INDEX
A
ABC
Abdulla, King
abortion
Acheson, Dean
Acres
Adams, Sam
addiction
Addonizio, Kim
Adkins, Lucy
adolescence
“adultescence” phenomenon
“affirmative action,”
Affleck, Ben
“after man,”
“age of chivalry,”
“age of empathy,”
Agodon, Kelli Russell
agricultural labor
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud
al-Assad, Bashar
al-Awlaki, Anwar
al-Din, Taqi
al-Gamei’a, Muhammad
al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad
al-Qaeda
al-Zawahiri, Ayman
Albuquerque Journal
Aldrin, Buzz
Alesina, Alberto
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi
Almaleki, Noor
“Alpha male,”
Alterman, Eric
Amazing Stories
America
chance for
cushion for
debt of
decay of
decline of
Europeanization of
fall of
hope for
post-American world
undreaming
vulnerability of
world after
America Alone: The End of the World as We
Know It
“America the Beautiful,”
American Dream
beneficiaries of
desire for
loss of
requirement of
American Educator, The
American idea
American Idol
American idyll
American Journal of Medicine,
The
American, meaning of
American Nightmare
American Prospect, The
“American Recovery and Reinvestment
Plan,”
American Spectator, The
Amis, Martin
Aniston, Jennifer
Annie
Antitrust Division
Anwar, Mus’id
apartheid
apocalypse
Apple
Arbogast, Jessie
Archuleta, Deanna
Armageddon
Armstrong, Neil
arteriosclerosis
Arum, Richard
Associated Press
Astaire, Fred
Astor, Mary
Astounding Science Fiction
atheists
Athens, drowning of
Atlantic Monthly
Atta, Mohammed
audacity, hope of
Austin Powers
automobile industry
Ayers, William
B
Babylon
Bacca, Pippa
bailouts
Baker, Dean
Balls, Ed
Banting, Frederick
Barnett, Thomas P. M.
Bast, Andrew
Bastiat, Frédéric
Bates, Katharine Lee
Baucus, Max
Bawer, Bruce
Bayer, Henry
Beamer, Todd
Beecham, Thomas
Bellil, Samira
Belshazzar, King
Bennet, Michael
Bentham, Jeremy
Berg, Nick
Berger, David
Berkowitz, Peter
Berle, Milton
Berlin, Irving
Berlin Wall
Berlinski, Claire
Berman, Paul
Bernanke, Ben
Beschloss, Michael
Bethea, Ty’Sheoma
Beveridge, William
Bevin, Ernie
Bharuchi, Shayna
Biden, Joe
Bieber, Justin
Big Government
“Brains Trust,”
controlling price
curse of
father of
funding
future of
growth of
ineptitude of
monopoly by
results of
rolling back
secularism of
seduction by
small government and
as technocracy
unemployment and
vote for
Biggs, Andrew
bin Laden, Osama
bin Rashid, Maktoum
bin Zayed, Mohammed
Bing, Dave
Black-Eyed Peas
Black Hawk Down
Blair, Tony
Bloomberg, Michael
Bobb, Robert
Bogart, Humphrey
Bokassa, Emperor
Bolden, Charles
Bolkestein, Frits
Bolkestein, Minheer
Bolton, John
Bolton, Judge
bond markets
Bono
bonobos
Border Patrol
Boston Tea Party
Bradbury, Ray
“Brains Trust,”
Brandeis, Louis
Brann, Ty
Brave New World
Brecht, Bertolt
Britannia, depravity of
British elites. See also elites
Brokaw, Tom
broke, stupidity of
Brooks, David
Brooks, Mel
Brother Bear
Brown, Gordon
Brown, Scott
Brown, Tam
Bruni, Carla
“bubble,”
Buckingham Palace
budget
Big Government and
Contract with America and
cuts in
defense budget
deficits
health-care budget
military budget
outlook on
school budgets
welfare state and
Burchill, Julie
Bureau of Compliance
Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD)
Bureaucratic Expeditiousness
Regulation
Burgess, Anthony
Bush, George H.
Bush, George W.
“businessmen,”
Byrd, Robert C.
Byron, Lord
Byron, Robert C.
C
Cabaret
Cadell, Pat
Caldwell, Christopher
Caliphate
Callaghan, Jim
Cameron, James
can-do spirit
capitalism
Casagrande, Marina
Casey, George W., Jr.
CBS
centralization
certification fees
Chamberlain, Neville
Charlton, Bruce
Charnin, Martin
Chaudhury, Shah
Chavez, Hugo
Cheney, Dick
Chicago Sun-Times
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
children, education of
children, future of
children, war on
Chinese, and globalization
Chinn, Menzie
Chirac, Jacques
chivalry
“choice mothers,”
Chrysler Building
Churchill, Winston
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
City Journal
civic participation
Civilization and Its Enemies
Clash of Civilizations, The
Cleveland, Grover
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Clock work Orange, A
Clooney, George
Cloverfield
CNN
Coakley, Martha
Code Orange alert
code words
Codevilla, Angelo
coexisting
college
college loans
Collins, Randy
Columbia
Communism
Compliance Bureau
computer age
conformicrats
conformocracy
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Constitution
Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC)
consumer spending
consumerism
Contract with America
Contrast, The
control of price
Conyers, John
Coolidge, Calvin
corrupt elites. See also elites
Count Basie
Coyote, Ivan E.
credentialization
credit boom
credit “bubble,”
credit cards
“credit crunch,”
“credit default swap,”
Crosby, Bing
Cross, Gary
Cultural Revolution
Culture of Pleasure
culture wars
cures, races for
Currie, Jay
Curse of Bigness
D
Daily Express
Daily Mail
Daily Star, The
Daily Telegraph
Dalrymple, Theodore
Dancing with the Stars
Daniels, Anthony
Dawkins, Richard
Day, Doris
de-centralization
de-complicating
de-credentializing
de-governmentalization
de-monopolizing
de-normalizing
de-regulation
De Standaard
Dean, Howard
debt
debt interest
decay of America
decay of Rome
Declaration of Independence
Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire
decline of America
decline of Greece
Deemer, Andy
defense budget
deficit
DeParle, Jason
Dependistan
depravity of Britannia
Depression
Der Spiegel
Derbyshire, John
despotism
Detroit News
Diamond, Jared
Diary of Anne Frank, The
Diaz, Porfirio
dictatorships
Die Welt
Dingell, John, Jr.
Dingell, John, Sr.
dis-entitle
disintegration
diversity
diversity outreach
diversity training
“do something” attitude
Doherty, John
Dohrn, Bernardine
Dole, Bob
Domville, William
Douglas, William
Douglass, Frederick
drowning of Athens
D’Souza, Dinesh
Duranty, Walter
dystopian future
E
East African, The
eco-totalitarianism
economic downturn
economic growth
Economic Sophisms
Economist, The
Eden, Anthony
Edison, Thomas
education. See also college
education “reform,”
Edwards, Elizabeth
Edwards, John
Eighties (1980s)
Eisenhower, Dwight
elites
belief of
British elites
contempt of
corrupt elites
education of
new elites
vegetarian elites
western elites
Elmendorf, Douglas
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
empathy
Empire State Building
End of History, The
engineering
“enhanced patdowns,”
entitlement
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Erdogan, Prime Minister
Espenshade, Thomas
Esposito, Francesca
Estonia
European Union (EU)
Europeanization of America
Evers, Benzion
exceptionalism
F
Fahrenheit 451
Fake’s Progress
fall of America
Falsani, Cathleen
Fannie Mae
Farrakhan, Louis
Fascism
Faulks, Sebastian
federal aid “giveaway,”
federal budget. See budget
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC)
Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA)
Federal Reserve
federalism
“feelies,”
Ferdinand, Franz
Ferguson, Niall
fertility rates
fertility treatments
Fifties (1950s)
final frontier
“Final Solution,”
financial sector
Financial Times
Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough
Money in the World—and At What Cost?
Fineman, Howard
First Amendment
Fleischer, Michael
Follow the Fleet
following orders
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Ford, Henry
Fort Hood shooting
Forties (1940s)
Fortuyn, Pim
Foster, Jodie
Frank, Barney
Franklin, Benjamin
Freddie Mac
free trade
freedom. See also liberty
Freeman, Yvonne
Friedman, Milton
Friedman, Thomas L.
Frost, Frances
Fukuyama, Francis
Furstenberg, Frank
future, after America
future, giving up on
G
G7 members
Gaddafi, Colonel
Gates, Bill
Gates, Robert
Gavaza, April
gay community
gay marriage
GDP
growth of
percentage of
proportion of
Geithner, Timothy
Gelb, Leslie
“gender-neutral society,”
George III, King
George VI, King
German economy
Germany, bailouts
Gharbi, Gamil
Gibbon, Edward
Gilmour, Charlie
Gilmour, David
Gingrich, Newt
global currency
global economy
global retreat
globalization
China and
complexity of
crisis of
ideology of
networks of
prototype of
roles in
terrorist plots
Globe and Mail
Goethe
Goldberg, Jonah
Goodwin, Doris Kearns
Google
Gorbachev, Mikhail
Gore, Al
Gorelick, Jamie
government
accounting abilities of
bailouts by
de-governmentalization
de-monopolizing
growth of
monopoly by
Gracchus, Gaius
graffiti
Graham, Donald
Great Depression
Great Fire
Great Recession. See also
recession
“Greatest Generation,”
Greece, debt in
Greece, decline of
Greek riots
Green Day
“green jobs,”
green zone
Greer, Germaine
Ground Zero
Grunwald, Michael
Guardian, The
Guys and Dolls
H
Hamilton, Alexander
Hamza, Abu
Handel
Hansen, James
Hanson, Victor Davis
Hargreaves, James
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa
Harris, Lee
Harris, Sam
Harrison, George
Harstedt, Kent
Harvard Law Review
Hasan, Nidal
Hassan, Aasiya
Hayek, Friedrich
Hayes, Stephen
hazardous professions
health care
health-care bill
health-care budget
health-care system
Heartbreak House
Heinsohn, Gunnar
“helicopter parents,”
Heston, Charlton
Hillman, Mayer
Hilton, Paris
Himmler, Heinrich
History of the English-Speaking
Peoples
Hitler, Adolf
Hoffer, Eric
Hogarth
Hollywood
Holocaust
homophobes
homosexuals
homosexuals, and marriage
Hoover Dam
Hope, Bob
hope of audacity
household debt
housing market. See also mortgage
crisis
Houston, Sam
Huff, Elizabeth
Hughes, Elizabeth
Hughes, Henrietta
human capability, decline of
human capital
Humbert, Louise
Hume, Alison
Huntington, Samuel
Hussein, Saddam
Huxley, Aldous
Hymowitz, Kay
I
I, Rigoberta Menchu
Ignatieff, Michael
illegal immigration
Immigrants: Your Country Needs
Them
Independence Day
Independent, The
Industrial Revolution
Ingrams, Richard
Inouye, Daniel
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
inventions
Iron Curtain
Islam
“Islamophobia,”
It Can’t Happen Here
It Takes a Village
J
Jackson, Jesse
Jagger, Dean
Jefferson, Thomas
Jerusalem besieged
Jethá, Cacilda
jobs
federal workers
high-income regions
illegal immigrants and
loss of
low-paying jobs
in private sector
unemployment
jobs bill
Johnson, Barbara
Johnson, Boris
Johnson, Eddie Bernice
Johnson, Simon
Jonas, George
Jones, Quincy
Jones, Van
Jong-Il, Kim
Julius Caesar
Jyllands-Posten
K
Kael, Pauline
Kanjorski, Paul
Kaplan, Robert D.
Katz, Lillian
Kennedy, John F.
Kennedy, Ted
Kerry, John
Kerry, Teresa Heinz
Keynes, John Maynard
Keynesians
King, Martin Luther
Kitchen, John
Klein, Joe
Klein, Philip
Kobayashi, Yoshinori
Kodak
Kohen, Roger
Kröhnert, Steffen
Krugman, Paul
Kurzweil, Ray
L
labor force
Lady Gaga
Lady Liberty
Lardner, Ring
Last American, The
Lauper, Cyndi
Lee, Terry
Legrain, Philippe
Lehman Brothers collapse
Lépine, Marc
letter from post-American world
Levant, Ezra
Lewis, Sinclair
liberalism
liberty
fall of
last sigh of
price of
Life
Lileks, James
Lincoln, Abraham
“live free or die,”
Loesser, Frank
Los Angeles Times
“lottery of life,”
Louis XVI
Lowi, Theodore
Lyon, Jordon
M
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Mackey, Robert
MacLennan, Hugh
Macmillan, Harold
Madame Cornuel
Maidre, Andrus
Major, John
Malkin, Michelle
Maltese Falcon, The
Man for All Seasons, A
man, world after
“managed capitalism,”
Manliness
Mansfield, Harvey
manufacturing jobs
Mao
Marchand, Yves
marriage, gay
marriage, traditional
Marshall, Justice
Martin, Dean
Martin, James
marvels
Marx, Groucho
Mathis, Otis
Maude, General
McAlpine, Dale
McCain, John
McCarthy, Andrew
McKinley, William
McMillan, Kate
McNeill, J. R.
Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital
Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future
Medes
medical advancements
“mediocrity of spirit,”
Meffre, Romain
Men to Boys: The Making of Modern
Immaturity
meritocracy
Merkel, Angela
metaphors
Mexico
micro-tyrannies
military budget
Mill, John Stuart
Millin, Bill
Minogue, Kenneth
Mitchell, J. A.
Mitchell, Taylor
mobs
modernity
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh
monopolies
Monopolies Commission
Montesquieu
moon landings
More, Thomas
Morrison, Herbert
mortgage crisis
motivational speech
movies. See also Hollywood
Mrs. Lovett
MSNBC
Mubarak, Hosni
multiculturalism
Murdoch, William
Murphy, Julie
Murray, Charles
Murtha, Marge
Muslim world
myopia
N
nanny state
Napoleon
NASA
Nasrallah, Hassan
nation-states
national landmarks
National Public Radio (NPR)
National Review
nativists
NBC
nepotism
Netanyahu, Benjamin
“New Action Heroes, The,”
New Athens
New Britannia
“New Deal,”
new elites. See also elites
New England Primer, The
“New Foundation,”
“new freedoms,”
New Jerusalem
New Republic
New Rome
New York magazine
New York Times
New Yorker
newspaper industry
Newsweek
“Next Morning, The,”
Nichols, Mary Anne
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nineties (1890s)
Nineties (1990s)
Nixon, Richard
“no man’s land,”
“no two sides,”
North Korea
nuclear weapons
Nussbaum, Martha
O
Obama, Barack. See also ObamaCare;
“stimulus”
“apology tour” of
Berlin speech and
on children
college and
debt and
on exceptionalism
friends of
health-care system and
indifference of
no experience
Oval Office and
props and
on space exploration
speeches by
tax credits and
unemployment and
voting for
weirdness of
Obama, Michelle
ObamaCare
“Obamafication of economy,”
Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA)
Olbermann, Keith
Omar, Mullah
One-Child Policy
Onyango-Obbo, Charles
open season
Orback, Jens
orders, following
Orwell, George
Ottawa Citizen, The
Oughts (2000s)
P
Palin, Sarah
Palmerston, Lord
Palovak, Jewel
Parasite Eve
patdowns
Paterson, David A.
Patrick, Deval
“Patriot Act,”
Pearce, Fred
Pearl, Daniel
Pearson, Lester
Peck, Gregory
Pelosi, Nancy
Pence, Mike
Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the
Twenty-First Century and Blueprint for Action
People magazine
Peretz, Martin
permits
Peter and the Wolf
Picket, Kerry
Pink Floyd
Pinsky, Mark
Pirates of the Caribbean
Planet of the Apes
Plato
pleasure, culture of
Podhoretz, John
Poems Against the War
Politburo
political correctness
Political Economy
Polonius
Polytechnique
population statistics
post-American world
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Postrel, Virginia
Prager, Dennis
Pratte, Mary
Pravda
“President of Europe,”
price, control of
production
“progressives,” . See also
elites
property market. See also mortgage
crisis
props
protests
Protocols of the Elders of Zion,
The
“public service” incentive
Putin, Vladimir
Q
Quann, Derek
R
racism
racists
Radford, Alexandria
Rahe, Paul
Raines, Franklin
Rangel, Charlie
Ratzenberger, John
Reagan administration
Reagan, Ronald
real-estate market. See also mortgage
crisis
recession
“red tape,”
redistribution
Reed, Josie
Reeve, Christopher
Reflections on the Revolution in
Europe
Reid, Harry
relativism
Rembrandt
“Retail Sales Plummet,”
Reuters
Reynolds, Glenn
Rice, Condi
Rich, Frank
Richards, Jon
Right Ho, Jeeves
riots
Rizzo, Robert
Road to Serfdom, The
Road to Utopia, The
Roberts, Andrew
robotics
Robson, John
Rockefeller, John D.
Rockwell, Norman
Roesgen, Susan
Rogers, Ginger
Rogulski, Ken
Roksa, Josipa
Roman Empire
Rome, decay of
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosling, Hans
Rounsaville, Amanda
Rowling, J. K.
Rubin, Barry
Rumsfeld, Donald
“Run Upon the Bankers, The,”
Rush, Geoffrey
Rushdie, Salman
Russian “businessmen,”
Ryan, Christopher
Ryan, Paul
S
“safety net,”
Safire, William
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier
Salutin, Rick
Sanchez, Gustavo
Sarkozy, Nicolas
Saudi Arabia
Saudi mutaween
Saudi princes
Saudi sheiks
Saudi Wahhabists
Schiller, Vivian
Schindler’s List
school budgets. See also student
education
Schwarzenegger, Arnold
scientific advancements
Scruton, Roger
Sebelius, Kathleen
Second Amendment
Secondat, Charles-Louis de
Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC)
sedentary lifestyles
segregation
sensory distraction
September
serfdom
Sestius, Publius
Seventies (1970s)
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of
Modern Sexuality
sexists
sexual-harassment training
sexual identity
sexual license
Sexual Revolution
shadowlands
Shafia family
Shahzad, Faisal
Shaidle, Kathy
Shakespeare, William
Sharpton, Al
Shaw, Bernard
Shepard, Matthew
Shore, Dinah
Shousha, Abdel Fadil
Sinatra, Frank
single parents
Singularity
Sixties (1960s)
Size of Nations, The
Skinner, B. F.
skyscrapers
small business
small government
Smith, Adam
Sobran, Joseph
social engineering
social media
social spending
Soft Despotism, Democracy’s
Drift
solitudes
Sondheim, Stephen
Sotormayor, Sonia
South China Morning Post
space exploration
Spaceballs
Spendballs
spirit, can-do
spirit, mediocrity of
Spolaore, Enrico
Squalls, T.
Stalin, Joseph
Stark, General
Stark, Pete
statism
Statue of Liberty
Stein, Herbert
Steinem, Gloria
Sternbergh, Adam
Stewart, Alexis
Stewart, Jon
Stewart, Martha
Steyn, Mark
“stimulus,”
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Streisand, Barbra
Strouse, Charles
student education
student loans
stupidity of broke
success stories
Sullivan, Andrew
Summers, Christina Hoff
Summers, Lawrence
“sustainable” consumerism
Suzuki, David
Swift, Jonathan
T
Taleb, Nassim
Taliban
“talkies,” . See also movies
“tax credit,”
“tax cuts,”
taxes, raising
Taylor, Zachary
Tea Parties
“teabaggers,”
technocracy
technology
Tennyson, Lord
terror, war on
terrorist attacks
Thatcher, Margaret
Thirties (1930s)
“thumos,”
Time Machine, The
Time magazine
Times
tinkering
Titanic
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Todd, Sweeney
Tomasky, Michael
totalitarianism
town hall meetings
Toynbee, Arnold
traditional family
traditional marriage
transnationalism
Transportation Security Administration
(TSA)
Treadwell, Timothy
Treasury bonds
“trinity of evil,”
Trudeau, Pierre
Truman, Harry S.
Tucson shootings
Twain, Mark
Twelve O-Clock High
Twenties (1920s)
twentieth century
twenty-first century
“two Americas,”
Two Solitudes
Tyler, Royall
tyranny
U
U.S. Constitution
undreaming America
unemployment. See also jobs
unionization
United Nations (UN)
United States, hope for. See also
America
United States vs. Columbia Steel
Co.
universities
Urban II, Pope
USS Cole
ut-Tahrir, Hizb
utopianism
V
Van Buren, Martin
van den Boogaard, Oscar
van Gogh, Theo
van Rompuy, Herman
Ventura County Star
Veremi, Vasia
Villeneuve, Denis
virtual reality
W
Walker, Judge
Wall Street Journal
Walton, William
war on children
war on terror
War Room, The
Warren, David
Washington Post
Washington Times
Waters, Maxine
Waziristan
Webb, Jimmy
Week in December, A
Weekly Standard
welfare state
Wells, H. G.
western elites. See also elites
western world
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
“White City,”
Whitelaw, Willie
Who Are We?
Wilberforce, William
Wilders, Geert
wildlife
Will, George
Williams, Juan
Wodehouse, P. G.
Wolf, Martin
Wolfe, Tom
Wolffe, Richard
Wood, May
Woodstock
Woodward, Bob
world after America
world after man
World Distribution of Income,
The
World Trade Center
Wren, Christopher
Wright, Jeremiah
Wright, Orville
Wright, Wilbur
“writing on the wall,”
X
xenophobe
Y
Young, Coleman
Young Immigrunts, The
Young, Michael
Yufzai, Mushtaq