Limerick, Patrick, 111
Lincoln, Abraham, 19, 22, 53, 90, 113, 116–17, 121–22, 127–29, 131–32, 223
Lyceum Address, 3
Living History, 78
Llosa, Mario Vargas, 96
Locke, John, 100–1
Lynd, Staughton, 76
M
Macaulay, Thomas, 190
Machiavelli, Niccolo, 74, 82
Madison, James, 48, 122
madness, 33–34, 59, 67
Magna Carta, 45
Mahbubani, Kishore, 195
Malcolm X, 69
Malcolm X, 69
Mandeville, Bernard, 159
Manhattan, 101, 104
Manifest Destiny, 111–12
Mao Zedong, 32, 58
Marshall, John, 102
Marshall Plan, 62, 208
Marx, Karl, 29, 50, 81, 160–61, 164, 171–72, 174, 189–90, 223, 240
Mau Mau uprising, 206
McClellan, George, 117
McGovern, George, 73
McNeill, William, 93
Means, Russell, 91
Menard, J. Willis, 122
Mexican War, 12–13, 18, 107, 109, 111–13, 115–17, 119
Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest, 118
Mexico, 12, 38, 44, 94–95, 98, 103, 107–10, 112–17, 119, 195, 249
Middle East, 7, 9, 13, 126, 204–5, 209–11, 248
Miller, James, 28, 33
Milton, John, 9, 83
Monroe Doctrine, 111–12, 209
Montejano, David, 114
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis, 166, 196
Moore, Michael, 197
morality, 26, 33, 80, 84–85, 97, 162–63, 178, 218, 220
Morel, Junius, 123
Morita, Akio, 165
Mount Rushmore, 89–90
Mount Vernon, 44
Mubarak, Hosni, 204
Muslim Brotherhood, 204
Muslims, 10, 93, 207, 252
N
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 148–49
National Security Administration (NSA), 236–37
national suicide, 3–4
national surveillance, 20
native Americans. See American Indians
Navarro, Armando, 75, 108, 110
Nazism, 206
New Deal, 13, 65–66
Nixon, Richard, 73, 75, 145, 241
NSA. See National Security Administration
nuclear arsenal
America’s, 6, 202–4
China’s, 202, 254
Iran’s, 204
Russia’s, 203, 210
nuclear strategy, 203
nuclear weapons, 6–7, 59, 202–4, 210, 254. See also nuclear arsenal
O
Obama, Barack, 20
American decline and, 255
anti-colonialism of, 77
appearance of, 86–87
Asia and, 205
Bill Ayers and, 60
Bill Clinton and, 79
capitalism and, 169–70
CEOs and, 177
as college professor, 17
as community agitator, 76
containment and, 202–4
Dreams from My Father, 10, 77
Egypt and, 204
envy of, 217–18
fair share ideology of, 172
foreign policy of, 10, 202, 204
founding fathers of, 11, 61, 64
Frank Marshall Davis and, 62
ideology of, 65, 158
inequality and, 179
intervention and, 206
Iran and, 204
Jeremiah Wright and, 63
legitimacy of, 178
Libya and, 204
Monroe Doctrine and, 111
national debt and, 6
Obamacare and, 225, 231
progressivism of, 16
race and, 145–46
remaking America and, 4
reparations and, 16
Roberto Mangabeira Unger and, 63
success of, 227
surveillance and, 234, 236–38, 240
Syria and, 204–5
totalitarian temptation of, 232–33
Ukraine and, 205
wealth and, 156–57
Obama, Barack, Sr., 10–11, 77, 155
Obama and the Middle East, 7
Obamacare, 29, 104, 220, 225, 231, 241
Occidental College, 145
Occupied America, 108
Occupy the Economy, 179
Occupy Wall Street, 85
Oceans 11, 229
OECD. See Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Old Testament, 19
On the Road, 67
Oprah, 44
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 5
Orlovsky, Peter, 67
Ortega, Jose Daniel, 32
Osceola, 22
O’Sullivan, John, 112
P
Paine, Thomas (“Tom”), 8
Panopticon, 229–45
Paradise Lost, 9, 83–84
Passion of Michel Foucault, The, 28
Passions and the Interests, The, 166
patriotism, 14, 23, 65, 123, 198
Patterson, Orlando, 146
Paul, Rand, 238
Pearl Harbor, 208
pedophilia, 33
Pelosi, Nancy, 29
Pentagon, 57–59, 64, 203
People’s History of the United States, A, 13
Philippines, 13, 44, 198
Plagues and Peoples, 93
Playboy, 83
Political Science Quarterly, 5
Polk, James K., 115–17
post-American era, 247
Post-American World, The, 5
power, 30–31, 33, 47–49, 57, 62–63, 72, 74, 77–82, 85–87, 102, 130, 166, 202–3, 205–14, 218, 229–33, 237, 241
pride, 159, 164, 249
Prince, The, 82
profits, 12, 19, 158–59, 163, 171–72, 174, 186, 197, 231
progressivism, 11–20, 61, 189, 221, 250–51, 255
property, 20, 38, 43, 46, 48, 52–54, 63, 96–100, 113, 118–18, 141, 148, 160, 173, 175, 181, 189–90, 206
prosperity, 20, 112, 145, 153–67, 180, 196, 247
Q
Qaddafi, Muammar, 64, 204–5
R
racism, 16, 59, 138–39, 141–42, 145–49, 249
radicals, 16, 28, 73, 80–83
Raleigh, Walter, 94
Reagan, Ronald, 72–75, 219
Reagan Doctrine, 214
Reconstruction, 139
redistribution, 17, 22, 66, 77, 155, 225
Reich, Robert, 179, 223
Reid, Harry, 29
Reveille for Radicals, 80, 83
rich countries, 6, 10, 192–93, 195
Roark, James, 125
Roberts, J. M., 125
Roger and Me, 197
Roman Age, 7
Roman Empire, 126, 248
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 41, 65–66, 208
Roosevelt, Theodore, 11–12, 90
Rosenbaum, Robert, 118
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 99
Rules for Radicals, 80, 82–83
Russia, 5, 7, 32, 62–63, 150, 203–5, 210, 233, 239, 248
Rwanda, 206
S
Said, Edward, 11, 61–62
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 28
Satan, 83–84
Schumpeter, Joseph, 70, 185
science, 1, 188–90
Scott, Winfield, 117
segregation, 12, 16, 137–42, 144, 146, 149–50
selfishness, 159–63
Sepulveda, Juan, 97
serfdom, 126
sexual liberation, 32, 68
sexual revolution, 65, 68–69
Shakespeare, William, 1
Shaw, George Bernard, 230
Sheehan, Cindy, 22
Silverglate, Harvey, 242–45
Singh, M
anmohan, 191
Sioux Tribe, 64, 89–92
Sisyphus, 2
slavery, 16–18, 25–26, 59, 95, 116, 123–35, 138–39, 222–24
smallpox, 93
Smith, Adam, 159, 189
Smith, Dinitia, 60
Smith, Roger, 197
Snowden, Edward, 234–36
Sony Walkman, 165
South, the, 59, 69, 124, 131, 138, 140, 143, 147, 225
South Africa, 44, 64
South America, 7, 9, 60, 95, 111–12, 127, 188, 205, 209, 251, 253
South Korea, 192, 205
Soviet Union, 7, 110, 191, 196, 202, 209–12, 239, 248
Sowell, Thomas, 140
spirit of 1776, 35, 41–42, 44–45, 54–55, 66–67, 71, 250, 252, 257
Spirit of the Laws, 166
St. Augustine, 166
Stalin, Joseph, 28, 32, 150, 211, 239
START Treaty, 6
Stevens, Thad, 122
Stossel, John, 158–59
Sublimus Deus, 97
suicide
of America, 87, 225
of a nation, 1–20
of the West, 209
Suicide of the West, 126
surveillance, 20, 31, 229, 231, 234, 237–40, 245
T
Taney, Roger, 124
taxation, 222, 225–26
Taylor, Zachary, 117
Tecumseh, 103
terrorism, 64, 231, 238, 242
Texas, 108, 113–17
theft, 10, 12–19, 44, 64, 97–98, 103, 109–10, 138–39, 141–42, 145, 150, 154–55, 159, 166, 173, 186–89, 202, 208, 210, 215–16, 218, 220–22, 225–26, 229–30, 232
Theory of Moral Sentiments, A, 163
Three Felonies a Day, 242
Todorov, Tzvetan, 91
tolerance, 22, 71
totalitarianism, 32, 208, 232, 245
traditional values, 81–82
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 108, 117–18
Truxillo, Charles, 109
Turner, Frederick Jackson, 153–54
Turner, Ted, 158–59, 162
U
Ukraine, 205
Unger, Roberto Mangabeira, 11, 61, 63
United Farm Workers, 75
University of Chicago, 17, 74
University of Paris, 28
V
vacuum cleaner, 68
Vespucci, Amerigo, 94
Vietnam, 30, 58–61, 68–69, 71, 76, 210, 212
Vietnam War, 11, 58, 60–61, 80
Virtue of Selfishness, The, 161
W
Walmart, 198
Walt, Stephen, 5
Warren, Elizabeth, 156–57
Washington, Booker T., 137–38, 147–48, 150–51
Washington, George, 8, 43–44, 87, 90, 129
wealth
African Americans and, 124
America and, 57, 108, 233
American debt and, 6
capitalism and, 29, 52
competition and, 24
distribution of, 170, 173, 179–81
life expectancy and, 184
looting and, 51, 166
middle class and, 182
military and, 249
modern wealth, 154
power and, 86
redistribution of, 22, 225
stolen goods philosophy, 17
theft and, 10, 12, 15–18, 154–58, 206, 214
transfer of, 222
wealth creation ethic, 18–20, 104, 250, 254
wealth creators, 218
Wealth of Nations, The, 159, 189
Weather Underground, 57–58, 80
Webster, Daniel, 122
welfare state, 16, 65–66
Wellesley College, 77–78
West and the Rest of Us, The, 193
Western civilization, 8–9, 10, 18, 24, 33, 96, 247
Westernization, 251
wheel, the, 18
When China Rules the World, 252
White Face, Charmaine, 90–92, 103–5
Whitman, Walt, 116, 132
Wilde, Oscar, 164
Williamson, Joel, 139–40
Wilson, Woodrow, 12
Wolfe, Tom, 181
Wolff, Richard, 179, 223
work, 29, 37, 44, 51–54, 64, 70–71, 108, 118, 126, 128–29, 142–43, 149, 151, 155, 160–64, 171–75, 195, 199, 216–18, 222–23, 227, 245
workers, 12, 54, 143, 156, 158, 160, 163–64, 171–72, 174–75, 178, 185–86, 190, 195–99. See also working people
working people, 43–44, 64, 81, 128, 156. See also workers
world peace, 6
World Trade Center, 59
World War II, 7–9, 62, 69–70, 94, 147, 180, 208, 211, 214, 223, 251
Wright, Jeremiah, 11, 61, 63, 65
Z
Zakaria, Fareed, 5
Zinn, Howard, 13–14, 22, 43, 92, 94, 102
Zuckerberg, Mark, 162