Death of the Liberal Class

  O’Brien, Conan

  O’Brien, Edwin F.

  Occultism

  Ochs, Phil

  Odetta

  Oil

  Gulf of Mexico spill

  and Iraq

  and mass extinction

  and Nader

  and renewable energy

  Standard

  and Teapot Dome scandal

  Olbermann, Keith

  O’Neil, Eugene

  Ortega y Gasset, José

  Orwell, George

  Pacifism

  Pakistan

  Palestinians

  Palin, Sarah

  Patriot Act

  Patriotism

  Paul, Ron

  Pentagon Papers

  Permanent war

  and Arab world

  and Chomsky

  economy

  ideology and culture of

  and liberal class

  and military spending

  and patriotism

  and World War I,

  Peter, Paul & Mary

  Peters, Joan

  Pindar

  Plato

  Polanyi, Karl

  Political action committees

  Pollard, Sidney

  Pollock, Jackson

  Poole, Ernest

  Pope John Paul II,

  Populism

  Postman, Neil

  Poststructuralism

  Poverty and the poor

  and Bell’s mother

  and Berrigan

  and Bohemia

  and corporate power

  and creative people

  and globalization

  and hypermasculinity

  and King and Malcolm X,

  and liberal class

  and liberal era

  long-term

  and media

  and radical social change and Catholic Worker

  and University House writers

  and utopia and progress

  Powell, Colin

  Powell, Lewis

  Power elite

  and anarchic violence

  and art

  and Chomsky

  and church

  and Cicero

  debate between two wings of

  defying

  and environmental and economic collapse

  and globalization

  and liberal class

  and Lippmann’s Public Opinion

  and mass propaganda

  and media

  and multiculturalism

  and mythic narrative of America

  and Obama

  and permanent war

  and polls

  and protests

  and radical current in theater

  and resistance

  Prager, Robert

  Prisons

  Proctor & Gamble

  Progressivism and progressives

  Propaganda. See Mass propaganda

  Pure Food and Drug Act

  Putin, Vladimir

  al-Qaida

  Racism

  Radicals

  discrediting

  and environment

  impact on media of

  and keeping liberal class honest

  and multiculturalism

  in 1960s,

  and Palmer Raids

  and poststructuralism

  and psychoanalysis

  rupture with liberal class of

  silencing, banning, and blacklisting

  and theater

  and University House

  and utopia and progress

  and vitality of liberal class

  and World War I,

  See also Anarchists; Communists; Left wing; Liberal class; Marxists; Socialism and socialists

  Rauschenbusch, Walter

  Reagan, Ronald

  and anticommunism

  and corporate control

  and liberal class’s death

  and Nader

  and NEA grants

  Rebels

  See also Radicals; Resistance and revolt

  Reform. See Liberal class

  Religious institutions

  See also Church

  Remnick, David

  Republican Party

  and corporations

  right wing of

  and 2000 election

  and Wall Street

  Resistance and revolt

  Reuther, Walter

  Rice, Condoleezza

  Right wing

  Robeson, Paul

  Rockefeller, John D.

  Rojek, Chris

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  Rose, Charlie

  Rosenthal, Abe

  Roth, Philip

  Russell, Bertrand

  Russell, Charles Edward

  Russia

  Sainath, Palagummi

  Saul, John Ralston

  Savio, Mario

  Scahill, Jeremy

  Schakowsky, Jan

  Schanberg, Sydney

  Schrecker, Ellen

  Schumann, Peter

  Sedition Act

  Seeger, Pete

  Sennet, Richard

  September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks (911)

  Shange, Ntozake

  Sharon, Ariel

  Sheehan, Cindy

  Shepard, Sam

  Shetterly, Rob

  Simon, Paul

  Simons, George

  Sinclair, Upton

  Slaughter, Anne-Marie

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Frederick

  Smith, Sharon

  Social Gospel movement

  Socialism and socialists

  and anticommunist purges

  and liberal era

  muzzling of

  pre-World War I,

  and World War I,

  Socrates

  Somalia

  Soros, George

  South Korea

  Soviet Union

  Speculators and speculation

  Spinoza, Baruch

  Spivak, Gayatri

  Stack, Joe

  Stalin, Joseph

  Stanton, Olive

  Starnes, Joseph

  Steimer, Mollie

  Steinbeck, John

  Steinem, Gloria

  Stern, Fritz

  Stewart, Ellen

  Stieber, Josh

  Stone, I. F.

  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

  Stupak, Bart

  Sullivan, Mark

  Sulzberger, Arthur “Punch,”

  Supreme Court, U.S.

  Surowiecki, James

  Surveillance

  Swanson, David

  Syria

  Taft-Hartley Act

  Taliban

  Tarbell, Ida

  Tarde, Gabriel

  Taxes

  Tea Party movement

  Teamsters Union

  Teer, Barbara Ann

  Terrorism

  domestic

  and drugs

  Islamic

  and laws

  and Obama

  and patriotism

  war on

  Theater

  Bread and Puppet Theatre

  and censorship

  and civil-rights movement

  and grants and commercial constraints

  Living Theatre and Open Theater

  radical current in 1920s and 1930s,

  as spectacle or celebrity-driven entertainment

  Theater for the New City

  and World War I,

  Theweleit, Klaus

  Thomson, Virgil

  Totalitarianism

  classical

  and hostility toward left

  inverted

  movements

  Tracy, David

  Treasury, U.S.

  Trotsky, Leon

  Trotter, Wilfred

  Truman, Harry

  Trump, Donald

  Truth, Sojourner

  Tuchman, Barbara

  Twain, Mark

&n
bsp; Twight, Charlotte

  Ulmer, Gregory

  Unemployment

  and Bell

  in China

  and hypermasculinity

  insurance taxes

  and liberals

  long-term

  in 1930s,

  and Obama

  and permanent underclass

  real rate of

  and right-wing backlash

  Union of American Hebrew Congregations

  Unions, labor

  and blacklisting

  and Catholic Worker

  and class struggle

  communist

  and corporations

  and democracy and rights of workers

  and dignity and hope

  dismantling of

  and FedEx and UPS

  as junior partners of capitalist class

  and leaders’ salaries

  and liberal class

  and National Labor Relations Act

  and 1960s,

  and 1930s,

  percent of American workers in

  public-sector

  and radical leaders

  and Taft-Hartley Act

  and utopia and progress

  and World War I,

  United Automobile Workers

  United Mine Workers

  United Nations (U.N.)

  Universities

  and anticommunism

  and Berrigan

  and children of immigrants

  and collegiality, conformity, and tenure

  and common good

  and corporate power

  and critical thinking and independence of mind

  and Finkelstein

  and liberal class

  and multiculturalism

  and philanthropy

  and poststructuralism

  and resistance

  and specialization

  and tax-exemption and money

  UPS

  U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

  Van Agtmael, Peter

  Van Itallie, Jean-Claude

  Vietnam War

  and protest

  Violence

  Wall Street

  bailouts

  and Bell

  and communists

  manipulation and dishonesty on

  and Obama

  and World War I,

  Wallace, Graham

  Wallace, Henry

  Walling, William English

  Walzer, Michael

  War

  brutal and savage reality of

  and liberal class

  veterans

  See also Afghanistan war; Iraq war; Permanent war; World War I; World War II

  Warhol, Andy

  Warren, Earl

  Watergate

  Weather Underground

  Weavers

  Weber, Max

  Weisman, Fred

  Welfare

  Welles, Orson

  Wellstone, Paul

  West Bank

  White, Edward Douglas

  Whyte, William H.

  Wicker, Ireene

  Wieseltier, Leon

  WikiLeaks

  Wilson, Woodrow

  Winfrey, Oprah

  Wolin, Sheldon

  Women’s rights and equality

  Woods, Tiger

  Works Progress Administration (WPA)

  World War I,

  and conscription

  and crumbling of antiwar movement

  declaration of war

  end and aftermath of

  and end of liberal era

  and end of progressivism

  and industrial warfare

  and intellectuals

  and mass culture

  and mass propaganda

  and nationalism

  and repression of dissent

  World War II,

  Wright, Ann

  Wright, Ronald

  Yemen

  YouTube

  Yugoslavia

  Zuspann, Gary

  Zwally, Jay

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  Table of Contents

  Also by Chris Hedges

  Title Page

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  I - Resistance

  II - Permanent War

  III - Dismantling the Liberal Class

  IV - Politics as Spectacle

  V - Liberal Defectors

  VI - Rebellion

  Notes

  Acknowledgements

  Bibliography

  Index

  Copyright Page