Lehman Brothers collapse, 74, 129
man, world after, 306–10
Lepine, Marc, 184
“managed capitalism,” 23
letter from post-American world,
279–324, 345
Mansfield, Harvey, 176, 179, 184–85
Levant, Ezra, 295–96
manufacturing jobs, 211–12
Lewis, Sinclair, 57
Mao, 100, 247, 333
liberalism, 21, 57, 62, 67, 82, 121, 131, Marchand, Yves, 219
234–35
marriage, gay, 66, 73, 80, 106, 132, 143,
liberty
179
fall of, 38–39
marriage, traditional, 179
last sigh of, 189, 207–8
Marshall, Justice, 48, 50
price of, 15, 347–49
Martin, Dean, 280
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
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
m
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 205
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
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
n
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
Montesquieu, 189, 207
nativists, 239–40, 253
moon landings, 28–30
NBC, 64
More, Thomas, 86
nepotism, 63
