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Tomasky, Michael, 158
totalitarianism
   Â
and government supplanting of markets, 197â98
   Â
as “remedy” for modernity, 17â18, 29
transportation, Watson on lack of need for, 172
Trilling, Lionel, 205â6
Twain, Mark, 33
United Kingdom, social welfare recipients in, 70â71
Up from Liberalism
(Buckley), 198
Uzbekistan, per capital GDP of, 36
“veil of ignorance,” standards of justice and, 11, 109
victimhood
   Â
of blacks, white guilt and, 100â111
   Â
development of culture of, 94â100
   Â
social and political aspects of, 122â37
victim impact statements, 130â31
Vidal, Gore, 47
Vital Center, The
(Schlesinger), 29
Waldman, Paul, 8â9, 24, 35, 37â38
Walters, Barbara, 137
Warren, Earl, 95
Watson, Paul, 170â72
Waugh, Evelyn, 240â41
Ways, Max, 32
Wealth of Nations, The
(Smith), 45â46
welfare state.
See
social welfare programs
“We Take Care of Our Own” (song), 76
wetlands.
See
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
What Eight Million Women Want
(Dorr), 89
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, 223
White, Byron, 174
Wieseltier, Leon, 215
Williams, Corey, 113â15
“Wilson, Betsy” (fictional American), story of, 8â9, 35, 37â38
Wilson, Woodrow, 50
wind power, 167â68, 172
Winfrey, Oprah, 129â30, 146
Winship, Scott, 128
Wolfe, Alan, 141â42, 216â17
Wolfe, Tom, 213
Woodstock Ethic, 33
World Top Incomes Database, 127
Yglesias, Matthew, 58, 119â20
Zimmerman, George, 111â12
Zinn, Howard, 48â49
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WILLIAM VOEGELI
is the author of
Never Enough: America's Limitless Welfare State
, a visiting scholar at the Henry Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College, and a senior editor of
The Claremont Review of Books
. His reviews and articles have also appeared in
City Journal, Commentary, First Things,
the
Los Angeles Times, National Review, and The New Criterion.
He was formerly a program officer at the John M. Olin Foundation. Voegelli lives in Claremont, California.
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