After America полностью

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

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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