Death of the Liberal Class

by Chris Hedges

and Obama

  and terrorism

  Civil-rights movement

  Civil War, U.S.

  Climate change and global warming

  Clinton, Bill

  Cockroft, Eva

  Coelho, Tony

  Coffin, William Sloane

  Cold War

  Committee for Public Information (CPI)

  Communists

  and German Nazis

  and interconnectedness

  and 1960s,

  and 1930s,

  and Palmer Raids

  propaganda tying them to German war machine

  and radical current in theater

  silencing, banning, and blacklisting

  and unions

  See also Anticommunism

  Cone, James

  Congress for Cultural Freedom

  Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

  Constitution, U.S.

  and Arnheim

  and faith-based organizations

  and inverted totalitarianism

  irrelevancy of

  as power’s apprentice

  and Sedition Act

  Consumer Protection Agency

  Consumerism and consumption

  Copenhagen Conference

  Corporate power

  and arts

  and intellectuals

  and inverted totalitarianism

  and laws

  and Lewis Powell memo

  and liberal class

  and liberal class’s death

  and mass propaganda

  and media

  and permanent war

  and radicals

  and unions

  and universities

  and World War I,

  See also Corporations

  Corporations

  assault on working class by

  campaign contributions and lobbying of

  coup of

  and crime

  and environment

  hijacking of state by

  and hypermasculinity

  and internal security and intelligence

  and Internet

  and Iraq and Afghanistan wars

  lack of concern with common good of

  and Nader

  and revolt of right

  and taxpayer subsidies

  and unemployment

  See also Arts and artists; Democratic Party; Film; Intellectuals; Journalism and journalists; Mass propaganda; Media; Obama, Barack; Republican Party; Unions; Universities

  Costa, Antonio Maria

  Council on Foreign Relations

  Counterculture

  Cowley, Malcolm

  The Cradle Will Rock (musical)

  Creel, George

  Czechoslovakia

  Dada movement

  Daniels, Josephus

  Day, Dorothy

  Debs, Eugene

  Demagogues

  Democratic Party

  and AFL-CIO

  and anticommunism

  betrayal of liberal principles by

  and corporations

  impotency of

  and Iraq and Afghanistan wars

  and liberal class

  1968 convention

  and Nixon’s illegalities

  and pre-World War I reforms

  and Republican Party

  and 2000 election

  Depression, Great

  Deregulation

  Derrida, Jacques

  Dershowitz, Alan

  Dewey, John

  Dickens, Charles

  Dies, Martin

  Disney, Walt

  Dith Pran

  Dos Passos, John

  Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

  Douglass, Frederick

  Downes, Olin

  Drug companies

  Duchamp, Marcel

  Dylan, Bob

  Economy

  and collapse and ruins

  global

  and Hudson

  and military spending

  and permanent war

  See also Deregulation; Speculators and speculation

  Education

  and degradation

  high-quality and affordable public

  and Mills

  and No Child Left Behind

  and permanent war

  Edwards, John

  Egypt

  Einstein, Albert

  El Salvador

  Ellsberg, Daniel

  Elshtain, Jean Bethke

  Energy

  England/Great Britain

  Entertainment industry

  Environment

  and collapse

  and degradation and devastation

  and Gore

  groups

  illusion of modifying and controlling

  and legislation

  and protection

  and reform

  See also Climate change and global warming

  Environmental Protection Agency

  Ernst, Morris

  Espionage Act

  Ewen, Stuart

  ExxonMobil

  Falklands War

  Faragoh, Francis Edward

  Fascists and fascism

  Faulk, John Henry

  FBI

  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

  Federal Reserve

  Federal Theatre Project

  Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors

  FedEx

  Field, Crystal

  Film

  and blacklisting

  and corporations

  and early modernism

  and Internet

  and war images

  and World War I,

  Finkelstein, Norman

  Flanagan, Hallie

  Flannery, Tim

  Foreclosures

  Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)

  Fornés, Maria Irene

  Forster, E. M.

  France

  Franken, Al

  Freud, Sigmund

  Friedan, Betty

  Friedman, Thomas

  Fromkin, David

  Gabler, Neal

  Gardiner, John

  Gays and homosexuals

  Gaza

  Gelb, Leslie

  General Motors (GM)

  Germany

  and militarized culture

  Nazi

  Weimar

  and World War I,

  Ginsberg, Allen

  Gitlin, Todd

  Glaspell, Susan

  Global warming. See Climate change and global warming

  Globalization

  and Berrigan

  and Chomsky

  and churches

  and Friedman

  ideology of

  and liberal class

  and poor

  touted benefits of

  Gold, Mike

  Goldman, Emma

  Goldstone, Richard

  Gombrich, Ernst

  Gompers, Samuel

  Goodman, Amy

  Goodman, Paul

  Goodman, Percival

  Google

  Gore, Al

  Grant, Lee

  Gray, John

  Greece

  Green Party

  Greenhouse gases

  Greenspan, Alan

  Greer, Germaine

  Grinker, Lori

  Guantánamo Bay

  Gulf War

  See also Iraq war

  Hagee, John

  Hamas

  Hamill, Pete

  Hamilton, Clive

  Hammett, Dashiell

  Harding, Warren

  Hartnett, Vincent

  Havel, Václav

  Hayward, Tony

  Haywood, Bill

  Health care

  and Bell

  “Cadillac” plans

  and Democratic Party

  and old communist unions

  reform bill

  and unemployment

  Hedonism and cult of self

 
Hellman, Lillian

  Henderson, Dean

  Hennessy, Martha

  Heritage Foundation

  Herman, Edward

  Herzen, Aleksandr

  Heschel, Abraham

  Hesse, Herman

  Hibben, John Grier

  Hindman, Matthew

  Hitchens, Christopher

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hoffman, Abbie

  Hoffman, Stanley

  Hoh, Matthew

  Hold, Hamilton

  Homeland Security, U.S. Department of

  Homer

  Hoover, J. Edgar

  House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)

  Houseman, John

  Howe, Irving

  Human Rights Watch

  Huntington, Samuel

  Hussein, Saddam,

  Hypermasculinity

  Ignatieff, Michael

  Im Tirtzu

  Image-based culture

  India

  Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

  Inflation

  Intellectuals

  and Beats

  Chomsky and Finkelstein on

  and consumer culture

  and corporations

  Howe on

  Judt on

  last generation of independent public

  and left

  and mass propaganda

  and multiculturalism

  and objectivity

  and popular and political passions

  and power

  and practical aims and material advantages

  and self-imposed exile

  and Soviet Union

  and World War I,

  Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

  Internet

  Iran

  Iraq war

  and church

  and Democrats

  and Friedman

  and helicopter attack on Iraqi civilians

  and hypermasculinity

  and Kerry

  and liberals

  and mass propaganda

  and media

  and Obama

  and private contractors

  theater against

  and U.N.

  and veterans

  Islam

  hatred for radical

  and militancy

  Nation of

  and racism

  and terrorism

  Israel

  Jacobs, Jane

  Jacoby, Russell

  Jameson, Frederic

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnston, David Cay

  Jones, LeRoi (Amiri Baraka)

  Jones, Mary “Mother,”

  Jordan, David Starr

  Journalism and journalists

  and blacklisting

  and corporations, power, and the powerful

  good

  and impartiality and objectivity

  and Internet

  and Iraq

  and loss of newspapers

  and mass culture

  monitoring and controlling

  and newcomers and immigrants

  and schools

  and Steinbeck

  and Stone

  and World War I,

  See also Media; specific publications

  Joya, Malalai

  Judt, Tony

  Kahn, Otto

  Karzai, Ahmed Wali

  Karzai, Hamid

  Kennedy, Edward

  Kentridge, William

  Kerouac, Jack

  Kerry, John

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  King, William

  Komunyakaa, Yusef

  Korean War

  Kosovo

  Kozloff, Max

  Kucinich, Dennis

  Kurlansky, Mark

  Kuwait

  Lacan, Jacques

  Lanier, Jaron

  Lardner, Ring, Jr.

  Lasswell, Harold

  Lawson, John Howard

  Le Bon, Gustave

  League of Nations

  Leary, Timothy

  Lebanon

  Lee, Ching Kwan

  Left wing

  Berrigan on

  and identity politics and multiculturalism

  ideological vacuum on

  insignificance of

  and radical current in theater

  See also Communists; Marxists; New Left; Radicals; Socialism and socialists

  Lenin

  Leno, Jay

  Lewis, Anthony, 1565

  Lewis, Sinclair

  Liberal class

  abandonment, purging, and death of

  and anger and sense of betrayal of people

  and anticommunism

  and capitalism

  and children and education

  and Chomsky

  as conscience of nation

  and corporate power

  and decline of religious institutions

  and Democratic Party

  and economic mobility and careerism

  and environment

  and expelling apostates from liberal institutions

  and fear

  and globalization

  and hollow political theater

  and hypermasculinity

  and imperialism

  and indifference to economic despair

  and inverted totalitarianism

  and Iraq and Afghanistan wars

  and Islamic militancy

  and King

  and mass propaganda

  and material comfort

  moral bankruptcy of

  and mythic narrative of America

  and Nader

  and New Deal

  and Nixon’s illegalities

  and objectivity

  and permanent war

  and power and the state

  and progress and utopia

  and racial difference and racism

  and radicals

  and reform and law

  and resistance, revolt, and rebels

  and self-expression and paganism

  and sound bites and popular appeal

  and Vietnam War

  and war’s brutal reality

  and World War I,

  See also Arts and artists; Church; Liberals; Mass culture; Media; Power elite; Unions, labor; Universities

  Liberal institutions

  See also specific institutions

  Liberalism

  bankrupt

  classical

  collapse of

  and communism

  discarding principle tenets of

  and hypermasculinity

  and Israel

  modern

  myth of democratic

  and World War I’s aftermath

  Liberals

  betrayal of liberal principles by

  and economic despair

  muzzling of

  policing their own

  retreat and lack of protest by

  See also Liberal class

  Limbaugh, Rush

  Lippmann, Walter

  Lipton, Lawrence

  Locke, John

  Loeb, Philip

  Loehr, Davidson

  London, Jack

  Macdonald, Dwight

  and entertainment

  and 1960s,

  and permanent war

  and sound bites and easily digested ideas

  and urban centers

  and World War I,

  MacLeish, Archibald

  Magee, Alan

  Magical thinking

  Malcolm X,

  Malina, Judith

  Malpede, Karen

  Manhattan Institute

  Manufacturing

  Mao Zedong

  Mark, Ruben

  Marlowe, Christopher

  Marx, Karl

  Marxists

  Mass culture

  and arts

  and Chomsky

  consumer and commercial

  and journalism

  and left

  and liberal cl
ass

  rise of

  and World War I,

  Mass propaganda

  and Bernays

  and corporations

  and critics

  and defiance

  and emotion

  and fear

  first modern machine for

  following World War I,

  and Iraq

  and liberal class

  and psychology and Freud

  and radical current in theater

  and Russia

  tying communists to German war machine

  and World War I,

  Maurin, Peter

  McCain, John

  McCarthy, Eugene

  McCarthy, Joseph

  McGill, Doug

  McGovern, George

  McKibben, Bill

  Meany, George

  Media

  alternative and underground

  and art

  and Catholic Worker

  and Chomsky

  and concentration and commercialization

  and corporations

  and financial system

  and good journalism

  impact of radicals and alternative publications on

  and impartiality and objectivity

  and Iraq

  and liberal class

  and moral outrage and passion

  and music

  and Nader

  in 1960s and 1970s,

  and permanent war

  and public’s conformity, aspirations, and idealized identities

  and sound bites

  talk radio, reality television, and trash-talk programs

  and truth versus news

  and World War I,

  See also Journalism and journalists; specific publications

  Merton, Thomas

  Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Middle East

  Militarization

  Military spending, U.S.

  Mill, John Stuart

  Miller, Arthur

  Mills, C. Wright

  Moore, Michael

  Morris, Jack

  Mostel, Zero

  Moyers, Bill

  Muck, Carl

  Muir, Jean

  Mukasey, Michael

  Multiculturalism

  Mumford, Lewis

  Museum of Modern Art (New York)

  Nader, Ralph

  National Association of Scholars

  National Council of Churches

  National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)

  Nationalism

  NATO

  Nava, John

  Neugebauer, Randy

  New Deal

  New Israel Fund (NIF)

  New Left

  New York Times

  and Afghanistan

  and anticommunism

  and author

  and critics of corporate state

  and op-ed pieces

  and Sarajevo

  and World War I,

  Niebuhr, Reinhold

  Nixon, Richard

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  Oath Keepers

  Obama, Barack

  and Berrigan

  and Christian fascists

  and climate change

  and corporations

  and energy

  and Gulf oil spill

  and illusion over substance

  and liberal class

  lies and broken promises of

  and multiculturalism

  and wars

  weakness of

  and “Yes We Can,”