MacNamara, Robert, 20
Madison, James, 59
Madonna, 143, 152
Magnate, Myron, 95, 161—62
Maine, Henry, 317
Malaysia, 229
Mali, kingdom of, 253
Malia, Martin, 74—75
Manchester. William, 81
Manent, Pierre, 62, 75
Manhattan Institute, 95
Mankowski, Paul, 288
Mannheim, Karl, 78
Mansa Musa, 253
Maoists, 31
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 146—47, 150, 152
marriage, 29
attacks on institution of. 158, 204
same-sex, 112, 208, 325
Marx, Karl, 44, 281, 294
Maryland, University of, 215
Mason, Jackie, 247
Massachusetts, University of, 242
materialism, 282
matriarchal society, 205
Mayer, Martin, 327
McCarthy, Mary, 80n
McCarthyism, 255, 354
McCartney, Bill, 293
McCorvey, Norma, 208
McGovern, George, 55
Mead, Margaret, 211—12
meaning, politics of, 29, 85—87, 279
Measure, 216
media
religion and, 291—92
see also television; specific publications
Medicare, 270
Medved, Michael, 152
Melville, Herman, 212
men’s movement, 293
mentoring programs, 163
Mercer, Johnny, 124
Merit Systems Protection Board, U.S., 234
Methodists, 284
Metro Broadcasting, Inc. v. FCC (1990). 106
Mexican-Americans, 159
Mexicans, 299
Michelangelo, 147
Michigan State University, 245
military, feminization of, 218—23
Mill, John Stuart, 59—61, 64, 97, 98, 153
millenarianism, 27—28
Miller, James, 18, 26n
Miller v. California (1973), 146, 349—50
Million Man March, 226
Mills, C. Wright, 1, 26
Mills College, 217
minimum wage, 270—71, 279
Minnesota, University of, 217
Minogue, Kenneth, 345, 376—77
minorities
bilingual education for, 301
minimum wage and, 271
preferential treatment of, see affirmative action
in universities, 229, 239—48
see also multiculturalism; specific groups
Miranda warnings, 104
Moby Dick (Melville), 212
modernity, failure of, 4
Mongol Empire, 333
Montesquieu, 58
morality, 8, 9, 142, 272—80, 286, 293, 332
egalitarian, 322
revival of public discourse about, 336—38
Moral Sense, The (Wilson), 275
Morson’s Law, 91, 313
mortgage lending. 237
Motor-Voter Act, 78
Mount Holyoke College, 217
movies, 51, 126—28, 130, 135, 140.143, 144, 157, 159
censorship of, 141
rating system for, 145
Moynihan. Daniel Patrick, 3
MTV. 128, 135
multiculturalism, 53, 253, 267, 298—99, 302—13
murder, 143, 144, 157
of whites by blacks, 246
Murray, Charles, 158, 161, 170—71, 238, 267—68
music, popular, 1, 23—24, 49, 123—26, 128, 129, 131—35, 140, 143—45, 157, 159
Muslims, see Islam
Mussolini. Benito, 47
Naked Public Square, The (Neuhaus), 274
narcissism, 50, 125—26
National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, 182
National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), 53
National Association of Scholars (NAS), 236—59
National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC), 283, 284
National Council of Social Studies (NCSS), 302
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 130, 150, 203
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 253, 254, 304, 309
National Feminist Exposition, 284
National Guard, 44—46, 170
National History Standards, 253—55
National Institutes of Health, 183
National Liberation Front (NLF), 20
National Organization for Women (NOW), 53, 202, 243, 255
National Political Congress of Black Women, 130—31
National Review, 92, 225
National Rifle Association, 152
National Women’s Studies Association, 212—14
Nation of Islam, 226
native Americans, see Indians
Natural Born Killers (movie), 144
Navy, U.S., 219—22
Nazis, 4, 47, 144, 312
euthanasia by, 191
faith system of, 85
Nebraska, University of, 252
Netherlands, 189—91
Neuhaus, Richard John, 184, 274, 328—29, 336
New Age religions, 273
New Criterion, The, 130
New Deal, 67
New Haven Register, 37
New Left, 24—25, 27, 31—32, 53—55, 263, 342
fascists and. 46—48, 85, 201
feminism and, 193, 200
rejection of rationality by, 264—65
religion and, 282
and Vietnam War, 19, 20
New School for Social Research, 18
New York, State University of, at Buffalo, 270
New York Academy of Sciences, 270
New York State Department of Education, 306
New York Times, 1, 35, 37, 52, 69, 135, 143, 247, 261, 264n, 303, 339, 350
Nicaragua, 283
nihilism, 13, 125—26, 138, 192, 276, 321, 337
feminism and, 202
of student radicals, 33, 50—51
Nine Inch Nails, 123—24, 131—32
Nisbet, Robert, 29, 50, 58, 96, 218, 327, 329
Nixon, Richard, 20, 45
Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC (2000), 357
non-discrimination laws, 78
Noonan, John, 187
Notre Dame University, 282, 287
nuclear weapons, 261—62, 285
Nussbaum, Martha, 203—4, 362
O’Beirne, Kate, 224—25
O’Brien, Conor Cruise, 302, 303, 307—8
obscenity, 124—26, 129, 135
in arts, 130
censorship and, 134, 140—53
see also pornography
O’Connor, John J., 135
Oddie, William, 287
Oklahoma City bombing, 170
Omari, Ibn Fadi Allah al-, 253
On Character (Wilson), 275
On Liberty (Mill), 59—61, 64
organ transplants, 184—85
Ortega y Gassett, José, 21, 259, 278—79, 312, 313
Oxford University Press, 212—13
Pacific Islanders, 223, 309
Page, Clarence, 229
pantheism, 273
Parkinson’s disease, 183
Parliament, British, 97
partial birth abortions, 182—83
Patai, Daphne, 195—96, 201, 209, 211
patents, 110
patriarchy, 205, 209, 210, 212
religion and, 288
spinelessness of, 215
Paul VI, Pope, 280
Pearl Harbor, 91
Pellegrino, Edmund D., 188
Penn, William, 254
Penn State University, 216
Pennsylvania, University of, 215, 245, 309
People for the American Way, 53
performance art, 203
Perkins, James A., 43
Perot, Ross, 341
personal dignity and autonomy, right to, 103
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br /> Philippines, 91
philosophy, 276
materialist, 282
Planned Parenthood, 53, 182
Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992), 103, 111, 349
Polish immigrants, 301
political correctness, 54, 90, 203, 215, 247, 255, 256, 262, 333
Polsby, Daniel, 166—67
polygamy, 113—14
pope, infallibility of, 280
popular culture, 123—39
censorship of, 140—53, 342
illegitimacy and crime and, 156, 157
institution of marriage attacked by, 158
pornography, 135—39, 217
censorship of, 142, 145—53, 346—50
Porter, Cole, 124
Port Huron Statement, 26—27, 30—31, 47, 55, 87, 193, 198
post-modernism, 268—70
Powell, Lewis, 103, 360—61
Pravda, 247
preferences, racial, see affirmative action
pregnancy
in armed forces. 221, 222
out-of-wedlock, see illegitimacy
Presbyterian Church, 284, 285
Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces, 221
Presley, Elvis, 1, 131
Prime Time Live, 191
Princeton University, 161
privacy, right of, 103, 104
progressive income tax, 70—73
Prohibition, 173
Promise Keepers, 293—94, 336
Proposition 187, 243
prostitution, 127, 129
Protestantism, 280—85, 289, 292—93, 297
psychics, 263
Public Interest, 70
Public/Private Ventures (P/PV), 163—64
Pueblo Indians, 323
Puerto Rican independence movement, 284
Quakers, 254
quality, idea of, 248
Quayle, Dan, 221
race-holding, 228, 240
race relations, 226—49, 358—63
racial preferences, see affirmative action
Rackley, Alex, 41, 47
rape, accusations of. 215
rap music. 123—28, 130—32, 135, 140, 143, 157
Rathenau, Walter, 21
rationality, rejection of, 263—67, 270
in feminism, 210—11
in multiculturalism, 312
Ravitch, Diane, 354—55
Rawls, John, 79—81
Reagan, Ronald, 2, 107n, 115, 200, 227, 255, 339
Redford, Robert, 86
relativism, moral, 99, 276, 337
in popular culture, 127
religion, 8, 9, 272—95, 342
civil society and, 329
in Dark Ages, 334—35
education about. 255
feminism v., 206
freedom of, 98, 102—3, 113
liberal, 91
meaning provided by, 85
morality and, 142, 272—80, 286, 293, 332
politics as, 86.
revival of, 336—37
see also Christianity
Remington, Frederic, 90
reparations, 238
Republican Party, 7, 36, 55, 114, 160, 200, 282, 284, 318, 333, 341
Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC), 45
revisionism, historical, 33—34
Revolutionary War, 297
Reynolds v. Sims (1964), 106
Riesman, David, 323
right-to-die movement, 186
Ringle, Ken, 207
Roberts, Paul Craig, 234, 235
Rockefeller, John D., 254
rock music, 1, 23—24, 49, 124, 126, 133—35
Roe v. Wade (1973), 103, 111, 114, 115, 173—75, 179, 183, 208
Roman Catholic Church, 10, 28, 62, 208, 273, 279—82, 286—89, 291, 292, 294, 337
Romanticism, 126
Romer v. Evans, 112—14, 366
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 55, 67
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, 285—86
Rosenberg, Harold, 30
Rostow, Eugene, 40
Rothman, Stanley, 24—25, 88—89, 165, 170, 329
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 247
Rubin, Jerry, 42, 87
Russian Orthodox Church, 283
Russian Revolution, 94
Rwanda, 229
Salk, Jonas, 255
same-sex marriages, 112, 208, 325
Samuelson, Robert J., 256
Sandinistas, 283
San people, 77
Santorum, Rick, 370—71
Scalia, Justice, 108, 114, 234, 291, 347, 362
Schaef, Anne Wilson, 203, 210
Schlaes, Amity, 246
Schlafly, Phyllis, 324—25
Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 300, 307, 313
Schoeck, Helmut, 25, 73, 93—94
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), 62, 239, 252, 257—58
schools
ethnicity and, 300—302
power to discipline in, 104—5, 323
religion in, 289—90
segregation of, 105
sex education in, 159—60
see also education
Schroeder, Pat, 219, 221, 222
Schumpeter, Joseph, 83—84, 92
science
attacks on, 261—62, 265—70
feminism and, 210—11
religion and, 281—82, 294—95
Scranton commission, 45, 46
Scruton, Roger, 337
Seale, Bobby, 41, 42
Searle, John R., 264, 268
Season on the Brink, A (TV movie), 350
secular humanism, 276, 295
segregation, 105, 230, 243, 342
Seidenberg, Robert, 25
self-control, ethos of, 273
self-esteem movement, 243—44, 251, 253, 301
self-expression, secular ethos of, 273—74
Senate, U.S., 118, 255, 289, 339
Commerce Committee, 138
sensitivity training, 209, 215, 246, 308—9
Serrano (artist), 150
sex, politics of, see feminism
Sex and the Mass Media, 144
sex education, 159—60
sexual harassment, 215, 222
sexuality, 50
adolescents and, 159—60
feminism and, 197
in popular culture, 125—29, 135—39, 142—53, 157
religion and, 281
Shakespeare, William, 212, 247, 306, 345
Sharpton, Al, 229
sheltered enclaves, 334—35
Shinto, 276
Shit Faith (painting), 129
Sierra Club, 255
Simons, Marlise, 264n
Simpson, O.J., 226, 227
Sindler, Allan P., 44
Singer, Peter, 178
single parents, see divorce; illegitimacy
Singleton, John, 229
slavery, 227, 245, 253, 255, 318—21
Slavic immigrants, 297
Small Business Administration (SBA), 107
Smith, Adam, 58
Smith College. 24, 217
Smithsonian Institution, 90—91
Snoop Doggy Hogg, 123, 131
socialism, 74—75
“cultural” 76
as faith system, 85, 282
Social Security, 270
Social Text, 269
Society for Obstetric Anesthesia and Perinatology, 182
Socrates, 245
sodomy, homosexual, 103—4
Sokal, Alan, 269
Sommers, Christina Hoff, 194, 202—3, 211, 217
South Africa, 237
homicide in, 144
South Park (TV show), 350
Soviet Union. 4, 19, 26, 198, 222, 283, 333
Afghanistan and, 91, 283
collapse of communism in, 263
intellectuals as spies for, 94
underground satirists in, 247
Sowell, Thomas, 39, 232, 237, 239
Spectator, The, 246, 341
speech, fr
eedom of, 98—102, 113, 131, 147—48, 153, 290, 309
see also Constitution, First Amendment
Spencer, Leslie, 238
Spiro, Melford, 199, 223—24
Spong, John, 286
Sri Lanka, 300
Stalin, Joseph, 102
Stanford University, 236, 241, 247—48, 306
state legislatures, redistricting of, 105—6
“State of Violent Crime in America, The” (Council on Crime), 164—66, 169
status, inequalities of, 77—78
Steele, Shelby, 228, 240
Steichen, Donna, 288—89
Steinem, Gloria, 195, 208
Stephens, James Fitzjames, 61, 294
Stewart, Potter, 290—91
Stratton, Lawrence M., 234, 235
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 53
student radicalism, 33—55, 84, 155, 156
birth of, 25—32
and decline of intellect, 259—60, 263
feminism and, 193, 216
roots of, 21—25, 155
and sacking of universities, 36—51
and Vietnam War, 17—21
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), 18, 22, 24, 26—31, 43—45, 48, 49, 53, 87
suicide, assisted, 110—11, 114, 172, 185—92
Supreme Court, U.S., 7, 95—119, 234, 318, 324, 335
abortion and, 173—74
affirmative action and, 227, 231, 248
assisted suicide and, 185—86
censorship and, 146—50, 152—53, 346—58
gun control and, 166n
religion and, 289
see also specific decisions
surrealism, 130
Sweden, 73
swing music, 124
Sykes, Charles J., 82
symbols, national, 100—101
taxation, 150
Court and, 110
progressive, 70—73
technology, 9—10
religion and, 281
women and, 195
youth rebellion and, 23
television, 127—29, 133, 144—45, 157, 335
and decline of intellect. 253, 263
pornography on, 137, 148
religion and. 291
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 212
Ten Commandments, 277, 289
Texas, University of, 87, 114, 214, 318
Texas v. Johnson (1989), 99—101
Thomas, Clarence, 108, 335
Thomasma, David C., 190—91
“three strikes and you’re out” sentencing policy, 167—68
Tikkun, 87
Time Warner, 130—32, 138, 148
Tin Pan Alley, 124
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 67, 75, 81—82, 133, 160, 272—73, 279, 280, 286, 325—26
Trilling, Lionel, 12, 30, 88
Truman, Harry, 61, 67
Tubman, Harriet, 255
Tucker, C. DeLores, 130—32, 141
Underground Railroad, 255
unemployment, 322
unions, minimum wage supported by, 271
United Kingdom, 97, 117, 164, 320
Muslim immigrants in, 299—300
United Methodist Church, 284
United Nations, 91, 200, 226
Fourth World Conference on
Women (Beijing, 1995), 196—97, 201, 205, 206, 208
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