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.
“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
terrorist plots, 250–51
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.
mortgage crisis
Hasan, Nidal, 167–70
Houston, Sam, 247
Hassan, Aasiya, 303–4
Huff, Elizabeth, 91–92
Hayek, Friedrich, 198, 200
Hughes, Elizabeth, 28
Hayes, Stephen, 61
Hughes, Henrietta, 53, 68, 235
hazardous professions, 109–10
human capability, decline of, 30–31,
health care, 47, 52–55
219–20, 285
health-care bill, 78, 164, 173
human capital, 35, 101, 156, 204, 211–
health-care budget, 294
12, 219, 254, 285
health-care system, 33, 65–66, 337
Humbert, Louise, 88
Hume, Alison, 183
Heinsohn, Gunnar, 315
Huntington, Samuel, 11, 12, 18, 292
“helicopter parents,” 179
Hussein, Saddam, 140–41, 275, 302
Heston, Charlton, 37, 38, 245
Huxley, Aldous, 36, 137, 207
Hillman, Mayer, 101
Hymowitz, Kay, 181
Hilton, Paris, 233, 300
Himmler, Heinrich, 269
i
Ignatieff, Michael, 144, 146
Hitler, Adolf, 257, 270, 305
illegal immigration, 60, 66–67, 80,
Hoffer, Eric, 269
132–33, 241–49, 257–59, 284, 324
Hogarth, 62
Hollywood, 36, 39, 57, 272, 341, 343
Holocaust, 269–71, 299
index 417
Jones, Quincy, 29
Industrial Revolution, 344
Jones, Van, 145
Ingrams, Richard, 271
Jong-Il, Kim, 336
Inouye, Daniel, 76
inventions, 25–28, 32–33, 344
Iron Curtain, 289, 318
K
Islam, 18, 31–32, 36–37, 42, 72, 129–
Kael, Pauline, 54
32
Kanjorski, Paul, 62
“Islamophobia,” 32, 66, 169, 196, 286, Kaplan, Robert D., 319
297–98, 303–4
Katz, Lillian, 157
Kennedy, John F., 29
Kennedy, Ted, 56, 60–61
Kerry, John, 56, 58, 61, 141, 163, 214,
J
338
Jackson, Jesse, 143
Kerry, Teresa Heinz, 151
Jagger, Dean, 175
Keynes, John Maynard, 106, 111–12,
Jefferson, Thomas, 56, 57, 87, 193
Jerusalem besieged, 269–78
Keynesians, 106
Jethá, Cacilda, 232
King, Martin Luther, 56
jobs
Kitchen, John, 10
federal workers, 75–76
Klein, Joe, 239–40
high-income regions, 50–51
Klein, Philip, 82
illegal immigrants and, 246
Kobayashi, Yoshinori, 308
loss of, 74–75, 213, 246
Kodak, 47–48
low-paying jobs, 211–12
Kohen, Roger, 186
in private sector, 75–76
Kröhnert, Steffen, 112
unemployment, 74–75, 213, 246
Krugman, Paul, 16, 119
jobs bill, 23
Kurzweil, Ray, 309–10
Johnson, Barbara, 161
Johnson, Boris, 144
l
Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 79
labor force, 211–12
Johnson, Simon, 93
Lady Gaga, 30
Jonas, George, 203
Lady Liberty, 37–39, 164, 245
418
after america
Lardner, Ring, 67
Maidre, Andrus, 186
Major, John, 182
Lauper, Cyndi, 327
Malkin, Michelle, 221, 250
Lee, Terry, 167
Legrain, Philippe, 242
Lehman Brothers collapse, 74, 129
man, world after, 306–10
Lépine, Marc, 184
“managed capitalism,” 23
letter from post-American world,
279–324, 345
Mansfield, Harvey, 176, 179, 184–85
Levant, Ezra, 295–96
manufacturing jobs, 211–12
Lewis, Sinclair, 57
Mao, 100, 247, 333
liberalism, 21, 57, 62, 67, 82, 121, 131, Marchand, Yves, 219
234–35
marriage, gay, 66, 73, 80, 106, 132, 143,
liberty
179
fall of, 38–39
marriage, traditional, 179
last sigh of, 189, 207–8
Marshall, Justice, 48, 50
price of, 15, 347–49
Martin, Dean, 280
Martin, James, 285
Lileks, James, 42
marvels, 25–28
Lincoln, Abraham, 58, 62, 80, 86, 155