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abortion, 9, 29, 106, 111, 126, 129–30, 213
Actual Vampire, 156
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (Twain), 212
Afghanistan, 3, 61, 131, 144, 209
Allende, Salvador, 21–22
All the President’s Men, 171–72
American Empire, 26
American Revolution, 53, 135, 161
Animatrix, The, 206
App-hole, 90
Asymmetrical Information, 192–94
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 40, 114
Bal du Moulin de la Galette (Renoir), 217
Ball, John, 254
Bell Curve, The (Murray), 184
Blogger’s Code, The, 197–98
blogs, blogosphere, 10, 81, 133, 160, 178, 180–98, 241
New Blogs and, 188–96
pioneers of, 181–87
Blood Meridian (McCarthy), 215
Blue-Collar Democrat, 84
Bow-Tie Dipshit, 138–40
Buchanan, Pat, 128–31
Buckley, William F., Jr., 104, 108, 117–20
Bush, George H. W., 112, 128–29
conservatism and, 106, 112, 131–33, 138
geopolitics and, 35–37
media and, 182–83, 186–87, 191
camming, 271
conservatism and, 105, 120, 124–25, 127, 152
geopolitics and, 17, 20–21, 25, 29, 31, 39–40, 44
liberalism and, 57, 59, 63–65, 78
work and, 246, 250, 253, 257, 260, 262
Carter, Jimmy, 8
liberalism and, 65–67, 71, 79, 84, 100
Celebrity Dumbass, 86
Chapo KidZone, 243–44
Chesterton, G. K., 115–16
geopolitics and, 25, 30n, 34, 39–40, 42–43
Citizen Kek, 150
liberalism and, 48–49, 60, 64, 76, 101, 126
Civil War, 123–24
liberalism and, 54–55
media and, 162–63
Clay, Henry, 53–54
Cleland, Max, 71
Clinton, Bill, 4, 8–9, 182, 225
conservatism and, 128–31
liberalism and, 67–69, 73, 79, 82
liberalism and, 68–69, 73, 79–80, 82, 92
Collective, The, 114–15
Communists, Communism, 2, 8, 190, 274, 277
conservatism and, 112–13, 122, 125–26, 135
geopolitics and, 16–18, 20–21, 23–29, 39–40
liberalism and, 57, 59, 64–66, 75, 78–80, 98, 168
Compromise of 1850, 54
Compromise of 1877, 55
conservatism and, 111, 126–28, 130
liberalism and, 60, 66, 68, 72–76
conservatives, conservatism, 8, 39, 104–57, 277
intellectual tradition of, 110–23
liberalism and, 48–49, 52, 61–63, 70, 80, 82, 86–88, 92, 105–7, 111, 116, 121, 125–26, 134, 144–46, 150
media and, 9–10, 125–26, 130, 134, 140–46, 173, 183–84, 186, 188
paleocons and, 110–11
taxonomies of, 138–57
in U.S. history, 123–37
Constitution, U.S., 161
conservatism and, 116, 123, 135
content creation, 270
Corporate Feminist, 94
Coughlin, Charles, 167–69
conservatism and, 111, 116–17, 126, 131
liberalism and, 62, 65–66, 116
Crittenden Compromise, 54
culture, 2, 7–8, 10–11, 161, 200–244
conservatism and, 106, 108–9, 112, 116, 125–29, 131, 138
elevator products and, 220–23
film products and, 204–7, 233–35
Gaming and, 236–44
liberalism and, 78, 80, 92, 96, 126, 201–3, 208, 224, 230
literary products and, 210–16, 233–35
painting products and, 216–20
politics and, 16–25, 32–33, 200–203, 210, 214, 224, 226, 228
Sorkin mindset and, 224–30
television products and, 206–10, 225–36
work and, 209, 215, 222, 240, 258, 266, 274
Daily Kos, 186–87
Daughter Defender, 148
Dean, Howard, 71
democracy, 7, 121–22, 180, 256, 276
geopolitics and, 17, 20–22, 29, 40
liberalism and, 9, 49, 57, 59, 76, 88, 100, 121
Democrats, 3–5, 7, 9, 11, 37, 247, 276
conservatism and, 107, 109, 122, 126–27, 135
culture and, 227–30
liberalism and, 5, 49–51, 54–55, 58, 60, 62, 66–67, 70–80, 84–86, 101
media and, 160, 170, 172, 183, 187, 189
Dominican Republic, 18
Dornan, Bob, 130
Dune (Herbert), 214–15
Dylan, Bob, 170
conservatism and, 106–9, 115, 120–21, 124–25, 127–29, 131–32, 142, 156
culture and, 200–201, 203, 209, 213, 229, 233–34, 240
geopolitics and, 15–16, 19–20, 23–28, 30–35, 39–41, 45
liberalism and, 50, 53, 56, 58–59, 63–65, 68, 70, 72–75, 78–79, 98–101, 127
media and, 173–77, 188, 193–95
work and, 246, 248–49, 251, 253–56, 258–68, 270–71, 273–76, 278
conservatism and, 111–12, 116, 119–21, 126, 129, 131–32, 138, 144, 148
liberalism and, 8, 50, 53, 60, 62–63, 72, 90
work and, 249, 256, 258–59, 263, 266–69, 275
Eisenstein, Sergei, 204
conservatism and, 106–9, 111, 120, 124–27, 129–31, 133–36, 154
liberalism and, 49–50, 55, 58, 67, 69–71, 75–80, 86, 101, 127
media and, 170–71, 178, 181–82, 186–87
work and, 249–51
elevator products, 220–23
Epic-Rant Dad, 82
geopolitics and, 15, 25, 30–33, 39, 43
Facebook, 76, 82, 86, 135, 140, 180, 273–74
Falwell, Jerry, 111–12
fascism, 2, 10, 57, 110, 133, 150, 167, 169, 184, 218, 260
Faulkner, William, 213
Flintstone, Fred, 117
Fountainhead, The (Rand), 113–14
Four Darks in Red (Rothko), 219
Fox News, 133, 135, 142, 146, 154, 173, 187
geopolitics and, 15, 18, 21, 34
Franklin, Benjamin, 161
Friedman, Thomas, 40
Garfield (Davis), 216
Gawker, 196
and end of world, 39–44
terms and, 34
and War on Terror, 32–38
geopolitics and, 15–16, 20, 34, 39
Gingrich, Newt, 130
Goldwater, Barry, 125–26
Good, Sarah, 52–53
Gore, Al, 70–71
Great American Novel, The (Fitzgerald), 212–13
Greenspan, Alan, 114–15
Grey Lines with Black, Blue, and Yellow (O’Keeffe), 220
Guernica (Picasso), 218–19
Hayek, Friedrich, 99, 120, 125
health care, 3–4, 6, 24, 104, 274–75
liberalism and, 60, 74, 79, 92–94
Hearst, William Randolph, 164–65
Heritage Foundation, 74, 100, 156
Hiss, Alger, 8
Hitler, Adolf, 6, 88, 128–29, 142, 150, 215, 260
Hofstadter, Richard, 80
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 56–57
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, 120–22
Huffington Post, 177–78
Hussein, Saddam, 38, 71, 132, 173, 181, 194
conservatism and, 128–29, 133–34, 148
Industrial Revolution, 41–42, 257–59
Internet, 2, 68, 140, 160, 174–77, 179, 188, 252, 279
culture and, 233–35
geopolitics and, 17–18, 21–22, 38
conservatism and, 86, 131–33, 144
geopolitics and, 33–38
media and, 173, 181, 183, 185–86, 189–91, 193–95
geopolitics and, 15–16, 18, 34
liberalism and, 58–60
Jobs, Steve, 265–66
Johnson, Lyndon B., 49, 59–65, 170
Jones, Paula, 68
Kennedy, John F., 58–60, 69, 207, 239
Kersey, Paul, 116–17
Keynes, John Maynard, 65, 125, 276
Khan, Humayun, 249
Khrushchev, Nikita, 239
Krugman, Paul, 174–75
law enforcement, 7, 23, 61–62, 65, 71, 92, 138, 258, 267–68
conservatism and, 119, 126, 146, 150
liberalism and, 49, 57, 60, 62, 65–67, 71–72, 78–79, 81, 98, 201
media and, 177, 179, 186–87, 197
Lewis, C. S., 116
Liberal Hawk, 88
liberals, liberalism, 5, 8–11, 48–101, 276–77, 279
conservatism and, 48–49, 52, 61–63, 70, 80, 82, 86–88, 92, 105–7, 111, 116, 121, 125–26, 134, 144–46, 150
culture and, 78, 80, 92, 96, 126, 201–3, 208, 224, 230
media and, 9–10, 70, 80, 88, 134, 144, 168, 183–84, 186–88
neoliberalism and, 98–101, 127, 188, 208, 276
paranoid style of, 80–81
politics and, 9, 31, 37, 43, 55–58, 62–63, 73, 84, 276
taxonomies of, 82–97
in U.S. history, 51–77
conservatism and, 112, 120–22, 125, 127, 140
Lieberman, Joe, 70–71
Limbaugh, Rush, 130
McArdle, Megan (Jane Galt), 110, 191–96
Macron, Emmanuel, 276
Making of the President 1960, The (White), 170–71
Mansfield, Harvey, 107
marketing, 15, 201, 263, 266–67, 274
Marx, Groucho, 114
see also Communists, Communism
Mather, Cotton, 52
conservatism and, 9–10, 125–26, 130, 134, 140–46, 173, 183–84, 186, 188
culture and, 161, 215, 233, 235, 241
and history of journalism, 160–74
liberalism and, 9–10, 70, 80, 88, 134, 144, 168, 183–84, 186–88
politics and, 10, 23, 36, 161–64, 166–68, 170–71, 179–83, 186, 188, 196
social, 23, 140, 175, 228, 241, 264, 272
work and, 165–66, 194, 264, 272
see also blogs, blogosphere
Mee-Maw and Pep-Pep, 154
Middlemarch (Eliot), 211
Milch, David, 232
Missile Command, 239
Moby-Dick (Melville), 210–11
Moral Majority, 111
Mosaddeq, Mohammad, 17–18
Moulitsas, Markos, 187–88
Movie Blob, 96
muckrakers, 164–65
Naked Lunch (Burroughs), 214
Nast, Thomas, 162
Neocon Cuck, 144
Neomeric@, 31
conservatism and, 109, 124, 126–28
liberalism and, 57–58, 63–64, 67, 73
Newsroom, The, 225
New York Times, 71, 81, 107, 110, 173–74, 176
9/11, 260
conservatism and, 112, 131, 144
geopolitics and, 32–35
media and, 183–85, 188–89, 194
liberalism and, 62–63, 65–66, 78
No Country for Old Men, 48, 81
North, Ollie, 130
Norway, 24–25
nuclear weapons, 34, 45, 58, 60, 239
Obama, Barack:
conservatism and, 134–36
culture and, 226–27
media and, 186–87
Objectivism, 114–15
oil, 17–18, 27, 33–35, 38, 43, 70, 142, 214
O’Keeffe, Georgia, 220
Oligarch Monopoly Man, 142
Otis, 221–23
Our Interconnected World (Friedman), 40
Overlook Society, 99–101
Pac-Man, 240
Palin, Sarah, 134
People’s Pulpit, The, 168–69
politics, politicians, 2–11, 277
conservatism and, 39, 105, 109, 111, 118–20, 127
culture and, 16–25, 32–33, 200–203, 210, 214, 224, 226, 228
liberalism and, 9, 49–51, 55, 57–59, 65, 71, 78–80, 86, 92, 96, 98–100, 105, 111, 188, 201–3
media and, 10, 23, 36, 161–64, 166–68, 170–71, 179–83, 186, 188, 196
work and, 18–19, 23, 27–28, 31–32, 246–47, 253, 272
see also geopolitics
Pollack, Kenneth, 191
Pot, Pol, 23–24
poverty, 11, 41, 48, 59–61, 67–68, 106, 116, 194, 257–58, 278
Powell, Lewis F., Jr., 99–100
presidential tweet replier, 272
progressives, 49, 56, 59, 70, 73, 78, 164–65, 186–87, 190, 203
conservatism and, 107, 109, 118–19, 121, 124, 126, 128, 130, 142, 144, 152
liberalism and, 51, 55, 58–64, 69, 78–79, 84, 101, 107, 126
media and, 167, 173, 178, 182–84, 186–87
radio, 15, 27, 111, 132–33, 167–70, 173
Rand, Ayn, 40, 112–15, 125, 191
conservatism and, 104, 127–29, 135, 144
liberalism and, 66–71
conservatism and, 105–7, 110–13, 115–16, 119, 128–29, 131, 134–36, 140–42, 150–56
geopolitics and, 20–22, 34, 38
liberalism and, 51–53, 58–60, 101, 107, 111, 168
media and, 162, 167–69, 183–84, 188
conservatism and, 107–9, 112, 120, 125–31, 133
liberalism and, 48–50, 62, 71, 73, 75–77, 79, 84–86, 101
Rhee, Syngman, 16–17
conservatism and, 104, 106, 108–9, 112, 115, 118–20, 122, 127–28, 130–35, 142, 150
liberalism and, 49–50, 60, 62, 67, 69–70, 78, 81, 86, 96
media and, 177–79, 185, 187, 193, 197
Robertson, Pat, 111–12
Romney, Mitt, 29
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 49, 57–59, 64, 68, 81, 124
Rothbard, Murray, 120
geopolitics and, 22, 26, 28–29, 34
liberalism and, 80–81
Sanders, Bernie, 4–5, 69, 79, 81, 187
Schindler, 223
schlock doctrine, 26
serfdom, 121, 253–54, 256, 271
service industry, 128, 253, 269–70, 274
Simon, David, 232
slaves, slavery, 9, 23, 39, 123, 142, 161
work and, 274–76
Social Security, 9, 48, 58, 133, 146, 226
Sons of Anarchy, 208–10
Sorkin, Aaron, 224–30
geopolitics and, 16, 21–22, 26–27, 30
Sullivan, Andrew, 182, 184–86, 188
Sulzberger, Arthur Ochs, Jr., 173
Supreme Court, U.S.:
liberalism and, 56–57, 66, 71, 78, 99–100
Syria, 61, 76, 88, 176–77, 186
Tapped, 197
Tarantino, Quentin, 224–25
technology, 94
geopolitics and, 20, 37, 44–45
media and, 175, 180, 183, 196–97
work and, 11, 257, 265–66, 275
conservatism and, 131–32, 134, 148
geopolitics and, 22, 32–38, 44
Tetris, 240
Thompson, Hunter S., 171
Thyssenkrupp, 220–21
To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), 213
TradCath Weirdo, 152
Trump, Donald:
conservatism and, 104, 109, 144
culture and, 200–202, 207, 230, 244
liberalism and, 63, 77, 79–82, 86, 92, 279
work and, 249–51
Twitter, 5, 140, 150, 270, 272
liberalism and, 81–82
New Media and, 178–80
Tyler, Wat, 254
unions, 4, 8–9, 124, 127, 166, 250, 276–77
liberalism and, 50, 57–58, 62–63, 67, 74, 78–79, 84, 90, 99
United Kingdom, 115, 119, 128n
politics and, 4–5, 14–17, 27, 30, 34, 39, 43
Vidal, Gore, 119
Videodrome, 201–2
Vietnam, Vietnam War:
geopolitics and, 18–19, 23–24, 35
liberalism and, 49, 58, 60–63, 71, 126
virtual reality (VR), 224, 241–42
Vox.com, 160, 177–78, 188, 190, 196–97
Washington Post, 22, 171–72, 177, 190, 197
Watergate scandal, 66, 126–27, 171–72, 182
liberalism and, 67–69, 99, 101
West, Kanye, 268–69
What’s the Matter with Kansas? (Frank), 106, 109
White Noise (DeLillo), 215
Wolfe, Tom, 171
conservatism and, 106, 110, 112, 128–31, 146–50, 154–56
liberalism and, 48, 51–53, 68, 78, 90–96, 101
work, 3–4, 6, 10–11, 246–76, 278
conservatism and, 106, 123, 127–28, 148
culture and, 209, 215, 222, 240, 258, 266, 274
history of, 251–65
interviews for, 264
jobs you will have and, 269–72
jobs you will never have and, 266–69
liberalism and, 31, 37, 43, 55–58, 62–63, 73, 84, 276
media and, 165–66, 194, 264, 272
politics and, 18–19, 23, 27–28, 31–32, 246–47, 253, 272
as quirky and cool place, 273–75
selling yourself and, 273
World War II, 219
geopolitics and, 14–15, 30, 33–34
work and, 260–62
Yeltsin, Boris, 27–29