The Secret Knowledge

Trollope, Anthony

True Believer, The (Hoffer)

Truman, Harry S.

turkeys

unconstrained world-view

United Nations

urban planning

urban renewal

urban sprawl

utopias

Veblen, Thorstein

Vickers Ltd.

Victoria, Queen of England

Vietnam War

Village Voice

Voting Rights Act

Waiting for Godot (Beckett)

war

War and Peace (Tolstoy)

War on Poverty

War Powers Act

Washington, George

Washington Post

Water Engine (Mamet)

Watson, Paul Joseph

wealth, redistribution of

Weathermen

welfare

West Germany

“What Is the People” (Hazlitt)

What Went Wrong (Lewis)

White Guilt (Steele)

Whitman, Meg

“Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal” (Mamet)

Wikileaks

Wisconsin

Women-in-Jeopardy films

work

World Turned Upside Down, The (Phillips)

World War

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Wright brothers

xenophobia

Y2K scare

Yellowstone Park

Yiddish

youth

Zionist Conference

1

I do not think I am naive. I have been supporting myself for quite a while, and, as a young man, took every job I could get. I was very glad to have them, but my happiness was neither gratitude toward my employers, nor insensitivity to the various slights, uncertainties, and thefts to which the unskilled, myself among them, were all subject. I was glad to have the money, and looked (and look) for any opportunity to earn more with less expenditure of effort and in more congenial circumstances. This attitude, I believe, is fairly widely shared, cutting across even the most deeply riven political lines.

2

See the educative outpouring of admiration, after September 11, for the police and firefighters, and the military—for those of our fellow Americans actually involved in the legitmate operation of