Federal Reserve, the, 46
Feinstein, Dianne, 180
Female Eunuch, The, 67
female genital mutilation, 219, 362
feminism, feminists, 60, 316, 349–50, 364, 369, 373–74
in America, xi, 62–66, 334, 336
in Australia, 67, 329, 371
in Canada, 231
in London, 217
Muslims and, 304
Ferdinand, Franz, 180
Ferraro, Geraldine, 314
Fifties, the, 45, 126, 163, 226, 335, 342, 413
Fire Island, NJ, 41, 307
First Amendment, the, 363–64, 355. See also freedom of speech
Fish, Michael, 186–87
Fisk, Robert, 413–14
Fleet Street, xvii, 32, 100, 125, 153, 187–89, 280, 366, 415
Fleming, Ian, 123–27
Flemish Interest political party, 258
Flight 93, 180, 197
Fluke, Sandra, 144
folk songs, 237, 250–51, 266
Fonda, Jane, 3
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), 1, 110, 119
“Fools Rush In,” 272
Foreign Office, the, 406, 415
Foreign Terrorist Tracking Task Force, 108
forelocks, 154, 168
For Fatherland and Freedom Party, 258
Foster, Jodie, 312
Foster, Stephen, 235–39
Fox News, 42, 294, 351
Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, 142
France, French, 10, 80–81, 100, 158, 198, 211, 232, 258, 262, 318, 378
Franklin, Benjamin, 151, 155
Frayling, Christopher, 334, 336
Freaks, 325–27
freedom of speech, 65, 135, 138, 157, 207, 316, 364, 366, 370–74
“Free Iraq,” 209, 213
Frey, James, 141
Friedman, Thomas, 201
Front National (French political party), 258, 262
Frost, Robert, 390
Fry, Stephen, 130
“F**k-Off Friday,” 394
fundraisers, 153, 170–73, 205, 307, 338
Furst, Alan, 125
Furuya, Fusa, 319
G
Garfield, James, 33–34
Garofalo, Janeane, 364
gay marriage, xiii–xiv, 258, 301, 358, 370, 373–74, 378
gays, xv, 24, 41, 72, 143, 180, 260, 301–3, 360. See also gay marriage; homosexuals
bullying of, 354
children and, 309–11
persecution of, 92, 157, 159, 180, 225, 230, 232, 379–80
Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), 351–55
genocide, 287, 295
George III (king), xv, 155, 160
George, Prince, 151
Georgetown Law School, 143–44
Germany, Germans, 46, 80, 115, 118, 151, 179–80, 186, 198, 223, 227, 245, 302, 335
demographics of, 12, 35
under the Nazis, 138–39, 201
Gershwin brothers, the, 128–30
Gershwin, Ira, 270–72, 275
Gibson, Mel, 58–61
GI Joe, 198, 223, 244–48
Gila Regional Medical Center, New Mexico, 99
Gilbert, John, 240
Gilbey, Deena, xi, 105–8
Gilbey, Paul, 105–8
Girl Crazy, 130–31
Giuliani, Rudy, 82, 241
Glasgow, Scotland, 153, 182
Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, 198–99, 244
“global upheaval,” 192
Globe and Mail, The, 286, 411
Glover, Stephen, 187
Glyn, Noah, 31
“God Bless America,” 240, 391
Goldberg, Jonah, 30, 290
Golden Age, The, 32
Goldwyn, Sam, 164
“Goody Goody,” 274
GOP, the, xv, 44, 294, 297. See also Republican Party
Gore, Al, 1, 32–33, 43, 242, 411–12
Gorky Park, 398
Government Services Administration (GSA), 351
government shutdown, 87–90
Graduate, The, 336, 441
Graham, Sylvester, 4
Gramm, Phil, xiii
Granite State, the, xii, 79, 100, 117. See also New Hampshire
Grant, Caroline, 241
Grant, Turner, 240
Greater Manchester Police, 116, 359
Greater Romania Party, 258
Great Escape, The, 117
Great Satan, the, 193, 254
Great War, the, 180, 240, 245, 296
Greece, Greek, 118, 164, 378
Greeley, CO, xviii
Green Cards, 106–8, 117
Greenfield, Lazar, 348–49
Green, Michael, 67
Greenwoods, the, 310–11
Green Zone, the, 53, 170, 302
Greer, Germaine, 67, 72, 329, 371–72
Grenada, 195, 389, 395
Groskop, Viv, 154
Ground Zero mosque, the, 363
Guantanamo, 188–89, 362
Guardian, The, 35, 38, 154, 156–58, 187, 279–80, 309, 329, 373
Guatemala, 142, 191
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, 163
Gulf War I, 62, 162, 195
Gulf War II, 195
H
Haden-Guest, Anthony, 55–57
Hall, Barbara, 229, 231, 352, 355
Halliburton, 247, 415
Hammerstein, Oscar, 270
Hamza, Abu, 284
Hamzi, Salem al-, 108
“Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, A,” 251
Harper’s, 2
Harrison, David, 9, 12–13
Harrow, 279, 281
Harry Potter series, 145
Hart, Lorenz, 270
Hart, Moss, 403
Harvard Law Review, The, 28
Harvard Law School, 27–31, 92
Harvard University, xvii, 314
Hasselhoff, David, 219
Hatch, Orrin, xiii
Haverhill, NH, xi, 410
health care, xvi, 100, 290, 292, 297, 404
Health & Safety, 84, 86. See also ’Elf ’n’ Safety
Hedda Gabler, 32
Heidenry, John, 55, 57
Henry III, 89
Hidalgo County, NM, 99, 102
hijabs, 225–26, 316, 379, 386
Hill, The, 409–10
Hill, Anita, 62–63
Hilliard, Bob, 239
Hilton, Daisy, 324–27
Hilton, Violet, 324–27
Hindu Kush, the, 182, 192, 303
Hispanics, 29, 58, 79, 292, 294–96, 302
Holder, Eric, 143
Hollywood, 11, 32–33, 56, 67, 73, 126, 170, 245–48, 272, 325, 336, 381, 411
Holm, Paul, 180
Holocaust, the, 143, 287
Home Office, the (Britain), 70
homophobia, homophobics, xiv, 156–58, 231, 304, 331, 348, 352, 355
homosexuals, xiii, 156–57, 230, 232, 259–60, 301, 304, 358, 378, 378. See also gays
Hope, Bob, xii, 325, 335
Horse Whisperer, The, 246
Houghton, Katharine, 164
House of Representatives, the, 14
Howard, John, 167, 331
Huang Shuzheng, 318
Hudson, Rock, 60, 335–36
Hugo, Victor, 55
humanitarians, 183–85
Hungary, Hungarian, 164, 258–59, 305, 357
Hunter, Will, 92–98
Hunt, Helen, 59–61
Hunt, Marsha, 219
Hussein, Saddam, 168, 209–11, 241
I
Ibrahim, Samira, 203
“I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” 235
“If I Had a Hammer,” 265–66
Ignatieff, Michael, xvii–xviii, 135
“I Had the Craziest Dream,” 337–38
Ilayaraja, 254
“I’ll Be Seeing You,” 239
Independent, The, xi, 129, 132, 134, 154, 184
Independent Magazine,
The, 137
India, 158, 163, 164, 198–99, 201, 209, 255, 256, 287, 302, 314–16
Indians (America), 27. See also Cherokee tribe
Innu community, the, 285–89
INS, 105–8
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 91, 153
Iraq, 185, 200, 255
ISIS and, 209–13
liberation of, 209, 407
war in, 62, 192, 194, 241–42, 247, 413–14
war with Iran, 134–35, 377
I, Rigoberta Menchú, 142
Irish Times, The, xviii, 389, 412
Iron Curtain, the, 357
Irwin, Steve, 328–32
Irwin, Terri, 332
Islam
dress mandated by, 225–26
factions within, 192–93
growth of, 192, 231–32, 377–79
political correctness and, 230–32, 261, 363–65, 370–74
relationship with the West, 203, 207–8, 228–31, 284, 295, 362, 365–68, 377–79
Sharia law and, 134, 362–63, 379
theology of, 230, 374, 377
“Islamic State of Iraq and Syria” (ISIS), 210–12
Islamophobia, 206–7, 223, 231, 347, 379
Italy, Italian, 12, 80–81, 118, 151, 164, 198, 251, 378
“(I took a trip on a train and) I Thought about You,” 271–72
“It’s Magic,” 334
It Takes a Village, 408
J
Jackson, Glenda, 217
Jackson, Jesse, 101, 162–64
Jagger, Mick, 56, 219, 279–80
Jalalabad, 184–85, 246
Jamaica, 123, 156–58, 160–65, 230
Japan, Japanese, 12, 88, 90, 141, 158, 198, 201, 219, 316–19, 381–83
“Jeepers Creepers,” 272
Jenkins, Simon, 414
Jim Crow, 242
Jobbik (political party), 258–59
Jobseeker’s Allowance, 282, 284
Johannesburg, South Africa, 36
Johnson, Boris, 405, 407
Johnson, Brian D., 246
Joke, The (Kundera), 347–50
Jonas, George, 223
Jones, Paula, x, 62
Jordan, 147, 200, 209–12
“Julia” (Obama administration campaign ad), 26, 30
Juno Beach, 10
K
Kabul, Afghanistan, 182, 184–85, 189, 194
Kallawayan people, the, 12
Kandahar, 182, 187, 197, 199, 231, 362
Kan, Naoto, 319
Kaplan, Muhammed Metin, 284
Kate, Princess, 152–54
Kato, Sogen, 319
Kauffman, Hattie, 42
Kaus, Mickey, 46, 180
Kazan, Elia, 340
Kelly, Lorraine, 219
Kelly, Megyn, 211
Ken (of Barbie and Ken), 224–25
Kennedy, Anthony, xv
Kennedy, Edward “Ted,” 174–76, 247
Kennedy, John F., 33, 180, 328
Kerry, John, ix–xii, 203, 413–15
Kerry, Teresa Heinz, xii, 414
Keyes, Alan, xiii
Khomeieni, Ayatollah, 85, 134, 136
Kim family, the, 151
Kinder Eggs, 109–11
King John (Shakespeare), 396
King, Larry, 331
Knight Bachelors, 140
Knight Commanders, 140
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 176
Kopp, Nancy, 314
Koran, the, 189, 362–64
Korean War, 195, 197
Krauthammer, Charles, 296
Krugman, Paul, 45–46
Ku Klux Klan, 241–42
Kundera, Milan, 347, 349–50
L
Labour Party (Britain), 115, 128, 136, 217, 260–62, 285, 308, 394, 415
“Land of Hope and Glory,” 23
Langley Park, MD, 296
Laster, James B., 194–95
Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night, The, 55
Las Vegas, NV, 58, 205, 208, 268, 351
Late Show, The, 42, 135
Latin America, xv, 109, 191, 281, 296
Latvia, 258, 389
“Laura,” 272
“leading from behind,” 195
Lee, Pamela (Anderson), 3, 249
left, leftists, left-wing, xiv, xvi, 128, 134, 137–38, 141, 157, 179, 261, 265, 297, 302, 357, 364, 367, 393, 405, 412
lesbians, 311–13, 348–49
Letterman, David, 42, 206
Levant, the, 210, 378
Levant, Oscar, 336
Lewinsky, Monica, ix, 65
Liberal Party (Canada), xvii, 134–35, 169, 286
liberals, liberalism, 134, 226, 301
in America, 31, 43, 143, 225, 247, 291, 301, 304, 316, 364–68
in Canada, 286–87
culture and, xiii–xv
in Europe, 258, 369, 372
Liberia, 34
Libya, 195, 200, 207–8, 379
Lileks, James, 266
Lily Allen, 279
Limbaugh, Rush, 19
Lincoln, Abraham, 33, 240, 242, 307
Living History (Rodham Clinton), 145, 147
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, 9
Loewenstein, Antony, 11–12
Logan, Kate, 25
London School of Economics, 279
Longman, Phillip, 316
Los Angeles, CA, xvii, 152–53, 171, 232
Los Angeles Times, The, 181
Lovejoy, Charles, 240–41
Lovelace, Linda, 56
Love Me or Leave Me, 336
Lover Come Back, 336
Love Story, A, 408
Loving v. Virginia, 302
Luckenbach, TX, 410
Ludvik (character in The Joke), 347–49
M
Magati Ke tribe, the, 9–12
Magna Carta, 89, 287
mail fraud, 97–98
Mail on Sunday, The, 189
Major, John, 161–62
malaria, 187–88
Malaysia, 158
Mamas and Papas, 337
Manhattan, NY, 31, 55, 170, 325
Marshall, Nick (protagonist of What Women Want), 58–61
Martin, Ricky, xiv, 171
Martin, Tony, 68–69
Martin, Trayvon, 29, 101
Marx, Groucho, 336
Marxists, 261, 291, 314, 357
Mary II (queen). See William and Mary
Massa, Gilary, 316
McCarthyism, 97
McCarthy, Jenny, 3
McCarthy, Joseph, 190
McGuinty, Dalton, 355
McKinley, William, 33
McMillan, Kate, 226
media, the. See under America, American; Australia; Britain, British; Canada; United States, U.S.
Medicare, 8
memoirs, 27, 29, 141–44, 145, 161, 408
Memorial Day, 240, 242–43, 314
Me and My Girl, 128–30
Mercer, John Herndon “Johnny,” 270–75
meritocracy, 154
Metaxas, Eric, 397–99
Meyers, Nancy, 58–61
Michael, Princess, 219
Microsoft, 1, 200
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 270
Mihdar, Khalid al-, 108
Mikhalkov, Sergei, 267–69
Miles, Sarah, 32
militarization of the police, 91. See also paramilitarization of the bureaucracy
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 390
Millennials, 290
Miller, Arthur, 340
Miller, David, 170
Million Little Pieces, A, 141
Million Mom March, xi, 40–43
minimum wage, the, 290–91, 303
Mirror, The, 189
Miss World, 217
Mitchell, Adrian, 394
Mitchell, William, 6
Modern Family, 304
Moi, Daniel
arap, 157
monarchy, 31, 89, 151–54, 166–74, 176
Monbiot, George, 35, 38
“Monica’s dress” column (Steyn),
Monkees, the, ix–x
Monroe, Marilyn, xvi, 339–44
Montreal, 111, 117, 284, 287–88
Mooney, Chris, 30
“Moon River,” 270–75
Moore, Demi, 306
Moore, Susan, 282–84
Morris, Edmund, 390
Mortenson, Greg, 142, 198–99
Morvai, Krisztina, 259
Moscow, 124, 395
Mosimann, Anton, 67
Mosley, Oswald, 260
mosquitoes, 187–88
Mounties, 69, 102, 229
Mount Rushmore, 88
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 284
“Move Over, Darling,” 334
Mrs. Robinson (character), 336, 341
Mugabe, Robert, 36, 46, 156–57, 159, 294
multiculturalism, 156–58, 199, 229, 232, 255–56, 283–84, 296, 304, 331, 370–73, 378–79
Murdoch, Rupert, 42, 167
Murphy, Ryan, 170
Murrah Building, 179
Murray, Charles, 293, 301
Museveni, Yoweri, 157
Mushuau people, 285–87
Muslim, The, 230
Muslim Brotherhood, the, xviii
Muslim Community Affairs Unit (Los Angeles), 232
Muslims, 138, 212, 283, 355, 405, 413
in Australia, 331
in Canada, 13, 228–32
in Europe, 192, 231–32, 304, 378–79, 383, 386
and the West, 203, 362, 374
women and, 220, 224–32, 316, 362, 364–68, 377, 379
My American Journey (Powell), 160
My Heart, 337
“My Old Kentucky Home,” 235
“My Sharia Amour,” 218, 220–21
N
NAFTA, 100
Napolitano, Janet, 110, 202
Nash, Peggy, 352, 355
National Children’s Bureau, 359
National Day of Pink, the, 352
National Front (France), 258
National Geographic, 9, 11
National Health Service, the (NHS), 304, 403–4
national interest, 197–200
nationalization, xvi, 395
National Mall, the, 87, 89
National Movement for the Salvation of the Fatherland, 259
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 119
National Park Service (NPS), 87–90
National Post, The, xviii, 40, 73, 75, 105, 166, 181, 229, 249, 253–54, 267, 351, 411–12, 417–18
National Public Radio (NPR), 143, 181, 203, 331
National Review, 6, 31, 79, 84, 117, 119, 151, 174, 191, 193–94, 263, 279, 317, 347, 377, 381, 410
National Review Online, 119, 193
National Rifle Association (NRA), 43, 73–74, 92, 183
nation-building, 199, 201
“Nation Once Again, A,” 254–57
Native Americans, 27, 29, 31
Natuashish, 285–86, 288–89
Nazi Germany, 138–39
NBC network, 41–43, 181, 364
“Nelly Was a Lady,” 237
Neville, Stuart, 114
Newfoundland, 10