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INDEX

a

Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 264, 270,

ABC, 64

275–76

Abdulla, King, 273

al-Assad, Bashar, 275

abortion, 80, 161, 177, 178, 180, 204, al-Awlaki, Anwar, 169-70

304, 309

al-Din, Taqi, 32

Acheson, Dean, 199

al-Gamei’a, Muhammad, 265

Acres, 85

al-Khwarizmi, Muhammad, 32

Adams, Sam, 201

al-Qaeda, 42–43, 162, 263

addiction, 20, 22, 36, 256

al-Zawahiri, Ayman, 162

Addonizio, Kim, 140

Albuquerque Journal, 254

Adkins, Lucy, 140

Aldrin, Buzz, 28–29

adolescence, 129, 172, 181

Alesina, Alberto, 237–38

“adultescence” phenomenon, 181

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi, 297

“affirmative action,” 151–53, 165, 238

Almaleki, Noor, 303–4

Affleck, Ben, 141

“Alpha male,” 176

“after man,” 306–10

Alterman, Eric, 67

“age of chivalry,” 186

Amazing Stories, 38–39

“age of empathy,” 158,160

America

Agodon, Kelli Russell, 140

chance for, 22–23, 279–324

agricultural labor, 211–12

cushion for, 16

debt of, 2–23

decay of, 21–22

Amis, Martin, 293

decline of, 12–13, 17-18, 32, 43, Aniston, Jennifer, 176–78

127–87

Annie, 1

Europeanization of, 120–22

Antitrust Division, 46–47, 49

fall of, 13–14, 211–67

Anwar, Mus’id, 135–36

hope for, 279–324

apartheid, 152, 245, 263–65

post-American world, 279–324

apocalypse, 1–2

undreaming, 45–102

Apple, 32

vulnerability of, 19–20, 230, 259, Arbogast, Jessie, 260

281

Archuleta, Deanna, 34

world after, 279–324

Armageddon, 20–22

America Alone: The End of the World Armstrong, Neil, 28

as We Know It, 1–2, 15, 19, 28, 105, arteriosclerosis, 20, 22

118, 129, 189

Arum, Richard, 340

“America the Beautiful,” 40

Associated Press, 165, 167, 290

American Dream

Astaire, Fred, 41, 166

beneficiaries of, 131

Astor, Mary, 65

desire for, 244–45, 253–54, 331–

Astounding Science Fiction, 38–39

32

atheists, 321

loss of, 15, 22–23, 326, 331–32

Athens, drowning of, 103–25

requirement of, 35

Atlantic Monthly, 93, 161–62, 319

American Educator, The, 157

Atta, Mohammed, 283

American idea, 16, 21, 38, 70, 102, 267, audacity, hope of, 325–49

306, 326, 342, 348–49

Austin Powers, 242

American Idol, 45

automobile industry, 47, 101, 217–20

American idyll, 127–87

Ayers, William, 42, 145, 147

American Journal of Medicine, The, 226

American, meaning of, 141–42

B

Babylon, 7, 14

American Nightmare, 22

Bacca, Pippa, 265–66

American Prospect, The, 63

bailouts, 64, 109, 218, 346

“American Recovery and Reinvest-

Baker, Dean, 93

ment Plan,” 33

Balls, Ed, 192

American Spectator, The, 82

Banting, Frederick, 27–28

index 409

Barnett, Thomas P. M., 318

father of, 33–34

Bast, Andrew, 168

funding, 72, 109, 129

Bastiat, Frédéric, 45

future of, 75, 329, 333