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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

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“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

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. See also recession 266, 281

“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

Guardian, The , 286

terrorist plots, 250–51

Guys and Dolls , 343

Globe and Mail , 142

Goethe, 123

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Goldberg, Jonah, 345–46

Hamilton, Alexander, 15

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, 53

Hamza, Abu, 32

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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. See also

Harvard Law Review , 62

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

Heartbreak House , 209

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

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History of the English-Speaking Peo-

I, Rigoberta Menchu , 57

ples , 191, 203

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

Immigrants: Your Country Needs

Hollywood, 36, 39, 57, 272, 341, 343

Them , 242

Holocaust, 269–71, 299

Independence Day , 37, 38

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Independent, The , 182

Jones, Quincy, 29

Industrial Revolution, 344

Jones, Van, 145

Ingrams, Richard, 271

Jong-Il, Kim, 336

Inouye, Daniel, 76

Julius Caesar , 57

Invasion of the Body Snatchers , 128

Jyllands-Posten , 296

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

It Can’t Happen Here , 57

Kennedy, John F., 29

It Takes a Village , 319

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

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Johnson, Eddie Bernice, 79

labor force, 211–12

Johnson, Simon, 93

Lady Gaga, 30

Jonas, George, 203

Lady Liberty, 37–39, 164, 245

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Lardner, Ring, 67

Maidre, Andrus, 186

Last American, The , 37, 279

Major, John, 182

Lauper, Cyndi, 327

Malkin, Michelle, 221, 250

Lee, Terry, 167

Maltese Falcon, The , 65

Legrain, Philippe, 242

Man for All Seasons, A , 86

Lehman Brothers collapse, 74, 129

man, world after, 306–10

Lépine, Marc, 184

“managed capitalism,” 23

letter from post-American world, Manliness , 176, 184

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