town hall meetings, 53, 64, 68, 172
“sustainable” consumerism, 35
Toynbee, Arnold, 190
Suzuki, David, 101
traditional family, 177–78, 234
Swift, Jonathan, 2, 95, 124
traditional marriage, 179
transnationalism, 17, 121, 283, 287,
t
289, 306
Taleb, Nassim, 95
Transportation Security Administra-
Taliban, 36, 195, 198, 314
tion (TSA), 33, 68, 223, 258
“talkies,” 36.
Treadwell, Timothy, 261–63, 266
“tax credit,” 72, 86–87
Treasury bonds, 9–10
“tax cuts,” 8, 72–73, 83
“trinity of evil,” 32
taxes, raising, 108–9, 114–15
Trudeau, Pierre, 203
Taylor, Zachary, 58
Truman, Harry S., 58, 345
index 425
Tucson shootings, 57, 62
Twain, Mark, 116, 220
v
Van Buren, Martin, 58
van den Boogaard, Oscar, 187
Twenties (1920s), 27–28, 137
van Gogh, Theo, 297
twentieth century, 27, 33–35, 104–6, van Rompuy, Herman, 120
130, 186–90, 195, 217–19, 235,
283–86, 302, 313–22
Veremi, Vasia, 109
twenty-first century, 15–17, 27–30, Villeneuve, Denis, 185
128–30, 183, 191, 214–15, 287–99, virtual reality, 33, 36
301–24
“two Americas,” 68–69
w
Walker, Judge, 80, 179
Tyler, Royall, 103
tyranny, 87–92, 284, 336–37
Walton, William, 125
war on children, 346
war on terror, 76, 102, 138
u
U. S. Constitution, 63, 73, 77–78, 80,
192, 290
Warren, David, 69
undreaming America, 45–102
unemployment, 74–75, 213, 246.
Waters, Maxine, 63
unionization, 120–21, 156
Waziristan, 38–39, 43, 257, 259, 274,
United Nations (UN), 12, 105, 146–
303
47, 270–73, 277, 282–83, 289
Webb, Jimmy, 29
United States, hope for, 22–23, 279–
324.
223–24, 229–30, 319
universities, 35, 56, 58, 148–57, 180
Wells, H. G., 25, 100, 127–28, 131–37,
Urban II, Pope, 314
175, 182–83, 187, 213, 217, 266,
USS
316
ut-Tahrir, Hizb, 286
western elites, 59, 101, 143, 287, 293.
utopianism, 233–34, 341
western world, 2, 15, 19, 38, 52, 66,
105, 110
426
after america
“White City,” 40, 41
World Trade Center, 39–43, 221
Whitelaw, Willie, 51
Wren, Christopher, 43
Wright, Jeremiah, 42, 145
Wilberforce, William, 198
Wright, Orville, 27, 33
Wilders, Geert, 196
Wright, Wilbur, 27, 33
wildlife, 260–63
“writing on the wall,” 2, 7, 14, 18, 124–
Will, George, 181
25
Williams, Juan, 67
Wodehouse, P. G., 6
x
Wolf, Martin, 98, 117
xenophobe, 66, 239
Wolfe, Tom, 123
Wolffe, Richard, 128
y
Wood, May, 249
Young, Coleman, 222
Woodstock, 342–43
Woodward, Bob, 145
Young, Michael, 57–58, 63
world after America, 279–324
Yufzai, Mushtaq, 36
world after man, 306–10
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