrey, 93
anti-Americanism, 21, 32, 59
anti-colonialism, 10–11, 12, 61
Appleman, William, 12
Arawaks, 13, 94
Aristotle, 97
Asia, 7, 9, 41, 59–60, 93, 99, 126, 151, 188–89, 191, 205, 209, 248, 251, 253
Assad, Bashar, 204–5
Axelrod, David, 60
Ayatollah Khomeini, 30–32, 211
Ayers, William (“Bill”), 11, 22, 57–61, 63, 65, 71–72, 80
Aztecs, 94–96, 109, 207
Aztlan, 107–19
B
Babcock, Charles, 122
Bauer, P. T., 188
Beard, Charles, 42
Beaumont, Gustave, 23
Becker, Gary, 160
Bellow, Saul, 32
Bentham, Jeremy, 233–34
Berlin Wall, 248
Biden, Joe, 79
bin Laden, Osama, 57, 59, 71, 210–12
Black Death, 93
Black Hills, 90–91, 104
Black Monsters, 125
Brands, H. W., 114
Branson, Richard, 162
Brazil, 5, 63, 193, 248
Britain, 7–10, 42, 45, 62, 125, 187, 189, 191, 208–9
as colonizing power, 9
Brokaw, Tom, 69
Burke, Edmund, 21
Burnham, James, 8–9, 209
C
Cabral, Pedro Alveres, 94
Cain, 99
Calhoun, John, 124, 131
Camus, Albert, 1–2, 5
Canada, 7, 37
capitalism, 12, 14–15, 19, 22, 29, 44, 52, 59, 66, 70, 79–80, 82, 129, 154, 158–63, 166–67, 169, 171–73, 178–79, 182–85, 188–90, 192, 194, 197, 199, 216
Carter, Jimmy, 65, 211
Castro, Fidel, 32, 58, 110
Catherine the Great, 233–34
change, 11, 72, 79, 81, 89, 170, 181, 183, 192–93, 200, 251–53
Chavez, Cesar, 75
China, 5–7, 32, 38, 63, 125, 184, 188, 193–96, 199, 203, 205, 233, 248, 250–54
economy of, 5, 193–94, 250
largest creditor, 6
military strength of, 250, 254
nuclear arsenal of, 254
rise of, 5
as superpower, 252
Chinweizu, 193
Chiozza, Giacomo, 5
Chomsky, Noam, 30, 43, 61, 178–79
Christianity, 126–27
Churchill, Ward, 16
Churchill, Winston, 208
citizens, 18, 43, 45, 47–48, 53, 118–19, 141, 144, 150, 157, 183, 186, 215, 217, 220–26, 229–34, 236–41, 243, 245
Civil Rights, 68–69, 71, 80, 113, 138, 143–44, 146–51
Civil Rights Act, 144
Civil War, 13, 107, 117, 121, 125, 132–35, 139, 144
Clay, Henry, 116, 122
Clean Asshole Poems, 67
Clinton, Bill, 65, 69, 86
Clinton, Hillary, 20, 69, 77–79, 86–87, 206
Cohen, Stephen, 5
Cold War, 203, 210, 214, 254
colonialism, 10, 187, 189–91
colonization, 121–23, 135, 188
Columbia University, 11, 61–62, 77, 145
Columbus, Christopher, 18, 22, 89–95, 105–6, 125
Comanche Tribe, 64, 92, 103, 113
Communism, 161, 171
Communist Party, 28, 248
conquest, 9, 13, 18–20, 58–59, 90–91, 96–98, 102, 108, 110–11, 116–17, 125, 166, 190, 196, 206–7, 218, 249–50, 254
Constitution, 47–50, 52–53, 119, 123–24, 129–30, 132, 154, 224, 237
Constitution of Liberty, The, 176
Cortés, Hernán, 94
Cropsey, Seth, 202
D
Dartmouth, 22–23, 28, 59, 67, 71, 178, 242
Davis, Frank Marshall, 11, 61–62, 65
Davis, Jefferson, 117
de las Casas, Bartolome, 96–97
de Santa Ana, Antonio Lopez, 115, 117
de Tocqueville, Alexis, 21, 23–29, 34–35, 101, 252
Declaration of Independence, 45, 53–54, 117, 130, 135, 149, 250
decline, 5, 9, 20
American, 59, 214
as choice, 247–57
consequences of, 7
indicators of, 5
of middle class, 183
as objective, 3–4
of racism, 146
Defert, Daniel, 28, 34
DeLong, Bradford, 5
Democracy in America, 23
Deng Xiaoping, 194, 253
Dershowitz, Alan, 243
Diaz, Bernal, 94
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, 99
discrimination, 12, 39, 119, 138, 142–47, 150
Douglass, Frederick, 97, 116, 123–24, 132–33, 135, 148
Dreams from My Father, 10, 77
Dred Scott decision, 124
Du Bois, W. E. B., 139, 147–51
Dyson, Michael Eric, 138
E
Economic Interpretation of the Constitution, An, 42
Ellison, William, 125
Emancipation Proclamation, 150–51
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 116
“End of the American Era, The,” 5
End of Influence, The, 5
entrepreneurs, 50–52, 54, 156–66, 171–74, 186
envy, 30, 84, 159, 172, 217–18, 226
Eurocentrism, 249
Europe, 7–9, 12, 24–26, 28, 32, 38, 46, 51–53, 89–91, 93–95, 100, 111, 113, 126, 190, 208, 210, 223, 248, 251, 253
loss of preeminence of, 8–9
F
Fable of the Bees, The, 159
Facebook, 165, 236
family, 26, 161
Fanon, Frantz, 12
FDR. See Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Federal Express, 165, 174
Feith, Douglas, 202
feminism, 22, 68–69
fire, 18
Fish, Stanley, 83
Fonda, Jane, 61, 75
Ford, Henry, 185
Foreign Affairs, 5, 201
Foucault, Michel, 23–24, 27–35, 71
Founders, 8, 42–43, 47–54, 65, 122–24, 128–31, 232, 237, 250
Fourth of July, 121–35
Franklin, Benjamin, 41, 43, 65
free market system, 15, 50, 62, 128, 140, 160, 172, 177
free trade, 29, 154, 195
freedom, 26, 35, 116, 118, 125–26, 133–35, 153, 213, 223, 233
Fugitive Days, 58
G
Gao Rui-quan, 252
Garnet, Highland, 123
Gates, Bill, 224–25
Gates Foundation, 225
Gekko, Gordon, 162
generation gap, 66–67
Gerges, Fawaz, 7
Germany, 8, 16, 206, 208–9
Gilder, George, 162–63
Ginsberg, Allen, 67–68
global economy, 54, 154, 194
globalization, 187, 194–99, 201
God, 1, 7, 26, 28, 45–47, 52, 83–84, 127, 128, 134
Grant, Ulysses S., 117
Great Depressio
n, 66, 74, 79
Great Society, 65
greatest generation, 69–70, 91
Greatest Generation, The, 69
greed, 59, 159–62, 166–67, 230
Greenblatt, Stephen, 91
Guevara, Che, 58, 61, 110
Gutierrez, Angel, 108
H
Haiti, 38, 121, 151, 206
Hamilton, Alexander, 8, 48–49
Hamlet, 1
Hancock, John, 43
Hanke, Lewis, 96
Harvard, 11, 62–63, 77, 145, 178, 243
Hayden, Tom, 61, 75–76
Hayek, Friedrich, 151, 176, 186, 219
Hemings, Sally, 44
Henry, Patrick, 102
Hirschman, Albert, 166
history from below, 13–14, 112, 117, 133, 139
Hitler, Adolf, 91, 147, 211
Ho Chi Minh, 58, 60–61
homosexuality, 23, 27, 33, 67
Howe, Daniel Walker, 54, 114
Howl, 67
human life, 1
Hume, David, 196
I
immigrants, 17, 38–42, 44–45, 74, 79, 98–99, 101, 104, 108, 118–19, 122, 129, 133, 138, 151, 182
India, 5, 10, 37–38, 40–41, 44, 51, 63, 67–68, 89, 93, 125, 184–85, 187–96, 205–7, 248–52, 254
Inequality for All, 179
innovation, 19, 22, 154
iPhone, 165
Iran, 30–32, 204–5, 210–11, 232
Iraq, 22, 64, 205–6, 210–13
Ireland, 40, 113
Islamic Government, 31
J
Jackson, Andrew, 13, 102, 114–15
Jackson, Stonewall, 117
Jacques, Martin, 252–54
Japan, 51, 197, 205, 208–9, 251
Jefferson, Thomas, 44–46, 48, 53–54, 90, 102, 117, 122, 129, 137–51, 207
Jim Crow, 12, 16, 140, 144
Jobs, Steve, 217
Johnson, Lyndon, 65
Johnson, Michael, 125
Johnson, Samuel, 124
K
Kang Xiaoguong, 248
Kennan, George, 201
Kennedy, David, 66
Kennedy, John F., 50, 65
Kennedy, Ted, 79
Kenya, 10, 76–77, 192, 206
Kerouac, Jack, 67
Kerry, John, 111
Khrushchev, Nikita, 28, 239
King, Martin Luther, 84, 146–47, 149
Kipling, Rudyard, 190
Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 214
Korean War, 68
Kristol, Irving, 247
Krugman, Paul, 179
Ku Klux Klan, 139, 147
Kurtz, Stanley, 76
L
LaDuke, Winona, 91
Lee, Robert E., 117
Lee, Spike, 69
Legacy of Conquest, The, 111
Lenin, Vladimir, 58, 190
Lerner, Ralph, 102
liberalism, 11
liberty, 22, 31, 49, 52–53, 65–66, 97, 123–24, 201–14, 238, 257