Endnotes

The portrait in the logo at the top of this page is of Edmund Burke. The quote is from his classic work, Reflections on the Revolution in France.

1.1: What Is Bias?

Basic Writings of Nietzsche

[NB: Human, All Too Human is the title of a work by Nietzsche. The sentence, "The fundamental faith of the journalist ..." is a play on the sentence, "The fundamental faith of the metaphysicians is the faith in opposite values."]

2. The Gospel According To St. Matthew, 7:1 (King James Version)

3. William Blake, The Four Zoas, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (online). See also: The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake (Book).

1.3: What Is The Principle Of Charity?

2.1: What Is The Difference Between Right And Left?

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

2. Isaiah Berlin, "Two Concepts of Liberty," The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998) 197-198.

3. Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1971) 169.

4. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, (New York: Harper Collins, 1989) 85.

3.1: What Is Fascism?

2. George Orwell, The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Vol. 3, ed. Ian Angus and Sonia Orwell (Boston: Nonpareil Books, 2000) 113.

3. Ibid., 113-114.

4. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France.

3.2: What Is Totalitarianism?

2. Helen Graham, The Spanish Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) 33.

3. Ayn Rand, "Egalitarianism and Inflation," Philosophy: Who Needs It (New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1982) 147.

3.3: What Is Theocracy?

2. Chester G. Starr, A History of the Ancient World, 4th Edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 59. [Quoted from E.O. James, The Ancient Gods.]

3. Starr, 60.

4. Josephus, 62.

4.1: What Is Anarchy?

4.2: Who Is The Idealist?

1984

2. Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990) 80.

3. Friedrich Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil," Basic Writings of Nietzsche, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 2000) 419.

4. Ronald W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times (New York: World Publishing Company, 1971) 352.

5. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times 318.

5. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times 319.

4.3: Who Is The Fanatic?

The Republic of Plato

2. Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, (New York: Harper Collins, 1989) 85.

5.1: What Is A Conservative?

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

2. Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative, (Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1990) 3.

3. Kirk, Mind, 8.

4. Edmund Burke, An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs.

[NB: For an excellent collection of Burke, try the following: The Best of Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke]

5. Goldwater, Conscience, 8.

6. Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, 20 January 1981.

7. James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers, No. 51.

8. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill (New York: Modern Library, 2002) 67. [NB: Mill is a modern liberal.]

9. Goldwater, Conscience, 6.

10. Henrik Ibsen, "An Enemy of the People," Four Great Plays, trans. R. Farquharson Sharp (New York: Bantam Dell, 2005) 252.

11. Friedman, Capitalism, 15.

5.2: What Is A Liberal?

Common Sense

2. Bill Clinton, First Inaugural Address, 21 January 1993.

3. Michel de Montaigne, "An Apology for Raymond Sebond," The Complete Essays, trans. M.A. Screech (London: Penguin Books, 1991) 531. [NB: Montaigne is a conservative.]

4. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, 20 January 1937.

5. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, tr. Clemens Dutt (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1998) 229.

6. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill (New York: Modern Library, 2002) 14-15.

7. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural.

5.4: What Is A Libertarian?

2. Albert Jay Nock, Memoirs of a Superfluous Man (Auburn: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007) 304.

3. Superfluous, 182.

4. Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (New York: Signet, 1996) 973.

5. Superfluous, 25-26.

6. Richard Heffner, "On Legalizing Drugs—With William F. Buckley," The Open Mind, 8/6/96.

7. Barry Goldwater, The Conscience of a Conservative, (Washington: Regnery Gateway, 1990) 8.

8. Superfluous, 25-26.

9. Superfluous, 49.

10. Superfluous, 117-118.

11. Superfluous, 211.

12. Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot (New York: Regnery Publishing, 2001) 18.

13. Ronald Bailey, “Our Intangible Riches: World Bank Economist Kirk Hamilton on the Planet's Real Wealth,” Reason Magazine, August/September 2007.

14. Superfluous, 137.

15. Superfluous, 320-321.

16. Mitt Romney, Faith in America Speech at the George Bush Presidential Library, 6 December 2007.

17. Luke 12:48.

18. Superfluous, 305.

7.1: What Is Economics?

2. James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee, Common Sense Economics (New York: st. Martin's Press, 2005) 9.

3. Lionel Robbins, An Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science (London: Macmillan & Co., 1945) 16.

7.2: What Is Capitalism?

2. Karl Marx, Capital (New York: International Publishers, 1987).

3. Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (New York: The Modern Library, 1994).

4. Kenneth Minogue, Alien Powers: The Pure Theory of Ideology (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2007) 291.

5. John E. Sayre and Alan J. Morris, Principles of Microeconomics, 5th Ed. (Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 2006) 5.

6. Smith, Nations 745.

7. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) 13.

8. Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy (New York: Basic Books, 2004) 388.

9. Sowell, Basic, 389.

10. James Gwartney, Richard L. Stroup, and Dwight R. Lee, Common Sense Economics (New York: st. Martin's Press, 2005) 6.

11. Sowell, Basic, 146.

12. Gwartney et al, Common Sense, 19.

13. Walter E. Williams, "Capitalism and the Common Man," 25 August 1997.

14. Friedman, Capitalism, 171-172.

15. Friedman, Capitalism, 15.

16. Friedrich A. Hayek, "The Use of Knowledge in Society," American Economic Review, XXXV No. 4, September 1945, 519-530.

17. Sowell, Basic, 382.

7.3: What Is Socialism?

2. Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx, 4 ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) 144.

3. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, The Portable Marx, tr. Eugene Kamenka (New York: Penguin Books, 1983) 235.

7.4: What Is Communism?

2. Karl Marx, The Poverty of Philosophy, Marx and Engels: Collected Works, Vol. 6 (New York: International Publishers, 1976) 166.

3. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology, tr. W. Lough (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1998) 49.

4. Ibid., 37.

5. Karl Marx, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, The Portable Marx, tr. Eugene Kamenka (New York: Penguin Books, 1983) 160.

6. Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, The Portable Marx, tr. Eugene Kamenka (New York: Penguin Books, 1983) 541.

7. Karl Marx, Critique of the Gotha Programme, The Portable Marx, tr. Eugene Kamenka (New York: Penguin Books, 1983) 541.

8. Selected Correspondence of Marx and Engels 1846-1895, Letter 157 (Engels to Cuno, London, 24 January 1872), tr. Dona Torr (New York: International Publishers, 1934) 319-320.

9. Ernesto “Che” Guevara, El Socialismo y el Hombre en Cuba (Colombia: Ocean Sur, 2007) 11.