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

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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