Index

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• abolitionists, 4, 250, 340
• abortion, 265, 266, 267, 328, 356, 442, 496
• Abraham Lincoln, USS, 424
• Abrams, Samuel, 512
• Access Hollywood, 450, 451, 454
• AccuWeather, 102
• Acker, Neal, 208–9
• Acosta, Jim, 373
• ACT, 130, 134
• adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), 73
• affirmative action, 27
  • for the rich, 130
• Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), 9, 42, 184, 196, 347, 351, 375, 504
• Afghanistan, 212, 432
• African Americans, 4, 43, 327, 479
  • civil rights movement, 43, 65–67, 171, 234–36, 239, 240, 265, 273, 348, 349, 496
  • colonization schemes for, 364–65
  • convict-leasing system and, 61
  • coronavirus pandemic and, 474
  • evangelical views among, 268
  • fast food and, 78–80
  • health and, 69–80
  • incarceration rates and, 61, 350, 359
  • life expectancy of, 69, 72
  • median household income of, 336
  • Museum of African American History and Culture, 459–60
  • segregation and, see segregation
  • slavery and, see slavery
  • in South, 62–64
  • unemployment among, 344
  • voting and, see voting, voting rights
  • wealth and, 21, 22
  • see also racism
• Age of American Unreason, The (Jacoby), 34
• Agriculture, U.S. Department of, 80
• AIDS and HIV, 13, 17, 258, 274
  • President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 267–68
• Al Assir, Abdul Rahman, 213–14
• Alefantis, James, 109, 110
• Alexander, Claude, 273
• algorithms, 38, 280–86
• Alien and Sedition Acts, 251
• Allen, Danielle, 143
  • “The Road From Serfdom,” 493–508
• Allen, Woody, 179
• allergens, 76
• Alpha Dogs: The Americans Who Turned Political Spin Into a Global Business (Harding), 219
• Alpha Zero, 279
• al-Qaeda, 429
• alt-right, 91–97, 147, 157
• Alvarez, Priscilla, 357
• Amazon, 294, 533
• ambiguity and uncertainty, 327–29
• Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform: The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time (Carson and Roberts), 192–93
• American citizenship, 81–90, 361–67, 508
• American Colonization Society, 365
• American Crossroads, 194
• American Enterprise Institute (AEI), 512
• American Evangelicalism (Hunter), 263
• American exceptionalism, 363
• “American Hustler” (Foer), 201–24
• American Lawyer, 133
• American Renaissance, 93
• American Revolution, 56, 62–63, 308
• Americans for Prosperity, 194
• Americans With Disabilities Act, 130
• America’s Voice, 329
• “Am I an American?” (Kendi), 361–67
• Anderson, Benedict, 520
• anger, 324
• Anglin, Andrew, 95, 96
• anthrax, 321
• antibiotics, 12
• antifa, 243
• Anti-intellectualism in American Life (Hofstadter), 34
• anti-Semitism, 91, 93, 147, 159, 163
• Anton, Michael, 252, 253
• apartheid, 150
• apartheid redistricting, 231
• apocalyptic thinking, 122–23
• Apodaca, Tom, 234
• Appelbaum, Yoni, 241–54
• Applebaum, Anne
  • “Between Bravado and Despair,” 531–35
  • “The Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff,” 315–22
  • “A Warning From Europe,” 143–67
• Apprentice, The, 384
• Arbery, Ahmaud, 473
• Arendt, Hannah, 150
• Argentina, 413
• aristocracy, 166–67
  • new, 19–36
• art, 525–29
• Articles of Confederation, 188
• artificial intelligence (AI), 275–88
  • authoritarianism and, 283–84
  • self-driving cars, 280, 284
• Åslund, Anders, 215, 217
• al-Assad, Bashar, 427
• assortative mating, 25–26
• asthma, 76
• asylum seekers, 87, 89, 298, 357, 385
• Atlantic, The, 4–5
  • founding of, 2, 4, 260, 479
  • “How to Stop a Civil War” issue, 37, 493
  • “The Trump Presidency: A Damage Report” issue, 331
• Atwater, Lee, 210, 211
• authoritarianism, 165, 167, 247, 420
  • artificial intelligence and, 283–84
  • democracy and, 283
  • fascism, 148, 156, 420, 421, 527
  • Trump and, 405–21
• automobile emission targets, 514–15
• Avent, Ryan, 30
• Ayers, Bill, 332
• Azar, Alex, 319

• Baker, James A., III, 208, 213, 233, 378
• Baldwin, James, 353
• Ball, Molly, 323–30
• Ball State University, 513–14
• Baltimore, Md., 70, 72, 73, 75–78
• Baltimore Sun, 77
• Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, Prince, 212
• banks, 499, 503
• Bannon, Steve, 96, 163, 333, 408, 444
• Barber, William J., II, 227–29, 231, 232, 240
• Barna Group, 270
• Barr, William, 385–91, 395
• Barrack, Tom, 222
• Basham, W. Ralph, 86
• “Battle for North Carolina, The” (Newkirk), 225–40
• “Battle Hymn of the Republic” (Howe), 4
• Beautiful Struggle, The: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (Coates), 331
• Beck, Glenn, 410, 465–66
• “Becoming a Parent in the Age of Black Lives Matter” (Smith), 471–76
• Beecher, Lyman, 260
• Behenna, Michael, 433
• Beilenson, Peter L., 78
• “Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health” (Khazan), 69–80
• Bell, Jeff, 208, 209
• Bell, Tom, 214
• Bell Curve, The (Herrnstein and Murray), 335
• Bennett, William J., 344
• Berman, Elizabeth Popp, 499
• “Between Bravado and Despair” (Applebaum), 531–35
• Between the World and Me (Coates), 331
• Bevin, Matt, 447
• Bible, 258, 261, 262, 266, 339, 453, 457
• Biden, Joe, 344, 345, 399, 459
• Bilbo, Theodore, 341
• Bill of Rights, 56, 479, 519
• bin Laden, Osama, 326
• biological warfare, 321
• biotechnology, 276, 277
• birtherism, 111, 156–57, 159, 272, 332, 352, 440
• “Birth of a New American Aristocracy, The” (Stewart), 19–36
• Black, Charlie, 210–12
• Black, Hugo, 267
• Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly, 210–14
• Black Codes, 61
• blackface, 51, 54, 56
• Black Hawk Down (Bowden), 423
• Black Lives Matter, 416, 471–76
• Blackmun, Harry, 267
• Blanchard, Jonathan, 259–60, 266
• Blight, David W., 517–24
• Blitzer, Wolf, 120
• Boggs, Tommy, 209, 211
• Bolduc, Don, 432, 434
• Bond, Julian, 66
• Bon Secours Hospital, 70
• Borusewicz, Bogdan, 153, 155
• Boulware, Kiarra, 69–75, 77, 78, 81
• Bourdain, Anthony, 335
• Bowden, Mark, 423–34
• Bowditch, Manfred, 77
• Bowling Alone (Putnam), 496
• Bray, T. J., 414–15
• breast cancer, 467
• Breitbart News, 96, 163, 455
• Brennan Center for Justice, 289, 292
• Brexit, 277
• bribe-taking, 413
• Brock, David, 179
• Brookings Institution, 40
• “Brotherhood of Losers” (Nagle), 91–97
• Browder, Bill, 371
• Brown, John, 52
• Brown, Michael, 474
• Brown, Peter, 510, 511, 515
• Brown v. Board of Education, 54–55, 65
• Bryan, William Jennings, 262–63, 269, 270
• bureaucracies, 320–22
• Burger King, 79
• Burlingame Treaty, 521
• Burnet, Frank Macfarlane, 12
• Burns, William, 393
• Burr, Richard, 229
• Burson-Marsteller, 214–15
• Bush, George H. W., 17, 192, 211, 213, 214, 299, 386, 513
• Bush, George W., 2–3, 17, 216, 255, 256, 258, 270, 299, 329, 349, 380, 386, 396, 407, 419, 425, 431, 432, 513
  • post-9/11 programs of, 291, 293, 296
  • President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 267–68
• Bush, Jeb, 2
• Bush, Prescott, 192
• Bush, Vannevar, 4
• Buttigieg, Pete, 512–13
• BuzzFeed News, 173
• Byrd, Harry, 55

• Cabaret, 526
• Calhoun, John C., 249, 339
• California, fires in, 101, 102
• cancer, 465–70
• Cantor, Eric, 193
• capitalism, 150, 488
• capital punishment, 328
• Caplan, Amy, 132, 134–35
• Caplan, Gordon, 132–35
• Caputo, Michael, 441
• Carlson, Tucker, 410
• Carney, Jay, 372
• Carrier, 414–15
• “Carry Me Back” (Faust), 51–67
• cars, self-driving, 280, 284
• Carson, Jamie L., 192–93
• Carter, Jimmy, 233, 265, 412
• Carter-Baker Commission, 233
• Catholic Information Center, 388
• Catholic Lawyer, 388
• Catholics, 147, 253, 261, 266, 268, 270, 387–89
• CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), 13, 15, 16, 77, 318, 321
• Center for Public Integrity, 213
• Central America, 86–87, 297, 358, 382, 385
• Central Park Five, 332, 462
• Cernovich, Mike, 94, 95, 109
• Chao, Elaine, 409
• chaos syndrome, 187–89, 201, 497
• charity, breaking of, 37–39, 42
• Charlotte, N.C., 45–48
• Charlottesville rally, 51, 91–92, 95–96, 243, 271, 333, 359, 445–46, 450
• Chauvin, Derek, 473
• Chávez, Hugo, 414
• chess, 278–79
• Chetty, Raj, 26, 32
• Chicago, Ill., 299
• China, 13, 14, 16, 149, 277, 287, 295, 317–19, 327, 430, 460
• Chinese immigration to America, 521–23
• Chorne More, 220
• Christ, 256, 258, 455
  • Second Coming of, 260–62, 269
• Christianity, Christians, 123, 244, 250, 254, 388, 456, 514
  • Bible, 258, 261, 262, 266, 339, 453, 457
  • Catholics, 147, 253, 261, 266, 268, 270, 387–89
  • evangelicals, see evangelicalism, evangelicals
  • evolution and, 261–63, 269–70
  • Protestants, 251, 254, 260, 263, 264
  • sexuality and, 267
• Christie, Chris, 412
• Chu, Helen Y., 317–18
• Chu, Jon M., 527
• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 123
• CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), 487–89
• Cipollone, Pat, 388
• Circa News, 395
• Circus, The, 355
• cities, urban areas, 39, 42, 43, 44, 46–49, 51
• citizenship, 81–90, 361–67, 508
• Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. (USCIS), 88–90
• City of Man: Religion and Politics in a New Era (Gerson and Wehner), 255
• City of Rivals (Grumet), 197
• Civic Platform, 147
• Civil Rights Act, 65, 198
• civil rights movement, 43, 65–67, 171, 198, 234–36, 239, 240, 265, 273, 348, 349, 496
• Civil War, 52–54, 60, 166, 248, 259, 261, 291, 299, 364, 479, 498, 517, 518, 520, 523–24, 532
• Claremont Review of Books, 252
• class divide, 9, 19–36
• Clausewitz, Carl von, 173
• Clay, Henry, 365
• Cleland, Max, 326
• Clifford, Clark, 209
• climate change, 9, 306, 328, 329, 442
  • extreme weather events and, 99–106
  • Paris accord and, 99, 334, 444–45, 514
• Clinton, Bill, 17, 179, 296, 343–44, 347, 387
  • Gingrich and, 181–83, 185
  • impeachment of, 183, 185
  • Lewinsky scandal and, 183
• Clinton, Hillary, 2, 33–34, 39, 44, 213, 223, 286, 336, 343–45, 349, 350, 373, 380, 389, 395, 409, 418, 455, 462
  • conspiracy theories about, 107, 108, 110, 112–14, 118, 121
• CNBC, 408
• CNN, 33, 120, 198, 358, 373, 400, 408, 418, 427, 446
• Coates, Ta-Nehisi, 331–53
• Coats, Dan, 258
• Cohen, Lizabeth, 481–91
• Cohen, Michael, 441
• Cohn, Gary, 444
• Cohn, Norman, 122–23
• Colbert, Stephen, 369
• Cold War, 212, 349
• Cole, Jim, 489
• colleges and universities, 27–29, 31
  • admissions scandal and, 125, 129–41
  • elite prep schools and, 125–30, 139
  • legacy admissions and, 130
  • tests and, 130–31, 134, 140, 141
• Collins, Ben, 114
• Collins, Francis, 273–74
• Collins, Susan, 321
• Colson, Chuck, 265
• Comet Ping Pong and Pizzagate, 108–10, 112, 117, 119, 157
• Comey, James, 389, 395
• Commerce Department, U.S., 296
• Commercial Observer, 441
• Communications Act, 294
• communism, 152, 153, 156, 160–63, 166, 212, 275, 317, 319, 420, 488
• compromise, 506
• Compromise of 1877, 366
• computers, 294
  • algorithms, 38, 280–86
  • artificial intelligence, 275–88
  • chess and, 278–79
• Confederacy, 53, 59–60, 62, 339, 519
• Congress, 177, 178, 180–82, 184, 188, 189, 242, 248–49, 306, 308, 407–10, 412, 414, 426, 505, 507–8
  • emergency powers and, 291–92, 294, 301
  • pork-barrel spending and, 197–98
  • primary elections for, 192
  • seniority in, 195–96, 198
• Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), 487–89
• conservatism, 246–48, 254, 264, 270, 327, 390
  • compassionate, 270
  • uncertainty and, 327–28
• Conservative Opportunity Society, 176
• conspiracy theories and theorists, 9, 18, 91, 93, 110–12, 147, 148, 174, 207, 531
  • appeal of, 160–61
  • birtherism, 111, 156–57, 159, 272, 332, 352, 440
  • coronavirus and, 108, 111, 116–18
  • elites, 349
  • Foster and, 179
  • Obama phones, 346
  • Pizzagate, 108–10, 112, 117, 119, 157
  • QAnon, 107–23, 125
  • Smolensk, 157–60
  • Trump and, 109–11, 115–18, 120–21
• constitution, informal, 143, 498
• Constitution, U.S., 43, 46, 56, 166, 188–89, 235, 364, 380, 381, 396, 406, 411, 493, 495, 496, 518, 519, 524, 533
  • emergency powers and, 291, 298, 300, 301
  • Emoluments Clause of, 414
  • Framers of, 177, 188, 374, 379
  • unitary executive authority and, 386, 388, 389
• Constitutional Amendments:
  • Bill of Rights, 56, 479, 519
  • Fifteenth, 479, 518
  • First, 295
  • Fourteenth, 227, 479, 518
  • Nineteenth, 305
  • Reconstruction, 479, 517, 518
  • Thirteenth, 305, 479, 518
• Constitutional Convention, 52
• Contract with America, 180
• Conway, Kellyanne, 369
• Cook, Ezra, 259
• Cook, Tim, 436, 444
• Cooper, Amy, 474
• Cooper, Christian, 474
• Coppins, McKay, 173–85
• Corak, Miles, 23
• Corcoran, Thomas, 209
• “Coronavirus Called America’s Bluff, The” (Applebaum), 315–22
• coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 5, 9, 11, 19, 315–20, 377, 465, 490
  • African Americans and, 474
  • conspiracy theories and, 108, 111, 116–18
  • Trump and, 4, 11, 17–18, 111, 313, 315, 318–19, 465, 466, 468–70
• corruption, 322, 384, 395, 420, 531, 533
  • bribe-taking, 413
• Coughlin, Charles, 485, 486
• Counting Descent (Smith), 471
• crime, 322, 343, 416
  • fear of, 323–24, 326, 327, 329, 330
  • super-predator theory and, 344
• criminal justice system, 69
  • incarceration rates, 61, 350, 359
• Cromwell, Oliver, 260
• cruelty, 313, 459–63
• “Cruelty Is the Point, The” (Serwer), 459–63
• Cruz, Ted, 183–84, 196, 409, 497
• C-SPAN, 177
• Cuba, 277
• “cucks,” 93, 333
• Customs and Border Protection, U.S. (CBP), 81, 82, 84–88
• Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. (Allen), 493
• cybersecurity, 294
• cyberwarfare, 320, 424
• cynicism, 306, 420

• Daily Stormer, 95, 96
• Daniels, Stormy, 257
• Darrow, Clarence, 263
• Daschle, Tom, 197
• data, 283, 287
• Davis, Jefferson, 339–40
• Davis, Jordan, 474
• Davis, Manafort and Freedman, 215–16, 220–21
• Davis, Rick, 215, 216, 219–21
• Davis Manafort International, 221
• Dawes, Nic, 417
• Dawson, John, 249
• Death of Expertise, The (Nichols), 34
• decision making, 285
• Declaration of Independence, 56, 254, 497, 498
• Deep Blue, 278
• deep state, 107, 111, 115, 118, 425
• defining deviancy down, 99
• democracy, 36, 149, 150, 152, 163, 165–67, 190, 225, 241, 242, 244, 246–52, 254, 298, 379, 396, 406, 417, 497, 507, 535
  • dictatorship and, 283
  • fears and, 328
  • norms and values and, 303–9
  • participation in, 307, 507
  • technology and, 275–88
• Democratic Party, Democrats, 38–41, 43, 44, 46, 48, 51, 110, 163, 164, 177–78, 180, 194, 209, 242–43, 245, 251, 252, 334, 345, 347–48, 350, 362–63, 372, 409, 447, 503
  • conservative, 178
  • evangelicals and, 265
  • Gingrich and, 176–77, 179, 181, 183, 184
  • Justice, 498
  • New Deal and, 485–88
  • primaries of, 192
• demographic change, 244–45, 248, 249, 252, 330
• Demosclerosis: The Silent Killer of American Government (Rauch), 187
• Depression, Great, 307, 481–91, 501
• Deresiewicz, William, 27
• Deripaska, Oleg, 203, 215–17, 219–23
• Deryugina, Tatyana, 102
• Detroit News, 79
• Dewey, John, 485
• Diamond, Dan, 319
• Diaz, Tracy, 116
• Dideon, Joan, 466–67
• Diego-Rosell, Pablo, 335
• diGenova, Joseph, 395–96
• DiIulio, John J., Jr., 344
• Dillon, John Forrest, 47
• diversity, 37, 350–51
• divorce, 26, 31
• Dobson, James, 265, 271, 272
• Dole, Bob, 177, 211
• Dole, Elizabeth, 230
• “Donald Trump and the Politics of Fear” (Ball), 323–30
• Douglas, Paul H., 485
• Douglass, Frederick, 4, 479, 517–24
• Dreams From My Father (Obama), 332
• drug traffickers, 85
• Du Bois, W. E. B., 353
• Dukakis, Michael, 418
• Duke, David, 333, 342
• Dunford, Joseph, 429–30
• Dunne, John R., 388
• Durham, John, 389

• earmarking, 197
• Earnest, Josh, 372
• Easley, Mike, 229
• Eaton, Rosanell, 234–36, 239
• Ebola, 14, 17, 18
• economic issues, 329, 331, 335, 420, 498–503, 533
  • financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008, 106, 148, 219, 220, 344, 499
  • Great Depression, 307, 481–91, 501
  • inequality and social mobility, 9, 19–36, 39, 41, 244, 322, 531
  • median household income, 336
  • prejudice and, 40
  • unemployment, 344, 531
• Economist, 194
• Edison Research, 336
• Educated (Westover), 37
• education, 27–29, 31, 42, 69, 350–51
  • elite prep schools, 125–30, 139
  • see also colleges and universities
• Edwards, Mickey, 180, 184
• Einstein, Albert, 4, 305–6
• Eisenhower, Dwight, 54–55, 65, 299, 300, 307
• elections, 283
  • of 2016, see presidential election of 2016
• Electoral College, 188, 250
• elite conspiracy, 349
• emergency powers, 289–301
• Emerging Democratic Majority, The (Teixeira and Judis), 244–45
• Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2
• emission targets, 514–15
• empathy, 38, 42, 488, 491, 528–29
• “Enemy Within, The” (Mattis), 303–9
• Engel, Steven, 382
• environmentalism, 533
• epidemics, see pandemics
• Era of Good Feelings, 9
• Erdoğan, Recep Tayyip, 419
• Escape From Rome (Scheidel), 510–12
• eugenics, 263, 270
• Europe, 143–67, 174, 247
• European Union, 144, 162
• euthanasia, 266
• evangelicalism, evangelicals, 107–8, 121, 244, 255–74, 375
  • definition of term, 258
  • ethnicity and, 268
  • evolution and, 261–63, 269–70
  • fundamentalism and, 262–63
  • Moore, 274, 451–58
  • popular use of term, 258
  • public voice of, 268–69
  • racism and, 273
  • Republican Party and, 255, 264, 265
  • Trump and, 255–59, 268, 271–74, 358, 451–58
  • voting behaviors of, 268
• Evans, Diana, 198
• Evans, George Henry, 340
• Evans, Walker, 489
• Everett, Burgess, 196
• Evers, Medgar, 350
• evolution, 261–63, 269–70
• Excellent Sheep (Deresiewicz), 27
• Ex parte Milligan, 299
• extreme weather events, see hurricanes and other extreme weather
• extremist groups, 243, 247, 531

• Facebook, 116, 117, 120–22, 243, 281–82, 287, 294, 533
• factionalism, 493–95, 506
• Fairbanks, Cassandra, 94
• Fallows, Deborah, 509
• Fallows, James, 509–15
• Falwell, Jerry, Jr., 255, 257, 271, 272, 454
• Falwell, Jerry, Sr., 265, 266
• Family Research Council, 257
• family values, 355–59
• Farm Security Administration (FSA), 489
• fascism, 148, 156, 420, 421, 527
  • see also authoritarianism
• fast food, 78–80
• Fauci, Anthony, 11, 15, 17, 117–18, 318
• Faulkner, William, 64
• Faust, Drew Gilpin, 51–67, 69
• FBI, 107, 112, 221, 300, 351, 378, 381, 387, 392, 395
  • college admissions scandal and, 125, 132, 134, 140–41
  • Manafort and, 203
• fear, 323–30, 331
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), 101–3, 300
• Federal Housing Administration, 76
• federalism, 44
• Federalist Papers, 407
• Federalists, 251
• Federalist Society, 390
• Federal Reserve, 103, 503
• Federal Theater Project, 489
• Feltenstein, Sidney, 79
• Ferraro, Geraldine, 265
• Fiddler on the Roof, 527
• Fidesz, 150, 164
• Field of Blood, The: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Freeman), 248–49
• Figyelő, 162
• financial crisis and Great Recession of 2008, 106, 148, 219, 220, 344, 499
• Financial Times, 164
• Finish, The: The Killing of Osama bin Laden (Bowden), 423
• Finley, Robert, 365
• Finney, Charles G., 260
• fires in California, 101, 102
• First Amendment, 295
• “First White President, The” (Coates), 331–53
• Fitzhugh, George, 338–39
• Five, 410
• flag burning, 416
• Flake, Jeff, 409, 461
• Flanagan, Caitlin
  • “The Last Day of My Old Life,” 465–70
  • “They Had It Coming,” 125–41
• Fleischer, Ari, 419
• Floodlines, 226
• Floyd, George, 471–76, 532
• flu, 12–18, 321
  • 1918 pandemic, 12, 13, 17
• Flynn, Michael, 389, 432
• Foa, Roberto Stefan, 507
• Focus on the Family, 265
• Foer, Franklin, 201–24
• food, 78–80, 531
• Food and Drug Administration, 318
• Ford, Christine Blasey, 460–61
• Ford, Gerald, 208, 209, 418
• Foreign Agents Registration Act, 212
• foreign policy, 321
• Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 365
• Fortas, Abe, 209
• Fortune, 414
• Foster, Vince, 179
• Founders, 56, 57, 188, 189, 304–6, 308, 377, 504, 505
• 4chan, 94, 96, 109, 110, 113–15, 121–22
• Fourteenth Amendment, 227
• Fox News, 107, 111, 243, 266, 351, 373, 395–96, 409–10, 426, 461
• Framers, 177, 188, 374, 379
• France, 149, 329
• Frantz, Erica, 420
• Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Blight), 517
• Freedom Caucus, 195
• Freedom of Information Act, 300
• Freeman, Douglas Southall, 62
• Freeman, Joanne, 248–49
• Frieden, Tom, 16
• Friedman, Milton, 502, 506
• Frug, Gerald, 47
• Frum, David, 405–21
• Fugitive Slave Act, 249–50
• fundamentalism, 262–63
• Fundamentalism and American Culture (Marsden), 261
• Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (Wagner), 355

• Gadarian, Shana, 328, 329
• Galbraith, John Kenneth, 485
• Galen, Reed, 324
• Gallagher, Edward, 433
• Gallup, 327, 335
• Gannon, Curtis, 380
• Garber, Megan, 369–75
• Garner, Eric, 473, 474
• Garrison, William Lloyd, 365
• Garverick, Pat, 325
• Gated City, The (Avent), 30
• Gates, Bill, 14
• Gates, Rick, 202, 203, 219, 220
• Gatsby Curve, 24, 32, 35, 36
• gay rights and LGBT issues, 45, 227, 267, 274, 328
  • marriage equality, 267, 274, 356
• Gazeta Wyborcza, 154
• GDP, 40, 103–6, 490
• “General Chaos” (Bowden), 423–34
• Genovese, Eugene, 59
• gentrification, 527
• German Dye Trust, 212
• Germany, 164, 276
  • coronavirus and, 319–20
  • Nazi, 150, 155, 161, 212, 383–84, 394, 526
  • in 1930s, 248
• gerrymandering, redistricting, 171, 193, 225, 230–32, 237, 245, 359, 505
• Gerson, Michael, 255–74
• Gessen, Masha, 419
• Giannulli, Mossimo, 136–37
• Giannulli, Olivia Jade, 136–37
• Gibbons, Edward, 511
• Gibbs, Robert, 372
• Giddings, Joshua, 249
• Gingles test, 232
• Gingrich, Callista, 174
• Gingrich, Newt, 171, 173–85, 195, 410–11, 419
  • Clinton and, 181–83, 185
  • “Contract with America” of, 180
  • government shutdowns and, 182, 184
  • personal life of, 185
• Girl Land (Flanagan), 125
• Giuliani, Rudy, 394–97, 399
• Glazer, Nathan, 265
• globalization, 13, 39, 243, 330, 344, 500
• Goitein, Elizabeth, 289–301
• Goldberg, Jeffrey, 1–5, 37–42
• Golden, Daniel, 27
• Goldsmith, Jack, 386
• Goldwater, Barry, 184, 207
• Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 54
• Goodrich, Lauren, 216
• Google, 279, 284, 287, 294, 533
• GOPAC, 178, 179
• Gore, Al, 17, 418, 442, 514
• Goss, Janina, 151
• government failure, 511–12
• government shutdowns, 182, 184, 198, 438
• Graham, Billy, 263–65
• Graham, David A., 43–49
• Graham, Franklin, 257, 263, 269, 271–72, 274
• Gramm, Phil, 210
• Grant, Ulysses S., 365
• Grassroots Change, 44
• Gray, Freddie, 474
• Gray, Tyler, 71
• Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority Coalitions in Congress (Evans), 198
• Great Awakening, 108, 111, 119, 123
• Great Depression, 307, 481–91, 501
• Great Gatsby Curve, 24, 32, 35, 36
• Great Recession of 2008, 106, 148, 219, 220, 344, 499
• Great Reversal, 262
• Greece, 165–66
• Greeley, Horace, 340
• Green, Emma, 451–58
• green cards, 88, 89
• Griffin, Philip, 211, 217, 219
• Grisham, Stephanie, 448
• Gulag: A History (Applebaum), 143
• Gulf War, 430

• habeas corpus, 291, 300
• Haberman, Maggie, 370, 372
• Hale, David, 395–403
• Haley, Nikki, 449
• Halleck, Charles, 198
• Hamilton, 494, 525, 527
• Hamilton, Alexander, 374
• Hannity, Sean, 181, 395–97, 409–10, 418
• Hansen, Alvin, 484
• Harari, Yuval Noah, 275–88
• Harding, James, 219
• Harger, Pat, 119–21
• Harlow, Bryce, 209
• Harper’s Bazaar, 442
• Hatchett, Richard, 16–17
• Haugen, Gary, 273
• Hawley, Ellis W., 483
• Hayek, Friedrich A., 500–502, 504, 506
• Healing American Democracy: Going Local (Hais, Ross, and Winograd), 514
• health and health care, 9, 34, 42, 69, 266, 306, 316, 320, 321, 328, 334, 350, 372, 531
  • African Americans and, 69–80
  • cancer, 465–70
  • HealthierUS initiative, 349
  • life expectancy, 69, 72
  • Obamacare, 9, 42, 184, 196, 347, 351, 375, 504
  • pandemics, see pandemics
  • Romneycare, 351
• Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of, 319
• Heck, Denny, 402–3
• Helms, Jesse, 210, 239
• Hemings, Sally, 58
• Henderson, Rebecca, 103
• Hennessey, Susan, 385
• Henry, Carl, 263
• Herbst, John, 218
• Herceptin, 467, 468
• Heroic Conservatism: Why Republicans Need to Embrace America’s Ideals (And Why They Deserve to Fail If They Don’t) (Gerson), 255
• Heyer, Heather, 92
• Hezbollah, 429
• Hill, 395, 396, 399
• Hilton, Paris, 440
• Hispanics and Latinos, 21, 22, 230, 231, 239, 252, 268, 343, 348
• Hitler, Adolf, 150
• HIV/AIDS, 13, 17, 258, 274
  • President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), 267–68
• Hodge, Douglas, 136
• Hodgkinson, James, 243
• Hofeller, Thomas, 237
• Hofstadter, Richard, 34
• Hollywood Hills Country Club, 126
• Holocaust, 146, 147
• Hóman, Bálint, 163
• Homeland Security, U.S. Department of, 85, 300, 460
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (Harari), 275
• Honolulu Civil Beat, 111
• Hoover, Herbert, 483
• Hoover Dam, 112
• House of Terror, 161
• housing, 30–31, 69, 344
  • discrimination in, 76–78
  • home values, 30, 33–34
• “How America Ends” (Appelbaum), 241
• “How Could Vietnam Happen? An Autopsy” (Thomson), 383
• Howe, Julia Ward, 4
• How the Word Is Passed (Smith), 471–73
• How to Be an Antiracist (Kendi), 361
• “How to Build an Autocracy” (Frum), 405–21
• “How to Destroy a Government” (Packer), 377–403
• Hsiang, Solomon, 105, 106
• Hsieh, Chang-Tai, 30
• Hudes, Quiara Alegría, 526
• Huê´ 1968 (Bowden), 423
• Huffman, Felicity, 133, 140–41
• Hughes, Langston, 366
• Hungary, 150, 152, 157, 160–65, 297–98
• Hunter, James Davison, 263
• Huntsman, Abby, 447
• hurricanes and other extreme weather, 99–106
  • Hurricane Harvey, 100–101, 103, 104, 106
  • Hurricane Irma, 100
  • Hurricane Katrina, 226, 299
  • Hurricane Maria, 99–101, 104, 358, 461
• Hurvitz, Sara, 468
• Hybels, Bill, 455–56

• IBM, 278, 437
• I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (Yong), 11–12
• identity politics, 92, 341, 345–47
• Immense World, An (Yong), 12
• immigration, immigrants, 45, 81–90, 244, 248, 251, 253–54, 261, 266, 306, 329–30, 350, 442, 523, 526, 528–29
  • asylum seekers, 87, 89, 298, 357, 385
  • from Central America, 86–87, 297, 358, 385
  • from China, 521–23
  • from Mexico, 81–90, 91
  • Republican Party and, 355–59
  • separation of families, 355–57, 460–62
  • Trump and, 87, 89, 159, 245, 250, 272, 286, 289, 297, 313, 323, 324, 327, 329, 332, 334, 355–59, 459–63, 528
  • Trump’s wall plan and, 91, 286, 289, 329, 355, 438, 442
  • undocumented, 81–90, 298, 382, 406
  • voting by, 251
• Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. (ICE), 89, 356
• Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. (INS), 81, 83–85
• “In Case of Emergency” (Goitein), 289–301
• incarceration rates, 61, 350, 359
• indenture, 337–38
• India, 14
• Industrial Revolution, 534
• influenza, 12–18, 321
  • 1918 pandemic, 12, 13, 17
• informal constitution, 143, 498
• information technology, 276–77
• information warfare, 320
• Infowars, 110
• Inglesby, Tom, 17
• Inglis, Bob, 410
• Ingraham, Laura, 396
• “Inside Ivanka’s Dreamworld” (Plott), 435–50
• Inspector General, 386
• instability, 36
• Institute for Policy Studies, 22
• institutions, 308, 322
• Insurrection Act, 298–99
• intergenerational earnings elasticity (IGE), 23–24
• International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), 295–98
• internet and social media, 9, 38, 91, 111, 171, 244, 284, 294, 322, 419, 514
  • alt-right and, 91–97
  • conspiracy theories on, 107–23
  • Facebook, 116, 117, 120–22, 243, 281–82, 287, 294, 533
  • 4chan, 94, 96, 109, 110, 113–15, 121–22
  • Reddit, 93, 107, 110, 112, 116
  • TikTok, 116
  • Trump and, 294–95
  • Twitter, 94, 109, 111, 116, 155, 242, 294, 419, 424, 426, 428, 455
  • YouTube, 109, 116, 119–20
• “In the Fall of Rome, Good News for America” (Fallows), 509–15
• In the Heights, 525–28
• Iran, 295, 296, 424–26, 428–29
• Iran-Contra scandal, 213, 387
• Iraq, 293, 427, 429–33
• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe (Applebaum), 143
• ISIS, 426–27, 429, 433
• Israel, 1, 281–82

• Jackson, Andrew, 3, 189, 338, 352
• Jackson, Jesse, 347
• Jackson, Robert, 289–90, 293, 301
• Jacoby, Susan, 34
• Jama, Garad, 297
• Japan, 413–14
  • Meiji Restoration in, 322, 534
  • Pearl Harbor attack by, 307, 313
  • Perry expedition and, 316–17, 320, 322
• Japanese Americans, 289, 291, 293
• Jefferson, Thomas, 56, 58, 306, 338, 352, 364, 510
• Jeffress, Robert, 257, 271
• Jeremiah, David, 257
• Jernigan, Daniel, 15
• Jews, 148, 253, 254, 257, 261, 332, 383–84
  • anti-Semitism and, 91, 93, 147, 159, 163, 383–85
  • Holocaust and, 146, 147
• Jim Crow, 61, 62, 65, 226, 228, 234, 236, 239, 307, 366, 523
• jobs, disappearance of, 344, 531
• Johns Hopkins Hospital, 70
• Johnson, Andrew, 365
• Johnson, Lyndon B., 2, 198, 228, 383
• Johnson, Samuel, 56
• Jones, Alex, 109, 110, 410
• Jones, Dave, 101
• Jones, Doug, 268
• Jones, Elizabeth, 393
• Jost, John, 328
• Jou, Chin, 79
• Journal of Democracy, 507
• Judd, Keith, 349
• Judge, Mark, 461
• Judis, John, 244–45
• Julian, Percy, 350
• Justice Department, U.S., 46, 118, 125, 224, 233, 300–301, 377, 380–92, 411

• Kaczyński, Jarosław, 146, 151–52, 154, 158–59
• Kaczyński, Lech, 157–60
• Kaepernick, Colin, 359
• Kail, Thomas, 526
• Kalyvas, Stathis, 165
• Kasich, John, 1
• Kasparov, Garry, 278
• Katyal, Neal, 386
• Katyn, 157–58
• Kavanaugh, Brett, 460–61
• Keller, Helen, 4
• Keller, Tim, 258, 273
• Kelly, John F., 432, 446, 447
• Kelly, Megyn, 409–10, 419
• Kelly, Peter, 210–11, 213
• Kemp, Jack, 211
• Kendall-Taylor, Andrea, 420
• Kendi, Ibram X., 361–67
• Kennedy, John F., 383, 430
• Kennedy, John F., Jr., 121
• Kennedy, Ted, 329
• Kent, George, 397–402
• Kerner Commission, 366
• Kerry, John, 418
• Keynes, John Maynard, 485, 501, 503
• KFC, 79
• KGB, 215
• Khashoggi, Adnan, 213
• Khashoggi, Jamal, 446
• Khazan, Olga, 69–80
• Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 216
• Kilimnik, Konstantin, 223
• Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right (Nagle), 91
• Kim Jong Un, 425, 430
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 65–66, 254, 264, 337, 341, 350
  • “Letter From a Birmingham Jail,” 4–5
• King, Rodney, 299
• Klain, Ron, 18
• Koch brothers, 194
• Koestler, Arthur, 156
• Korean War, 291, 292
• Korematsu v. United States, 289–90, 293
• Krastev, Ivan, 163
• Kristof, Nicholas, 345–47, 349
• Kristol, Bill, 180
• Krueger, Alan, 20, 23–24
• Ku Klux Klan, 51, 54, 251, 333, 342, 365, 459
• Kurski, Jacek, 153–56
• Kurski, Jarosław, 153–54
• Kushner, Jared, 1–3, 27, 257, 416, 438–39, 441, 444, 446–49
• Kuwait, 430