The The Right Right NationNation

John Micklethwait

Adrian Wooldridge

“I am amazed at the thought of an education cut! This is the most important thing in society. Every liberal – including me – will disapprove.”

Dwight Eisenhower, 1952

“These without doubt are the years of the liberal. Almost everyone now so describes himself.”

John Kenneth Galbraith, 1964

The changing geography

The changing geography

Conservatism of House of Representatives

Conservatism of House of Representatives

Conservatism of House of Representatives

Conservatism of House of Representatives

Income v valuesVoters with income over $100,000

0 10 20 30 40 50 60

Bush

Gore

Income v valuesChurch attendance

0 20 40 60 80

Never

Once a week

More than once aweek

Gore Bush

Would President Kerry be different?

Iraq Israel

Kyoto Trade

American and British public opinion selected social indicators, %

American and British public opinion selected issues, %

Are you proud to be…?% answering “very proud”

“Religion plays a very important role in my life”

“Which is more important for government?”

Our cheap apartment in the Bronx boasts “electric lights, gas cooking-range, bath, telephone, automatic service elevator and even a chute for the garbage.”

Leon Trotsky, 1917

“America is so purely bourgeois, so entirely without a feudal past and therefore proud of its purely bourgeois organization.”

Friedrich Engels, 1890

“The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years.”

Oscar Wilde

Powering aheadPopulation, m

“So inevitable, and yet so completely unforeseen.”

Alexis de Tocqueville on the French Revolution

The The Right Right NationNation

John Micklethwait

Adrian Wooldridge