by Mark Steyn
41 Phyllis Chesler, “The Steady Erosion of Women’s Rights in Egypt: A Photographic Story,” ChelserChronicles.com, January 28, 2010; available online at http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/01/28/the-steady-erosion-of-womensrights-in-egypt-a-photographic-story/.
42 BBC, “MPs attack Greer on female circumcision,” November 25, 1999; available online at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/535488.stm.
43 Paul Richter, “U.S. wants no more Jewish settlement growth, Clinton says,” Los Angeles Times, May 28, 2009; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2009/may/28/world/fg-us-israel28.
44 Julia Magnet, “The terror behind Iraq’s Jewish exodus,” The Telegraph, April 15, 2003; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1427599/The-terrorbehind-Iraqs-Jewish-exodus.html.
45 PBS, “Disappearing Christians of Iraq,” July 23, 2010; available online at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/episodes/july-23-2010/disappearingchristians-of-iraq/6701/.
46 Reuters, “Iraq church raid ends with 52 dead,” November 1, 2010; available online at http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/11/01/us-iraq-violenceidUSTRE69U1YE20101101.
47 Lindsey Hilsum, “Iraq’s Christians plan a simple Christmas in the shadow of violence,” The Telegraph, December 21, 2010; available online at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8216416/Iraqs-Christiansplan-a-simple-Christmas-in-the-shadow-of-violence.html.
48 Tim Graham, “Katie Couric: ‘Maybe We Need a Muslim Version of The Cosby Show’,” NewsBusters.org, December 30, 2010; available online at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/12/30/katie-couric-maybe-we-needmuslim-version-cosby-show.
49 Remarks made during speech in Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/us/politics/04obama.text.html.
50 Nadya Labi, “An American Honor Killing: One Victim’s Story,” Time, February 25, 2011; available online at http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2055445,00.html.
51 Joshua Rhett Miller, “Beheading in New York Appears to Be Honor Killing, Experts Say,” FOX News, February 17, 2009; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,494785,00.html.
52 CBC, “Canal victims killed by family: police,” July 23, 2009; available online at http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2009/07/23/canal-arrests023.html.
53 Güner Balci, “Taboos and Fear among Muslim Girls,” Der Spiegel, January 6, 2011; available online at http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,737683,00.html.
54 Lee Harris, Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History (Free Press, 2004); available online at http://books.simonandschuster.com/Civilization-and-Its-Enemies/Lee-Harris/9780743267007/print.
55 Nick Foulke, “The king’s in town,” The London Evening Standard, August 21, 2002; available online at http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/promotions/article-1263358-the-kings-in-town.do.
56 Der Spiegel,“How Much Allah Can the Old Continent Bear?” December 11, 2009; available online at http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,666448-2,00.html.
57 Andrew C. McCarthy, “AG Eric Holder Refuses to Say ‘Radical Islam’ Is a Cause of Terrorism Committed by Muslims,” National Review Online, May 13, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/199355/ag-ericholder-refuses-say-radical-islam-cause-terrorism-committed-muslims-andrew-c-mc.
58 Ian Rowley, “Japan’s population decline is gathering momentum,” Businessweek, August 11, 2009; available online at http://www.businessweek.com/blogs/eyeonasia/archives/2009/08/japans_population_decline_is_gathering_momentum.html.
59 Donald Melanson, “Yurina health care robot promises to help lift, terrify patients,” Engadget.com, August 13, 2010; available online at http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/13/yurina-health-care-robot-promises-to-help-liftterrify-patients/.
60 AFP, “‘Welfare robots’ to ease burden in greying Japan,” July 29, 2010; available online at http://www.france24.com/en/20100729-welfare-robots-ease-burdengreying-japan.
61 Gary Wolf, “Futurist Ray Kurzweil Pulls Out All the Stops (and Pills) to Live to Witness the Singularity,” Wired.com, March 24, 2008; available online at http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/magazine/16-04/ff_kurzweil.
62 Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998).
63 Thomas L. Friedman, “Time to Reboot America,” New York Times, December 23, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/opinion/24friedman.html.
64 Thomas L. Friedman, “Who will tell the people?” New York Times, May 4, 2008; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04friedman.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Thomas%20L.%20Friedman%20sigapore%20airport&st=cse&oref=slogin.
65 Thomas L. Friedman, “We don’t need another 9/11 president,” New York Times, October 2, 2007; available online at http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20071002/news_lz1e2friedman.html.
66 Thomas L. Friedman, “A word from the wise,” New York Times, March 2, 2010; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/opinion/03friedman.html.
67 Thomas L. Friedman, “Cracks in the rubble,” New York Times, January 16, 2002; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/16/opinion/cracks-in-therubble.html.
68 Andrew Johnson, “Taliban make ‘undetectable’ bombs out of wood,” The Independent , January 10, 2010; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/taliban-make-undetectable-bombs-out-of-wood-1863353.html.
69 The Blog Prof, “Gunnar Heinsohn on Germay’s cultural suicide: 1,000 German men get 480 sons–1,000 Afghans get 4,000,” January 18, 2011; available online at http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2011/01/gunnar-heinsohn-on-germayscultural.html.
70 Charles Onyango-Obbo, “Stop the War, And Maybe I Won’t Eat You,” The East African, January 20, 2003; available online at http://allafrica.com/stories/200301220129.html.
71 Michael Dynes, “Pygmies beg UN for aid to save them from Congo cannibals,” The Times, May 23, 2003; available online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1135111.ece.
72 Thomas P. M. Barnett, Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (Berkley Trade, 2006).
73 Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy,” The Atlantic, February 1994; available online at http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/kaplan.html.
74 Andrew C. McCarthy, “Pirates Test the ‘Rule of Law’,” National Review Online, April 10, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227281/pirates-test-rule-law/andrew-c-mccarthy.
75 Nazila Fathi, “Iran Says It Will Share Nuclear Skills,” New York Times, April 25, 2006; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/world/middleeast/25cnd-iran.html.
76 André Glucksmann, “From the H-Bomb to the Human Bomb,” City Journal, Autumn 2007; available online at http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_modern_terrorism.html.
77 Tom Wolfe, “Sorry, but your soul just died,” The Independent, February 2, 1997; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/sorry-butyour-soul-just-died-1276509.html.
78 Carl Haub, “Birth Rate Trends in Low-Fertility Countries,” Population Reference Bureau, March 2011; available online at http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/low-fertility-countries-tfr.aspx.
Epilogue
1 Remarks during address to joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, February 24, 2009; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/.
2 John Derbyshire, “February Diary,” National Review Online, March 4, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227002/februarydiary/john-derbyshire.
3 Dillon County Economic Development Partnership, “Demographics,” 2011; available online at http://www.dilloncounty.org/site_consultant/demographics/.
4 Michael Muskal, “‘I am not king’: Obama tells Latino voters he can’t conjure immigration reform alone,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2010; availab
le online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/25/news/la-pn-obama-immigrationreform-20101026.
5 FOX News, “Goodbye to Bake Sales? Nutrition Bill Subjects School Fundraisers to New Regs,” December 8, 2010; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/08/goodbye-bake-sales-nutrition-subjects-school-fundraisersnew-regs/.
6 Andrew G. Biggs, “Entitlement Apocalypse,” National Review, March 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/229431/entitlementapocalypse/andrew-g-biggs.
7 N. Gordon and B. Knight, “Spatial Merger Estimator with an Application to School District Consolidation,” Journal of Public Economics, 2009; facts available online at http://www.mpa.unc.edu/students/documents/KevinBryant.pdf.
8 Executive order, 1987; facts available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-5.pdf.
9 Paul Krugman, “Runaway health care costs—we’re #1!,” New York Times, March 28, 2008; available online at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/runaway-health-care-costs-were-1/.
10 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators,” Indicator B1, 2009; available online at http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.
11 Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
12 Paul A. Rahe, Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press, 2010).
13 Kathryn Jean Lopez, “That Other Hollywood: Cheers!” National Review Online, January 17, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/192973/other-hollywood-cheers/kathryn-jean-lopez.
14 Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation, “A Word from John Ratzenberger”; available online at http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/word-from-john.cfm.
15 John Derbyshire, “Tinker, Tailor, Bureaucrat, Diversity Consultant,” National Review Online, May 13, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/163046/tinker-tailor-bureaucrat-diversity-consultant/john-derbyshire.
16 J. R. McNeill an Paul Kennedy, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001).
17 Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation, “A Word from John Ratzenberger”; available online at http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/word-from-john.cfm.
18 Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It,” New York Times, October 14, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15climate.html.
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
