After America полностью

Plato, 176, 184

pleasure, culture of, 136–37

r

Podhoretz, John, 273

racism, 61–67, 151, 160, 162

Poems Against the War, 140

racists, 64–67, 133, 202, 239–40, 245,

Politburo, 2, 64, 71

252–53, 292, 297

political correctness, 166–69, 171, 240

Radford, Alexandria, 152

Political Economy, 87

Rahe, Paul, 230, 341

Polonius, 95, 96

Raines, Franklin, 85

Polytechnique, 185

Rangel, Charlie, 77, 79–80

population statistics, 105, 116, 237, Ratzenberger, John, 342–44

239–40

Reagan administration, 3, 96

Reagan, Ronald, 58, 62, 74, 333

Roksa, Josipa, 340

real-estate market, 16, 47–49, 92–93, Roman Empire, 12–13, 25, 34, 191

165, 212, 218–19, 253. See also Rome, decay of, 25–43

mortgage crisis

Romney, Mitt, 339

recession, 33, 52, 117, 174, 179–80, Roosevelt, Franklin D., 33–34, 53, 192, 212–16

194

“red tape,” 83–85

Rosling, Hans, 294

redistribution, 20, 22, 87, 332–33

Rounsaville, Amanda, 174

Reed, Josie, 88

Rowling, J. K., 110

Reeve, Christopher, 161

Rubin, Barry, 167

Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Rumsfeld, Donald, 162

242

“Run Upon the Bankers, The,” 2

Reid, Harry, 10

Rush, Geoffrey, 290

relativism, 146, 165, 254, 293

Rushdie, Salman, 311

Rembrandt, 125

Russian “businessmen,” 2, 280–81

“Retail Sales Plummet,” 97

Ryan, Christopher, 232

Reuters, 50–51

Ryan, Paul, 72–73

Reynolds, Glenn, 147

Rice, Condi, 151

S

Rich, Frank, 64, 303

“safety net,” 229–30

Richards, Jon, 254

Safire, William, 29

Right Ho, Jeeves, 6

Sala-i-Martin, Xavier, 283

riots, 22–23, 103–4

Salutin, Rick, 143

Rizzo, Robert, 107

Sanchez, Gustavo, 251

Road to Serfdom, The, 200

Sarkozy, Nicolas, 115, 124, 238, 275

Road to Utopia, The, 53

Saudi Arabia, 5, 249–50, 272–79, 306,

Roberts, Andrew, 191, 192

312, 338

robotics, 306–10

Saudi mutaween, 89

Robson, John, 144

Saudi princes, 292, 299, 305–6

Rockefeller, John D., 143

Saudi sheiks, 2, 117, 163–64, 169,

Rockwell, Norman, 328

280–81

Roesgen, Susan, 86–87

Saudi Wahhabists, 249–50, 306

Rogers, Ginger, 41

Schiller, Vivian, 67

Rogulski, Ken, 71

Schindler’s List, 272

index 423

school budgets, 148–49. See also stu-Shore, Dinah, 101

dent education

Shousha, Abdel Fadil, 271–72

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 59, 234

Sinatra, Frank, 29, 30

scientific advancements, 25–28

single parents, 214, 228, 234

Scruton, Roger, 233–34

Singularity, 309–10, 319

Sebelius, Kathleen, 78, 82

Sixties (1960s), 28–29, 64, 118, 137,

Second Amendment, 23, 240

171, 174, 249, 300, 332, 342–43

Secondat, Charles-Louis de, 189

Size of Nations, The, 237

Securities and Exchange Commission Skinner, B. F., 255

(SEC), 9, 85

skyscrapers, 39–43

sedentary lifestyles, 224–25

small business, 90–93, 156, 224, 244

segregation, 151, 239, 241, 294, 305

small government, 8–9, 52, 90–91,

sensory distraction, 36–37

243, 335, 346–48

September 11, 39–43, 163–64, 169, Smith, Adam, 11, 12, 97

193, 221, 270, 296

Sobran, Joseph, 240

serfdom, 45–102, 104, 200

social engineering, 21–22, 81, 86, 340,

Sestius, Publius, 211

348–49

Seventies (1970s), 30–31, 82, 93, 118, social media, 36–37, 46

219, 222, 300

social spending, 17–20

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift, 230

of Modern Sexuality, 232

solitudes, 68–69

sexists, 65–67

Sondheim, Stephen, 64

sexual-harassment training, 68

Sotormayor, Sonia, 153

sexual identity, 230–32

South China Morning Post, 101

sexual license, 232, 304–5, 322

space exploration, 28–32

Sexual Revolution, 233–34

Spaceballs, 4

shadowlands, 254–59

Spendballs, 4

Shafia family, 303–4

spirit, can-do, 31, 40, 108, 328

Shahzad, Faisal, 164–65

spirit, mediocrity of, 43

Shaidle, Kathy, 186

Spolaore, Enrico, 237–38

Shakespeare, William, 56–57

Squalls, T., 173

Sharpton, Al, 143

Stalin, Joseph, 257

Shaw, Bernard, 209

Stark, General, 347

Shepard, Matthew, 303–4

Stark, Pete, 77

424

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statism, 28, 52–68, 71–75, 90, 232–44, Tea Parties, 64, 86–87, 239

255–59, 326, 336–38, 347

“teabaggers,” 239

Statue of Liberty, 37–39, 164, 245

technocracy, 53–55, 67–68

Stein, Herbert, 3

technology, 25–28, 51

Steinem, Gloria, 181, 184

Tennyson, Lord, 270

Sternbergh, Adam, 174

terror, war on, 76, 102, 138

Stewart, Alexis, 177–78

terrorist attacks, 39–43, 164–65,

Stewart, Jon, 147

169–70, 194, 221, 270, 272, 296

Stewart, Martha, 177–79

Thatcher, Margaret, 51, 335

Steyn, Mark, 143, 149

Thirties (1930s), 41, 96

“stimulus,” 3, 23, 74–75, 96, 98, 213, “thumos,” 176, 184

334

Time Machine, The, 127

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 39, 41

Time magazine, 59, 220, 239

Streisand, Barbra, 1, 56–57

Times, 85, 103, 114

Strouse, Charles, 1

tinkering, 344

student education, 148–57, 198–99

Titanic, 185–86

student loans, 47, 156

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 37, 45–46, 89,

stupidity of broke, 1–23

235, 328, 334

success stories, 28–33

Todd, Sweeney, 88

Sullivan, Andrew, 161–62

Tomasky, Michael, 63, 64

Summers, Christina Hoff, 179

totalitarianism, 101–2, 207

Summers, Lawrence, 194