16
Scott Atran, “Discover Dialogue: Anthropologist Scott Atran,”
Discover
, October 2003; available at:
http://discovermagazine.com/2003/ oct/featdialogue
[accessed September 16, 2010]. See also, Scott Atran, “Understanding How the Priveleged Become Violent Fanatics,”
The Huffington Post
, May 7, 2010; available at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-atran/how-to-even-the-privelege_b_568489.html
[accessed September 28, 2010].
17
Quoted in Joe Lieberman, “Democrats and Our Enemies,”
Wall Street Journal
, May 21, 2008.
CHAPTER 16
2
Ben Stein, “The Long and Short of It at Goldman Sachs,”
New York Times
, December 2, 2007; available at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/business/02every.html
[accessed September 16, 2010]. See also, “How Goldman profited by the subprime meltdown,” MSN Money, December 17, 2007; available at:
http://articles.moneycentral. msn.com/Investing/Extra/HowGoldmanProfitedFromSubprimeMeltdown.aspx
[accessed September 23, 2010]; and Kate Kelly, “How Goldman Won Big on Mortgage Meltdown,”
Wall Street Journal
, December 14, 2007; available at:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119759714037228585.html
[accessed September 23, 2010].
9
Alexis de Tocqueville, “Religion Considered as a Political Institution Which Powerfully Contributes to the Maintenance of a Democratic Republic among the Americans,” chapter XVII,
Democracy in America
; chapter available at:
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[accessed September 16, 2010].
10
Michael Ledeen,
Tocqueville on American Character: Why Tocqueville’s Brilliant Exploration of the American Spirit Is as Vital and Important Today as It Was Nearly Two Hundred Years Ago
(Truman Talley Books, 2000).
11
Samuel P. Huntington,
Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity
(New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004), 20.
12
Quoted in “Review: Community without Politics,”
Harvard Law Review
, February 1989, p. 913.
15
Quoted in J. Clifford Wallace, “Resolving Judicial Corruption While Preserving Judicial Independence: Comparative Perspectives,”
California Western International Law Journal
, Spring 1998.
INDEX
1984
A
Adams, John
Affluent Society, The
Air Force One
Ali, Muhammad
American Dream, the
American Federation of Teachers
Anderson, Curt
apartheid system
Atlantic Monthly
B
Balanced Budget Amendment
Barbour, Haley
Barkley, Charles
Bartlett, Bruce
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Bayh, Evan
Bell, Ashley
Besh, John
Better Government Association
Bhagavad Gita
big government
Blade Dynamics
Blanco, Kathleen
“Bloody Monday,”
Boston Children’s Hospital
Boudreaux’s Butt Paste
Braddock, James J.
Brady Bunch, The
Brady, Bobby
Brave New World
Brin, Sergey
British healthcare
Brooks, Arthur C.
Brooks, David
Brouillette, Dan
Brown University
Brown, Michael
Buckley, William F.
bureaucracy
Bush, George W.
response to Hurricane Katrina and
C
Cameron Parish
Camp Reznikoff
Canadian doctor shortage
Carter, Jimmy
Center for Public Integrity
Centers for Disease Control
charter school system
Chavez, Cesar
Chavez, Hugo
Churchill, Winston
Cinderella Man
Clark, Russell G.
Clinton, Bill
coal
College Democrats
Congress
business and
corruption of
“do-nothing” Congress
members of
passage of bills
Conrad, Kent
Continental Congress
Craig, Larry
Crowe, Russell
C-SPAN
Cuba
Cunningham, Duke
D
Dallas Cowboys
Dartmouth Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences (CECS)
Dartmouth College
Daulat, George
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Declaration of Independence
Deep South
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Democracy in America
Department of Education
Department of Health and Hospitals
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Diablo Canyon plant
Dingell, John
Dorgan, Byron
Downer, Hunt
Duhon, Kellie
Duke, David
Dworkin, Ronald
Dynamic Fuels
E
Eastwood, Clint
education
Edwards, Edwin
Edwards, John
Ehrlich, Paul
Emanuel, Rahm
“Embedding of Economic Pressures and Gender Ideals in Postsocialist International Matchmaking, The,”
End of Affluence, The
energy
English as national language
Ensign, John
Erath, Louisiana
Europe
European Union
Executive Order
F
FAA
Fair Employment Act
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)
Ferguson, Michael
Foley, Mark
Folse, John
Ford Motor Company
Ford, Gerald
Foster, Mike
Founding Fathers
Fox News
Franklin, Benjamin
freedom
Friedman, Milton
Fugate, Craig
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth
Geismar, Louisiana
General Cornwallis
Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, The
Google
Gorky, Maxim
Great Depression
Great Society
Grove, Andrew
H
Hayek, F. A.
Hazelwood, Blaise
healthcare
Hinkie, Todd
Hitler, Adolf
Hoosiers
Hopkins, Harry
House Ways and Means Committee
Hudson County Relief Agency
Hurricane Gustav
Hurricane Ike
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Rita
Huxley, Aldous
I
immigration
American culture and
border fence and
English language and
employers of illegal immigrants
illegal immigration
legal immigration
safety of Americans and
skilled immigrants
unskilled immigrants
welfare and
Immigration Reform and Control Act
In Search of Excellence
“Integrity Index,”
J
Jefferson Parish
Jefferson, Bill
Jefferson, Thomas
Jepp, Karen
Jindal, Amar
Jindal, Bobby
as assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
birth of
as “Bobby,”
at Brown University
car accident of
Catholic faith of
children of
as congressman
conversion to Christianity
dating Supriya
Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster
education and
as executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
first campaign for governor
fundraising efforts of
as governor
as head of University of Louisiana system
Hindu background
Hurricane Katrina
immigrant parents
Indian heritage
as Louisianian
as LSU Tiger fan
at Oxford
as Piyush
pro-life views of
Republican response to President
Obama’s first speech to Congress, February 2009,
as Rhodes Scholar
at Runnels
as Secretary if Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
staff of
Jindal, Nikesh
Jindal, Raj
Jindal, Selia
Jindal, Shaan
Jindal, Supriya
Johns Hopkins
K
Kennedy School of Government
Kennedy, David
Kennedy, Robert
Kennedy, Rory
Khanpur, India
Khosla, Vinod
Kimenyi, Mwangi
King George III,
Ku Klux Klan
L
Lakefront Airport
Lee, Harry
Lincoln, Abraham
Lindgren, James
lobbyists
Long, Earl
Long, Huey (the “Kingfish”)
Louis Armstrong International Airport
Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
Louisiana political corruption
Louisiana Progress
Louisiana Sheriff’s Association
Louisiana State University (LSU)
M
Massa, Eric
Mavinkurve, Sanjay
McCain, John
McDonnell, Bob
McGovern, George
McGreevey, Jim
McKean, Thomas
McKinsey
Meals Ready to Eat (MREs)
Medicaid
Medicare
Mexico
Minuteman Project
Miz Blanche
Mondale, Walter
Monroe, Louisiana
Morris, Gouvernour
Morris, Lewis
N
Nagin, Ray
National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare
National Guard
National Health Services (NHS)
National Weather Service
Nationality Act of 1906,
Nationality Act of 1940,
natural gas
Nelson, Thomas, Jr.
New Orleans
New Orleans Parish School Board
New York Times
Ney, Bob
Nobel Prize
Northwestern University School of Law
Nossiter, Adam
nuclear power
O
O’Neill, Tip
Obama, Barack,
big government and
campaign promises and
defense and
education and
energy policy and
internationalism and
Obamacare and
response to Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster
Obamacare
offshore drilling
Oklahoma Christian Center
Orfield, Gary
Orwell, George
Oxford University
P
Part-time Congress
Pelosi, Nancy
Perry, Rick
Peters, Tom
Population Bomb, The