41. “Islam and Phobias,” The Economist, January 10, 2008; available online at http://www.economist.com/node/10499144?story_id=10499144.

42. Steven Erlanger, “Europeans Fear Crisis Threatens Liberal Benefits,” New York Times, May 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/world/europe/23europe.html.

43. Dan Bilefsky and Landon Thomas Jr., “The Bitter Pills in the Plan to Rescue Greece,” New York Times, April 30, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/business/global/01euro.html.

44. Paul Krugman, “The Comeback Continent,” New York Times, January 11, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/opinion/11krugman.html.

45. Post-election panel at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, November 3, 2008; available online at http://strictlyright.com/2010/11/video-post-election-panel-with-mark-steyn-howard-dean-fred-thompson/.

46. Remarks during a press conference in Brussels, Belgium, November 21, 2009; available online at http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100017487/herman-van-rompuy-today-the-eu-tomorrow-the-world/.

47. Vicki Needham, “Obama adviser Volcker says record deficits could lead to new VAT tax,” The Hill, April 7, 2010; available online at http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/domestic-taxes/90991-volcker-suggests-raising-taxes-possibly-adding-a-value-added-tax.

48. Panel Study of Income Dynamics, University of Michigan, 2001.

49. Remarks during the 2009 Irving Kristol Lecture at the annual AEI Annual Dinner in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2009; available online at http://www.aei.org/speech/100023.

50. Tom Wolfe, “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” New York Magazine, August 23, 1976; available online at http://nymag.com/news/features/45938/.

51. Remarks at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 7, 2009; available online at http://www.securityconference.de/index.php?id=242&zic=1117_1.

52. Andreas Tzortzis, “One Wall Down, Thousands to Paint,” New York Times, March 2, 2008; available online at http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/travel/02headsup.html.

Chapter Four

1. Richard Wolffe, Revival: The Struggle for Survival Inside the Obama White House (New York: Crown, 2010); facts available online at http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/how_the_nanny_president_sees_himself_Rz5QE1GoCFaiwCJvR9mrdP.

2. Dan Jones, “A WEIRD View of Human Nature Skews Psychologists’ Studies,” Science, June 24, 2010; available online at http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/WEIRD%20in%20Science.pdf.

3. Andrew Malcolm, “Michelle Obama serves food to D.C. poor and homeless, but…” Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2009; available online at http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/03/michelle-obama.html.

4. Nicholas Timmins, “No worker in one-sixth of UK households,” Financial Times, August 26, 2009; available online at http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0e1abd04-9221-11de-b63b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1MqD08fIT.

5. Victor Davis Hanson, “Dronism,” PajamasMedia.com, March 3, 2010; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/dronism/.

6. Remarks made on Al-Rahma TV, June 6, 2010; available online at http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2503.htm.

7. Associated Press, “Israel pounds Luxembourg in World Cup qualifier,” September 9, 2009; facts available online at http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2009-09-09-1359674765_x.htm.

8. Charles Murray, In Our Hands (AEI Press, 2006).

9. New Threats to Freedom, ed. Adam Bellow (Templeton Press, 2010).