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Calvin, John

Cambodia

Cameron, Kim

Campaigns. See Political candidates and leaders

Canada

Cantor, Paul A.

Carbon dioxide

Carnegie, Andrew

Cash, Johnny

Cassidy, Brent

Cassidy, Tyler

Cato Institute

Celebrity

and adoration and worship

and appearance and lifestyle

and Christian Right

and commodity culture

Eggers on

and emptiness and purposelessness in life

and fantasies of fame and success

and foibles and scandals

gossip

hunger for

and implosion

interviews and profiles

and love

Mills on

as mirror

and reality television

reporters

and revenge and triumph

and wealth

and wrestling

See also
Celebrity culture; Corporations: and celebrities as sellers

Celebrity culture

and closeness to celebrities

and commodities

as culture of narcissism

and degradation as entertainment

Deresiewicz on

and escape and fantasy

and exhibitionism

and family

and fictional personas

and frustration and despair

hollowness of

and illusion

and immortality

and inauthenticity

and Internet

and isolation

and junk politics

and magical thinking

manipulation and deceit of

moral nihilism and void of

and personal screenplays

and politicians' artificial intimacy with public

Roth on

and surveillance

and validation

Celebrity Driving School
(television show)

Celebrity
(Rojek)

Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes
(television show)

Celebrity Weakest Link
(television show)

Celebrity Wife Swap
(television show)

Center for Representative Politics

Center for the Advancement of Women

Central Command, U.S.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Chaplin, Charlie

Cheney, Dick

China

Chomsky, Noam

Christian Broadcast Network

Christian Right

Church, Frank

Civil liberties

Claremont Graduate University

Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA)

Class divide

Clinton, Bill

Clinton, Hillary

CNN

Coal

Coast Guard, U.S.

Coca-Cola

Colbert Report
(television show)

Colby (
Survivor
contestant)

Cold War

Colgate University

Collapse
(Diamond)

Columbia University

Comcast Cable

Commission on Presidential Debates

Conrad, Joseph

Consumer price index (CPI)

Conyers, John

Cooper, Marc

Cooperrider, David

Corkrey, Megan

Corkrey, Ryder

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
(Bakan)

The Corporation
(film)

Corporations

bailing out

and celebrities as sellers

and coercive persuasion

and control

and cult of self

and Democratic Party

and education

and false economic statistics

and health care

hijacking and dominance of America by

and illusion

and intelligence

and military spending

and NAFTA

and New Industrial Relations

and outsourcing

and political fund-raising

and pornography

and positive psychology

and psychopaths

and recession

and social responsibility

and surveillance

and worker “uplift” programs

See also
Mass media: and corporations; particular corporations

The Cost of Freedom
(television show)

Coughlin, Father

Cowell, Simon

Cramer, Jim

Crane, Richard Teller

Creationism

Credit cards

Credit Suisse

Crisis Ministry

Cristina (
The Swan
contestant)

Cruise, Tom

CsÃkszentmihÃ¡lyi, MihÃ¡ly

Cult of self

Culture and Anarchy
(Arnold)

Cyrano

Daily Show with Jon Stewart
(television show)

Dalai Lama

Darfur

Darwin, Charles

Dean, James

Debt, U.S.

Defense, Department of, U.S.

Defense Solutions, Inc.

Defense spending. See Military spending, U.S.

DeMille, Cecil B.

Democracy Incorporated
(Wolin)

Democracy Now

Democratic Party

and corporations

and courtiers

and left

and war

and workers

DeMott, Benjamin

Depression

Deregulation

Deresiewicz, William

Devereaux, Tricia

Devil's Film

DeVry University

Dewey, John

Diamond, Jared

Diana, Princess

Dickens, Charles

Diener, Ed

Dines, Gail

DioGuardi, Kara

DIRECTV

Disney

Do Not Resuscitate: Why the Health Insurance Industry Is Dying, and How We Must Replace It
(Geyman)

Donoghue, Frank

Douglas, Stephen A.

Downey, Fred

Drake, Jessica

Drucker, Peter

Dunleavy, W. P.

Dwan, Allan

Dworkin, Andrea

E! True Hollywood Story
(television show)

Economy

and borrowing

contracting

and corporate grip on government

and courtiers in media

and education

and ideology of unlimited growth

and illusion

and job loss(
see also
Job losses)

and military spending

and pursuit of status and wealth

and re-enfranchising workers

recession and crisis

and totalitarianism

and universities

and Wall Street

Eddy, Nelson

Education. See Universities

Education Department, U.S.

Eggers, Dave

Eggers, Toph

Egypt

Einstein, Albert

Eisenhower, Dwight

El Salvador

The Emperor's Tomb
(Roth)

Empire, American

Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.

Environmental regulation

Euripides

Extreme Associates

Exxon Mobil

Facebook

Factor, Max

Fahrenheit 451
(Bradbury)

Fairbanks, Douglas

Faludi, Susan

Fannie Mae

Fascism

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Federal Reserve

FedEx Kinko's

Ferrara, Manuel

50 Cent

Figueroa, Elba

Financial Services Modernization Act (1999)

Finley, Dave

Fire, Jada

FISA bill (2008)

Fitness trainers and gurus

Flags of Our Fathers
(Bradley)

Flow

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
(CsÃkszentmihÃ¡lyi)

Food Research and Action Center

Ford, Henry

Forever Network

Fox News

Freddie Mac

Frederickson, Barbara

Free Lunch
(Johnston)

Freier, Nathan

Freud, Sigmund

Frot-Coutaz, Cecile

Frye, Northrop

Fulbright, J. William

Fuld, Richard (Dick)

Gabler, Neal

Gag Factor
(movie)

Gagnon, Rene

Gaza

Geithner, Timothy

General Electric

General Motors

Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity
(Jensen)

Geyman, John

The Girls Next Door
(television show)

Giroux, Henry

Glass-Steagall Act (1933)

Global warming

Globalization

Golden, Daniel

Goldman Sachs

GonzÃ¡lez, Roberto

Goodman, Amy

Goody, Jade

Gordon, Michael

Gore, Al

Gossip Girl
(television show)

Graceland

Graham, Elyse

Great Depression

The Great Transformation
(Polanyi)

The Greater Good
(magazine)

Greenberg, Maurice R.

Greenhouse gases

Greenwald, Glenn

Grossman, Vasily

GuantÃ¡namo Bay, Cuba

Gulf War

Hackett, James

Halliburton

Hansen, James

Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
(Ben-Shahar)

Happiness

and celebrity

and culture of illusion

and Huxley

and Lane

and positive psychology

and self-deception

Hard Rock Cafe

Hardcore, Max

Hare, Robert

Harmony

Hartley, Nina

Harvard University

Business School

Divinity School

and donors and alumni

and endowment

and entitlement and elitism

Medical School

and positive psychology

and student applications

Have More Money Now
(Layfield)

Hawn, Goldie

Hayes, Ira

Hazlitt, William

Head Start

Health Affairs
(journal)

Health care

and corporations

and Democrats

for-profit

and optimal worker

and poor

and pornography

universal

Heart of Darkness
(Conrad)

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
(Eggers)

Hebdon, Chris

Hedonism

Hefner, Hugh

Heil, Russell Alex

Henry, Mark

Hersh, Seymour

The Hills
(television show)

Hilton, Paris

Hitler, Adolf

Hoggart, Richard

Holly, Buddy

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Holocaust

See also
Nazi Germany

Home foreclosures

Homeless

Honest, Steve

Hooker, Richard

Hornswoggle (wrestler)

The Hot Network

Household wealth

How to Win at College
(Newport)

The Howard Stern Show
(television show)

Human Capitalism
(Ozaki)

Human Comedy
(Balzac)

Humanities Indicators Prototype

Hume, David

Hunger

Hussein, Saddam

Hustler Video Group

Huston, John

Huxley, Aldous

Ignatowski, Ralph (Iggy)

Illiteracy

and academic specialists

and divide with literate minority

epidemic of

and images and slogans in media

and lack of understanding

Illusion

and America

and Auden

and celebrity culture

and Christian Right

and comfort

creators of

culture of

and death of cultures

and economy

and historical amnesia

and illiteracy and language

and love

and pornography

and positive psychology

and pseudo-events

and
Sands of Iwo Jima

and war

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America
(Boorstin)

Immigration

Imperialism

Income inequality

India

Individualism

Inflation

Infrastructure

Inside Higher Education

Institute of Medicine

Interface Corporation

International Monetary Fund

Internet. See Celebrity culture: and Internet; Pornography: and Internet

Internet Filter Review

Interrogations

Irani, Ray

Iraq

and corporations

and journalists

and mercenaries

occupation

War

and withdrawal

The Irony of American History
(Niebuhr)

Israel

J. P. Morgan Chase

Jackson, Randy

Jameson, Jenna

Japan in the Passing Lane: An Insider's Account of Life in a Japanese Auto Factory
(Kamata)

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