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17 Dorothy Rabinowitz, “ Darkness in Massachusetts,” Wall Street Journal, 30 January 1995, p. A20 (contains quote); “ack in Wenatchee” (unsigned editorial), Wall Street Journal,20 June 1996, p. A18; Dorothy Rabinowitz, “Justice in Massachusetts,” Wall StreetJournal,13 May 1997, p. A19. See also Nathan and Snedeker, Satan’s Silence; James Beaver, “The Myth of Repressed Memory,” Journal of CriminalLawand Criminology 86 (1996): 596-607; Kathryn Lyon, Witch Hunt (New York: Avon, 1998); Pam Belluck, “‘Memory’ Therapy Leads to a Lawsuit and Big Settlement,” New York Times, 6 November 1997, pp. Al, 10.

18 Elliott Currie, Crime and Punishment in America (New York: Metropolitan, 1998); Tony Pate et al., Reducing Fear of Crime in Houston and Newark (Washington, DC: Police Foundation, 1986); Steven Donziger, TheReal War on Crime (New York: HarperCollins, 1996); Christina Johns, Power, Ideology and the War on Drugs (New York: Praeger, 1992); John Irwin et al., “Fanning the Flames of Fear,” Crime and Delinquency 44 (1998): 32-48.

19 Steven Donziger, “Fear, Crime and Punishment in the U.S.,” Tikkun 12 (1996): 24-27, 77.

20 Peter Budetti, “Health Insurance for Children,” New England Journal ofMedicine 338 (1998): 541-42; Eileen Smith, “Drugs Top Adult Fears for Kids’ Well-being,” USA Today, 9 December 1997, p. D1. Literacy statistic: Adult Literacy Service.

21 “The State of America’s Children,” report by the Children’s Defense Fund, Washington, DC, March 1998; “Blocks to Their Future,” report by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, Washington, DC, September 1997; reports released in 1998 from the National Center for Children in Poverty, Columbia University, New York; Douglas Massey, “The Age of Extremes,” Demography33 (1996): 395—412; Trudy Lieberman, “Hunger in America,” Nation, 30 March 1998, pp. 11-16; David Lynch, “Rich Poor World,” USA Today, 20 September 1996, p. B1; Richard Wolf, “Good Economy Hasn’t Helped the Poor,” USA Today, 10 March 1998, p. A3; Robert Reich, “Broken Faith,” Nation, 16 February 1998, pp. 11—17.

22 Inequality and mortality studies: Bruce Kennedy et al., “Income Distribution and Mortality,” British Medical Journal 312 (1996): 1004-7; Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce Kennedy, “The Relationship of Income Inequality to Mortality,” Social Science andMedicine 45 (1997): 1121-27. See also Barbara Chasin, Inequality and Violence in the United States (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1997). Political stability: John Sloan, “The Reagan Presidency, Growing Inequality, and the American Dream,” Policy Studies Journal 25 (1997): 371-86 (contains Reich quotes and “will haves” phrase). On both topics see also Philippe Bourgois, In Search ofRespect:Selling Crack in El Barrio (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996); William J. Wilson, When Work Disappears (New York, Knopf, 1996); Richard Gelles, “Family Violence,” Annual Review of Sociology 11 (1985): 347-67; Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk, America Unequal (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995); Claude Fischer et al., Inequality by Design (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996).

23 Mike Tharp and William Holstein, “Mainstreaming the Militia,” U.S. News & World Report, 21 April 1997, pp. 24-37.

24 Burger King: “Notebooks,” New Republic, 29 April 1996, p. 8. Statistics from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, Centers for Disease Control reports, and Timothy Egan, “Oregon Freeman Goes to Court,” New York Times, 23 May 1998, pp. A1, 8.

25 Bill Thompson, “It’s Not Guns, It’s Killer Kids,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 March 1998, p. 14; “Guns Aren’t the Problem,” New York Post 30 March 1998 (from Post Web site); “Arkansas Gov. Assails ‘Culture of Violence,’” Reuters, 25 March 1998; Bo Emerson, “Violence Feeds ‘Redneck,’ Gun-Toting Image,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution, 29 March 1998, p. A8; Nadya Labi, “The Hunter and the Choir Boy,” Time, 6 April 1998, pp. 28-37; Lacayo, “Toward the Root of Evil.”

26 Alan Kerckhoff and Kurt Back, TheJuneBug (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts,