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INDEX
Aaron
Abihu
abortion
ACLU
affirmative action
Afghanistan War
Africa
African Americans
aid, foreign
Air Ministry
Airspeed Ltd.
Albright, Madeleine
Alinsky, Saul
Al Qaeda
American Buddhism
American Buffalo (Mamet)
American Casesar (Manchester)
anarchy
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
anti-Semitism see also Israel; Jews
Arabs
see also Palestinians
Aramaic
Aristotle
Arizona
Ashkenazi immigration
Asian Americans
Assange, Julian
atheism
autism
auto industry
aviation
bailouts
Bard, Mitchell Geoffrey
Batman
Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Lord
Bettelheim, Bruno
Bible
birth control
Black Power
Black Sox (1919)
Boesky, Ivan
bottled water
Boy Scouts
B.P. Gulf oil leak
Brancker, Sefton
Brawley, Tawana
Brecht, Bertolt
Bridge on the River Kwai, The
British Empire
Broaddrick, Juanita
bumper stickers
bureaucracy
Bush, George W.
busing
Butler, Samuel
cabinet spiritualists
California
Campesinos
Camp Kawaga
capital
capitalism
Capone, Al
carbon dioxide
cargo cult
Carter, Jimmy
Castro, Fidel
Cavanaugh, Bernard
Cézanne
Chambers, Whittaker
“change”
Chasidic masters
Chicago, Ill.
China
Chomsky, Noam
Chopra, Deepak
Christianity
Christy, John R.
Chrysler
churches
Churchill, Winston
Civilian Conservation Corps
Civil Rights Act
Civil War, U.S.
Clinton, Bill
Clinton, Hillary
Code Pink
Coffee with Marilyn (McDonough)
cohabitation
Cold War
college
colonialism
comic books
communes
Communism
Communist International
computer
Congress, U.S.
and power to declare war
Conservatives
in election of 2008
Left’s misunderstanding of
see also tragic view of life
conspicuous consumption
Constitution, U.S.
constrained world-view
Consumer Safety Board
corporations
Corvair
counterculture
covetousness
Crash Course (Ingrassia)
Creekstone Farms
Cuba
cultural revolution
culture
“czars”
Daimler-Benz
Daley family
Darwin, Charles
Dayan, Jacob
Dead Aid (Moyo)
Death of a Gentleman (Hollis)
de Beauvoir, Simone
Debs, Eugene V.
Declaration of Independence
defense
democracy
Democrats:
as cultural inheritors of Judaism
and treatment of terrorists
Deuteronomy
Disney Corporation
Disraeli, Benjamin
“Distributive Justice”
diversity
divorce
Dred Scott decision
Dreiser, Theodore
Dreyfus, Alfred
Duck Variations, The (Mamet)
Duke’s Children, The (Trollope)
Dunne, Finley Peter
East Germany
Edison, Thomas
education
Liberal Arts
see also college
Ego
elections
of 2008
elitism
Emancipation Proclamation
Emanuel, Rahm
Engels, Friedrich
England
environmentalism
equality
Equal Opportunity Commission
Erewhon (Butler)
Ethical Culture
Ethnic America (Sowell)
exploitation
exploring
fairness
family
family values
famine
farm subsidies
fascism
Fatal Conceit, The: The Errors of Socialism (Hayek)
FDA
feminism
Feminist Studies
Fifteenth Amendment
financial crisis of 2008
Finley, Mordecai
firearms
Flowers, Gennifer
Fonda, Jane
Ford, Henry
Foreigners Aren’t Fools (Hollis)
Forgotten Man, The (Shlaes)
Forster, E. M.
Fourteenth Amendment
Framers
slavery and
France
Freedom Marchers
free love
free market
tragic view and
see also capitalism
free speech
Freud, Sigmund
Freudianism
Friedman, Milton
Frost, Robert
Gambia
Garvey, Marcus
Gates, Bill
Gemara Kiddushin 29A
General Motors
Germany
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me (Jackson)
GI Bill
Girl Scouts
Glengarry Glen Ross (Mamet)
global warming
Goering, Hermann
Golden Rule
Good Hair
Gospels
government:
apologies by
fairness and
Left’s view of
legitimate roles of
reduction in size of
as ruinous
Grandin, Temple
Great Depression
Great Society
Greece
greed
green business
Greenpeace
Ground Zero
Guevara, Che
guilt
Guinness, Alec
Hanoi
Hansen, James
happiness
hate crimes
Hated Political Enemy, A (Chomsky)
Hayden, Tom
Hayek, Friedrich
> Hazlitt, William
health care
Heaven and Earth (Plimer)
Hebrew Union College
Hefner, Hugh
Hemingway, Ernest
Hertzberg, Arthur
Herzl, Theodor
Hill, Anita
Hillel, Rabbi
Hilton, James
Hispanics
History of England, The (Macaulay)
Hitler, Adolf
Ho Chi Minh
Hoffer, Eric
Hoffman, Abbie
Hollander, Paul
Hollis, Christopher
Holocaust
Homeland Security
Homo Ludens (Huizinga)
homosexuality
“hope”
Hopkins, Harry
housing market
Howards End (Forster)
Huizinga, Johan
Humanism
humanitarianism
Hunger Project
Ibo
Id
identity politics
“If” (Kipling)
immigrants
Ashkenazi
India
Ingrassia, Paul
Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts, The (Veblen)
Intellectuals and Society (Sowell)
International Committee on Climate Control
IPCC
Iran
Iraq
Iraq War
Ireland
Islam
Islamic Center
Islamic Fascism
Israel
free market in
intentions of
Left’s disdain for
Italy
Jackson, Bruce
Jacobins
Japan
Japanese internment
Jefferson, Thomas
Jenin
Jews
Ashkenazi
in NAACP
as slaves
as stateless
as trusted advisors
see also anti-Semitism
Jews in America, The (Hertzberg)
jihad
jiujitsu
Job, Steve
Jones, Paula
Joseph
Judaeo-Christian principles
Judah, Rabbi
judiciary
juries
Justice
Kane, Bob
Keats, John
Kent State: What Happened and Why (Michener)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kipling, Rudyard
Kissinger, Henry
Kopechne, Mary Jo
Korean War
Kraus, Karl
Kupcinet, Irv
Lal, Rattan
law of unintended consequences
League of Nations
Lee, Stan
legislature
Lenin, V. I.
Lewinsky, Monica
Lewis, Bernard
Liberal Arts
liberal education
Liberals, the Left
Conservatives misunderstood by
defense derided by
in election of 2008
essential fallacy of
“fairness” and
and fear of giving offense
government as viewed by
Israel disdained by
power worshipped by
work shunned by
world-view of
Lincoln, Abraham
Lincoln, Robert Todd
Listerine
Lombardi, Vince
Long March, The (de Beauvoir)
Lost Horizon (Hilton)
luftmensch
MacArthur, Arthur
MacArthur, Douglas
Macaulay, Thomas Babington
McCormick, Cyrus
McDonough, Yona Zeldis
McDougal, Susan
Mad Cow scare
Madoff, Bernie
Mailer, Norman
Malthus, Thomas
Mamet, David
childhood of
schooling of
in turn from Liberal to Conservative
Mamet, Henry
Mamet, Jack
Mamet, Noah
Manchester, William
Mao Zedong
Marie Antoinette
marriage
Marshall Plan
Marx, Karl
Marxism
media
merit pay
Michener, James
Milch, Erhard
military
Mill, J. S.
misogyny
money
monogamy
Monroe, Marilyn
Monty Hall problem
Moses
MoveOn.org
Moyo, Dambisa
Mr. Dooley in the Hearts of His Countrymen (Dunne)
Muhammad, Elijah
multiculturalism
Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Bard)
NAACP
Nadab
Nader, Ralph
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French
National Recovery Act (1933)
Native Americans
natural resources
Nazis
Neue Freie Presse
New Deal
New Economy
Nixon, Richard
Noble Savages
North Korea
November (Mamet)
nuclear power
Oakton Manor
Obama, Barack
apologies by
health care plan of
predatory lending denounced by
rhetoric of
on wealth
Obama, Michelle
Obamacare
offshore drilling
oil
One-Worldism
On Liberty (Mill)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (Darwin)
OSHA
overpopulation
Pale of Settlement
Palestinians
Palin, Sarah
Palliser series
patriotism
pay
penicillin
personal computer
Phillips, Melanie
Phineas Farm (Trollope)
Playboy Building
Pledge of Allegiance
Plimer, Ian
pogroms
Poland
polar bears
Political Pilgrims (Hollander)
Potemkin villages
Potok, Noma
poverty
P.O.W. camps
Prager, Dennis
predatory lending
procreation
production
profligate son
property
Proverbs
psychoanalysis
Puritans
rabbis
racialism
racial tension
racism
Radford, R. A.
radio
“Rape of Jenin”
Rashi
Reform Judaism
religion
founding myths of
Religious Right
reparations
Republican Party
retirement plans
rights
roads
Road to Serfdom, The (Hayek)
Rock, Chris
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel
ROTC
Royal Air Force
Rubinstein, Helena
Rudd, Mark
Rules for Radicals (Alinsky)
Rumpelstiltskin
Russia
Rutan, Burt
salvation
same-sex marriage
San Francisco, Calif.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sauk Indians
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
school boards
school shootings
SCLC
SDS
Secrets, Lies, and Democracy (Chom-sky)
Selma, Ala.
semantics
September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
sex education
Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Mamet)
sexual relations
Shakespeare, William
Sharks Don’t Get Cancer (Lane)
Sharpton, Al
Shlaes, Amity
Shuster, Joe
Shute, Nevil
Siegel, Jerry
Sierra Club
single motherhood
slavery
Founders and
Jews in
legacy of
Socialism and Leftism as
U.S. eradication of
Slide Rule (Shute)
snow removal
social Darwinism
social eugenicism
Socialism
in Europe
social justice
social oppression
social safety net
Social Security
Some Thoughts (Sontag)
Sontag, Susan
Sotomayor, Sonia
South Shore Country Club
Soviet Union
Sowell, Thomas
Spanish Prisoner
Stalin, Joseph
Statism
Steele, Shelby
Stein, Gertrude
Steinem, Gloria
stocks, stock market
Stranger, The (Kipling)
Streetcar Named Desire, A (Williams)
Styron, William
Superego
Superman
Supreme Court, U.S.
synagogues
Syria
Taliban
Talmud
Taney, Roger
taxes
Taylor, Mitchell
teachers unions
television
Ten Commandments
Tesla, Nikola
thalidomide
Theory of the Leisure Class (Veblen)
Thomas, Clarence
Thomson, Lord
Tolstoy, Leo
Torah
totalitarianism
trade
tragic view of life
free market and
U.S. Constitution based on
Trilogy of Desire, The (Dreiser)
Trobriand Islanders
Trollope, Anthony
True Believer, The (Hoffer)
Truman, Harry S.
turkeys
unconstrained world-view
United Nations
urban planning
urban renewal
urban sprawl
utopias
Veblen, Thorstein
Vickers Ltd.
Victoria, Queen of England
Vietnam War
Village Voice
Voting Rights Act
Waiting for Godot (Beckett)
war
War and Peace (Tolstoy)
War on Poverty
War Powers Act
Washington, George
Washington Post
Water Engine (Mamet)
Watson, Paul Joseph
wealth, redistribution of