After America

Morrison, Herbert, 58

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 269–71, 278

mortgage crisis, 47, 85, 107, 165, 168, “New Action Heroes, The,” 59–60

212, 253

New Athens, 103–25

motivational speech, 330–32

New Britannia, 189–209

movies, 36, 39, 272. See also Holly-

“New Deal,” 53

wood

new elites, 59, 63, 208, 318–19. See also Mrs. Lovett, 88

elites

MSNBC, 61, 128

New England Primer, The, 328

Mubarak, Hosni, 275

“New Foundation,” 53

multiculturalism, 139, 191–92, 298–

“new freedoms,” 38

99, 302, 322

New Jerusalem, 269–78

Murdoch, William, 185

New Republic, 33, 252

420

after america

New Rome, 25–43

health-care system and, 33, 65–66

New York magazine, 171

indifference of, 145–46

New York Times, 16–17, 54–56, 64, 66, no experience, 49, 344

84, 92, 102, 109, 113, 118–19, 124,

Oval Office and, 56–59, 197

219, 252–54, 260, 270, 283, 287,

props and, 61–62

300, 303, 313, 317

on space exploration, 31–32

New Yorker, 54

speeches by, 144, 325–26, 329–30

newspaper industry, 33

tax credits and, 86–87

Newsweek, 61, 168

unemployment and, 213

“Next Morning, The,” 37

voting for, 141–43, 158–59

Nichols, Mary Anne, 220–21

weirdness of, 147–48

Nietzsche, Friedrich, 321–22

Obama, Michelle, 13, 61, 131, 151–55,

Nineties (1890s), 25, 35, 214–15, 217,

213

224

ObamaCare, 3, 55, 65–66, 77–79, 337,

Nineties (1990s), 27–28, 73, 212, 219,

339

261, 273–74, 335

“Obamafication of economy,” 97–98

Nixon, Richard, 29, 54

Occupational Safety and Health

“no man’s land,” 182–87

Administration (OSHA), 82, 336

“no two sides,” 132–33

Olbermann, Keith, 61

North Korea, 18–19, 22–23, 195, 285, Omar, Mullah, 264

319–20, 323, 338

One-Child Policy, 19, 305

nuclear weapons, 18–19, 22–23

Onyango-Obbo, Charles, 316, 317

Nussbaum, Martha, 300

open season, 21–22

Orback, Jens, 297

o

orders, following, 182–87

Obama, Barack. See also ObamaCare; Orwell, George, 207, 320

“stimulus”

Ottawa Citizen, The, 69, 144

“apology tour” of, 275

Oughts (2000s), 261, 288

Berlin speech and, 159

on children, 172

P

college and, 56–59, 154

Palin, Sarah, 57, 58, 59, 147, 161, 177,

debt and, 10

239

on exceptionalism, 16

Palmerston, Lord, 199

friends of, 41–42

Palovak, Jewel, 262

index 421

Parasite Eve, 113

post-American world, 279–324

patdowns, 32, 68, 223, 263

post-traumatic stress disorder

Paterson, David A., 84

(PTSD), 168–69

Patrick, Deval, 163

Postrel, Virginia, 283

“Patriot Act,” 101

Prager, Dennis, 141

Pearce, Fred, 286