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64.

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Andrew Johnson, “Taliban make ‘undetectable’ bombs out of wood,”
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news/world/asia/taliban-make-undetectable-bombs-out-of-wood-1863353.

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The Times
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73.

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74.

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227281/pirates-test-rule-law/andrew-c-mccarthy.

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epilogue

1.

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2.

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3.

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4.

Michael Muskal, “‘I am not king’: Obama tells Latino voters he can’t conjure immigration reform alone,”
Los Angeles Times
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5.

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6.

Andrew G. Biggs, “Entitlement Apocalypse,”
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7.

N. Gordon and B. Knight, “Spatial Merger Estimator with an Application to School District Consolidation,”
Journal of Public Economics
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8.

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handbook/hb111/hb111-5.pdf.

9.

Paul Krugman, “Runaway health care costs — we’re #1!,”
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org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.

11.

Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa,
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College
Campuses
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12.

Paul A. Rahe,
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13.

Kathryn Jean Lopez, “That Other Hollywood: Cheers!” National Review Online, January 17, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/

corner/192973/other-hollywood-cheers/kathryn-jean-lopez.

14.

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15.

John Derbyshire, “Tinker, Tailor, Bureaucrat, Diversity Consultant,” National Review Online, May 13, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/

corner/163046/tinker-tailor-bureaucrat-diversity-consultant/john-derbyshire.

16.

J. R. McNeill an Paul Kennedy,
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History of the Twentieth-Century World
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17.

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18.

Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It,”
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nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15climate.html.

index

a

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 264, 270,

ABC, 64

275–76

Abdulla, King, 273

al-Assad, Bashar, 275

abortion, 80, 161, 177, 178, 180, 204, al-Awlaki, Anwar, 169-70

304, 309

al-Din, Taqi, 32

Acheson, Dean, 199

al-Gamei’a, Muhammad, 265

Acres
, 85

al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad, 32

Adams, Sam, 201

al-Qaeda, 42–43, 162, 263

addiction, 20, 22, 36, 256

al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 162

Addonizio, Kim, 140

Albuquerque Journal
, 254

Adkins, Lucy, 140

Aldrin, Buzz, 28–29

adolescence, 129, 172, 181

Alesina, Alberto, 237–38

“adultescence” phenomenon, 181

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 297

“affirmative action,” 151–53, 165, 238

Almaleki, Noor, 303–4

Affleck, Ben, 141

“Alpha male,” 176

“after man,” 306–10

Alterman, Eric, 67

“age of chivalry,” 186

Amazing Stories
, 38–39

“age of empathy,” 158,160

America

Agodon, Kelli Russell, 140

chance for, 22–23, 279–324

agricultural labor, 211–12

cushion for, 16

debt of, 2–23

407

408

after america

decay of, 21–22

Amis, Martin, 293

decline of, 12–13, 17-18, 32, 43, Aniston, Jennifer, 176–78

127–87

Annie
, 1

Europeanization of, 120–22

Antitrust Division, 46–47, 49

fall of, 13–14, 211–67

Anwar, Mus’id, 135–36

hope for, 279–324

apartheid, 152, 245, 263–65

post-American world, 279–324

apocalypse, 1–2

undreaming, 45–102

Apple, 32

vulnerability of, 19–20, 230, 259, Arbogast, Jessie, 260

281

Archuleta, Deanna, 34

world after, 279–324

Armageddon, 20–22

America Alone: The End of the World
Armstrong, Neil, 28

as We Know It
, 1–2, 15, 19, 28, 105, arteriosclerosis, 20, 22

118, 129, 189

Arum, Richard, 340

“America the Beautiful,” 40

Associated Press, 165, 167, 290

American Dream

Astaire, Fred, 41, 166

beneficiaries of, 131

Astor, Mary, 65

desire for, 244–45, 253–54, 331–

Astounding Science Fiction
, 38–39

32

atheists, 321

loss of, 15, 22–23, 326, 331–32

Athens, drowning of, 103–25

requirement of, 35

Atlantic Monthly
, 93, 161–62, 319

American Educator, The
, 157

Atta, Mohammed, 283

American idea, 16, 21, 38, 70, 102, 267, audacity, hope of, 325–49

306, 326, 342, 348–49

Austin Powers
, 242

American Idol
, 45

automobile industry, 47, 101, 217–20

American idyll, 127–87

Ayers, William, 42, 145, 147

American Journal of Medicine, The
,

226

B

American, meaning of, 141–42

Babylon, 7, 14

American Nightmare, 22

Bacca, Pippa, 265–66

American Prospect, The
, 63

bailouts, 64, 109, 218, 346

“American Recovery and Reinvest-

Baker, Dean, 93

ment Plan,” 33

Balls, Ed, 192

American Spectator, The
, 82

Banting, Frederick, 27–28

index 409

Barnett, Thomas P. M., 318

father of, 33–34

Bast, Andrew, 168

funding, 72, 109, 129

Bastiat, Frédéric, 45

future of, 75, 329, 333

Bates, Katharine Lee, 40, 41

growth of, 9–10, 15, 21–22

Baucus, Max, 63

ineptitude of, 34, 56, 63–64,

Bawer, Bruce, 141

85–86, 92, 102–3, 204–6, 213–

Bayer, Henry, 108

14, 217–18, 230–36, 255–56

Beamer, Todd, 296

monopoly by, 20, 22, 48–53, 236,

Beecham, Thomas, 39

337–38

Bellil, Samira, 299, 300, 302

results of, 75, 106, 204–6, 213–14,

Belshazzar, King, 7, 14–15, 18–19,

217–18, 230–36, 244, 255–56

124–25

rolling back, 333–47

Bennet, Michael, 2

secularism of, 305–6

Bentham, Jeremy, 257

seduction by, 70–72

Berg, Nick, 321

small government and, 90–91,

Berger, David, 161

335, 346–48

Berkowitz, Peter, 63

as technocracy, 53–55, 67–68

Berle, Milton, 26–27

unemployment and, 48

Berlin, Irving, 166

vote for, 214, 228

Berlin Wall, 159, 237

Biggs, Andrew, 332

Berlinski, Claire, 300

bin Laden, Osama, 39, 41, 162, 164,

Berman, Paul, 165

275

Bernanke, Ben, 97–98, 326

bin Rashid, Maktoum, 275

Beschloss, Michael, 55

bin Zayed, Mohammed, 275

Bethea, Ty’Sheoma, 325–26, 329–30

Bing, Dave, 222

Beveridge, William, 204

Black-Eyed Peas, 30

Bevin, Ernie, 58

Black Hawk Down
, 315

Bharuchi, Shayna, 319

Blair, Tony, 57–58, 63, 182, 203

Biden, Joe, 147

Bloomberg, Michael, 40, 59–60, 80,

Bieber, Justin, 35

164–65, 168, 208

Big Government

Bobb, Robert, 220

“Brains Trust,” 53–54, 57

Bogart, Humphrey, 65

controlling price, 48–49

Bokassa, Emperor, 222

curse of, 47–49

Bolden, Charles, 31–32

410

after america

Bolkestein, Frits, 298

deficits, 3–16, 110–11, 117–18,

Bolkestein, Minheer, 298

228–29, 245, 345–46

Bolton, John, 145

health-care budget, 294

Bolton, Judge, 80