hist 1302 blog - week 14

Clean Sweep, 1980-2000Rise of Conservatism in

America, 122-165 

HIST 1302: US History Survey, 1877-The Present

Week 14

Prof. Dobe's Introduction

George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty (1981)

•Free Markets and Anti-Feminism•"Work, Marry, Have Faith"•Praise of Wealth •Welfare Saps Initiative•Role of the Male Head of Household•Feminism is Bad for Men and Families•"Essentialism" •Free Markets Also Used to Justify Greed:

Milton Friedman on the Phil Donahue Show

George Gilder

Ronald Reagan, National Association of

Evangelicals (Mar. 1983)

• "Evil Empire" Speech•Attack on "Secularism"•Starts With "Abortion on Demand"

(See Also the Southern Baptist Convention's Abortion Resolution, 1984)

•Religious Beliefs Form a Bridge to Anti-Communism

•Soviet Union is the "Focus of Evil in the Modern World"

•Beyond the Evil Empire Speech: In This Environment, Hollywood Plays to Americans' Invasion Fantasies -- Red Dawn Trailer

National Association of Evangelicals

Red Dawn Movie

Ronald Reagan's Evil Empire Speech

Red Dawn Movie (Trailer)

J. A. Dorn, Social Security: Continuing Crisis or Real Reform? 1983.

Social Security Debate

•Read and analyze the text. 

Southern Baptist Convention, Resolution on Abortion, June 1984.

Southern Baptist Convention

•Read and analyze the text. 

The President's Commission on Privatization, March 18, 1988.

George Gilder

•Read and analyze the text. 

Antonin Scalia, Opinion on the Juvenile Death Penalty, 1988.

Antonin Scalia

•Read and analyze the text. 

William G. Laffer III, George Bush's Hidden Tax: The Explosion of Regulation, 1992.

Read my lips: no new taxes

•Read and analyze the text. 

Jenny Westberg, Abortion Drawings, 1993.

•Read and analyze the illustrated tract. 

Roe v. Wade

David Frum, Dead Right (1994)

•Read and analyze the text. 

David Frum

On Booknotes,"Mr. Frum talked about his recently published book, Dead Right, which deals with the problems of the Republican

conservatism stemming from the intellectual and political malaise of the late 1980s and its chances for revival against the current power of

the Democratic party."

Conversations with History: David Frum

Southern Baptist Convention, Resolution on Homosexual Marriage, June 1996.

•Read and analyze the text. 

Southern Baptist

Convention

Randy Tate, Middle Class Families Need a Flat Tax, 1999.

•Read and analyze the text. 

Randy Tate

Tim LaHaye, Anti-Christ Philosophy Already Controls America and Europe, 1999.

•Read the article•Check out the next three slides for oMovie Trailer from the Left Behind Movies oChristian Coalition Recruiting Videoo700 Club Video on Anti-Gay Vigil

Tim LaHaye

George W. Bush's Nomination Acceptance Speech, 2000

•Read and analyze the text. 

George W. Bush