Marx, Groucho, 3
“live free or die,” 347–49
Mathis, Otis, 220, 221
Loesser, Frank, 343
Maude, General, 302
McAlpine, Dale, 201
“lottery of life,” 208–9
McCain, John, 70
Louis XVI, 5
McCarthy, Andrew, 319
Lowi, Theodore, 82
McKinley, William, 58
Lyon, Jordon, 183
McMillan, Kate, 153
McNeill, J. R., 344
m
Machiavelli, Niccolò, 205
Mackey, Robert, 271
285
MacLennan, Hugh, 68
Medes, 18–19
Macmillan, Harold, 195
medical advancements, 27–28
Madame Cornuel, 59
“mediocrity of spirit,” 43
index 419
Meffre, Romain, 219
Murphy, Julie, 89
Murtha, Marge, 88, 90
meritocracy, 20, 57–58, 63, 153
Muslim world, 18, 31–32, 72, 162,
Merkel, Angela, 111, 192
270–75, 283, 287–88, 291–302,
metaphors, 61–62
307
Mexico, 247–54
myopia, 133–41
micro-tyrannies, 90, 336–37
military budget, 5–6, 19–20
n
Mill, John Stuart, 97
nanny state, 23, 69–70, 124, 200, 205–
Millin, Bill, 139
7, 214, 225, 258
Minogue, Kenneth, 230
Napoleon, 159, 247
Mitchell, J. A., 37, 279
NASA, 28–32, 101
Mitchell, Taylor, 261
Nasrallah, Hassan, 275
mobs, 22–23
nation-states, 2, 12, 190, 286
modernity, 40, 314
national landmarks, 38–39
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 221
National Public Radio (NPR), 54,
monopolies, 20, 46–51, 89, 337–38
66–67, 118, 133, 169
Monopolies Commission, 46–47, 54
Montesquieu, 189, 207
nativists, 239–40, 253
moon landings, 28–30
NBC, 64
More, Thomas, 86
nepotism, 63
Morrison, Herbert, 58
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 269–71, 278
mortgage crisis, 47, 85, 107, 165, 168, “New Action Heroes, The,” 59–60
212, 253
New Athens, 103–25
motivational speech, 330–32
New Britannia, 189–209
movies, 36, 39, 272.
“New Deal,” 53
wood
new elites, 59, 63, 208, 318–19.
elites
MSNBC, 61, 128
Mubarak, Hosni, 275
“New Foundation,” 53
multiculturalism, 139, 191–92, 298–
“new freedoms,” 38
99, 302, 322
New Jerusalem, 269–78
Murdoch, William, 185
420
after america
New Rome, 25–43
health-care system and, 33, 65–66
indifference of, 145–46
84, 92, 102, 109, 113, 118–19, 124,
Oval Office and, 56–59, 197
219, 252–54, 260, 270, 283, 287,
props and, 61–62
300, 303, 313, 317
on space exploration, 31–32
speeches by, 144, 325–26, 329–30
newspaper industry, 33
tax credits and, 86–87
unemployment and, 213
“Next Morning, The,” 37
voting for, 141–43, 158–59
Nichols, Mary Anne, 220–21
weirdness of, 147–48
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 321–22
Obama, Michelle, 13, 61, 131, 151–55,
Nineties (1890s), 25, 35, 214–15, 217,
213
224
ObamaCare, 3, 55, 65–66, 77–79, 337,
Nineties (1990s), 27–28, 73, 212, 219,
339
261, 273–74, 335
“Obamafication of economy,” 97–98
Nixon, Richard, 29, 54
Occupational Safety and Health
“no man’s land,” 182–87
Administration (OSHA), 82, 336
“no two sides,” 132–33
Olbermann, Keith, 61
North Korea, 18–19, 22–23, 195, 285, Omar, Mullah, 264
319–20, 323, 338
One-Child Policy, 19, 305
nuclear weapons, 18–19, 22–23
Onyango-Obbo, Charles, 316, 317
Nussbaum, Martha, 300
open season, 21–22
Orback, Jens, 297
o
orders, following, 182–87
Obama, Barack.
“stimulus”
“apology tour” of, 275
Oughts (2000s), 261, 288
Berlin speech and, 159
on children, 172
P
college and, 56–59, 154
Palin, Sarah, 57, 58, 59, 147, 161, 177,
debt and, 10
239
on exceptionalism, 16
Palmerston, Lord, 199
friends of, 41–42
Palovak, Jewel, 262
index 421
post-American world, 279–324
patdowns, 32, 68, 223, 263
post-traumatic stress disorder
Paterson, David A., 84
(PTSD), 168–69
Patrick, Deval, 163
Postrel, Virginia, 283
“Patriot Act,” 101
Prager, Dennis, 141
Pearce, Fred, 286
Pratte, Mary, 88
Pearl, Daniel, 221
Pearson, Lester, 289
“President of Europe,” 120–21
Peck, Gregory, 175
price, control of, 48–49
Pelosi, Nancy, 10, 65, 80
production, 224–25
Pence, Mike, 234
“progressives,” 14–16, 34, 63, 86, 105,
141, 305.
165, 212, 218–19, 253.
mortgage crisis
Peretz, Martin, 252, 254
props, 61–62
permits, 83–84, 88–92
protests, 22–23, 64
Picket, Kerry, 77
“public service” incentive, 156
Pink Floyd, 198–99
Putin, Vladimir, 289
Pinsky, Mark, 33
Q
Quann, Derek, 261