After America: Get Ready for Armageddon (62 page)

military budget, 5–6

bond markets, 9–10

outlook on, 4–5

Bono, 131, 146

school budgets, 148–49

bonobos, 230–34

welfare state and, 228–30

Border Patrol, 324

Burchill, Julie, 199

Boston Tea Party, 91

Bureau of Compliance, 80–87, 93–94,

Bradbury, Ray, 133

336–37

“Brains Trust,” 53–54, 57

Bureau of the Public Debt (BPD), 75

Brandeis, Louis, 47–48

Bureaucratic Expeditiousness Regula-

Brann, Ty, 90–91

tion, 83–84

Brave New World
, 36, 137

Burgess, Anthony, 206, 207

Brecht, Bertolt, 180, 241

Bush, George H., 58

Britannia, depravity of, 189–209

Bush, George W., 38, 56, 58, 101, 197,

British elites, 197, 208.
See also
elites 257, 302, 314, 317

Brokaw, Tom, 187

“businessmen,” 2, 272, 280–81

broke, stupidity of, 1–23

Byrd, Robert C., 79

Brooks, David, 55

Byron, Lord, 1

Brooks, Mel, 4

Byron, Robert C., 76

Brother Bear
, 261–62

Brown, Gordon, 199, 204

C

Brown, Scott, 61, 342

Cabaret
, 292

Brown, Tam, 183

Cadell, Pat, 73

Bruni, Carla, 118

Caldwell, Christopher, 242, 287

“bubble,” 16, 96

Caliphate, 19, 21, 72, 277, 286, 296,

Buckingham Palace, 39

299, 323–24

budget

Callaghan, Jim, 200

Big Government and, 346

Cameron, James, 185

Contract with America and, 9

can-do spirit, 31, 40, 108, 328

cuts in, 108, 148–49

capitalism, 23, 35, 72, 115, 119, 192

defense budget, 119

Casagrande, Marina, 112–13

Casey, George W., Jr., 169–70

index 411

CBS, 64, 303

Cloverfield
, 37

centralization, 71, 156, 333–35

CNN, 64, 86, 165, 280, 317

certification fees, 48–49

Coakley, Martha, 60–61

Chamberlain, Neville, 270

Code Orange alert, 138, 258, 296

Charlton, Bruce, 30, 31

code words, 61–62, 66

Charnin, Martin, 1

Codevilla, Angelo, 153

Chaudhury, Shah, 202, 203

coexisting, 131, 133, 143, 240

Chavez, Hugo, 275, 276

college, 35, 56, 58, 149–57, 173–74,

Cheney, Dick, 69

180, 197

Chicago Sun-Times
, 159

college loans, 47, 156

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
, 1

Collins, Randy, 91–92

children, education of, 148–57

Columbia
, 32

children, future of, 171-75

Communism, 206

children, war on, 346

Compliance Bureau, 80–87, 93–94,

Chinese, and globalization, 97–102,

336–37

194–95, 312

computer age, 32–33, 36

Chinn, Menzie, 10

conformicrats, 20, 57, 63–64, 67–72,

Chirac, Jacques, 192, 275

81, 92, 254–55

chivalry, 186

conformocracy, 58, 101–2, 128

“choice mothers,” 176

Congressional Budget Office (CBO),

Chrysler Building, 41

4–5, 8–9

Churchill, Winston, 59, 191-92, 197, Constitution, 63, 73, 77–78, 80, 147, 199, 203

192, 290

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 144, 211

Consumer Product Safety Commis-

City Journal
, 181

sion (CPSC), 82

civic participation, 87–92

consumer spending, 97, 224–25

Civilization and Its Enemies
, 135

consumerism, 35

Clash of Civilizations, The
, 18, 292

Contract with America, 9

Cleveland, Grover, 58

Contrast, The
, 103

Clinton, Bill, 58, 62, 90, 147, 159, 161, control of price, 48–49

259–60, 272, 318

Conyers, John, 78, 83

Clinton, Hillary, 302

Coolidge, Calvin, 62

Clockwork Orange, A
, 206–7

corrupt elites, 223, 227–28.
See also

Clooney, George, 64, 320

elites

412

after america

Count Basie, 29, 30

de-regulation, 336–37

Coyote, Ivan E., 231–32

De Standaard
, 187

credentialization, 150–51, 154, 156–

Dean, Howard, 120

57, 339–40

debt, 2–23, 96–97, 114–15, 346

credit boom, 14–16, 92–96

debt interest, 5, 228

credit “bubble,” 16, 96

decay of America, 21, 22

credit cards, 9, 96, 105, 218, 310, 345

decay of Rome, 25–43

“credit crunch,” 96

Declaration of Independence, 193,

“credit default swap,” 94–96

247

Crosby, Bing, 53

Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, Cross, Gary, 181

12–13, 25

Cultural Revolution, 100

decline of America, 13–14, 32, 43,

Culture of Pleasure, 136–37

127–87

culture wars, 73

decline of Greece, 103–7

cures, races for, 27–28

Deemer, Andy, 174

Currie, Jay, 95

defense budget, 119

Curse of Bigness, 47–49

deficit, 3–16, 110–11, 117–18, 228–29,

245, 345–46

d

DeParle, Jason, 252

Daily Express
, 207

Dependistan, 225, 228–30

Daily Mail
, 182, 205

depravity of Britannia, 189–209

Daily Star, The
, 54

Depression, 34, 69, 115, 135

Daily Telegraph
, 197

Der Spiegel
, 304–5

Dalrymple, Theodore, 115

Derbyshire, John, 344

Dancing with the Stars
, 45

despotism, 45–46, 235

Daniels, Anthony, 220

Detroit News
, 222

Dawkins, Richard, 321

Diamond, Jared, 233

Day, Doris, 3

Diary of Anne Frank, The
, 297

de-centralization, 238, 333–35

Diaz, Porfirio, 254

de-complicating, 339

dictatorships, 101–2, 192–93, 241,

de-credentializing, 339–40

281, 311, 323

de-governmentalization, 335

Die Welt
, 276

de-monopolizing, 337–38

Dingell, John, Jr., 76

de-normalizing, 341–42

Dingell, John, Sr., 76

index 413

dis-entitle, 340–41

Eighties (1980s), 180, 221, 222, 300

disintegration, 21, 22, 206, 256

Eisenhower, Dwight, 195–96

diversity, 63–64, 131, 146, 153

elites

diversity outreach, 31–32

belief of, 16, 21

diversity training, 68

British elites, 197, 208

“do something” attitude, 61, 342–45

contempt of, 68, 102

Doherty, John, 108

corrupt elites, 223, 227–28

Dohrn, Bernardine, 145

education of, 13, 152–53

Dole, Bob, 70

new elites, 59, 63, 135, 208, 246,

Domville, William, 189

266–67, 318–19

Douglas, William, 47

vegetarian elites, 127–28

Douglass, Frederick, 182

western elites, 59, 101, 143, 287,

drowning of Athens, 103–25

293

D’Souza, Dinesh, 145

Elmendorf, Douglas, 4, 8, 11

Duranty, Walter, 102

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 228

dystopian future, 38, 182–83

empathy, 158–61, 163

Empire State Building, 41

e

End of History, The
, 18

East African, The
, 316

engineering, 21, 22, 344

eco-totalitarianism, 101

“enhanced patdowns,” 32, 68, 223, 263

economic downturn, 16, 74–75, 92, entitlement, 19, 104–11, 117–19, 200, 97–98, 105, 179, 181, 289

209, 242, 294, 332–33, 340–41

economic growth, 6, 55, 94, 117, 243, Environmental Protection Agency 284

(EPA), 82, 134

Economic Sophisms
, 45

Erdogan, Prime Minister, 275

Economist, The
, 118, 228

Espenshade, Thomas, 152

Eden, Anthony, 195–96

Esposito, Francesca, 113

Edison, Thomas, 344

Estonia
, 186

education, 148–57, 198–99.
See also
European Union (EU), 11, 98–99, college

109–23

education “reform,” 156

Europeanization of America, 120–22

Edwards, Elizabeth, 151

Evers, Benzion, 298

Edwards, John, 69, 213, 326, 338

exceptionalism, 16, 148, 204, 326

414

after america

f

Follow the Fleet
, 166

Fahrenheit 451
, 133

following orders, 182–87

Fake’s Progress
, 62

Food and Drug Administration

fall of America, 13–14, 211–67

(FDA), 28

Falsani, Cathleen, 159

Ford, Henry, 218, 344

Fannie Mae, 47, 85

Fort Hood shooting, 167–69, 306

Farrakhan, Louis, 42

Forties (1940s), 148, 249, 312

Fascism, 57, 197–98, 206

Fortuyn, Pim, 297

Faulks, Sebastian, 94

Foster, Jodie, 232

federal aid “giveaway,” 71

Frank, Barney, 65

federal budget.
See
budget

Franklin, Benjamin, 344

Federal Communications Commis-

Freddie Mac, 47, 85

sion (FCC), 33

free trade, 54, 97

Federal Emergency Management freedom, 38, 347–49.
See also
liberty Agency (FEMA), 68

Freeman, Yvonne, 107–8

Federal Reserve, 98, 224, 326

Friedman, Milton, 235, 325

federalism, 235–36, 306

Friedman, Thomas L., 17, 18, 102,

“feelies,” 36, 157–60

313–15, 318, 342, 348

Ferdinand, Franz, 159

Frost, Frances, 260, 263

Ferguson, Niall, 225

Fukuyama, Francis, 18

fertility rates, 105

Furstenberg, Frank, 181

fertility treatments, 176–78

future, after America, 279–324

Fifties (1950s), 25–27, 35, 212–17, future, giving up on, 37–38

224, 249, 283, 345–46

final frontier, 31–33

g

“Final Solution,” 269–70

G7 members, 10, 12, 99, 190, 289, 345

financial sector, 49–50, 93–95

Gaddafi, Colonel, 76

Financial Times
, 98

Gates, Bill, 15

Financing U.S. Debt: Is There Enough
Gates, Robert, 170

Money in the World—and At
Gavaza, April, 173

What Cost?
, 10

gay community, 202

Fineman, Howard, 61

gay marriage, 66, 73, 80, 106, 132, 143,

First Amendment, 23, 297, 306

179

Fleischer, Michael, 48

index 415

GDP

Google, 32

growth of, 8–10, 16, 95, 99, 110

Gorbachev, Mikhail, 259–60

percentage of, 2, 4, 85, 110–11, Gore, Al, 34, 40, 57, 61, 176, 214, 257, 118–20

286

proportion of, 285, 337

Gorelick, Jamie, 85

Geithner, Timothy, 49

government

Gelb, Leslie, 43

accounting abilities of, 84–85

“gender-neutral society,” 179, 185

bailouts by, 64, 109, 218, 346

George III, King, 91

de-governmentalization, 335

George VI, King, 191

de-monopolizing, 337–38

German economy, 116–20

growth of, 55

Germany, bailouts, 111–12

monopoly by, 20, 46–51, 89, 337–38

Gharbi, Gamil, 184

Gracchus, Gaius, 211

Gibbon, Edward, 12, 25

graffiti, 124–25

Gilmour, Charlie, 199

Graham, Donald, 173

Gilmour, David, 199

Great Depression, 34, 69, 115, 135

Gingrich, Newt, 8, 10

Great Fire, 43

global currency, 99–100, 194, 256, Great Recession, 33.
See also
recession 266, 281

“Greatest Generation,” 187

global economy, 85, 97–98, 120

Greece, debt in, 110–11

global retreat, 21–22, 206

Greece, decline of, 103–7

globalization

Greek riots, 103–4

China and, 97–102, 194–95, 312

Green Day, 64

complexity of, 51, 317–18

“green jobs,” 33

crisis of, 115

green zone, 211–67

ideology of, 97–100

Greer, Germaine, 302

networks of, 280

Ground Zero, 39–43, 80, 164, 297, 314

prototype of, 13

Grunwald, Michael, 59

roles in, 17–18

Guardian, The
, 286

terrorist plots, 250–51

Guys and Dolls
, 343

Globe and Mail
, 142

Goethe, 123

h

Goldberg, Jonah, 345–46

Hamilton, Alexander, 15

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 53

Hamza, Abu, 32

416

after america

Handel, 125

homophobes, 65–68, 217, 303, 305

Hansen, James, 101

homosexuals, 132, 202, 263–65, 299

Hanson, Victor Davis, 133–35, 175, homosexuals, and marriage, 66, 73, 181, 258

80, 106, 132, 143, 179

Hargreaves, James, 344

Hoover Dam, 33–34

Harris-Lacewell, Melissa, 66

Hope, Bob, 53

Harris, Lee, 135

hope of audacity, 325–49

Harris, Sam, 321

household debt, 96–97

Harrison, George, 46–48, 51, 54

housing market, 16, 47–49, 92–93,

Harstedt, Kent, 186

165, 212, 218–19, 253.
See also

Harvard Law Review
, 62

mortgage crisis

Hasan, Nidal, 167–70

Houston, Sam, 247

Hassan, Aasiya, 303–4