Slouching Towards Gomorrah (62 page)

genetic differences, 267

German immigrants, 297, 299

Germany, 222

millenarianism in, 28

Nazi,
see
Nazis

student rebellion in, 17

Gershwin, George, 124

Gershwin, Ira, 124

Gilder, George, 137

Gitlin, Todd, 23, 24

Glassman, James K., 322

Glendon, Mary Ann, 98

Glynn, Patrick, 295

Goldberg, Danny, 131—32

Goldberg, Steven, 211—12

Goldman Sachs, 51—52

Gomez, Carlos F, 189—90

Goodman, Benny, 124

Goodman, Ellen, 219

Goodman, Walter, 128

Goya, Francisco, 216, 217

Graglia, Lino, 114, 318—19

Grammy Awards, 132

Grant, Ulysses S., 255

Gray, John, 200, 320

Great Depression, 8, 22, 36, 88, 336

Great Society, 67

Greece, ancient, 244, 245

Greenberg, Paul. 101

Gregory, Dick, 227

Grenier, Richard, 80n, 86

Gross, Paul R., 265, 268

Grutter
v.
Bollinger,
358—59, 361

Gulf War, 91, 221, 222, 285

gun control, 166—67

Gunther, Gerald, 118

Guttmacher Institute, 180—81

Hackney, Sheldon, 309

Haggard, Merle, 342

Hand, Learned, 118

happiness, pursuit of, 56—65

Harper
v.
Virginia State Board of Elections
(1966), 105

Hart, Gary. 221

Hart, Johnny, 291

Harvard University, 84, 98, 241, 242, 282, 334

Law School, 214

Hasidim, 107n

hate rock, 135

Hawaii, Supreme Court of, 112

Hayden, Tom, 26—27, 30, 87

Hayek, Friedrich, 83, 332—33

Hayes office, 141

health insurance, 322—23

heavy metal, 134—35

hedonism, 8, 11, 34, 51.281

Hefner, Hugh. 138

Heilbrun, Carolyn, 208

Hendin, Herbert, 188, 191

Heritage Foundation, 221

Herrnstein, Richard, 267—68

Hersey, John, 43

Hickey, Adm. Robert, 219—20

Higher Superstition
(Gross and Levitt), 265

Hills, Carla, 200

Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 59, 60, 268

Hippies, 50

Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 90

Hispanics, 107, 212, 299

bilingual education for, 301

multiculturalism and, 302, 304, 309

preferential treatment of, 236, 239—41

Hispanic studies, 208

Hitchcock, James, 280, 292

Hue, Shere, 204—5

Hitler, Adolf, 102, 191

Ho Chi Minh, 19

Hofstadter. Richard. 251, 265

Hollander, Paul, 89, 262, 333

Hollywood,
see
movies

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 101—2, 334

home-schooling movement, 334

homicide,
see
murder

homosexuality, 53, 55, 103—4, 112—14, 298, 325, 363—77

and AIDS, 229

and feminism, 197

and multiculturalism, 304, 309, 311

and popular culture, 127, 129

and religion, 286, 288

sensitivity training about, 216

Horowitz, David, 25, 221

Hot, Sexy and Safer Products, 159

House of Representatives, U.S., 206, 289

Housing and Urban Development. U.S. Department of, 200

Howard, Gerald, 23—24

Hultgreen, Lt. Kara, 219—20

humanism, secular, 276, 295

Humphrey, Hubert, 231

Hussein, Saddam, 91

Iannone, Carol, 196

Ice-T, 125

identity politics, 195

Ideologies of Desire
(book series), 212—13

illegitimacy, 3, 143, 154—64, 170, 276, 340

immigration, 296—302, 311

illegal, 243, 299

inclusive language, 287—89

income tax, progressive, 70—73

Indians, 90, 212, 254, 255, 323

affirmative action for, 223

multiculturalism and, 302, 304, 306—7, 309

individualism, radical, 5—6, 8, 11, 30, 88, 154, 331—32

abortion and, 183

and decline of intellect, 253, 256, 259, 267

historical sources of, 56—65

judicial, 98—105, 110—14, 140

popular culture and, 129, 133, 134, 152

religion and, 273, 281, 292

resistance to, 342

Indonesia, 300

Inevitability of Patriarchy, The
(Goldberg), 211

infanticide, 178, 182, 183

Institute on Religion and Democracy, 206, 284

intellect, decline of, 250—71

intellectual class, 10, 52, 83—95, 321, 328, 334

British, 97

Equal Rights Amendment favored by, 324

and multiculturalism, 303

and popular culture, 133, 134

and religion, 277, 282, 289, 294

Internet, 135—38, 140, 147

Iraq, 91, 221, 222

Irish immigrants, 297, 299

Irish monasteries, 334—35

Iroquois Confederacy, 306—7

Islam, 208, 253, 299—300, 311

Israel

kibbutz movement in, 199, 223

women in armed forces in, 222, 223

Italian immigrants, 297, 299

Italy

fascist, 47, 94

student rebellion in, 17

Izvestia,
247

Jackson, Jesse, 227, 247, 352

Jackson, Michael, 128, 134, 135

Japan

ethical standards in, 276

in World War II, 90—91

Jarrell, Randall, 322

Jay, John, 297

jazz, 124

Jefferson, Thomas, 56—59, 66—67

Jencks, Christopher, 20

Jesuits, 288

Jews, 280

blacks and, 245

discrimination against,
see
anti-Semitism

immigration of, 297, 299

Nazi persecution of, 47

job stability, 322

John Paul II, Pope, 294, 337

Johnson, Lyndon, 20, 67, 233, 243

Johnson, Paul, 28, 164, 246, 295

Jones, Thomas, 44

Jouvenal, Bertrand de, 74, 81

Judaism, 142, 278, 294

Orthodox, 336

Justice Department, U.S., 261

Civil Rights Division of, 236

just wage doctrine. 279

juvenile justice system, 164, 168

Kalven, Harry, Jr., 70—71

Kelly, Michael, 87

Kennedy, Anthony, 214, 349

Kennedy, John F., 226

Kent State University, 44—46

Kerouac, Jack, 1

Kevorkian, Jack, 186

kibbutz movement, 199, 223

Kimball, Roger, 130

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 305

Kirkpatrick, Jeane, 200, 352

Klein, Calvin, 125—26

Knight, Robert, 221

Knippers, Diane, 206

Koertge, Norecta, 195—96, 201, 209, 211

Korean War, 18, 19

Krauthammer, Charles, 3—4, 184—83

Kristol, Elizabeth, 187

Kristol, Irving, 23, 63, 70, 160, 276

Ku Klux Klan, 255

Kurtz, Paul, 270

Kuwait, 91

Kwakiutl Indians, 323

Labor Department, U.S., 88

Labour Party, British, 97

LaFollette, Robert, 118

Landolphi, Suzanne, 159

language

English,
see
English language inclusive, 287—89

Lasch, Christopher, 6, 68, 69, 142, 240, 274, 279

Lawrence
v.
Texas,
364—66, 374

Lawson, Dominic, 246—47

Lee, Robert E., 255

Lee v.
Weisman (
1992), 102

Lefever, Ernest W., 283

Lefkowitz, Mary, 244, 245

legitimacy, crisis of, 109

Lehman, David, 268

Leo, John, 126, 130, 138, 141, 306—7, 353

Lerner, Michael, 87—88

lesbianism, 197, 202, 205, 213—14

religion and, 286, 288

Letter to the Alumni, A
(Hersey), 43

Levi, Edward, 261

Levin, Gerald M., 131

Levitt, Norman, 263, 268

Lewis, C. S., 274—75, 278, 338

Liberal Parents, Radical Children
(Decter), 24

liberation theology, 282

Liberia, 300

libertarians, 150

liberty, rage for, 56—65

Lichter, S. Robert, 24

Limbaugh, Rush, 246—47

Lincoln, Abraham, 318

Lincoln-Douglas debates, 270

Lind, William S., 221

Lipset, Seymour Martin, 92—93

Little, Joyce, 287

Locke, John, 58, 247, 306

logocentrism, 264

Los Angeles ‘limes,
291

Loury, Glenn, 227

MacArthur, Gen. Douglas, 76—77

Machiavelli. Niccolo, 247

MacNamara, Robert, 20

Madison, James, 59

Madonna, 143, 152

Magnate, Myron, 95, 161—62

Maine, Henry, 317

Malaysia, 229

Mali, kingdom of, 253

Malia, Martin, 74—75

Manchester. William, 81

Manent, Pierre, 62, 75

Manhattan Institute, 95

Mankowski, Paul, 288

Mannheim, Karl, 78

Mansa Musa, 253

Maoists, 31

Mapplethorpe, Robert, 146—47, 150, 152

marriage, 29

attacks on institution of. 158, 204

same-sex, 112, 208, 325

Marx, Karl, 44, 281, 294

Maryland, University of, 215

Mason, Jackie, 247

Massachusetts, University of, 242

materialism, 282

matriarchal society, 205

Mayer, Martin, 327

McCarthy, Mary, 80n

McCarthyism, 255, 354

McCartney, Bill, 293

McCorvey, Norma, 208

McGovern, George, 55

Mead, Margaret, 211—12

meaning, politics of, 29, 85—87, 279

Measure,
216

media

religion and, 291—92

see also
television;
specific publications

Medicare, 270

Medved, Michael, 152

Melville, Herman, 212

men’s movement, 293

mentoring programs, 163

Mercer, Johnny, 124

Merit Systems Protection Board, U.S., 234

Methodists, 284

Metro Broadcasting, Inc.
v.
FCC
(1990). 106

Mexican-Americans, 159

Mexicans, 299

Michelangelo, 147

Michigan State University, 245

military, feminization of, 218—23

Mill, John Stuart, 59—61, 64, 97, 98, 153

millenarianism, 27—28

Miller, James, 18, 26n

Miller v. California
(1973), 146, 349—50

Million Man March, 226

Mills, C. Wright, 1, 26

Mills College, 217

minimum wage, 270—71, 279

Minnesota, University of, 217

Minogue, Kenneth, 345, 376—77

minorities

bilingual education for, 301

minimum wage and, 271

preferential treatment of,
see
affirmative action

in universities, 229, 239—48

see also
multiculturalism;
specific groups

Miranda warnings, 104

Moby Dick
(Melville), 212

modernity, failure of, 4

Mongol Empire, 333

Montesquieu, 58

morality, 8, 9, 142, 272—80, 286, 293, 332

egalitarian, 322

revival of public discourse about, 336—38

Moral Sense, The
(Wilson), 275

Morson’s Law, 91, 313

mortgage lending. 237

Motor-Voter Act, 78

Mount Holyoke College, 217

movies, 51, 126—28, 130, 135, 140.143, 144, 157, 159

censorship of, 141

rating system for, 145

Moynihan. Daniel Patrick, 3

MTV. 128, 135

multiculturalism, 53, 253, 267, 298—99, 302—13

murder, 143, 144, 157

of whites by blacks, 246

Murray, Charles, 158, 161, 170—71, 238, 267—68

music, popular, 1, 23—24, 49, 123—26, 128, 129, 131—35, 140, 143—45, 157, 159

Muslims,
see
Islam

Mussolini. Benito, 47

Naked Public Square, The
(Neuhaus), 274

narcissism, 50, 125—26

National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League, 182

National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), 53

National Association of Scholars (NAS), 236—59

National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC), 283, 284

National Council of Social Studies (NCSS), 302

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 130, 150, 203

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 253, 254, 304, 309

National Feminist Exposition, 284

National Guard, 44—46, 170

National History Standards, 253—55

National Institutes of Health, 183

National Liberation Front (NLF), 20

National Organization for Women (NOW), 53, 202, 243, 255

National Political Congress of Black Women, 130—31

National Review,
92, 225

National Rifle Association, 152

National Women’s Studies Association, 212—14

Nation of Islam, 226

native Americans,
see
Indians

Natural Born Killers
(movie), 144

Navy, U.S., 219—22

Nazis, 4, 47, 144, 312

euthanasia by, 191

faith system of, 85

Nebraska, University of, 252

Netherlands, 189—91

Neuhaus, Richard John, 184, 274, 328—29, 336

New Age religions, 273

New Criterion, The,
130

New Deal, 67

New Haven Register,
37

New Left, 24—25, 27, 31—32, 53—55, 263, 342

fascists and. 46—48, 85, 201

feminism and, 193, 200

rejection of rationality by, 264—65

religion and, 282

and Vietnam War, 19, 20

New School for Social Research, 18

New York, State University of, at Buffalo, 270

New York Academy of Sciences, 270

New York State Department of Education, 306

New York Times,
1, 35, 37, 52, 69, 135, 143, 247, 261, 264n, 303, 339, 350

Nicaragua, 283

nihilism, 13, 125—26, 138, 192, 276, 321, 337

feminism and, 202

of student radicals, 33, 50—51

Nine Inch Nails, 123—24, 131—32

Nisbet, Robert, 29, 50, 58, 96, 218, 327, 329

Nixon, Richard, 20, 45

Nixon
v.
Shrink Missouri Government PAC
(2000), 357