The Undocumented Mark Steyn (55 page)

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF),
75
,
97

Alexander, Lamar,
xiii

Algosaibi, Ghazi,
405–8

Almaleki, Noor,
225–26

al-Qaeda,
183
,
187
,
190
,
203
,
210–12
,
263
,
283–84

Alzheimer’s disease,
318

Amazing Grace
(Metaxas),
397–99

Amazon (company),
290–91

America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
(Steyn),
x
,
315

America, American.
See also
United States, U.S
.

      
bureaucracy of,
105–8
,
119

      
coffee culture of,
6–8

      
constitutional rights in,
363–64

      
crime rates in,
69–72

      
culture of,
xv–xvi
,
19
,
28–30
,
43
,
79–83
,
143
,
235
,
251
,
256
,
264
,
266
,
271
,
302–3
,
312
,
366
,
368
,
391
,
410

      
decline of,
19
,
46
,
144
,
410

      
demographics of,
26
,
43
,
280
,
291–92
,
294–97
,
302
,
313
,
315
,
385–86

      
differences with other countries,
79–82
,
112
,
118–19

      
drones and,
202–4

      
economy of,
44–47
,
261

      
financial policies of,
118

      
as former British colony,
158
,
160–61
,
397

      
founding of,
151

      
hegemony of,
10–11
,
196–97
,
246–47

      
immigration in,
xi
,
105–8
,
143
,
160–65
,
315

      
liberal criticism of,
135
,
180
,
184–85
,
187
,
189–90
,
213
,
225
,
247–48

      
media in,
40–43
,
153
,
207
,
224
,
264–65
,
394

      
military engagements of,
194–201
,
203–4
,
209–13
,
242

      
police power in,
91–102

      
politicians in,
xiv
,
33–34
,
88
,
143
,
152
,
154
,
170–73
,
389–92
,
414

      
race relations in,
161–64

      
relationship with other countries,
44
,
46–47
,
167
,
189–90
,
193
,
205–8
,
330–31
,
415

      
Steyn as immigrant in,
xvii
,
10
,
409

      
theatre in,
128–33

      
World War II and,
10–11

American College of Surgeons,
348–49

American Dream,
164
,
297

American Spectator, The
,
2
,
6
,
67

Amiel, Barbara,
406

Amman,
209
,
212
,
379

Amor, Roy,
358–60

“Ana wa Laila,”
254

Anglicanism, Anglicans,
162
,
228
,
301–2

Anglo-French settlement of 1922,
210

Anwar, Jawed,
230
,
232

Apted, Michael,
398

Aravamudan, Gita,
316

Archbishop of Canterbury,
301–2

Arnold, Thomas,
351
,
355

Assads, the,
151
,
193

Associated Press (AP),
181

Ataka (“Attack” political party),
259

Atlantic, The
,
xi
,
328

Attenborough, David,
329

Audacity of Hope, The
,
408

Austin Powers
,
7

Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery
,
63

Australia,
9
,
14
,
54
,
80
,
90
,
198
,
297
,
302
,
370
,
372–74

      
media in,
67

      
relationship with America,
330–31

      
relationship with Britain,
158
,
166–69

      
Steyn and,
xvii
,
11–12
,
332
,
403

Australian, The
,
xviii
,
328

Australia Zoo, the,
328
,
332

Austrian Freedom Party,
258
,
260

“Autumn Leaves,”
373

Awlaki, Abdulrahman al-,
202–3

Awlaki, Anwar al-,
202–3

Axworthy, Lloyd,
181
,
185

B

Baath,
211
,
247
,
373

“Baby, It’s Cold Outside,”
xviii

Baez, Joan,
263

Baghdad,
53
,
212
,
385

Baghdad International Airport,
413

Baldwin, Alec,
411

Baldwin, Thomas,
318

Bandar, Prince,
406

Barack on Broadway
,
171

Barbie,
xi
,
223–27

Barfield, Deborah,
181

Barlow, Tony,
310

Barnum, P. T.,
324

Barre, VT,
xi
,
81–82

Barry, Marion,
162
,
164

Barrymore, Drew,
33–34

Bart, Lionel,
55

Battle of the Atlantic,
11

Bauer, Gary,
xiii

BBC,
x
,
6
,
36
,

      
news,
x
,
36
,
116
,
181–82
,
187
,
247
,
360
,
379
,
412

      
television programs,
6
,
109
,
135
,
151
,
329
,
334
,
357
,
360
,
377

BBC2,
129
,
136

BBC World Service,
253–56

Beach Boys, the,
251
,
337

“Beautiful Dreamer,”
238–39

Beckel, Bob,
294
,
296

Belafonte, Harry,
163

Belgium, Belgians,
12
,
37
,
100
,
138
,
158
,
190
,
206
,
244–46
,
258
,
262
,
297
,
414

“Believe,”
254

Bell, Alexander Graham,
6

Belloc, Hilaire,
197

Benghazi,
206–8
,
378

Bennett, Catherine,
154

Bergman, Ingrid,
x
,
312

Berlin, Germany,
12
,
132
,
224
,
361
,
390

Berlin, Irving,
164
,
235–36
,
245
,
270
,
391

Berlin Wall, the,
390–91

Best, Shirley,
68

Beverly Hills,
170

Bezos, Jeff,
290–93

Bhutan, Bhutanese,
403–4

Biden, Joseph,
27
,
29

Big Government,
19
,
26
,
79
,
81
,
144
,
293
,
297
,
304

Bingham, Mark,
180

bin Laden, Osama,
172
,
180
,
192
,
198
,
208
,
406

Birmingham, John,
410

black flies,
186

Blair, Tim,
33
,
176
,
224

Blair, Tony,
67
,
107
,
115
,
154
,
157
,
169
,
193
,
280
,
285
,
307
,
415

Blanchett, Cate,
32–33

Blazing Cat Fur,
230

Bloomberg, Michael,
210

Bloomberg News,
86

“Blues in the Night,”
271

Blunt, James,
279
,
281

Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
,
8

Bobrow, Martin,
318

Boehner, John,
47

Bolivia,
12

Bond, James,
123–27
,
244

Booker, David,
358

Book of Spies, The
,
125

Boreman, Linda.
See
Lovelace, Linda

Boston Globe, The
,
98
,
181
,
314

Boston Herald, The
,
27

Bradley, James,
93
,
95–96

Bragg, Melvyn,
135–37

Breyer, Stephen,
363–67

Britain, British,
34
,
105
,
190
,
293

      
biological experiments in,
317–19

      
crime rates in,
67–72

      
criticisms of,
136–40
,
154
,
157
,
254

      
cultural differences with the U.S.,
23
,
79–80
,
96
,
132–33
,
161–63
,
189–90
,
198–99
,
280

      
culture of,
23
,
84
,
86
,
130–33
,
157
,
310–12
,
357–61
,
372
,
403

      
demography of,
231
,
378–80

      
economy of,
xvi
,
92

      
empire of,
10–11
,
141
,
157–58
,
160–65
,
195
,
199
,
209
,
256
,
265
,
302
,
398

      
European Union and,
258–62

      
Margaret Thatcher’s legacy in,
393–96

      
media of,
35
,
106
,
153
,
175
,
223
,
369

      
military engagements of,
180

      
politicians of,
xiv
,
40
,
102
,
112
,
135
,
389