Empire of Illusion (37 page)

Thrill, Jeff

Tiberius

Tillerson, Rex

Tina (
Survivor
contestant)

TMZ
(television show)

Tocqueville Between Two Worlds
(Wolin)

Today
(television show)

Totalitarianism

Town & Country
(magazine)

Toyota

Transformational Positivity

Traylor, Ray (Big Boss Man)

Treasury, U.S.

Trenton, New Jersey

Trilling, Lionel

Tweed, Jack

Twight, Charlotte

Twitter

Undertaker, the (wrestler)

Unemployment

See also
Job losses

Unilever

United Auto Workers

United Nations

Universities

and America's decline

and assault against humanities

and corporations

and critical thinking

and deference to authority

and diversity

and donors, alumni, and fund-raising

and entitlement and elitism

and evil and crimes against humanity

for-profit

and
How to Win at College

and intelligence

and military-industrial-academic complex

and professors

and specialization and jargon

and standardized tests

and student activism

and working class

See also
specific universities

The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex
(Giroux)

The Unsettling of America
(Berry)

U.S. News & World Report
(magazine)

The Uses of Literacy
(Hoggart)

Valentino, Rudolph

Vasquez, Anthony

VegasGirls

Viacom

Vietnam War

Volkoff, Nikolai

(Boris Breznikoff )

Wagoner, Rick

Wall Street

bailing out

and cult of self

fortunes

and jargon

and journalists

speculators

titans

Walters, Barbara

War

and Cassandras

and illusion

and intelligence

and love

and military spending

as movie

and popular culture

and Wolin

See also
Afghanistan; Iraq: War; Second World War; Vietnam War

Warhol, Andy

Washington, University of

Wattleton, Faye

Wayne, John

Weber, Max

Weimar Germany

Welch, Mary

Weldon, Felix de

Welfare

Wellesley College

White, David

White, Jonathan

White, William H.

Wicked Pictures

Wight, Paul

See also
Big Show

Williams, Dolores

Williams, John

Wilson, Al

Wilson, Torrie

Winfrey, Oprah

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wolin, Sheldon S.

Woolhandler, Stephanie

World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)

World Wrestling Federation

Wrestling

and authority

as choreographed rituals and acts of retribution

and clans

and communism and racial stereotypes

and hidden cameras

and referees

and shifting identities

and social breakdown

and women

Yale University

and big questions

and children of alumni

and endowment

and entitlement and elitism

Yeats, William Butler

Yella

Yugoslavia

Z, Dr.

Zinn, Howard

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hedges, Chris.
Empire of illusion :
the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle / Chris Hedges.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-0-786-74955-3

1. Mass media—United States. 2. Popular culture—United States.
1. Title.
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