After America

Steyn, Mark, 143, 149

Thirties (1930s), 41, 96

“stimulus,” 3, 23, 74–75, 96, 98, 213, “thumos,” 176, 184

334

Time Machine, The, 127

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 39, 41

Time magazine, 59, 220, 239

Streisand, Barbra, 1, 56–57

Times, 85, 103, 114

Strouse, Charles, 1

tinkering, 344

student education, 148–57, 198–99

Titanic, 185–86

student loans, 47, 156

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 37, 45–46, 89,

stupidity of broke, 1–23

235, 328, 334

success stories, 28–33

Todd, Sweeney, 88

Sullivan, Andrew, 161–62

Tomasky, Michael, 63, 64

Summers, Christina Hoff, 179

totalitarianism, 101–2, 207

Summers, Lawrence, 194

town hall meetings, 53, 64, 68, 172

“sustainable” consumerism, 35

Toynbee, Arnold, 190

Suzuki, David, 101

traditional family, 177–78, 234

Swift, Jonathan, 2, 95, 124

traditional marriage, 179

transnationalism, 17, 121, 283, 287,

t

289, 306

Taleb, Nassim, 95

Transportation Security Administra-

Taliban, 36, 195, 198, 314

tion (TSA), 33, 68, 223, 258

“talkies,” 36. See also movies

Treadwell, Timothy, 261–63, 266

“tax credit,” 72, 86–87

Treasury bonds, 9–10

“tax cuts,” 8, 72–73, 83

“trinity of evil,” 32

taxes, raising, 108–9, 114–15

Trudeau, Pierre, 203

Taylor, Zachary, 58

Truman, Harry S., 58, 345

index 425

Tucson shootings, 57, 62

Twain, Mark, 116, 220

v

Van Buren, Martin, 58

Twelve O-Clock High, 175

van den Boogaard, Oscar, 187

Twenties (1920s), 27–28, 137

van Gogh, Theo, 297

twentieth century, 27, 33–35, 104–6, van Rompuy, Herman, 120

130, 186–90, 195, 217–19, 235, Ventura County Star, 90

283–86, 302, 313–22

Veremi, Vasia, 109

twenty-first century, 15–17, 27–30, Villeneuve, Denis, 185

128–30, 183, 191, 214–15, 287–99, virtual reality, 33, 36

301–24

“two Americas,” 68–69

Two Solitudes, 68–69

w

Walker, Judge, 80, 179

Tyler, Royall, 103

Wall Street Journal, 48, 88

tyranny, 87–92, 284, 336–37

Walton, William, 125

war on children, 346

war on terror, 76, 102, 138

u

U. S. Constitution, 63, 73, 77–78, 80, War Room, The, 62

192, 290

Warren, David, 69

undreaming America, 45–102

Washington Post, 55, 64, 165, 173

unemployment, 74–75, 213, 246. See Washington Times, 77

also jobs

Waters, Maxine, 63

unionization, 120–21, 156

Waziristan, 38–39, 43, 257, 259, 274,

United Nations (UN), 12, 105, 146–

303

47, 270–73, 277, 282–83, 289

Webb, Jimmy, 29

United States, hope for, 22–23, 279–

Week in December, A, 94

324. See also America

Weekly Standard, 61

United States vs. Columbia Steel Co. , welfare state, 104–5, 130–31, 204, 47– 48

223–24, 229–30, 319

universities, 35, 56, 58, 148–57, 180

Wells, H. G., 25, 100, 127–28, 131–37,

Urban II, Pope, 314