45. While Sanger cast herself as a champion of female liberation, her arguments nonetheless elevated the private realm of procreation to the public agenda. In Sanger's vision women would be "freed" from the reproductive tyranny of the family, but in order for this to happen, women — particularly certain women — would be subjected to a new tyranny of the eugenic planner. Marie Stopes, the British Margaret Sanger (that is, the mother of the British birth control movement), was of similar temperament. "Utopia," she explained, "could be reached in my life time had I the power to issue inviolable edicts." Quoted in Mukti Jain Campion, Who's Fit to Be a Parent? (New York: Routledge, 1995), p. 131.
46. Quoted in Black, War Against the Weak, p. 133. Also quoted in Rosen, Preaching Eugenics, p. 216.
47. Steven W. Mosher, "The Repackaging of Margaret Sanger," Wall Street Journal, May 5, 1997, p. A18.
48. "Birth control is no negative philosophy concerned solely with the number of children brought into this world," she writes. "It is not merely a question of population. Primarily it is the instrument of liberation and of human development." Sanger, Pivot of Civilization, p. 224.
49. Valenza, "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" p. 45, citing Linda Gordon, Woman's Body, Woman's Right (New York: Grossman, 1976), p. 332; Margaret Sanger to C. J. Gamble, Dec. 10, 1939, quoted in Valenza, "Was Margaret Sanger a Racist?" p. 46.
50. Colman McCarthy, "Jackson's Reversal on Abortion," Washington Post, May 21, 1988, p. A27.
51. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), p. 139.
52. Bill Bennett, Morning in America, Sept. 28, 2005; for transcript, see mediamatters.org/items/200509280006 (accessed March 16, 2007); see also Brian Faler, "Bennett Under Fire for Remark on Crime and Black Abortions," Washington Post, Sept. 30, 2005, p. A05. Bob Herbert, "Impossible, Ridiculous, Repugnant," New York Times, Oct. 6, 2005, p. A37; The Big Story with John Gibson, Fox News Channel, Sept. 30, 2005; see also Jonah Goldberg, "'Ridiculous,'" National Review Online, Oct. 7, 2005; Fox News Sunday, Fox News Channel, Oct. 2, 2005; "Talk-Back Live," editorial, Washington Times, Oct. 5, 2005, p. A16.
53. Ramesh Ponnuru, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life (Washington, D.C.: Regnery, 2006), p. 65.
54. "The Clinton RU-486 Files: The Clinton Administration's Radical Drive to Force an Abortion Drug on America," Judicial Watch Special Report, 2006, available at www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2006/jw-ru486-report.pdf (accessed March 16, 2007).
55. Steven W. Mosher, "The Repackaging of Margaret Sanger," Wall Street Journal, May 5, 1997.
56. Tell, "Planned Un-parenthood," p. 40.
57. Sheryl Blunt, "Saving Black Babies," Christianity Today, Feb. 1, 2003.
58. Peter Singer, "Killing Babies Isn't Always Wrong," Spectator, Sept. 16, 1995, pp. 20-22.
59. Lyndon Johnson laid out the rationale in his 1965 speech introducing affirmative action when he proclaimed, "You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, 'you are free to compete with all the others,' and still justly believe that you have been completely fair." Rhetorically, this was very Wilsonian in that it translated an entire people into a single collective "person." Lyndon B. Johnson, "To Fulfill These Rights," remarks at the Howard University commencement, June 4, 1965. For full text, see www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650604.asp (accessed May 8, 2007).
60. Joseph de Maistre, Considerations on France, trans. Richard A. Lebrun (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. xxiii.
61. Gene Edward Veith Jr., Modern Fascism: The Threat to the Judeo-Christian Worldview (St. Louis: Concordia, 1993), p. 134.
62. Andrew J. Coulson, "Planning Ahead Is Considered Racist?" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 1, 2006; Debera Carlton Harrell, "School District Pulls Web Site After Examples of Racism Spark Controversy," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 2, 2006. The guideline was withdrawn in response to protests. But one can be sure the attitudes that spawned it are intact. Richard Delgado, "Rodrigo's Seventh Chronicle: Race, Democracy, and the State," 41 UCLA Law Review 720, 734 (1994), cited in Daniel A. Farber and Suzanna Sherry, Beyond All Reason: The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), p. 29.
63. The law professor Luther Wright Jr. suggests that America adopt more rigid racial classifications for all of its citizens and that racial impostors be subjected to "fines and immediate job or benefit termination." Luther Wright Jr., "Who's Black, Who's White, and Who Cares: Reconceptualizing the United States's Definition of Race and Racial Classifications," Vanderbilt Law Review, March 1995, p. 513. A similar phenomenon is at work with American Indians. The Native American population in the United States has been growing enormously over the last two decades, far in excess of what is mathematically possible given their fertility rate and death rates. And since, by definition, it's impossible for Native Americans to immigrate to America, the only possible explanation is that more people find it advantageous to call themselves Indians, thanks to our spoils system.
64. Yolanda Woodlee, "Williams Aide Resigns in Language Dispute," Washington Post, Jan. 27, 1999, p. B1.
8. LIBERAL FASCIST ECONOMICS
1. Kevin Phillips, a former aide to Richard Nixon, has turned himself into a cottage industry as the voice of "real" conservatism and the "real" Republican Party. He is in fact the voice of the old socially meddling Progressivism that used to mark the bipartisan consensus between the Democrats and the Republicans. As for the charge that George W. Bush's grandfather was a Nazi collaborator of some sort, put forward in Phillips's book American Dynasty, Peter Schweizer demonstrates why this is such a bad-faith slander:
One of Phillips's most attention-grabbing chapters posits the theory that the Bushes were involved in the rise of Adolf Hitler. While he correctly notes that Brown Brothers Harriman, an investment-banking firm employing Prescott Bush and George H. Walker (George W.'s great-grandfather), invested in Nazi-era German companies, Phillips fails to note that it was Averell Harriman, later FDR's ambassador to Moscow and Truman's commerce secretary, who initiated these investments (and some in Soviet Russia) before either of the Bushes joined the firm. Prescott Bush did not oversee these investments; the reality is that he was involved almost exclusively in managing the firm's domestic portfolio. It was Harriman who largely managed the foreign investments and, accordingly, it was he who met German and Soviet leaders. (Peter Schweizer, "Kevin Phillips's Politics of Deceit," National Review Online, March 30, 2004, www.nationalreview.com/comment/schweizer200403300907.asp [accessed Jan. 23, 2007])
2. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., "Crimes Against Nature," Rolling Stone, Dec. 11, 2003; Rebecca Shoval, "Al Franken Airs Show at Ithaca College," Cornell Daily Sun, April 26, 2006, www.cornellsun.com/node/17563 (accessed Jan. 23, 2007); John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999), p. 120.