After America

Byrd, Robert C., 79

Brooks, David, 55

Byron, Lord, 1

Brooks, Mel, 4

Byron, Robert C., 76

Brother Bear, 261–62

Brown, Gordon, 199, 204

C

Brown, Scott, 61, 342

Cabaret, 292

Brown, Tam, 183

Cadell, Pat, 73

Bruni, Carla, 118

Caldwell, Christopher, 242, 287

“bubble,” 16, 96

Caliphate, 19, 21, 72, 277, 286, 296,

Buckingham Palace, 39

299, 323–24

budget

Callaghan, Jim, 200

Big Government and, 346

Cameron, James, 185

Contract with America and, 9

can-do spirit, 31, 40, 108, 328

cuts in, 108, 148–49

capitalism, 23, 35, 72, 115, 119, 192

defense budget, 119

Casagrande, Marina, 112–13

Casey, George W., Jr., 169–70

index 411

CBS, 64, 303

Cloverfield, 37

centralization, 71, 156, 333–35

CNN, 64, 86, 165, 280, 317

certification fees, 48–49

Coakley, Martha, 60–61

Chamberlain, Neville, 270

Code Orange alert, 138, 258, 296

Charlton, Bruce, 30, 31

code words, 61–62, 66

Charnin, Martin, 1

Codevilla, Angelo, 153

Chaudhury, Shah, 202, 203

coexisting, 131, 133, 143, 240

Chavez, Hugo, 275, 276

college, 35, 56, 58, 149–57, 173–74,

Cheney, Dick, 69

180, 197

Chicago Sun-Times, 159

college loans, 47, 156

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, 1

Collins, Randy, 91–92

children, education of, 148–57

Columbia, 32

children, future of, 171-75

Communism, 206

children, war on, 346

Compliance Bureau, 80–87, 93–94,

Chinese, and globalization, 97–102,

336–37

194–95, 312

computer age, 32–33, 36

Chinn, Menzie, 10

conformicrats, 20, 57, 63–64, 67–72,

Chirac, Jacques, 192, 275

81, 92, 254–55

chivalry, 186

conformocracy, 58, 101–2, 128

“choice mothers,” 176

Congressional Budget Office (CBO),

Chrysler Building, 41

4–5, 8–9

Churchill, Winston, 59, 191-92, 197, Constitution, 63, 73, 77–78, 80, 147, 199, 203

192, 290

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, 144, 211

Consumer Product Safety Commis-

City Journal, 181

sion (CPSC), 82

civic participation, 87–92

consumer spending, 97, 224–25

Civilization and Its Enemies, 135

consumerism, 35

Clash of Civilizations, The, 18, 292

Contract with America, 9

Cleveland, Grover, 58

Contrast, The, 103

Clinton, Bill, 58, 62, 90, 147, 159, 161, control of price, 48–49

259–60, 272, 318

Conyers, John, 78, 83

Clinton, Hillary, 302

Coolidge, Calvin, 62

Clockwork Orange, A, 206–7

corrupt elites, 223, 227–28. See also

Clooney, George, 64, 320

elites

412

after america

Count Basie, 29, 30

de-regulation, 336–37