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/ 271 Index Adams, John, 79, 138 n. 32, 253 Amnesty (for immigrants), 175 Aristotle, 63, 74 n. 11, 123, 244 Autonomy: of the family, 59; personal, 130; political, 173 n. 45 Aznar, Jose Maria, 16 Bancroft, George, 81 Bill of Rights, 61 Blair, Tony, 16, 46 Boot, Max, 31 Buchanan, Pat, 30 Budget de‹cits, 68, 99–100, 220, 224 Bureaucracy, 246, 247 Burke, Edmund, 78, 81, 108 Bush, George H. W., 104 Bush, George W., 21, 23, 24, 29–35, 41, 46–48, 97, 98–100, 101–13, 185, 193, 195 Capitalism, 34, 217 Center for Immigration Studies, 176 Chavez, Hugo, 29, 50 Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 176 Chomsky, Noam, 29, 30, 38, 50 Christianity, 123, 198, 203, 193–214, 246 Churchill, Winston, 49, 81, 95 Civil rights, 61, 91, 96, 140, 149, 153, 194, 257 Clinton, Bill, 12, 32, 100, 103, 105, 108, 194 Cold War, 29, 30, 38, 96 Communism, 17, 22, 27, 85, 90, 97, 105 Compact: civil, 122, 125, 136 n. 18; social, 119; voluntary, 122, 124, 125 Comte, Auguste, 78, 82, 94 n. 13 Condorcet, Marquis de, 82, 95 n. 23 Congress, 79, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 109–12, 164, 174, 175, 186, 202, 256, 257, 259, 265 n. 16 Congressional Budget Of‹ce, 41, 143 Conservatism, 96–114, 139 n. 40, 244, 248 Constitutionalism, 59, 63, 64, 69, 76, 112, 166 n. 1 Consumption, 135 n. 6, 235 Continental Congress, 79, 251 Courts, 46, 59, 73, 96, 97, 109–12, 130, 181, 194, 199, 201, 206–7, 209, 256, 257 Crime, 133, 139 n. 43, 186, 206–7, 209 Dahl, Robert, 61 Darwin, Charles, 82, 83 Debt, 41–43, 50, 217–37 Declaration of Independence, 75, 140, 199 Delay, Tom, 98, 99 Dewey, John, 61, 83, 89, 204 Dignity, 129, 131–32 Dobbs, Lou, 180 D’Souza, Dinesh, 31 Economic inequality, 140–73, 182–83, 189 Economic Policy Institute, 187 Economic self-interest, 180, 182 Education, 36, 37, 41, 60, 89, 119, 125, 127, 129, 144, 145, 147, 149–52, 155, 156, 176, 193, 204, 205, 206, 207, 221, 257 Elections, 97, 98, 187, 205, 256 Elites, 36, 37, 76, 88, 90, 119, 174–76, 179–81, 184–89, 256, 257, 265 Enlightenment, 35, 208, 240 Environment, 149, 158, 160, 163, 164, 256, 257 European Union, 18, 22 Evangelical Christians, 194–95, 197, 200, 201, 204–8 Executive, 46, 57, 109–12, 252, 256, 258, 261 Family, 59, 68–71, 117–39, 144, 178, 240–41. See also Marriage Faux, Jeff, 187 Federalist Papers, 59, 60, 146–47, 264 nn. 2, 3, 265 nn. 6, 7. See also Founders Filmer, Robert, 123 Foreign policy, 15–54, 103–10, 177, 252 Founders, 82–83, 86, 92, 111, 121, 128, 250–54, 258–59 Free rider/collective action problem, 158, 201 Freud, Sigmund, 34 Fukuyama, Francis, 46, 88 Gay marriage, 131, 193, 201, 208–9 GDP, 41–42, 144, 178, 226, 228 Gilder, George, 133 Goldwater, Barry, 96 Gross domestic product. See GDP Habermas, Jürgen, 61, 75, 77 Hasset, Kevin, 174 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 81, 82, 239 Higham, John, 181 Historicism, 85–88 Hobbes, Thomas, 63 Hobsbawm, Eric, 31 Holocaust, 22 Human rights, 31, 103, 188, 209, 242 Hutcheson, Francis, 66 Ignatieff, Michael, 31, 41 Immigration, 60, 118, 174–92, 196–97, 205 Imperialism, 29–54 Individual rights, 61–64, 196, 204 Individualism, 63, 120, 166–67 n. 1, 196 Inequality, 60, 121 Intolerance, 19, 181, 193. See also Tolerance Iran, 15, 20, 26, 45, 50, 107, 108 Iraq war, 15–54, 104–8, 265–66 n. 16 Jefferson, Thomas, 67, 70, 80, 82, 91, 103, 111, 138 n. 32 Johnson, Chalmers, 30, 53 n. 52, 265 n.15 Johnson, Lyndon, 97, 106 Judical activism, 112 Kant, Immanuel, 129–30 Kaplan, Robert, 31 Keynes, John Maynard, 99–100, 101, 219 King, Martin Luther, Jr., 194 Kissinger, Henry, 21 Kolko, Joyce, 30 Krauthammer, Charles, 31 Labor market, 168 n. 10, 177, 179–80, 182–86, 187 Labor unions, 149, 160, 164–65, 195 Lakoff, George, 132, 139 n. 40 Law(s) of nature. See Natural law Leadership, 96, 175, 189, 249–65 Legitimacy, 19, 44–46 Liberalism, 57–73 Liberals. See Progressives/Liberals Limited government, 58–60, 62–73, 130 Lincoln, Abraham, 77, 79, 82, 111, 140 Lobbying, 16, 161–63, 257, 258, 263. See also Organized interests/Special interests Locke, John, 66–67, 70, 81, 121–31, 136 n. 199 Luther, Martin, 98 Machiavelli, Niccolo, 240–47 Madison, James, 60, 67...

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