After America

175, 182–83, 187, 213, 217, 266,

USS Cole, 221

316

ut-Tahrir, Hizb, 286

western elites, 59, 101, 143, 287, 293.

utopianism, 233–34, 341

See also elites

western world, 2, 15, 19, 38, 52, 66,

105, 110

426

after america

What’s the Matter with Kansas? , 86

World Distribution of Income, The, 283

“White City,” 40, 41

World Trade Center, 39–43, 221

Whitelaw, Willie, 51

Wren, Christopher, 43

Who Are We? , 11

Wright, Jeremiah, 42, 145

Wilberforce, William, 198

Wright, Orville, 27, 33

Wilders, Geert, 196

Wright, Wilbur, 27, 33

wildlife, 260–63

“writing on the wall,” 2, 7, 14, 18, 124–

Will, George, 181

25

Williams, Juan, 67

Wodehouse, P. G., 6

x

Wolf, Martin, 98, 117

xenophobe, 66, 239

Wolfe, Tom, 123

Wolffe, Richard, 128

y

Wood, May, 249

Young, Coleman, 222

Woodstock, 342–43

Young Immigrunts, The, 67

Woodward, Bob, 145

Young, Michael, 57–58, 63

world after America, 279–324

Yufzai, Mushtaq, 36

world after man, 306–10

About the Author

Mark Steyn is the bestselling author of After America and America Alone. His writing on war, politics, the arts, and culture has appeared in almost every major newspaper around the world, from The Wall Street Journal to The Irish Times to The Australian. In the United States he is National Review’s “Happy Warrior,” as well as a regular guest-host on America’s number one radio show, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and America’s number two cable news show, Hannity on Fox News. He lives in New Hampshire.

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