Mark Steyn - After America

Martin, Dean, 280

Life , 37

Martin, James, 285

Lileks, James, 42

marvels, 25–28

Lincoln, Abraham, 58, 62, 80, 86, 155

Marx, Groucho, 3

“live free or die,” 347–49

Mathis, Otis, 220, 221

Loesser, Frank, 343

Maude, General, 302

Los Angeles Times , 174, 269

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

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Meaning of the 21st Century: A Vital

Machiavelli, Niccolò, 205

Blueprint for Ensuring Our Future ,

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

Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Murray, Charles, 122, 137, 230

Immaturity , 181

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

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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

National Review , 344

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. See also Holly-

“New Deal,” 53

wood

new elites, 59, 63, 208, 318–19. See also Mrs. Lovett, 88

elites

MSNBC, 61, 128

New England Primer, The , 328

Mubarak, Hosni, 275

“New Foundation,” 53

multiculturalism, 139, 191–92, 298–

“new freedoms,” 38

99, 302, 322

New Jerusalem, 269–78

Murdoch, William, 185

New Republic , 33, 252

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after america

New Rome, 25–43

health-care system and, 33, 65–66

New York magazine, 171

indifference of, 145–46

New York Times , 16–17, 54–56, 64, 66, no experience, 49, 344

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

New Yorker , 54

speeches by, 144, 325–26, 329–30

newspaper industry, 33

tax credits and, 86–87

Newsweek , 61, 168

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

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orders, following, 182–87

Obama, Barack. See also ObamaCare; Orwell, George, 207, 320

“stimulus”

Ottawa Citizen, The , 69, 144

“apology tour” of, 275

Oughts (2000s), 261, 288

Berlin speech and, 159

on children, 172

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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

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Parasite Eve , 113

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

Pravda , 227

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,

Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace

141, 305. See also elites

in the Twenty-First Century and property market, 16, 47–49, 92–93, Blueprint for Action , 318

165, 212, 218–19, 253. See also

People magazine, 177

mortgage crisis

Peretz, Martin, 252, 254

props, 61–62

permits, 83–84, 88–92

protests, 22–23, 64

Peter and the Wolf , 259–60

Protocols of the Elders of Zion, The , 136

Picket, Kerry, 77

“public service” incentive, 156

Pink Floyd, 198–99

Putin, Vladimir, 289

Pinsky, Mark, 33

Pirates of the Caribbean , 202, 290

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Planet of the Apes , 37

Quann, Derek, 261

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

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“Run Upon the Bankers, The,” 2