American Conservatism: Thinking It, Teaching It

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197 Index Abrams, Elliott, 141 Abu Ghraib, 92 Academic freedom, 71, 97 Accuracy in Media, 66 Acheson, Dean, 159 Adams, John, 153 Adams, John Quincy, 1, 29 Addams, Jane, 43 affirmative action, 164 Alien and Sedition Act, 134 alienation and work, 43–44 Allen, Woody, 126 Allison, Donnetrice, 61 Altman, Robert, 126 American conservatism: academics and, x; ascendancy of, 7; as Burkean, x; course on, 108–15; crisis of, 143–44, 173; and culture war, 9; definition of, 116–17, 148, 174; as elitist, 10, 157–58; and fundamentalism, 9; and ideology, 66–67; and liberalism, 83–86; needs of, 16, 74; and the 1960s, 159–60; and racism, 43–44, 86, 164; and right-wing populism, 158–59; state of, 164–65. See also Burkean conservatism; conservatism; fusionism; libertarianism; neoconservatism; right-wing populism American Enterprise Institute, 74 “American Heroes” seminar, 38 Arendt, Hannah, x, 25, 150, 161, 171; and the American Revolution, 153; and the banality of evil, 125, 152; Origins of Totalitarianism, 151–52 Armitage, Richard, 141 Armstrong, Louis, 122, 126 Atwater, Lee, 170 Bacevich, Andrew, 175 Baehri, Peter, 153 Baker, James, 175 Baltzell, Digby, 129 Barnes, Fred, 14 Bartlett, Bruce, 57 Beame, Abraham, 160 Bell, Daniel, 2, 39, 123, 155–56; on the cultural contradictions of capitalism, 64; and The Public Interest, 162 Bellow, Saul, 123 Bennett, William, 163; teaching about, 65 Bernstein, Leonard, 126 Berry, Chuck, 126 Bloom, Allan: The Closing of the American Mind, 67, 163; as teacher, 97; teaching about, 67–68 Boykin, Jerry, 139 Bradford, M. E., 170 Brando, Marlon, 123 Brinkley, Alan, 150 Brooks, David, 66, 126; influence of, 7; as neoconservative, 141, 165 Brooks, Van Wyck, 121 Brown, Murphy, 53 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 175 Buchanan, Pat, 95 198 American Conservatism: Thinking It, Teaching It Buckley, William F., Jr., 7, 10, 43; on the Iraq War, 57; 1965 NYC mayoralty of, 160; and Peter Viereck, 147; and radical right, 160 Burke, Edmund, 1, 12, 13, 153; on the social contract, 22–23; teaching about, 21–22 Burkean conservatism, 39, 168; and Peter Viereck, 147–48 Burns, Jennifer, 167 Bush, George H. W., 89, 129; administration of, 7, 76, 138–39; and civil rights, 164 Bush, George W., 95, 144; abandonment of, 173; administration of, 103–4, 134; and energy, 139–40; and Iraq, 139–40, 142–43; conservatism and, 12; failures of, 13; foreign policy of, 132, 135; philistinism of, 124, 129; re-election of, 7; second term of, 140–41 Bush doctrine, 138–39 Calhoun, John C., 169 Camelot, 123, 131 Carter, Jimmy, 72 Casals, Pablo, 123 Castro, Fidel, 4, 56 Cato Institute, 8, 75, 168 Chalabi, Ahmed, 14 Chambers, Whittaker, 36–38 Chavez, Hugo, 4 Cheney, Dick, 94–95, 141 Christian Coalition, 68 city on a hill, 130–31; and racism, 135; evangelical version of, 139–40 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 136, 162 Clecak, Peter, 13, 74, 168–69 Clinton, Bill, 7, 42, 85, 104, 129 Clinton, Hillary, 42–43, 65 Club for Growth, 8 “cockroach” capitalism, 6 Colbert, Claudette, 122 Cold War, 39–40; and Castro, 56; hyperbole of, 126; winning of, 130 college: as community, 24–25; conservatives at, 70–71, 101–2; curriculum of, 44–45; nonelite types of, 24 Collins, Robert M., 150 Commentary, 161 Committee for the Free World, 142 Committee on the Present Danger, 64, 142 computer conferencing: and final thoughts, 106–7; on George Wallace, 60; on Goldwater, 54–55; liberal screed on, 35–36; and libertarian ideals, 99–100; and media jocks, 93–94; on neoconservatives, 69; on Ronald Reagan, 82–83; and “war on Christians,” 26–29 Comte, Auguste, 124 Conference on Families, 72 Congress of Cultural Freedom, 161 Connor, Bull, 59 conservatism: meaning of, 7–8; success of, 5. See also American conservatism; Burkean conservatism; fusionism; libertarianism; neoconservatism; right-wing populism containment, 39–40, 128 Copland, Aaron, 126 Coppola, Francis Ford, 126 corporate liberalism, 148 Corzine, Jon, 85 Coulter, Ann, 107, 170; teaching about, 89–91; Treason, 89 counterculture, 2 crime, 65–66 culture war, 9, 105 Daly, Bill, 24 Day of Scholarship, 61–62 DeLay, Tom, 87; K Street Project of, 8, 84, 143 Denning, Michael, 122 Dies, Martin, 128 Diggins, John Patrick, 77 Dissent, 2 Dos Passos, John, 51 Douglas, Ann, 121 DuBois, W. E. B., 86 Dukakis, Michael, 129 Durbin, Dick, 92 Edwards, Jonathan, 134–35 Eichmann, Adolph, 152 Index 199 Einstein, Albert, 123 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 50, 122 Ellington, Duke, 123, 126 Emmons, David...