Pascal’s wager, 51, 157
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 29
Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy), 61, 84
Philosophy of New Music (Adorno), 115, 118
Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny, 13, 37, 200
Pierson, James, 107
Pink Floyd, 188–189
Poe, Edgar Allan, 59
Polarization, of American population, 155–157
Political correctness, 21–22, 99–100, 102, 129, 137, 146, 151, 155; public policy and, 65–72, 163–174
Political Correctness: A Short History of an Ideology (Lind), 165
Political systems: compromise and, 35–36; moral crisis and, 29; as outgrowth of culture, 20
Ponte, Lorenzo da, 112
Pornography, treated as free speech, 165–167
Prima la musica, e poi le parole (Salieri), 128
Progressivism, 52, 77, 119, 152, 154, 180, 190; as regressive, 81–82, 184–185; tenets of, 49, 197–199
Puccini, Giacomo, 26, 103
Queen of Spades, The (Tchaikovsky), 200
“Question authority” slogan, 49
Quest myth, 14–16, 24, 52, 123–124
Rache. See Revenge
Raging Bull (film), 113
Rape: linguistic transformation of term, 146; rape culture on college campuses, 86. See also Sexual relations
Reagan, Ronald, 177, 200, 203
Reason. See Romanticism, without reason
Reich, Wilhelm, 16, 42, 143–145, 147–148, 166
Religion: human character and, 101–102; Left’s criticisms of, 24–25, 39–40, 42, 46–49, 151, 194. See also Atheism; Christianity; Islamic extremism
Repressive tolerance, Marcuse’s concept of, 44–46, 61, 109, 151–152
Revenge: of Left, 52, 107, 138–139, 183–195; of Satan, 24, 28, 138; struggle between light and darkness and, 105–106
Rienzi (Wagner), 124
Ring of the Nibelung cycle (Wagner), 12, 29, 66, 84–85, 105, 112, 122–127, 128, 203–204
Robert le diable (Meyerbeer), 10–11, 12, 85
Romanticism, without reason: culture and, 43–54, 57–59, 61–63; politics and, 54–61
Roosevelt, Franklin, and administration of, 2, 184–185, 198
Rosemary’s Baby (film), 76
Rousseau, Jean Jacques, and cult of the noble savage, 133–142
Rules for Radicals (Alinsky). See Alinsky, Saul
Salieri, Antonio, 127, 128
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 84
Satan: as “father of lies,” 6–7; as first radical, 163–164; Pope Francis on, 1; rebellion of, 17–30
“Savage Songs” (Marx), 83
Saving Private Ryan (film), 36
Schickaneder, Emanuel, 97, 99
Schoenberg, Arnold, 57, 61–62, 115–118
“Schoenberg and Progress” (Adorno), 116
Schonberg, Harold C., 114
Schubert, Franz Peter, 9–12, 16, 87
Schumann, Robert, 114–115
Science: Cultural Marxism and, 48–49; current conflicts and “settled,” 24; modern idea of supremacy of, 4, 12–13, 17–18, 20
Scorsese, Martin, 112–113
Searchers, The (film), 32
Second Amendment, 139–140
Sexual Personae (Paglia), 166
Sexual relations: consequences of sexual revolution, 143–148; Eternal Feminine saving power and, 79–81, 85–90; God and the fall, 137–139; Left’s attack on transcendence of, 73–79, 204–205; Marxist rage and, 82–85; repeated consent required, 173; timing of, 88–89; underclass morals and devaluing of family, 73–81. See also Abortion; Rape
Shaffer, Peter, 127–128
Shakespeare, William, 36, 50
Shaw, George Bernard, 105
Silverglate, Harvey, 76
Social justice, and equality of outcome, 15, 121, 129
Sondheim, Stephen, 107
Sorge, Richard, 43
Sorrows of Young Werther, The (Goethe), 53
Soviet Union, 24–25, 43, 134; collapse of, 47, 59–60, 71–72, 92, 185–191; Germany and Operation Barbarossa, 43, 56, 188
Stalin, Josef, 25, 43, 46, 56, 83, 135, 188
Stoker, Bram, 100–101
Stone, Oliver, 77
Strachey, Lytton, 167–169
Strauss, Richard, 21, 62, 128
Stravinsky, Igor, 115–116
Study in Scarlet, A (Conan Doyle), 105–106
Study of History (Toynbee), 74–75
Suicide, 58–59, 76, 85, 94, 109, 117, 140, 208
Symphonie Fantastique (Berlioz), 53
Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (Mozart), 112
Tannhäuser (Wagner), 126
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich, 200
Ten Commandments, 79, 121, 167
Thatcher, Margaret, 187
Thermopylae, Battle of, 206–207
Thing, The (Chesterton), 86–87
Tolerance, Marcuse and repressive, 44–46, 61, 109, 151–152
To Live and Die in L.A (film), 51
Tolkien, J.R.R., 206
Toynbee, Arnold, 74–75
Trenchard, John, 68
Trial, The (Kafka), 140–141
Trigger warnings, 173
Trotsky, Leon, 68
Trow, George W.S., 72
Truman, Harry, 176
Turandot (Puccini), 26
Turner, Christopher, 144, 145
Twain, Mark, 117–118
Twelve-tone system (dodecaphonicism), 57, 62, 113–119
Unexpurgated Code, The (Donleavy), 184
Unholy Left, use of term, 4
Ur-Kampf (primal conflict), of good versus evil, 17–30
Ur-Narrative, of West, 4–7, 14, 18, 26–27, 29, 47, 66–68, 91, 101, 140, 159, 209
Vampire myth, 100–101, 103
Verklärte Nacht (Schoenberg), 61–62, 117
Viereck, Peter, 54, 55, 56
Vietnam War, 88, 104, 176–177
Villi, Le (Puccini), 103
Violence, Left’s war on, 204–208
von Karajan, Herbert, 108
Wagner, Richard, 124, 126, 137; Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft, 84; Die Meistersinger, 125, 128; Flying Dutchman, 10, 12, 85, 103; Rienzi, 124; Romanticism and, 54, 56, 63; Tannhäuser, 126; “Tristan chord” and, 61–62. See also Parsifal (Wagner); Ring of the Nibelung cycle (Wagner)
Wall Street (film), 77
Weber, Carl Maria von, 11, 12, 53, 103
“White privilege,” 153–155
Whittle, Bill, 91
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (film), 139
“Why Not,” 18–19, 34, 88, 104–105, 177–178, 209
Wild One, The (film), 77
Wilson, Woodrow, 190, 198
Wolfe, Tom, 86, 178
Wolff, David, 77
Wolff, Robert Paul, 44–45
Women: light and darkness and, 100–102; women’s right movement, 85–86. See also Abortion; Eternal Feminine, as saving power
World War I, 7, 198, 201
World War II, 169, 201, 202; U.S. and cultural inferiority after, 1–3, 6, 88, 96