by Chris Hedges
O’Brien, Conan
O’Brien, Edwin F.
Occultism
Ochs, Phil
Odetta
Oil
Gulf of Mexico spill
and Iraq
and mass extinction
and Nader
and renewable energy
Standard
and Teapot Dome scandal
Olbermann, Keith
O’Neil, Eugene
Ortega y Gasset, José
Orwell, George
Pacifism
Pakistan
Palestinians
Palin, Sarah
Patriot Act
Patriotism
Paul, Ron
Pentagon Papers
Permanent war
and Arab world
and Chomsky
economy
ideology and culture of
and liberal class
and military spending
and patriotism
and World War I,
Peter, Paul & Mary
Peters, Joan
Pindar
Plato
Polanyi, Karl
Political action committees
Pollard, Sidney
Pollock, Jackson
Poole, Ernest
Pope John Paul II,
Populism
Postman, Neil
Poststructuralism
Poverty and the poor
and Bell’s mother
and Berrigan
and Bohemia
and corporate power
and creative people
and globalization
and hypermasculinity
and King and Malcolm X,
and liberal class
and liberal era
long-term
and media
and radical social change and Catholic Worker
and University House writers
and utopia and progress
Powell, Colin
Powell, Lewis
Power elite
and anarchic violence
and art
and Chomsky
and church
and Cicero
debate between two wings of
defying
and environmental and economic collapse
and globalization
and liberal class
and Lippmann’s Public Opinion
and mass propaganda
and media
and multiculturalism
and mythic narrative of America
and Obama
and permanent war
and polls
and protests
and radical current in theater
and resistance
Prager, Robert
Prisons
Proctor & Gamble
Progressivism and progressives
Propaganda. See Mass propaganda
Pure Food and Drug Act
Putin, Vladimir
al-Qaida
Racism
Radicals
discrediting
and environment
impact on media of
and keeping liberal class honest
and multiculturalism
in 1960s,
and Palmer Raids
and poststructuralism
and psychoanalysis
rupture with liberal class of
silencing, banning, and blacklisting
and theater
and University House
and utopia and progress
and vitality of liberal class
and World War I,
See also Anarchists; Communists; Left wing; Liberal class; Marxists; Socialism and socialists
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Reagan, Ronald
and anticommunism
and corporate control
and liberal class’s death
and Nader
and NEA grants
Rebels
See also Radicals; Resistance and revolt
Reform. See Liberal class
Religious institutions
See also Church
Remnick, David
Republican Party
and corporations
right wing of
and 2000 election
and Wall Street
Resistance and revolt
Reuther, Walter
Rice, Condoleezza
Right wing
Robeson, Paul
Rockefeller, John D.
Rojek, Chris
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rose, Charlie
Rosenthal, Abe
Roth, Philip
Russell, Bertrand
Russell, Charles Edward
Russia
Sainath, Palagummi
Saul, John Ralston
Savio, Mario
Scahill, Jeremy
Schakowsky, Jan
Schanberg, Sydney
Schrecker, Ellen
Schumann, Peter
Sedition Act
Seeger, Pete
Sennet, Richard
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (911)
Shange, Ntozake
Sharon, Ariel
Sheehan, Cindy
Shepard, Sam
Shetterly, Rob
Simon, Paul
Simons, George
Sinclair, Upton
Slaughter, Anne-Marie
Smith, Adam
Smith, Frederick
Smith, Sharon
Social Gospel movement
Socialism and socialists
and anticommunist purges
and liberal era
muzzling of
pre-World War I,
and World War I,
Socrates
Somalia
Soros, George
South Korea
Soviet Union
Speculators and speculation
Spinoza, Baruch
Spivak, Gayatri
Stack, Joe
Stalin, Joseph
Stanton, Olive
Starnes, Joseph
Steimer, Mollie
Steinbeck, John
Steinem, Gloria
Stern, Fritz
Stewart, Ellen
Stieber, Josh
Stone, I. F.
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Stupak, Bart
Sullivan, Mark
Sulzberger, Arthur “Punch,”
Supreme Court, U.S.
Surowiecki, James
Surveillance
Swanson, David
Syria
Taft-Hartley Act
Taliban
Tarbell, Ida
Tarde, Gabriel
Taxes
Tea Party movement
Teamsters Union
Teer, Barbara Ann
Terrorism
domestic
and drugs
Islamic
and laws
and Obama
and patriotism
war on
Theater
Bread and Puppet Theatre
and censorship
and civil-rights movement
and grants and commercial constraints
Living Theatre and Open Theater
radical current in 1920s and 1930s,
as spectacle or celebrity-driven entertainment
Theater for the New City
and World War I,
Theweleit, Klaus
Thomson, Virgil
Totalitarianism
classical
and hostility toward left
inverted
movements
Tracy, David
Treasury, U.S.
Trotsky, Leon
Trotter, Wilfred
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Truth, Sojourner
Tuchman, Barbara
Twain, Mark
&n
bsp; Twight, Charlotte
Ulmer, Gregory
Unemployment
and Bell
in China
and hypermasculinity
insurance taxes
and liberals
long-term
in 1930s,
and Obama
and permanent underclass
real rate of
and right-wing backlash
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
Unions, labor
and blacklisting
and Catholic Worker
and class struggle
communist
and corporations
and democracy and rights of workers
and dignity and hope
dismantling of
and FedEx and UPS
as junior partners of capitalist class
and leaders’ salaries
and liberal class
and National Labor Relations Act
and 1960s,
and 1930s,
percent of American workers in
public-sector
and radical leaders
and Taft-Hartley Act
and utopia and progress
and World War I,
United Automobile Workers
United Mine Workers
United Nations (U.N.)
Universities
and anticommunism
and Berrigan
and children of immigrants
and collegiality, conformity, and tenure
and common good
and corporate power
and critical thinking and independence of mind
and Finkelstein
and liberal class
and multiculturalism
and philanthropy
and poststructuralism
and resistance
and specialization
and tax-exemption and money
UPS
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
Van Agtmael, Peter
Van Itallie, Jean-Claude
Vietnam War
and protest
Violence
Wall Street
bailouts
and Bell
and communists
manipulation and dishonesty on
and Obama
and World War I,
Wallace, Graham
Wallace, Henry
Walling, William English
Walzer, Michael
War
brutal and savage reality of
and liberal class
veterans
See also Afghanistan war; Iraq war; Permanent war; World War I; World War II
Warhol, Andy
Warren, Earl
Watergate
Weather Underground
Weavers
Weber, Max
Weisman, Fred
Welfare
Welles, Orson
Wellstone, Paul
West Bank
White, Edward Douglas
Whyte, William H.
Wicker, Ireene
Wieseltier, Leon
WikiLeaks
Wilson, Woodrow
Winfrey, Oprah
Wolin, Sheldon
Women’s rights and equality
Woods, Tiger
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
World War I,
and conscription
and crumbling of antiwar movement
declaration of war
end and aftermath of
and end of liberal era
and end of progressivism
and industrial warfare
and intellectuals
and mass culture
and mass propaganda
and nationalism
and repression of dissent
World War II,
Wright, Ann
Wright, Ronald
Yemen
YouTube
Yugoslavia
Zuspann, Gary
Zwally, Jay
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Hedges, Chris.
Death of the liberal class / Chris Hedges.
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1. Liberalism—United States. 2. Political culture—United States. I. Hedges,
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JC574.2.U6H43 2010
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2010032916
Table of Contents
Also by Chris Hedges
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
I - Resistance
II - Permanent War
III - Dismantling the Liberal Class
IV - Politics as Spectacle
V - Liberal Defectors
VI - Rebellion
Notes
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Index
Copyright Page
