After America

End of History, The, 18

East African, The, 316

engineering, 21, 22, 344

eco-totalitarianism, 101

“enhanced patdowns,” 32, 68, 223, 263

economic downturn, 16, 74–75, 92, entitlement, 19, 104–11, 117–19, 200, 97–98, 105, 179, 181, 289

209, 242, 294, 332–33, 340–41

economic growth, 6, 55, 94, 117, 243, Environmental Protection Agency 284

(EPA), 82, 134

Economic Sophisms, 45

Erdogan, Prime Minister, 275

Economist, The, 118, 228

Espenshade, Thomas, 152

Eden, Anthony, 195–96

Esposito, Francesca, 113

Edison, Thomas, 344

Estonia, 186

education, 148–57, 198–99. See also European Union (EU), 11, 98–99, college

109–23

education “reform,” 156

Europeanization of America, 120–22

Edwards, Elizabeth, 151

Evers, Benzion, 298

Edwards, John, 69, 213, 326, 338

exceptionalism, 16, 148, 204, 326

414

after america

f

Follow the Fleet, 166

Fahrenheit 451, 133

following orders, 182–87

Fake’s Progress, 62

Food and Drug Administration

fall of America, 13–14, 211–67

(FDA), 28

Falsani, Cathleen, 159

Ford, Henry, 218, 344

Fannie Mae, 47, 85

Fort Hood shooting, 167–69, 306

Farrakhan, Louis, 42

Forties (1940s), 148, 249, 312

Fascism, 57, 197–98, 206

Fortuyn, Pim, 297

Faulks, Sebastian, 94

Foster, Jodie, 232

federal aid “giveaway,” 71

Frank, Barney, 65

federal budget. See budget

Franklin, Benjamin, 344

Federal Communications Commis-

Freddie Mac, 47, 85

sion (FCC), 33

free trade, 54, 97

Federal Emergency Management freedom, 38, 347–49. See also liberty Agency (FEMA), 68

Freeman, Yvonne, 107–8

Federal Reserve, 98, 224, 326

Friedman, Milton, 235, 325

federalism, 235–36, 306

Friedman, Thomas L., 17, 18, 102,

“feelies,” 36, 157–60

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

g

“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