After America

72. Thomas P. M. Barnett, Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (Berkley Trade, 2006).

73. Robert D. Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy,” The Atlantic, February 1994; available online at http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/ kaplan.html.

74. Andrew C. McCarthy, “Pirates Test the ‘Rule of Law’,” National Review Online, April 10, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227281/pirates-test-rule-law/andrew-c-mccarthy.

75. Nazila Fathi, “Iran Says It Will Share Nuclear Skills,” New York Times, April 25, 2006; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/world/middleeast/25cnd-iran.html.

76. Andre Glucksmann, “From the H-Bomb to the Human Bomb,” City Journal, Autumn 2007; available online at http://www.city- journal.org/html/17_4_modern_terrorism.html.

77. Tom Wolfe, “Sorry, but your soul just died,” The Independent, February 2, 1997; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/sorry-but-your-soul-just-died- 1276509.html.

78. Carl Haub, “Birth Rate Trends in Low-Fertility Countries,” Population Reference Bureau, March 2011; available online at http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/low-fertility-countries-tfr.aspx.

Epilogue

1. Remarks during address to joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, February 24, 2009; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack- Obama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/.

2. John Derbyshire, “February Diary,” National Review Online, March 4, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227002/february-diary/john-derbyshire.

3. Dillon County Economic Development Partnership, “Demographics,” 2011; available online at http://www.dilloncounty.org/site_consultant/demographics/.

4. Michael Muskal, “‘I am not king’: Obama tells Latino voters he can’t conjure immigration reform alone,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/25/news/la-pn-obama-immigration-reform-20101026.

5. FOX News, “Goodbye to Bake Sales? Nutrition Bill Subjects School Fundraisers to New Regs,” December 8, 2010; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/08/goodbye-bake- sales-nutrition-subjects-school-fundraisers-new-regs/.

6. Andrew G. Biggs, “Entitlement Apocalypse,” National Review, March 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/229431/entitlement-apocalypse/andrew-g-biggs.

7. N. Gordon and B. Knight, “Spatial Merger Estimator with an Application to School District Consolidation,” Journal of Public Economics, 2009; facts available online at http://www.mpa.unc.edu/students/docum ents/KevinBryant.pdf.

8. Executive order, 1987; facts available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-5.pdf.

9. Paul Krugman, “Runaway health care costs — we’re #1!,” New York Times, March 28, 2008; available online at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/runaway-health-care-costs-were- 1/.

10. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators,” Indicator B1, 2009; available online at http://w ww.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.

11. Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011).

12. Paul A. Rahe, Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press, 2010).

13. Kathryn Jean Lopez, “That Other Hollywood: Cheers!” National Review Online, January 17, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/192973/other-hollywood-cheers/kathryn-jean-lopez.

14. Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation, “A Word from John Ratzenberger”; available online at http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/word-from-john.cfm.

15. John Derbyshire, “Tinker, Tailor, Bureaucrat, Diversity Consultant,” National Review Online, May 13, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/163046/tinker-tailor-bureaucrat- diversity-consultant/john-derbyshire.

16. J. R. McNeill an Paul Kennedy, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001).

17. Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation, “A Word from John Ratzenberger”; available online at http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/word-from-john.cfm.

18. Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It,” New York Times, October 14, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15 /science/earth/15climate.html.

INDEX

a

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 264, 270,

ABC, 64

275–76

Abdulla, King, 273

al-Assad, Bashar, 275

abortion, 80, 161, 177, 178, 180, 204, al-Awlaki, Anwar, 169-70

304, 309

al-Din, Taqi, 32

Acheson, Dean, 199