Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power (New York: Perennial Library, 1988), 6.
John W. Dean, “What Is Conservatism?,” FindLaw’s Writ (December 17, 2004) at http://writ.news.findlaw.com/scripts/printer_friendly.pl?page=/dean/20041217.html. This column was based on analysis of all the key conservative think-tank Web sites.
While it is a crude test of the bipolar world of conservative journals, an electronic search of two leading conservative journals for the occurrences of key terms confirms what I have long recognized as a reader of these publications—there is conservatism and liberalism, with occasional sprinklings of “communism” and “socialism,” neither of which exists in any viable form in the United States. For example, a search of the National Review (from January 22, 1988, to September 21, 2005) showed: 3,560 documents found for (conservative or conservatives or conservatism); 403 documents found for (libertarian or libertarians or libertarianism); 3,207 documents found for (liberal or liberalism); 475 documents found for (progressive or progressives or progressivism); and 26 documents found for (communitarian or communitarians or communitarianism). And a search of Human Events from January 1998 to September 21, 2005, showed: 4,546 documents found for (conservative or conservatives or conservatism); 207 documents found for (libertarian or libertarians or libertarianism); 3,387 documents found for (liberal or liberalism); 225 documents found for (progressive or progressives or progressivism); 155 documents found for moderate republican; and 2 documents found for (communitarian or communitarians or communitarianism).
See, for example, Eric Alterman, “Fact Checking Ann Coulter” at http://www.whatliberalmedia.com/apndx_1.htm; “NY Times Praises Coulter’s Footnotes. It Should Have Looked a Few Up,” Daily Howler at http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh072202.shtml; a Google search of “ann coulter fact check” produced thirty-two thousand hits!
See http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=548.
Henri Tajfel and John C. Turner, “The Social Identity Theory of Intergroup Behavior,” in John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, eds. Political Psychology (New York: Psychology Press, 2004), 276–91.
John C. Eastman, “The End of Federalism,” Claremont Institute (October 24, 2005) at http://www.claremont.org/writings/051024eastman.html? FORMAT=print.
See, for example, the books: Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005) by Mark R. Levin; Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Is Usurping the Power of Congress and the People (Brentwood, TN: Integrity Publishers, 2004) by Pat Robertson; and The Supremacists: The Tyranny of Judges and How to Stop It (Dallas, TX: Spencer Publishing Co., 2004) by Phyllis Schlafly. Blogs and essays: Bobby Eberle, “Conservative Base Should Rally Around Alito,” GOPUSA at http://www.gopusa.com/cgi- bin/ib3/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=37; t=25034; James Dobson’s Focus on the Family Supreme Court Resource Center at http://www.family.org/cforum/feature/a0037317.cfm; and the Cato Supreme Court Review at http://www.cato.org/pubs/scr/index.html.
For example, Ms. Miers’s nomination caused howls of unhappiness from high-profile conservatives like Boalt law professor John Yoo, neoconservatives David Frum (a former Bush speech writer) and Bill Kristol (editor of The Weekly Standard), as well as columnists Charles Krauthammer and George Will. No less than the icon of conservatism’s perfect Supreme Court justice Robert Bork himself (who was rejected by the Senate when President Reagan named him for the high court) came out against Harriet Miers.
John Derbyshire, “The Corner: Hallmark Harriet,” National Review Online at http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_10_23_corner-archive.asp#080857.
Bernard Chapman, “Highest Common Denominator: An Interview with John Derbyshire,” at http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0503/0503derbyshire.htm.
John T. Jost, Jack Glaser, Arie W. Kruglanski, and Frank J. Sulloway, “Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition,” Psychological Bulletin, vol. 129, no. 3 (2003), 339–75. To offer an opposing view, the same issue of Psychological Bulletin published Jeff Greenberg and Eva Jonas’s “Psychological Motives and Political Orientation—The Left, the Right, and the Rigid: Comment on Jost, et al. (2003),” 376–82. Copies of the study (along with a response and a rebuttal) can be found at http://www. wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/bulletin.pdf; a response to the study is at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/gjonas.pdf; and the authors’ reply to the response is at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~hannahk/reply.pdf.
John Jost, “Media FAQ’s: Answers by John Jost.” (Provided to the author by Dr. Jost.)
Kathleen Maclay, “A Look at the Psychology of Conservatism,” Garlic & Grass: A Grassroots Journal of America’s Political Soul (July 23, 2003). One self-identified “Burkean
