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After America

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by Mark Steyn


  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,”

  “n
o 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

 

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