a
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 264, 270,
ABC, 64
275–76
Abdulla, King, 273
al-Assad, Bashar, 275
abortion, 80, 161, 177, 178, 180, 204, al-Awlaki, Anwar, 169-70
304, 309
al-Din, Taqi, 32
Acheson, Dean, 199
al-Gamei’a, Muhammad, 265
Acres, 85
al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad, 32
Adams, Sam, 201
al-Qaeda, 42–43, 162, 263
addiction, 20, 22, 36, 256
al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 162
Addonizio, Kim, 140
Albuquerque Journal, 254
Adkins, Lucy, 140
Aldrin, Buzz, 28–29
adolescence, 129, 172, 181
Alesina, Alberto, 237–38
“adultescence” phenomenon, 181
Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 297
“affirmative action,” 151–53, 165, 238
Almaleki, Noor, 303–4
Affleck, Ben, 141
“Alpha male,” 176
“after man,” 306–10
Alterman, Eric, 67
“age of chivalry,” 186
Amazing Stories, 38–39
“age of empathy,” 158,160
America
Agodon, Kelli Russell, 140
chance for, 22–23, 279–324
agricultural labor, 211–12
cushion for, 16
debt of, 2–23
decay of, 21–22
Amis, Martin, 293
decline of, 12–13, 17-18, 32, 43, Aniston, Jennifer, 176–78
127–87
Annie, 1
Europeanization of, 120–22
Antitrust Division, 46–47, 49
fall of, 13–14, 211–67
Anwar, Mus’id, 135–36
hope for, 279–324
apartheid, 152, 245, 263–65
post-American world, 279–324
apocalypse, 1–2
undreaming, 45–102
Apple, 32
vulnerability of, 19–20, 230, 259, Arbogast, Jessie, 260
281
Archuleta, Deanna, 34
world after, 279–324
Armageddon, 20–22
America Alone: The End of the World Armstrong, Neil, 28
as We Know It, 1–2, 15, 19, 28, 105, arteriosclerosis, 20, 22
118, 129, 189
Arum, Richard, 340
“America the Beautiful,” 40
Associated Press, 165, 167, 290
American Dream
Astaire, Fred, 41, 166
beneficiaries of, 131
Astor, Mary, 65
desire for, 244–45, 253–54, 331–
Astounding Science Fiction, 38–39
32
atheists, 321
loss of, 15, 22–23, 326, 331–32
Athens, drowning of, 103–25
requirement of, 35
Atlantic Monthly, 93, 161–62, 319
American Educator, The, 157
Atta, Mohammed, 283
American idea, 16, 21, 38, 70, 102, 267, audacity, hope of, 325–49
306, 326, 342, 348–49
Austin Powers, 242
American Idol, 45
automobile industry, 47, 101, 217–20
American idyll, 127–87
Ayers, William, 42, 145, 147
American Journal of Medicine, The, 226
American, meaning of, 141–42
B
Babylon, 7, 14
American Nightmare, 22
Bacca, Pippa, 265–66
American Prospect, The, 63
bailouts, 64, 109, 218, 346
“American Recovery and Reinvest-
Baker, Dean, 93
ment Plan,” 33
Balls, Ed, 192
American Spectator, The, 82
Banting, Frederick, 27–28
index 409
Barnett, Thomas P. M., 318
father of, 33–34
Bast, Andrew, 168
funding, 72, 109, 129
Bastiat, Frédéric, 45
future of, 75, 329, 333
Bates, Katharine Lee, 40, 41
growth of, 9–10, 15, 21–22
Baucus, Max, 63
ineptitude of, 34, 56, 63–64,
Bawer, Bruce, 141
85–86, 92, 102–3, 204–6, 213–
Bayer, Henry, 108
14, 217–18, 230–36, 255–56
Beamer, Todd, 296
monopoly by, 20, 22, 48–53, 236,
Beecham, Thomas, 39
337–38
Bellil, Samira, 299, 300, 302
results of, 75, 106, 204–6, 213–14,
Belshazzar, King, 7, 14–15, 18–19,
217–18, 230–36, 244, 255–56
124–25
rolling back, 333–47
Bennet, Michael, 2
secularism of, 305–6
Bentham, Jeremy, 257
seduction by, 70–72
Berg, Nick, 321
small government and, 90–91,
Berger, David, 161
335, 346–48
Berkowitz, Peter, 63
as technocracy, 53–55, 67–68
Berle, Milton, 26–27
unemployment and, 48
Berlin, Irving, 166
vote for, 214, 228
Berlin Wall, 159, 237
Biggs, Andrew, 332
Berlinski, Claire, 300
bin Laden, Osama, 39, 41, 162, 164,
Berman, Paul, 165
275
Bernanke, Ben, 97–98, 326
bin Rashid, Maktoum, 275
Beschloss, Michael, 55
bin Zayed, Mohammed, 275
Bethea, Ty’Sheoma, 325–26, 329–30
Bing, Dave, 222
Beveridge, William, 204
Black-Eyed Peas, 30
Bevin, Ernie, 58
Black Hawk Down, 315
Bharuchi, Shayna, 319
Blair, Tony, 57–58, 63, 182, 203
Biden, Joe, 147
Bloomberg, Michael, 40, 59–60, 80,
Bieber, Justin, 35
164–65, 168, 208
Big Government
Bobb, Robert, 220
“Brains Trust,” 53–54, 57
Bogart, Humphrey, 65
controlling price, 48–49
Bokassa, Emperor, 222
curse of, 47–49
Bolden, Charles, 31–32
410
after america
Bolkestein, Frits, 298
deficits, 3–16, 110–11, 117–18,
Bolkestein, Minheer, 298
228–29, 245, 345–46
Bolton, John, 145
health-care budget, 294
Bolton, Judge, 80
military budget, 5–6
bond markets, 9–10
outlook on, 4–5
Bono, 131, 146
school budgets, 148–49
bonobos, 230–34
welfare state and, 228–30
Border Patrol, 324
Burchill, Julie, 199
Boston Tea Party, 91
Bureau of Compliance, 80–87, 93–94,
Bradbury, Ray, 133
336–37
“Brains Trust,” 53–54, 57
Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), 75
Brandeis, Louis, 47–48
Bureaucratic Expeditiousness Regula-
Brann, Ty, 90–91
tion, 83–84
Brave New World, 36, 137
Burgess, Anthony, 206, 207
Brecht, Bertolt, 180, 241
Bush, George H., 58
Britannia, depravity of, 189–209
Bush, George W., 38, 56, 58, 101, 197,
British elites, 197, 208. See also elites 257, 302, 314, 317
Brokaw, Tom, 187
“businessmen,” 2, 272, 280–81
broke, stupidity of, 1–23
Byrd, Robert C., 79
Brooks, David, 55
Byron, Lord, 1
Brooks, Mel, 4
Byron, Robert C., 76
Brother Bear, 261–62
Brown, Gordon, 199, 204
C
Brown, Scott, 61, 342
Cabaret, 292
Brown, Tam, 183
Cadell, Pat, 73
Bruni, Carla, 118
Caldwell, Christopher, 242, 287
“bubble,” 16, 96
Caliphate, 19, 21, 72, 277, 286, 296,
Buckingham Palace, 39
299, 323–24
budget
Callaghan, Jim, 200
Big Government and, 346
Cameron, James, 185
Contract with America and, 9
can-do spirit, 31, 40, 108, 328
cuts in, 108, 148–49
capitalism, 23, 35, 72, 115, 119, 192
defense budget, 119
Casagrande, Marina, 112–13
Casey, George W., Jr., 169–70
index 411
CBS, 64, 303
Cloverfield, 37
centralization, 71, 156, 333–35
CNN, 64, 86, 165, 280, 317
certification fees, 48–49
Coakley, Martha, 60–61
Chamberlain, Neville, 270
Code Orange alert, 138, 258, 296
Charlton, Bruce, 30, 31
code words, 61–62, 66
Charnin, Martin, 1
Codevilla, Angelo, 153
Chaudhury, Shah, 202, 203
coexisting, 131, 133, 143, 240
Chavez, Hugo, 275, 276
college, 35, 56, 58, 149–57, 173–74,
Cheney, Dick, 69
180, 197
Chicago Sun-Times, 159
college loans, 47, 156
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1
Collins, Randy, 91–92
children, education of, 148–57
Columbia, 32
children, future of, 171-75
Communism, 206
children, war on, 346
Compliance Bureau, 80–87, 93–94,
Chinese, and globalization, 97–102,
336–37
194–95, 312
computer age, 32–33, 36
Chinn, Menzie, 10
conformicrats, 20, 57, 63–64, 67–72,
Chirac, Jacques, 192, 275
81, 92, 254–55
chivalry, 186
conformocracy, 58, 101–2, 128
“choice mothers,” 176
Congressional Budget Office (CBO),
Chrysler Building, 41
4–5, 8–9
Churchill, Winston, 59, 191-92, 197, Constitution, 63, 73, 77–78, 80, 147, 199, 203
192, 290
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 144, 211
Consumer Product Safety Commis-
City Journal, 181
sion (CPSC), 82
civic participation, 87–92
consumer spending, 97, 224–25
Civilization and Its Enemies, 135
consumerism, 35
Clash of Civilizations, The, 18, 292
Contract with America, 9
Cleveland, Grover, 58
Contrast, The, 103
Clinton, Bill, 58, 62, 90, 147, 159, 161, control of price, 48–49
259–60, 272, 318
Conyers, John, 78, 83
Clinton, Hillary, 302
Coolidge, Calvin, 62
Clockwork Orange, A, 206–7
corrupt elites, 223, 227–28. See also
Clooney, George, 64, 320
elites
412
after america
Count Basie, 29, 30
de-regulation, 336–37
Coyote, Ivan E., 231–32
De Standaard, 187
credentialization, 150–51, 154, 156–
Dean, Howard, 120
57, 339–40
debt, 2–23, 96–97, 114–15, 346
credit boom, 14–16, 92–96
debt interest, 5, 228
credit “bubble,” 16, 96
decay of America, 21, 22
credit cards, 9, 96, 105, 218, 310, 345
decay of Rome, 25–43
“credit crunch,” 96
Declaration of Independence, 193,
“credit default swap,” 94–96
247
Crosby, Bing, 53
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Cross, Gary, 181
12–13, 25
Cultural Revolution, 100
decline of America, 13–14, 32, 43,
Culture of Pleasure, 136–37
127–87
culture wars, 73
decline of Greece, 103–7
cures, races for, 27–28
Deemer, Andy, 174
Currie, Jay, 95
defense budget, 119
Curse of Bigness, 47–49
deficit, 3–16, 110–11, 117–18, 228–29,
245, 345–46
d
DeParle, Jason, 252
Daily Express, 207
Dependistan, 225, 228–30
Daily Mail, 182, 205
depravity of Britannia, 189–209
Daily Star, The, 54
Depression, 34, 69, 115, 135
Daily Telegraph, 197
Der Spiegel, 304–5
Dalrymple, Theodore, 115
Derbyshire, John, 344
Dancing with the Stars, 45
despotism, 45–46, 235
Daniels, Anthony, 220
Detroit News, 222
Dawkins, Richard, 321
Diamond, Jared, 233
Day, Doris, 3
Diary of Anne Frank, The, 297
de-centralization, 238, 333–35
Diaz, Porfirio, 254
de-complicating, 339
dictatorships, 101–2, 192–93, 241,
de-credentializing, 339–40
281, 311, 323
de-governmentalization, 335
Die Welt, 276
de-monopolizing, 337–38
Dingell, John, Jr., 76
de-normalizing, 341–42
Dingell, John, Sr., 76
index 413
dis-entitle, 340–41
Eighties (1980s), 180, 221, 222, 300
disintegration, 21, 22, 206, 256
Eisenhower, Dwight, 195–96
diversity, 63–64, 131, 146, 153
elites
diversity outreach, 31–32
belief of, 16, 21
diversity training, 68
British elites, 197, 208
“do something” attitude, 61, 342–45
contempt of, 68, 102
Doherty, John, 108
corrupt elites, 223, 227–28
Dohrn, Bernardine, 145
education of, 13, 152–53
Dole, Bob, 70
new elites, 59, 63, 135, 208, 246,
Domville, William, 189
266–67, 318–19
Douglas, William, 47
vegetarian elites, 127–28
Douglass, Frederick, 182
western elites, 59, 101, 143, 287,
drowning of Athens, 103–25
293
D’Souza, Dinesh, 145
Elmendorf, Douglas, 4, 8, 11
Duranty, Walter, 102
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 228
dystopian future, 38, 182–83
empathy, 158–61, 163
Empire State Building, 41
e
End of History, The, 18
East African, The, 316
engineering, 21, 22, 344
eco-totalitarianism, 101
“enhanced patdowns,” 32, 68, 223, 263
economic downturn, 16, 74–75, 92, entitlement, 19, 104–11, 117–19, 200, 97–98, 105, 179, 181, 289
209, 242, 294, 332–33, 340–41
economic growth, 6, 55, 94, 117, 243, Environmental Protection Agency 284
(EPA), 82, 134
Economic Sophisms, 45
Erdogan, Prime Minister, 275
Economist, The, 118, 228
Espenshade, Thomas, 152
Eden, Anthony, 195–96
Esposito, Francesca, 113
Edison, Thomas, 344
Estonia, 186
education, 148–57, 198–99. See also European Union (EU), 11, 98–99, college
109–23
education “reform,” 156
Europeanization of America, 120–22
Edwards, Elizabeth, 151
Evers, Benzion, 298
Edwards, John, 69, 213, 326, 338
exceptionalism, 16, 148, 204, 326
414
after america
f
Follow the Fleet, 166
Fahrenheit 451, 133
following orders, 182–87
Fake’s Progress, 62
Food and Drug Administration
fall of America, 13–14, 211–67
(FDA), 28
Falsani, Cathleen, 159
Ford, Henry, 218, 344
Fannie Mae, 47, 85
Fort Hood shooting, 167–69, 306
Farrakhan, Louis, 42
Forties (1940s), 148, 249, 312
Fascism, 57, 197–98, 206
Fortuyn, Pim, 297
Faulks, Sebastian, 94
Foster, Jodie, 232
federal aid “giveaway,” 71
Frank, Barney, 65
federal budget. See budget
Franklin, Benjamin, 344
Federal Communications Commis-
Freddie Mac, 47, 85
sion (FCC), 33
free trade, 54, 97
Federal Emergency Management freedom, 38, 347–49. See also liberty Agency (FEMA), 68
Freeman, Yvonne, 107–8
Federal Reserve, 98, 224, 326
Friedman, Milton, 235, 325
federalism, 235–36, 306
Friedman, Thomas L., 17, 18, 102,
“feelies,” 36, 157–60
313–15, 318, 342, 348
Ferdinand, Franz, 159
Frost, Frances, 260, 263
Ferguson, Niall, 225
Fukuyama, Francis, 18
fertility rates, 105
Furstenberg, Frank, 181
fertility treatments, 176–78
future, after America, 279–324
Fifties (1950s), 25–27, 35, 212–17, future, giving up on, 37–38
224, 249, 283, 345–46
final frontier, 31–33
g
“Final Solution,” 269–70
G7 members, 10, 12, 99, 190, 289, 345
financial sector, 49–50, 93–95
Gaddafi, Colonel, 76
Financial Times, 98
Gates, Bill, 15
Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough Gates, Robert, 170
Money in the World—and At Gavaza, April, 173
What Cost? , 10
gay community, 202
Fineman, Howard, 61
gay marriage, 66, 73, 80, 106, 132, 143,
First Amendment, 23, 297, 306
179
Fleischer, Michael, 48
index 415
GDP
Google, 32
growth of, 8–10, 16, 95, 99, 110
Gorbachev, Mikhail, 259–60
percentage of, 2, 4, 85, 110–11, Gore, Al, 34, 40, 57, 61, 176, 214, 257, 118–20
286
proportion of, 285, 337
Gorelick, Jamie, 85
Geithner, Timothy, 49
government
Gelb, Leslie, 43
accounting abilities of, 84–85
“gender-neutral society,” 179, 185
bailouts by, 64, 109, 218, 346
George III, King, 91
de-governmentalization, 335
George VI, King, 191
de-monopolizing, 337–38
German economy, 116–20
growth of, 55
Germany, bailouts, 111–12
monopoly by, 20, 46–51, 89, 337–38
Gharbi, Gamil, 184
Gracchus, Gaius, 211
Gibbon, Edward, 12, 25
graffiti, 124–25
Gilmour, Charlie, 199
Graham, Donald, 173
Gilmour, David, 199
Great Depression, 34, 69, 115, 135
Gingrich, Newt, 8, 10
Great Fire, 43
global currency, 99–100, 194, 256, Great Recession, 33. See also recession 266, 281
“Greatest Generation,” 187
global economy, 85, 97–98, 120
Greece, debt in, 110–11
global retreat, 21–22, 206
Greece, decline of, 103–7
globalization
Greek riots, 103–4
China and, 97–102, 194–95, 312
Green Day, 64
complexity of, 51, 317–18
“green jobs,” 33
crisis of, 115
green zone, 211–67
ideology of, 97–100
Greer, Germaine, 302
networks of, 280
Ground Zero, 39–43, 80, 164, 297, 314
prototype of, 13
Grunwald, Michael, 59
roles in, 17–18
Guardian, The, 286
terrorist plots, 250–51
Guys and Dolls, 343
Globe and Mail, 142
Goethe, 123
h
Goldberg, Jonah, 345–46
Hamilton, Alexander, 15
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 53
Hamza, Abu, 32
416
after america
Handel, 125
homophobes, 65–68, 217, 303, 305
Hansen, James, 101
homosexuals, 132, 202, 263–65, 299
Hanson, Victor Davis, 133–35, 175, homosexuals, and marriage, 66, 73, 181, 258
80, 106, 132, 143, 179
Hargreaves, James, 344
Hoover Dam, 33–34
Harris-Lacewell, Melissa, 66
Hope, Bob, 53
Harris, Lee, 135
hope of audacity, 325–49
Harris, Sam, 321
household debt, 96–97
Harrison, George, 46–48, 51, 54
housing market, 16, 47–49, 92–93,
Harstedt, Kent, 186
165, 212, 218–19, 253. See also
Harvard Law Review, 62
mortgage crisis
Hasan, Nidal, 167–70
Houston, Sam, 247
Hassan, Aasiya, 303–4
Huff, Elizabeth, 91–92
Hayek, Friedrich, 198, 200
Hughes, Elizabeth, 28
Hayes, Stephen, 61
Hughes, Henrietta, 53, 68, 235
hazardous professions, 109–10
human capability, decline of, 30–31,
health care, 47, 52–55
219–20, 285
health-care bill, 78, 164, 173
human capital, 35, 101, 156, 204, 211–
health-care budget, 294
12, 219, 254, 285
health-care system, 33, 65–66, 337
Humbert, Louise, 88
Heartbreak House, 209
Hume, Alison, 183
Heinsohn, Gunnar, 315
Huntington, Samuel, 11, 12, 18, 292
“helicopter parents,” 179
Hussein, Saddam, 140–41, 275, 302
Heston, Charlton, 37, 38, 245
Huxley, Aldous, 36, 137, 207
Hillman, Mayer, 101
Hymowitz, Kay, 181
Hilton, Paris, 233, 300
Himmler, Heinrich, 269
i
History of the English-Speaking Peo-
I, Rigoberta Menchu, 57
ples, 191, 203
Ignatieff, Michael, 144, 146
Hitler, Adolf, 257, 270, 305
illegal immigration, 60, 66–67, 80,
Hoffer, Eric, 269
132–33, 241–49, 257–59, 284, 324
Hogarth, 62
Immigrants: Your Country Needs
Hollywood, 36, 39, 57, 272, 341, 343
Them, 242
Holocaust, 269–71, 299
Independence Day, 37, 38
index 417
Independent, The, 182
Jones, Quincy, 29
Industrial Revolution, 344
Jones, Van, 145
Ingrams, Richard, 271
Jong-Il, Kim, 336
Inouye, Daniel, 76
Julius Caesar, 57
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 128
Jyllands-Posten, 296
inventions, 25–28, 32–33, 344
Iron Curtain, 289, 318
K
Islam, 18, 31–32, 36–37, 42, 72, 129–
Kael, Pauline, 54
32
Kanjorski, Paul, 62
“Islamophobia,” 32, 66, 169, 196, 286, Kaplan, Robert D., 319
297–98, 303–4
Katz, Lillian, 157
It Can’t Happen Here, 57
Kennedy, John F., 29
It Takes a Village, 319
Kennedy, Ted, 56, 60–61
Kerry, John, 56, 58, 61, 141, 163, 214,
J
338
Jackson, Jesse, 143
Kerry, Teresa Heinz, 151
Jagger, Dean, 175
Keynes, John Maynard, 106, 111–12,
Jefferson, Thomas, 56, 57, 87, 193
Jerusalem besieged, 269–78
Keynesians, 106
Jethá, Cacilda, 232
King, Martin Luther, 56
jobs
Kitchen, John, 10
federal workers, 75–76
Klein, Joe, 239–40
high-income regions, 50–51
Klein, Philip, 82
illegal immigrants and, 246
Kobayashi, Yoshinori, 308
loss of, 74–75, 213, 246
Kodak, 47–48
low-paying jobs, 211–12
Kohen, Roger, 186
in private sector, 75–76
Kröhnert, Steffen, 112
unemployment, 74–75, 213, 246
Krugman, Paul, 16, 119
jobs bill, 23
Kurzweil, Ray, 309–10
Johnson, Barbara, 161
Johnson, Boris, 144
l
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 79
labor force, 211–12
Johnson, Simon, 93
Lady Gaga, 30
Jonas, George, 203
Lady Liberty, 37–39, 164, 245
418
after america
Lardner, Ring, 67
Maidre, Andrus, 186
Last American, The, 37, 279
Major, John, 182
Lauper, Cyndi, 327
Malkin, Michelle, 221, 250
Lee, Terry, 167
Maltese Falcon, The, 65
Legrain, Philippe, 242
Man for All Seasons, A, 86
Lehman Brothers collapse, 74, 129
man, world after, 306–10
Lépine, Marc, 184
“managed capitalism,” 23
letter from post-American world, Manliness, 176, 184
279–324, 345
Mansfield, Harvey, 176, 179, 184–85
Levant, Ezra, 295–96
manufacturing jobs, 211–12
Lewis, Sinclair, 57
Mao, 100, 247, 333
liberalism, 21, 57, 62, 67, 82, 121, 131, Marchand, Yves, 219
234–35
marriage, gay, 66, 73, 80, 106, 132, 143,
liberty
179
fall of, 38–39
marriage, traditional, 179
last sigh of, 189, 207–8
Marshall, Justice, 48, 50
price of, 15, 347–49
Martin, Dean, 280
Life, 37
Martin, James, 285
Lileks, James, 42
marvels, 25–28
Lincoln, Abraham, 58, 62, 80, 86, 155
Marx, Groucho, 3
“live free or die,” 347–49
Mathis, Otis, 220, 221
Loesser, Frank, 343
Maude, General, 302
Los Angeles Times, 174, 269
McAlpine, Dale, 201
“lottery of life,” 208–9
McCain, John, 70
Louis XVI, 5
McCarthy, Andrew, 319
Lowi, Theodore, 82
McKinley, William, 58
Lyon, Jordon, 183
McMillan, Kate, 153
McNeill, J. R., 344
m
Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 205
Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future,
Mackey, Robert, 271
285
MacLennan, Hugh, 68
Medes, 18–19
Macmillan, Harold, 195
medical advancements, 27–28
Madame Cornuel, 59
“mediocrity of spirit,” 43
index 419
Meffre, Romain, 219
Murphy, Julie, 89
Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Murray, Charles, 122, 137, 230
Immaturity, 181
Murtha, Marge, 88, 90
meritocracy, 20, 57–58, 63, 153
Muslim world, 18, 31–32, 72, 162,
Merkel, Angela, 111, 192
270–75, 283, 287–88, 291–302,
metaphors, 61–62
307
Mexico, 247–54
myopia, 133–41
micro-tyrannies, 90, 336–37
military budget, 5–6, 19–20
n
Mill, John Stuart, 97
nanny state, 23, 69–70, 124, 200, 205–
Millin, Bill, 139
7, 214, 225, 258
Minogue, Kenneth, 230
Napoleon, 159, 247
Mitchell, J. A., 37, 279
NASA, 28–32, 101
Mitchell, Taylor, 261
Nasrallah, Hassan, 275
mobs, 22–23
nation-states, 2, 12, 190, 286
modernity, 40, 314
national landmarks, 38–39
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 221
National Public Radio (NPR), 54,
monopolies, 20, 46–51, 89, 337–38
66–67, 118, 133, 169
Monopolies Commission, 46–47, 54
National Review, 344
Montesquieu, 189, 207
nativists, 239–40, 253
moon landings, 28–30
NBC, 64
More, Thomas, 86
nepotism, 63
Morrison, Herbert, 58
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 269–71, 278
mortgage crisis, 47, 85, 107, 165, 168, “New Action Heroes, The,” 59–60
212, 253
New Athens, 103–25
motivational speech, 330–32
New Britannia, 189–209
movies, 36, 39, 272. See also Holly-
“New Deal,” 53
wood
new elites, 59, 63, 208, 318–19. See also Mrs. Lovett, 88
elites
MSNBC, 61, 128
New England Primer, The, 328
Mubarak, Hosni, 275
“New Foundation,” 53
multiculturalism, 139, 191–92, 298–
“new freedoms,” 38
99, 302, 322
New Jerusalem, 269–78
Murdoch, William, 185
New Republic, 33, 252
420
after america
New Rome, 25–43
health-care system and, 33, 65–66
New York magazine, 171
indifference of, 145–46
New York Times, 16–17, 54–56, 64, 66, no experience, 49, 344
84, 92, 102, 109, 113, 118–19, 124,
Oval Office and, 56–59, 197
219, 252–54, 260, 270, 283, 287,
props and, 61–62
300, 303, 313, 317
on space exploration, 31–32
New Yorker, 54
speeches by, 144, 325–26, 329–30
newspaper industry, 33
tax credits and, 86–87
Newsweek, 61, 168
unemployment and, 213
“Next Morning, The,” 37
voting for, 141–43, 158–59
Nichols, Mary Anne, 220–21
weirdness of, 147–48
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 321–22
Obama, Michelle, 13, 61, 131, 151–55,
Nineties (1890s), 25, 35, 214–15, 217,
213
224
ObamaCare, 3, 55, 65–66, 77–79, 337,
Nineties (1990s), 27–28, 73, 212, 219,
339
261, 273–74, 335
“Obamafication of economy,” 97–98
Nixon, Richard, 29, 54
Occupational Safety and Health
“no man’s land,” 182–87
Administration (OSHA), 82, 336
“no two sides,” 132–33
Olbermann, Keith, 61
North Korea, 18–19, 22–23, 195, 285, Omar, Mullah, 264
319–20, 323, 338
One-Child Policy, 19, 305
nuclear weapons, 18–19, 22–23
Onyango-Obbo, Charles, 316, 317
Nussbaum, Martha, 300
open season, 21–22
Orback, Jens, 297
o
orders, following, 182–87
Obama, Barack. See also ObamaCare; Orwell, George, 207, 320
“stimulus”
Ottawa Citizen, The, 69, 144
“apology tour” of, 275
Oughts (2000s), 261, 288
Berlin speech and, 159
on children, 172
P
college and, 56–59, 154
Palin, Sarah, 57, 58, 59, 147, 161, 177,
debt and, 10
239
on exceptionalism, 16
Palmerston, Lord, 199
friends of, 41–42
Palovak, Jewel, 262
index 421
Parasite Eve, 113
post-American world, 279–324
patdowns, 32, 68, 223, 263
post-traumatic stress disorder
Paterson, David A., 84
(PTSD), 168–69
Patrick, Deval, 163
Postrel, Virginia, 283
“Patriot Act,” 101
Prager, Dennis, 141
Pearce, Fred, 286
Pratte, Mary, 88
Pearl, Daniel, 221
Pravda, 227
Pearson, Lester, 289
“President of Europe,” 120–21
Peck, Gregory, 175
price, control of, 48–49
Pelosi, Nancy, 10, 65, 80
production, 224–25
Pence, Mike, 234
“progressives,” 14–16, 34, 63, 86, 105,
Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace
141, 305. See also elites
in the Twenty-First Century and property market, 16, 47–49, 92–93, Blueprint for Action, 318
165, 212, 218–19, 253. See also
People magazine, 177
mortgage crisis
Peretz, Martin, 252, 254
props, 61–62
permits, 83–84, 88–92
protests, 22–23, 64
Peter and the Wolf, 259–60
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The, 136
Picket, Kerry, 77
“public service” incentive, 156
Pink Floyd, 198–99
Putin, Vladimir, 289
Pinsky, Mark, 33
Pirates of the Caribbean, 202, 290
Q
Planet of the Apes, 37
Quann, Derek, 261
Plato, 176, 184
pleasure, culture of, 136–37
r
Podhoretz, John, 273
racism, 61–67, 151, 160, 162
Poems Against the War, 140
racists, 64–67, 133, 202, 239–40, 245,
Politburo, 2, 64, 71
252–53, 292, 297
political correctness, 166–69, 171, 240
Radford, Alexandria, 152
Political Economy, 87
Rahe, Paul, 230, 341
Polonius, 95, 96
Raines, Franklin, 85
Polytechnique, 185
Rangel, Charlie, 77, 79–80
population statistics, 105, 116, 237, Ratzenberger, John, 342–44
239–40
Reagan administration, 3, 96
Reagan, Ronald, 58, 62, 74, 333
Roksa, Josipa, 340
real-estate market, 16, 47–49, 92–93, Roman Empire, 12–13, 25, 34, 191
165, 212, 218–19, 253. See also Rome, decay of, 25–43
mortgage crisis
Romney, Mitt, 339
recession, 33, 52, 117, 174, 179–80, Roosevelt, Franklin D., 33–34, 53, 192, 212–16
194
“red tape,” 83–85
Rosling, Hans, 294
redistribution, 20, 22, 87, 332–33
Rounsaville, Amanda, 174
Reed, Josie, 88
Rowling, J. K., 110
Reeve, Christopher, 161
Rubin, Barry, 167
Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Rumsfeld, Donald, 162
242
“Run Upon the Bankers, The,” 2
Reid, Harry, 10
Rush, Geoffrey, 290
relativism, 146, 165, 254, 293
Rushdie, Salman, 311
Rembrandt, 125
Russian “businessmen,” 2, 280–81
“Retail Sales Plummet,” 97
Ryan, Christopher, 232
Reuters, 50–51
Ryan, Paul, 72–73
Reynolds, Glenn, 147
Rice, Condi, 151
S
Rich, Frank, 64, 303
“safety net,” 229–30
Richards, Jon, 254
Safire, William, 29
Right Ho, Jeeves, 6
Sala-i-Martin, Xavier, 283
riots, 22–23, 103–4
Salutin, Rick, 143
Rizzo, Robert, 107
Sanchez, Gustavo, 251
Road to Serfdom, The, 200
Sarkozy, Nicolas, 115, 124, 238, 275
Road to Utopia, The, 53
Saudi Arabia, 5, 249–50, 272–79, 306,
Roberts, Andrew, 191, 192
312, 338
robotics, 306–10
Saudi mutaween, 89
Robson, John, 144
Saudi princes, 292, 299, 305–6
Rockefeller, John D., 143
Saudi sheiks, 2, 117, 163–64, 169,
Rockwell, Norman, 328
280–81
Roesgen, Susan, 86–87
Saudi Wahhabists, 249–50, 306
Rogers, Ginger, 41
Schiller, Vivian, 67
Rogulski, Ken, 71
Schindler’s List, 272
index 423
school budgets, 148–49. See also stu-Shore, Dinah, 101
dent education
Shousha, Abdel Fadil, 271–72
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 59, 234
Sinatra, Frank, 29, 30
scientific advancements, 25–28
single parents, 214, 228, 234
Scruton, Roger, 233–34
Singularity, 309–10, 319
Sebelius, Kathleen, 78, 82
Sixties (1960s), 28–29, 64, 118, 137,
Second Amendment, 23, 240
171, 174, 249, 300, 332, 342–43
Secondat, Charles-Louis de, 189
Size of Nations, The, 237
Securities and Exchange Commission Skinner, B. F., 255
(SEC), 9, 85
skyscrapers, 39–43
sedentary lifestyles, 224–25
small business, 90–93, 156, 224, 244
segregation, 151, 239, 241, 294, 305
small government, 8–9, 52, 90–91,
sensory distraction, 36–37
243, 335, 346–48
September 11, 39–43, 163–64, 169, Smith, Adam, 11, 12, 97
193, 221, 270, 296
Sobran, Joseph, 240
serfdom, 45–102, 104, 200
social engineering, 21–22, 81, 86, 340,
Sestius, Publius, 211
348–49
Seventies (1970s), 30–31, 82, 93, 118, social media, 36–37, 46
219, 222, 300
social spending, 17–20
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift, 230
of Modern Sexuality, 232
solitudes, 68–69
sexists, 65–67
Sondheim, Stephen, 64
sexual-harassment training, 68
Sotormayor, Sonia, 153
sexual identity, 230–32
South China Morning Post, 101
sexual license, 232, 304–5, 322
space exploration, 28–32
Sexual Revolution, 233–34
Spaceballs, 4
shadowlands, 254–59
Spendballs, 4
Shafia family, 303–4
spirit, can-do, 31, 40, 108, 328
Shahzad, Faisal, 164–65
spirit, mediocrity of, 43
Shaidle, Kathy, 186
Spolaore, Enrico, 237–38
Shakespeare, William, 56–57
Squalls, T., 173
Sharpton, Al, 143
Stalin, Joseph, 257
Shaw, Bernard, 209
Stark, General, 347
Shepard, Matthew, 303–4
Stark, Pete, 77
424
after america
statism, 28, 52–68, 71–75, 90, 232–44, Tea Parties, 64, 86–87, 239
255–59, 326, 336–38, 347
“teabaggers,” 239
Statue of Liberty, 37–39, 164, 245
technocracy, 53–55, 67–68
Stein, Herbert, 3
technology, 25–28, 51
Steinem, Gloria, 181, 184
Tennyson, Lord, 270
Sternbergh, Adam, 174
terror, war on, 76, 102, 138
Stewart, Alexis, 177–78
terrorist attacks, 39–43, 164–65,
Stewart, Jon, 147
169–70, 194, 221, 270, 272, 296
Stewart, Martha, 177–79
Thatcher, Margaret, 51, 335
Steyn, Mark, 143, 149
Thirties (1930s), 41, 96
“stimulus,” 3, 23, 74–75, 96, 98, 213, “thumos,” 176, 184
334
Time Machine, The, 127
Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 39, 41
Time magazine, 59, 220, 239
Streisand, Barbra, 1, 56–57
Times, 85, 103, 114
Strouse, Charles, 1
tinkering, 344
student education, 148–57, 198–99
Titanic, 185–86
student loans, 47, 156
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 37, 45–46, 89,
stupidity of broke, 1–23
235, 328, 334
success stories, 28–33
Todd, Sweeney, 88
Sullivan, Andrew, 161–62
Tomasky, Michael, 63, 64
Summers, Christina Hoff, 179
totalitarianism, 101–2, 207
Summers, Lawrence, 194
town hall meetings, 53, 64, 68, 172
“sustainable” consumerism, 35
Toynbee, Arnold, 190
Suzuki, David, 101
traditional family, 177–78, 234
Swift, Jonathan, 2, 95, 124
traditional marriage, 179
transnationalism, 17, 121, 283, 287,
t
289, 306
Taleb, Nassim, 95
Transportation Security Administra-
Taliban, 36, 195, 198, 314
tion (TSA), 33, 68, 223, 258
“talkies,” 36. See also movies
Treadwell, Timothy, 261–63, 266
“tax credit,” 72, 86–87
Treasury bonds, 9–10
“tax cuts,” 8, 72–73, 83
“trinity of evil,” 32
taxes, raising, 108–9, 114–15
Trudeau, Pierre, 203
Taylor, Zachary, 58
Truman, Harry S., 58, 345
index 425
Tucson shootings, 57, 62
Twain, Mark, 116, 220
v
Van Buren, Martin, 58
Twelve O-Clock High, 175
van den Boogaard, Oscar, 187
Twenties (1920s), 27–28, 137
van Gogh, Theo, 297
twentieth century, 27, 33–35, 104–6, van Rompuy, Herman, 120
130, 186–90, 195, 217–19, 235, Ventura County Star, 90
283–86, 302, 313–22
Veremi, Vasia, 109
twenty-first century, 15–17, 27–30, Villeneuve, Denis, 185
128–30, 183, 191, 214–15, 287–99, virtual reality, 33, 36
301–24
“two Americas,” 68–69
Two Solitudes, 68–69
w
Walker, Judge, 80, 179
Tyler, Royall, 103
Wall Street Journal, 48, 88
tyranny, 87–92, 284, 336–37
Walton, William, 125
war on children, 346
war on terror, 76, 102, 138
u
U. S. Constitution, 63, 73, 77–78, 80, War Room, The, 62
192, 290
Warren, David, 69
undreaming America, 45–102
Washington Post, 55, 64, 165, 173
unemployment, 74–75, 213, 246. See Washington Times, 77
also jobs
Waters, Maxine, 63
unionization, 120–21, 156
Waziristan, 38–39, 43, 257, 259, 274,
United Nations (UN), 12, 105, 146–
303
47, 270–73, 277, 282–83, 289
Webb, Jimmy, 29
United States, hope for, 22–23, 279–
Week in December, A, 94
324. See also America
Weekly Standard, 61
United States vs. Columbia Steel Co. , welfare state, 104–5, 130–31, 204, 47–48
223–24, 229–30, 319
universities, 35, 56, 58, 148–57, 180
Wells, H. G., 25, 100, 127–28, 131–37,
Urban II, Pope, 314
175, 182–83, 187, 213, 217, 266,
USS Cole, 221
316
ut-Tahrir, Hizb, 286
western elites, 59, 101, 143, 287, 293.
utopianism, 233–34, 341
See also elites
western world, 2, 15, 19, 38, 52, 66,
105, 110
426
after america
What’s the Matter with Kansas? , 86
World Distribution of Income, The, 283
“White City,” 40, 41
World Trade Center, 39–43, 221
Whitelaw, Willie, 51
Wren, Christopher, 43
Who Are We? , 11
Wright, Jeremiah, 42, 145
Wilberforce, William, 198
Wright, Orville, 27, 33
Wilders, Geert, 196
Wright, Wilbur, 27, 33
wildlife, 260–63
“writing on the wall,” 2, 7, 14, 18, 124–
Will, George, 181
25
Williams, Juan, 67
Wodehouse, P. G., 6
x
Wolf, Martin, 98, 117
xenophobe, 66, 239
Wolfe, Tom, 123
Wolffe, Richard, 128
y
Wood, May, 249
Young, Coleman, 222
Woodstock, 342–43
Young Immigrunts, The, 67
Woodward, Bob, 145
Young, Michael, 57–58, 63
world after America, 279–324
Yufzai, Mushtaq, 36
world after man, 306–10