And Yet... (49 page)

Stoppard, Tom,
81

Strange Death of Liberal England, The
(Dangerfield),
93

Straw, Jack,
107

Submission
(film),
194

Suez Canal,
100
,
142
,
143
–45,
146
,
202

Suphi, Mustafa,
34

Sykes, Sir Mark,
157

Sykes-Picot Agreement,
156

Syria,
266
,
267

Tale of Mr. Tod, The
(Potter),
150

Tale of Pigling Bland, The
(Potter),
150

Taliban,
105
,
222
,
248

Tammany Hall,
51
–52

Tea Party,
270
–71

Temple of Aphaea,
235

Temple of Poseidon,
236

Tenet, George,
109
,
110
,
256

Tennant, Stephen,
217

Texas,
80
–82

Thanksgiving,
83
–85
,
87

Thatcher, Margaret,
96
,
119
,
253

Theroux, Paul,
Sir Vidia's Shadow,
221

Thompson, Edward,
158

Thousand Days, A
(Schlesinger),
198

Thule Society,
276
–77

Timerman, Jacobo,
166

Titanic,
96

Tomalin, Claire,
The Invisible Woman,
291

totalitarian, use of term,
273

To the Finland Station
(Wilson),
165

Transition
magazine,
164

Trotha, Lothar von,
276

Trotsky, Leon,
10
,
15

Trujillo, Rafael,
8

Truman administration,
27
,
117

“truth commissions,”
4

Tschumi, Bernard,
240

Turgenev, Ivan,
62

Turkey

and Armenia,
261
–64

as bridge between East and West,
30
,
31

and Byzantine Empire,
238

Gallipoli,
36
,
153

and Mesopotamia,
155

national identity of,
35
,
37

Ottoman Empire,
238
,
261

Turlington, Christy,
180
,
181
,
182

Tutwiler, Margaret,
257

Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
(Sebestyen),
141
–46

Tyler, John,
76

Ulysses
(Joyce),
164

United Fruit Company,
9

United Nations (UN)

and Guevara,
13

and Hungary,
141
,
146

and Hussein,
123
,
227
,
256
,
266

and Iran,
248
,
249

and Iraq,
258
–59

“oil for food” program of,
123

and Powell,
249
,
258
–59

United States

Bill of Rights,
105
,
113

Constitution,
105
,
106
,
108

South,
71
–82

as superpower,
141

Van Buren, Martin,
76

Vance, Cyrus,
253

van Gogh, Theo,
194

Vanity Fair,
112
,
218

“Charles Dickens's Inner Child” (February 2012),
291
–97

“The Importance of Being Orwell” (August 2012),
311
–20

“Joan Didion: Blue Nights” (June 2011),
281
–82

“The Lovely Stones” (July 2009),
235
–42

“My Red-State Odyssey” (September 2005),
71
–82

“Ohio's Odd Numbers” (March 2005),
45
–52

“On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part I: Of Vice and Men” (October 2007),
169
–75

“On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part II: Vice and Versa” (December 2007),
177
–83

“On the Limits of Self-improvement, Part III: Mission Accomplished” (September 2008),
185
–91

“Oriana Fallaci and the Art of the Interview” (December 2006),
131
–40

“Power Suits” (April 2006),
105
–13

Vatican

collection of,
241

and Hitler,
309

papal infallibility,
307

Vidal, Gore,
116
,
150
,
201

Dark Green, Bright Red,
8

The Judgment of Paris,
180

Vietnam War,
15
,
40
,
42
,
111
,
117
,
199
,
201
,
258
,
287

Villein, Dominique de,
258

Virgil,
165

von Braun, Wernher,
117

W.
(film),
225
–26

Wałęsa, Lech,
133

Walker, Martin,
The President We Deserve,
54

Wallace, Chris,
137

Wallace, George,
73

Wallace, Henry,
27
,
28
,
116
,
117
,
118
,
120

Wallace, Mike,
136

Wall Street Journal
:

“The True Spirit of Christmas” (December 24, 2011),
283
–89

“The Turkey Has Landed” (November 23, 2005),
83
–85

Walmart,
89

Walt, Stephen,
125

Walters, Barbara,
137
,
244

Warner, Mark,
75

war on drugs,
42

War on Terror,
112

warrantless surveillance,
106
–8,
109
–11

Warsaw Pact,
12
,
144

Washington, George,
44
,
78
,
88

Washington and Lee University,
78

Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting?
(King),
73

Waugh, Evelyn,
81
,
95
,
136
,
149
,
167
,
307
–8

Brideshead Revisited,
168
,
308

The Loved One,
168

waxing technique,
181
–83

Way in the World, A
(Naipaul),
223

Wells, H. G.,
160

White, Pippa,
46

White, Theodore,
198

White Rose resistance circle,
150

“Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” (Wilson),
167

Who Paid the Piper?
(Saunders),
26

“Why I Am a Catholic” (Chesterton),
306

“Why I Write” (Orwell),
311

Wilkerson, Larry,
253

Willey, Kathleen,
213

Williams, Hank, Jr.,
74

Williams, Marjorie,
138

Wilson, A. N.,
After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World,
91
–96

Wilson, A. T.,
156

Wilson, Edmund

“The Dream of H. C. Earwicker,”
164

“A Guide to Finnegans Wake,”
165

Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s
and
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s,
163
–68

To the Finland Station,
165

“Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?,”
167

The Wound and the Bow,
164

Wilson, Sir Henry,
93

Wilson, Woodrow,
34
,
156

Wilson Quarterly, The,
“Bring on the Mud” (Autumn 2004),
39
–44

Winters, Jonathan,
45

Wintringham, Tom,
315

Wolfowitz, Paul,
255

Wolfson, Howard,
216

Woodward, Bob,
257

Bush at War,
255

Plan of Attack,
253
,
255

Woolf, Leonard,
94

Woollcott, Alexander,
163
–64

World Is What It Is, The: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul
(French),
217
–24

World Trade Center, 1993 attack on,
68

World War I,
154

World War II,
95
,
318
–19

Pearl Harbor in,
150

Wound and the Bow, The
(Wilson),
164

Wren, Christopher,
95

Wright, Ann, transl.,
The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America
(Guevara),
1
n

Wright, Rev. Jeremiah,
231
,
233

Wurm, Mathilde,
276

Wycherley, R. E.,
The Stones of Athens,
237

Xanthias of Thrace,
236

Yanovsky, Stepan Dimitriyevich,
291
–92

Year of Magical Thinking, The
(Didion),
281

Yeats, William Butler,
149

yoga stretching,
173

Young, Michael,
313

You Only Live Twice
(Fleming),
98
,
101

Yugoslavia, former,
258

Zaire,
3

Zeitlin, Maurice,
11
,
13

Zetkin, Kostya,
277

Ziegler, Philip,
93

Zilliacus, Konni,
26

Zionist movement,
156
,
157
,
308
,
318
n

Zionist Organization of America,
123

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