Is democracy possible here?: Principles for a new political debate

Is Democracy Possible Here?: Principles for a New Political Debate

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1. See my article in "The Election and America's Future," The New York Review of Books, November 4, 2004.
2. Newt Gingrich, Winning the Future (Regnery, Regnery,), xiv.
3. Throughout this book, unless the context dictates otherwise, I use masculine pronouns as gender-neutral references.
4. I elaborate this conception of the relation between liberty and equality in my books Sovereign Virtue (Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press,) and Justice in Robes (Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press,), chapter 4.
5. I describe these phenomena at greater length in my book Life's Dominion (Knopf, Knopf,).
6. See my article "You'd Better Believe It," Philosophy & Public Affairs (1991).
7. Robert P. George, Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press,), 106. George describes a paternalist I once imagined, who thinks that people's lives go better if they are forced to pray, as a "straw man." "It is hard to imagine a God foolish enough to be tricked by or pleased by such imitation prayer or a modern person foolish enough to believe in such a God."
8. For a statement of the case against the president's claim, see the letter to members of Congress on National Security Agency spying from fourteen former officials and constitutional scholars, The New York Review of Books, February 9, 2006.
9. See my article "What the Court Really Said," The New York Review of Books, August 12, 2004.
10. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, 415 F.3d 33 (2005).
11. That is my own view. See Sovereign Virtue, chapters 11 and 12.
12. See my book Justice for Hedgehogs (Harvard University Press, forthcoming).
13. See Bob Jones III Retiring from University, http://www.msnbc. msn.com/id/6850482/from/RL.5/.
14. See Joseph Loconte, "Isaiah Was a Democrat," International Herald Tribune, January 3, 2006.
15. See "How Family's Cause Reached the Halls of Congress," New York Times, March 22, 2005, section A, p. 1.
16. See John Danforth, "In the Name of Politics," New York Times, March 30, 2005, section A, p. 17.
17. New York Times, November 4, 2004, section A, p. 25.
18. Lynch v. Donnelly, 465 U.S. 668 (1984).
19. See the dissenting opinion of Justice Potter Stewart in Abington School District v. Schempp, 374. U.S. 2003 (1963).
20. United States v. Macintosh, 283 U.S. 605 (1931). Gingrich, Winning the Future, ix, 69.
21. Zorach v. Clauson, 343 U.S. 306 (1952).
22. Engel v. Vitale 370 U.S. 421 (1962).
23. Allegheny County v. ACLU, 492 U.S. 573 (1989), Justice Kennedy dissenting.
24. See my discussion of Rawls's idea of public reason in Justice in Robes, chapter 9.
25. John Rawls, Collected Papers (Harvard University Press, Harvard University Press,), 588-89.
26. Gingrich, Winning the Future, xxi.
27. My formulation runs against the grain of much contemporary political philosophy because it merges different values that philosophers like to keep distinct; it makes the scope of liberty depend on other values, including those of distributive justice. See the discussion of democracy in chapter 5. I defend my view that political values cannot be understood independently of one another in Justice in Robes, chapter 6, and, at a more philosophical level, in Justice for Hedgehogs.
28. United States v. Seegar, 380 U.S. 163, 166 (1965).
29. Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania v. Casey, 505 US 833 (1992).
30. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).
31. Gingrich, Winning the Future, ix, 69.
32. Dworkin, Life's Dominion.
33. See Denise Grady, "Study Finds 29-Week Fetuses Probably Feel No Pain and Need No Abortion Anesthesia," New York Times, August 2005, section A, p. 10.
34. I discuss the question of the interests of people dead or unconscious in Life's Dominion.
35. Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board, Federal District Court Middle Area Pennsylvania, Judge John Jones Memorandum Opinion, December 20, 2005.
36. Elisabeth Bumiller, "Bush Remarks Roil Debate over Teaching of Evolution," New York Times, August 3, 2005, section A, p. 14.
37. David Stout, "Frist Urges 2 Teachings on Life Origin," New York Times, August 20, 2005, section A, p. 10.
38. See Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School Board. For a very clear statement of the scientific errors in the intelligent design argument, see Philip M. Boffey, "The Evolution Wars, Revisited," New York Times on the Web, http://select.nytimes.com/2006/01/18/opinion/18talkingpoints .html?pagewanted=all8dpc.
39. Bumiller, "Bush Remarks Roil."
40. See Michael A. Fletcher and Jonathan Weisman, "Bush Renews Push for Extending Tax Cuts," Washington Post, December 6, 2005, p. A02.
41. Arthur B. Kennickell, "A Rolling Tide: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in the U.S., 1989-2001," table 10 (Levy Economics Institute, November Levy Economics Institute, November).
42. http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/ie3.html.
43. See "A Marie Antoinette Moment," International Herald Tribune, January 3, 2006, p. 6.
44. See Joel Friedman and Robert Greenstein, "Exempting Corporate Dividends from Individual Income Taxes," Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, January 6, 2003.
45. See "Wanted: A Wary Audience," New York Times, January 31, 2006, section A, p. 20.
46. See "Economy Up, People Down: Declining Earnings Undercut Income Growth," Economic Policy Institute Publication, http://www.epi .org/content.cfm/webfeatures_econindicators_income20050831.
47. See "Average American Family Income Declines," http://abcnews .go.com/Business/wireStory?id=1654810&business=true.
48. See Council of Economic Advisers, "Strengthening America's Economy: The President's Jobs and Growth Proposals," January 7, 2003.
49. "Wanted: A Wary Audience."
50. Joseph Stiglitz, "Bush's Tax Plan-the Dangers," The New York Review of Books, March 13, 2003.
51. See, e.g., Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas (Henry Holt, Henry Holt,).
52. See, e.g., Ian Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory (Princeton University Press, Princeton University Press,).
53. See the discussion of Rawls in chapter 3 and in Justice in Robes, chapter 9.
54. That claim is forcefully argued in Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel, The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press,).
55. See Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue, chapters 2 and 3.
56. We cannot rule out the possibility that some very few people would not have insured themselves at least to that level. But we do not know which people would not have done so, if indeed any would not, and if the probability is overwhelming that any particular person would have insured at that level, fairness requires us to treat everyone on the assumption that he would have done so.
57. See Murphy and Nagel, Myth of Ownership. See also Justine Burley, ed., Dworkin and His Critics (Blackwells, Blackwells,), 353.
58. See Sovereign Virtue, especially chapters 2 and 9.
59. However, there is some evidence that corporations prefer higher taxes and a workforce that is better educated through the educational system that higher taxes make possible. See Paul Krugman's account of Toyota's decision to build a new plant in Ontario rather than in the American South, "Toyota, Moving North," New York Times, July 25, 2005, section A, p. 19.
60. See Murphy and Nagel, Myth of Ownership. See also my article "Do Liberty and Equality Conflict," in Paul Barker, ed., Living as Equals (Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press,).
61. Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin, Deliberation Day (Yale University Press, Yale University Press,).
62. See Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue, chapter 4.
63. The campaign finance decision is Buckley v. Vallejo, 424 U.S. 1 (1974). For my argument that that decision was wrong, see Sovereign Virtue, chapter 10.
64. Ann Coulter, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (Crown Forum, If You Must) (Crown Forum,).