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            <p style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">On May 9 I&#8217;ll be giving my first speech on the book at AEI. Details <a href="http://www.aei.org/events/2012/05/09/the-tyranny-of-clichs-how-liberals-cheat-in-the-war-of-ideas/">here</a>.</p>
<p>On May 16, I&#8217;ll be at the Heritage Foundation, hopefully giving a slightly different talk.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.heritage.org/events/2012/05/tyranny-of-cliches">Details here</a>.</p>
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            <p style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">This anti-Cato, anti-Koch brothers screed over at <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/167500/independent-and-principled-behind-cato-myth">The Nation</a> by Mark Ames has too many flaws to address. Among the lowlights, he calls Charles Murray&#8217;s<em> Bell Curve</em> a &#8220;racial eugenics book&#8221; (it&#8217;s not), nor does Murray argue that &#8220;blacks and Latinos are genetically inferior to whites.&#8221; David Weigel wasn&#8217;t part of IHS.&nbsp; And so on.</p>
<p>Though I do think&nbsp; Ames actually lands a good point when he observes that Cato is more of an institution of the right than many of the folks at Cato want to admit. That doesn&#8217;t make them intellectually dishonest or any of that rot. But it is true.</p>
<p>What I actually found fascinating, however were the comments, and I don&#8217;t just mean the commenter who seems to have rightly called out the Nation for supporting a writer who<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=S-mnJ_zG8coC&amp;pg=PA153&amp;dq=mark+ames+fif-teen&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=EuCST861EMWJtwf89vi1Cw&amp;ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=mark%20ames%20fif-teen&amp;f=false"> brags about getting fifteen year old girls drunk so he can force himself on them sexually. </a></p>
<p>In particular I thought this was intriguing. A commenter is deploring the role of think tanks in Washington:</p>
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	<p>Yes, but [think tanks&#39;] main function is to pollute the political landscape with misinformation and create arguments that shouldn&#8217;t even take place in the first place.&nbsp; When there is in argument, there is a stall in action against whatever the argument is over. No matter how stupid the argument against, it takes up time in Congress, the court system etc.&nbsp; That is the function of these think tanks.&nbsp; To stall, and even kill movements against anything that would threat the powers that be.&nbsp; The powers that be, are the major funding entities of these &#8220;think tanks&#8221;.&nbsp; The Koch Brothers are a perfect example.</p>
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<p>Having worked in and around think tanks in Washington (specifically the American Enterprise Institute, where I am a fellow), this is high-proof hogwash. But it does show you a certain remarkable contempt for free speech and public debate that I think is revealing. Democracy, as I argue at length in TOC and elsewhere, is about disagreement not agreement. If you think the right&#8217;s disagreements are on their face illegitimate because they slow down the left, then you don&#8217;t understand democracy.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s also an irony here. The reason many conservative academics (I obviously don&#8217;t include myself here) find their way to Washington think tanks is that they are treated with such hostility on and by college campuses. If the left hadn&#8217;t made free discourse and conservative ideas so unwelcome in higher education, we probably wouldn&#8217;t have the potent conservative think tanks we have today.</p>
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            <p style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">I&#8217;m way too fried from my whirlwind trip to West Virginia and back to add anything particularly interesting right now, but I seemed to have inspired&nbsp; Steve Hayward on the <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/will-the-real-social-darwinists-please-stand-up.php">subject</a> of <a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/04/social-darwinism-continued.php">social Darwinism.</a> Worth checking out if you&#8217;re remotely interested.</p>
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            <p style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">One problem I ran into working on TOC was figuring out which cliches to include and which to exclude. If you have some favorites that aren&#8217;t in the book, or something to add to the ones that are in the book, please pass them on.</p>
<p>For instance, one phrase that drives me crazy that we hear from politicians of all stripes is &#8220;Einstein defined insanity as &#8216;doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.&rdquo;</p>
<p>First of all does anyone know if he really said that?</p>
<p>Second, this is absurd. You know a better word for &#8220;doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results&#8221;?</p>
<p>&#8220;Practice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Golfers do the same thing over and over again hoping different results. Dart throwers, writers, prostitutes, singers, dancers, musicians, knitters and just about everybody who wants to get better at something repeat the same behavior over and over again. The saying &#8220;practice makes perfect&#8221; makes a hell of a lot more sense than &#8220;practice makes you crazy,&#8221; though I suppose practice has driven some people crazy. But you get the point.</p>
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            <p style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">Well, I got the word that &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; has taken a pass on having me on to talk <em>Tyranny of Cliches</em>. The explanation that was passed on to me was that the book is too &#8220;one-sided&#8221; and that they don&#8217;t do books like that. As far as I can tell, that&#8217;s nonsense.</p>
<p>Of course, the show is free to have on whoever they want. I was just a little surprised. My last outing on the Daily Show was rather famous. Stewart went after me hammer and tongs for nearly 20 minutes and then they cut it down to five or six minutes, in ways &#8212; I&#8217;ve been told (I&#8217;ve never watched it) &#8212; that were quite friendly to Stewart (<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/156609/what-fresh-hell-was/mark-hemingway">Here&#8217;s Mark Hemingway&#8217;s response at the time)</a>. I was hardly great, and I certainly should have prepared myself for such a hostile interview so early in the book tour. But Stewart was a mess. He seemed to think that spending an afternoon reading up on fascism made him an expert. I have never watched the final clip that aired, but in the interview he seemed obsessed &#8212; as many critics of LF have been &#8212; with some quotes from Mussolini denouncing &#8220;liberalism.&#8221;&nbsp; The argument goes something like this: See! Liberal Fascism makes no sense since Mussolini hated liberalism.</p>
<p>The problem is that the liberalism Mussolini was denouncing was the &#8220;Manchester liberalism&#8221; of free markets and free trade, which pretty much bolstered my point. For the record, while I have huge problems with many of Stewart&#8217;s views and arguments, and have written as much many times, I still think he&#8217;s very talented and a charming guy.</p>
<p>Anyway, the next day Stewart called me and was very conciliatory and friendly. He didn&#8217;t apologize, but he made it clear he thought the whole thing didn&#8217;t go ideally either.&nbsp; The way I remember it at least, he seemed eager to have me back. Clearly,&nbsp; I was either wrong or things have changed. It&#8217;s too bad, it would have been fun.</p>
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            <p style="margin-top: 0; padding-top: 0;">For those interested in the academic literature on all this, a great place to start is Thomas Leonard&#8217;s<a href="http://www.princeton.edu/~tleonard/papers/myth.pdf"> &#8220;Origins of the myth of social Darwinism: The ambiguous legacy of Richard Hofstadter&rsquo;s <em>Social Darwinism in American Thought.&#8221; </em>(PDF).<br />
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<p>And here&#8217;s a pretty even-handed <a href="http://historyofeconomics.wordpress.com/2009/06/04/is-social-darwinism-a-myth/">recap of the historiography. </a></p>
<p>And Damon Root has been <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2008/07/29/the-unfortunate-case-of-herber">writing great stuff</a> on Herbert Spencer for a while.</p>               			  </div>
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	<p>This raises the real problem with the AP&rsquo;s analysis. It has the history exactly backwards. The topic was not popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it is now. And it&rsquo;s not suddenly &ldquo;making its way&rdquo; into modern politics. Liberals have been irresponsibly flinging the term Social Darwinism rightward for decades. Mario Cuomo, in his famous 1984 Democratic Convention keynote speech&mdash;which &ldquo;electrified,&rdquo; &ldquo;galvanized,&rdquo; and &ldquo;inspired&rdquo; Democrats, who went on to lose 49 states in the general election&mdash;declared that &ldquo;President Reagan told us from the very beginning that he believed in a kind of Social Darwinism.&rdquo; Walter Mondale, the Democratic nominee that year, insisted that Reagan preferred &ldquo;Social Darwinism&rdquo; over &ldquo;social decency.&rdquo; Even Barack Obama&rsquo;s April 3 speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors was so much recycling. In 2005, then-senator Obama denounced the conservative idea of an &ldquo;ownership society,&rdquo; charging that &ldquo;in our past there has been another term for it&mdash;Social Darwinism&mdash;every man or woman for him or herself.&rdquo;<br />
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		Meanwhile, the myth that Social Darwinism was a popular term in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was largely created by the liberal historian Richard Hofstadter, whose 1944 book Social Darwinism in American Thought didn&rsquo;t merely transform our understanding of the Gilded Age, it largely fabricated an alternative history of it.<br />
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		But let us start with Herbert Spencer, the man who is always cast as the villain of the tale and the &ldquo;founder&rdquo; of the Social Darwinist &ldquo;movement.&rdquo; A writer for one British paper insists Spencer was &ldquo;a downright evil man .&thinsp;&thinsp;.&thinsp;&thinsp;. whose passion for eugenics and elimination made him the daydreamer of things to come.&rdquo; Edwin Black, in his history of eugenics, War Against the Weak, writes that Spencer &ldquo;completely denounced charity and instead extolled the purifying elimination of the &lsquo;unfit.&rsquo; The unfit, he argued, were predestined by their nature to an existence of downwardly spiraling degradation.&rdquo; Hofstadter himself wrote that the (almost wholly progressive) eugenics movement in America &ldquo;has proved to be the most enduring aspect&rdquo; of Spencer&rsquo;s &ldquo;tooth-and-claw version of natural selection.&rdquo;<br />
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		The most creative assault on Spencer must be Richard L. Schoenwald&rsquo;s psychological autopsy in the 1968 summer issue of the esteemed journal Victorian Studies, in which the historian reveals that Spencer&rsquo;s twisted and deformed worldview stemmed from his fascination with feces.<br />
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		Starting with Spencer&rsquo;s childhood in the 1820s, Schoenwald concluded that &ldquo;Spencer&rsquo;s self-esteem had been undermined hopelessly in the oral and anal stages of his development; he could commit himself only to paper, not to a woman.&rdquo; As a baby, Spencer rejoiced in his ability to &ldquo;create excrement.&rdquo; He never forgave his parents&rsquo; efforts at toilet training, which revoked the &ldquo;freedom in which he had gloried.&rdquo; This &ldquo;fearful attack from behind&rdquo; left permanent scars, which is why, for example, Spencer would one day oppose public sanitation regulation, because he &ldquo;saw in sanitary reform an attack on his magical anal producing powers.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>You can read the whole thing over there. Though sending you over there, makes me feel like Santa in Miracle on 34th Street sending customers to Gimbel&#8217;s.</p>
<p><strong>Update</strong>: Thomas Lifson has a very generous reaction over at the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/04/obama_launches_meme_jonah_goldberg_shoots_it_down.html">American Thinker.</a></p>
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