4. Hitler's Table Talk, p. 59.
5. Hermann Rauschning, The Voice of Destruction (New York: Putnam, 1940), p. 50.
6. Other official holy days included Heroes' Memorial Day, Reich Party Day, the Fuhrer's Birthday (of course), and the National Festival of the German People. Winter solstice, brimming with volkisch tributes to Germanic superiority, replaced Christmas. Commemoration of the movement's fallen replaced the old Remembrance Day and was drenched with pagan rituals.
7. William E. Drake, "God-State Idea in Modern Education," History of Education Quarterly 3, no. 2 (June 1963), p. 90.
8. J. S. Conway, The Nazi Persecution of the Churches, 1933-45 (New York: Basic Books, 1968), pp. 76-77; Claudia Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family, and Nazi Politics (New York: St. Martin's, 1987), p. 230.
9. The song continues:
Singing we follow Hitler's banners;
Only then are we worthy of our ancestors.
I am no Christian and no Catholic.
I go with the SA through thick and thin.
The Church can be stolen from me for all I care.
The swastika makes me happy here on earth.
Him will I follow in marching step;
Baldur von Schirach take me along.
(Gene Edward Veith Jr., Modern Fascism: The Threat to the Judeo-Christian Worldview [St. Louis: Concordia, 1993], p. 67)
10. Ibid., pp. 94, 102.
11. Ibid., p. 138.
12. Joyce Howard Price, "Harvard Professor Argues for 'Abolishing' White Race," Washington Times, Sept. 4, 2002, p. A05.
13. Alfred Rosenberg, The Myth of the Twentieth Century. See http://web.archive.org/web/20020603084225/www.ety.com/HRP/books online/mythos/mythosb1chap03.htm (accessed July 10, 2007). Timothy W. Ryback, "Hitler's Forgotten Library," Atlantic Monthly, May 2003; Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, trans. Ralph Manheim (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999), p. 454.
14. Gloria Steinem, Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (Boston: Little, Brown, 1993), p. 133; see also David Rieff, "Designer Gods," Transition, no. 59 (1993), pp. 20-31.
15. Adam LeBor and Roger Boyes, Seduced by Hitler (Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, 2001), p. 119.
16. E. F. Kaelin, Heidegger's "Being and Time": A Reading for Readers (Tallahassee: University Presses of Florida, 1988), p. 58; Veith, Modern Fascism, pp. 119, 124.
17. Zeev Sternhell, The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution, trans. David Maisel (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), p. 28.
18. Quoted in Richard Harrington, "The Good, the Bad, and the Bee-Bop," Washington Post, Oct. 17, 1988, p. B1.
19. Hitler's Table Talk, p. 353.
20. Ian Kershaw, Hitler, 1889-1936: Hubris (New York: Norton, 2000), p. 348; Scott Lively and Kevin Abrams, The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality in the Nazi Party (Keizer, Ore.: Founders, 1995), p. vii.
21. Tom Wolfe, Hooking Up (New York: Picador, 2000), p. 140.
22. Albert Gore, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), pp. 336, 220-21.
23. See Michael Crichton's Commonwealth Club speech in 2003: www.crichton-official.com/speeches/speeches_quote05.html. Also see Steven Landsburg's Armchair Economist: Economics and Everyday Life (New York: Free Press, 1993); Eric Goldscheider, "Witches, Druids, and Other Pagans Make Merry Again," New York Times, May 28, 2005, p. B7; Robert H. Nelson, "Tom Hayden, Meet Adam Smith and Thomas Aquinas," Forbes, Oct. 29, 1990; Dana Milbank, "Some Heated Words for Mr. Global Warming," Washington Post, March 22, 2007, p. A02.
24. William Rees-Mogg, "And Yet the Band Plays On," Times (London), May 26, 1994.
25. Matt Lauer, Countdown to Doomsday, Sci-Fi Channel, June 14, 2006.
26. See Peter Staudenmaier, "Fascist Ecology: The 'Green Wing' of the Nazi Party and Its Historical Antecedents," www.spunk.org/texts/places/germany/sp001630/peter.html (accessed May 8, 2007).
27. Ibid.
28. Robert N. Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000), p. 139.
29. Prominent raw foodists (or members of the living food movement) include Demi Moore, Woody Harrelson, Edward Norton, and Angela Bassett; Hitler's Table Talk, p. 443.
30. See, for example, www.peta.org/about/whyanimalrights.asp and Charles Oliver, "Don't Put Animal Rights Above Humans," USA Today, June 11, 1990, p. 10A.
31. See Jacob Sullum, "What the Doctor Orders," Reason, Jan. 1996; Jacob Sullum, "An Epidemic of Meddling," Reason, May 2007.
32. Proctor, The Nazi War on Cancer, p. 120; Jacob Sullum, "To Your Health!" National Review, Sept. 13, 1999.
33. Jon Gertner, "The Virtue in $6 Heirloom Tomatoes," New York Times Magazine, June 6, 2004; Jonah Goldberg, "Gaiam Somebody!" National Review, March 19, 2001.
AFTERWORD: THE TEMPTING OF CONSERVATISM
1. The Princeton historian Sean Wilentz writes:
At heart, Buchanan is a man of the old Catholic right — echoing the anti-New Deal catechism popularized by the "radio priest," Father Charles Coughlin, and the muscular, pietistic, corporatist anti-communism that found a hero in Generalissimo Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War...He detests the welfare state, which he sees as an intrusive secularist force. He regards the world beyond our shores as a tempest of savage tribalism, and he would like, on that account, both to halt immigration and to pull the United States out of the United Nations. He has a penchant for conspiratorial thinking, illustrated by his remarks about the devilish "foreign policy elites" and the pro-Israel "amen corner" that supposedly control our policies abroad and corrupt our politics at home. ("Third Out," New Republic, Nov. 22, 1999)
There's much truth here, but what Wilentz gets flatly wrong is that Buchanan does not, in fact, "detest" the welfare state and never has. This is not an insignificant distortion.
2. Molly Ivins, "Notes from Another Country," Nation, Sept. 14, 1992.
3. These and other quotations are from Ramesh Ponnuru's "A Conservative No More," National Review, Oct. 11, 1999. I'm indebted to Ponnuru in general and to this article in particular for many insights into Buchanan.