After America полностью

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

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