Letters to a Young Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don't Understand (20 page)

BOOK: Letters to a Young Progressive: How to Avoid Wasting Your Life Protesting Things You Don't Understand
11.43Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
 
Silent Scream, The
and
 
ultrasound of
 
“unwanted baby” and
 
as women’s issue
 
 
Adams, Bryan
 
affirmative action
 
lowering bar for human achievement and
 
African Americans,
 
college admissions and
 
disproportionate number of abortions of
 
life expectancy of
 
party affiliation and
 
percentage of criminal homicides committed by
 
rising illegitimacy rate among
 
in U.S. population
 
voting trends of
 
white racists and
 
African American Studies
 
Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI)
 
Alcorn, Randy
 
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF)
 
All in the Family
(TV show)
 
American Psychiatric Association (APA)
 
American Revolution
 
anonymous notes
 
atheism, atheists
 
Atlas Shrugged
(Rand)
 
Auburn University
 
B
 
baby boom
 
Bachmann, Michele
 
Bannister, Roger
 
Barnes & Noble
 
Baylor Hospital
 
Beck, Glenn
 
bin Laden, Osama
 
Bohm, Robert
 
“bourgeoisie,”
 
Boyz N the Hood
(film)
 
Breakpoint Radio
 
breast cancer awareness
 
Brind, Joel
 
Brown, Jerry
 
Bryant, Carolyn
 
Bryant, Roy
 
Bush, George W.
 
bystander effect
 
C
 
campus speech codes
 
condescending hypocrisy of
 
capitalism,
 
Ayn Rand on
 
Christianity and
 
equality and
 
socialism or communism versus
 
wealth produced by
 
CBS
 
CCW permits
 
routine activities theory and
 
violent crime reduced by
 
Center for Bioethical Reform
 
Chambers, Chris
 
Chambers, Jeff
 
Chambers, Lisa
 
Chambers, Steve
 
Christian charity,
 
decline in
 
government forced redistributed of wealth versus
 
Christianity, Christians,
 
Ayn Rand and
 
Bernard Nathanson and
 
bigotry against
 
capitalism and
 
charity of. See Christian charity,
 
conservative
 
Jimmy Duke’s return to
 
Mickey Mantle’s conversion to
 
responses of, based upon Bible verses
 
worldview of
 
Civil Rights Movement,
 
campus speech codes and
 
Clinton, Bill
 
collectivism
 
Colson, Chuck
 
communism. See also
 
Marxism; socialism,
 
capitalism versus
 
“The Trees” and
 
Concerned Women for America
 
Congressional Black Caucus
 
conservatives,
 
Christian
 
discrimination against, at UNCW
 
on equality
 
labeled by progressives as “mean,”
 
theory of delinquency of
 
worldview of
 
control theory
 
Cooper, Steven
 
covetousness
 
Covington, Kelvin
 
credit rating, U.S., downgraded
 
crime.
See also
criminal
 
justice system,
 
combating, by convenience store chain
 
defined, according to routine activities theory
 
greatest increase in
 
interpersonal
 
Crime and Everyday Life
(Felson)
 
criminal justice system.
See also
crime,
 
conservative’s theory of delinquency in
 
progressives’ theories of crime and delinquency in
 
studies of, egregious errors in
 
Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPCs)
 
cultural relativism
 
D
 
Daily Kos
 
Darwin, Charles
 
Dead Kennedys, The (band)
 
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)
 
differential association theory
 
discrimination thesis
 
diversity,
 
ideological
 
racial
 
tolerance and, as most often repeated and misunderstood words
 
unholy trinity of
 
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
 
Dukakis, Michael
 
Duke, Jim
 
Duke, Jimmy
 
Duke, Linda
 
Duke, Sandy
 
Dunaway, Greg
 
E
 
Eagle Forum
 
economics,
 
Ayn Rand on
 
capitalism and
 
fascism and
 
Marxist
 
socialism and
 
Ecuador, prison in
 
Ed School Follies
(Kramer)
 
educational philosophy, current
 
“effort justification,”
 
Eighth Amendment
 
Eisenhower, Dwight D.
 
enlightenment thesis
 
equality,
 
conservatives on
 
cultural
 
economic
 
moral
 
in opportunity, equal outcome versus
 
racial
 
strict
 
Equality Forum
 
ethnocentrism
 
F
 
fascism, fascists
 
federal government services, inefficiency in
 
Felson, Marcus
 
feminism, feminists
 
abortion rights supported by
See also
abortions,
 
sex change operations encouraged by
 
Festinger, Leon
 
Fifth Amendment
 
First Amendment
 
Ford, Whitey
 
Fountainhead
,
The
(Rand)
 
Fox News
 
Fox News Live
 
free love movement
 
Furman v. Georgia
 
Furman, Willie
 
G
 
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies
 
gay rights movement
 
Geisler, Norman
 
Genocide Awareness Project (GAP)
 
Genovese, Kitty
 
Georgia Tech
 
government, growth of
 
Great Society
 
Grutter v. Bollinger
 
guns,
 
acquisition of, by author
 
CCW permits and
 
gun control laws and
 
H
 
Hannity and Colmes
 
Hill, Anita
 
Hispanic Studies
 
Hitler, Adolf
 
Holocaust
 
homophobia
 
homosexuality
 
hostile environment harassment
 
hypocrisy
 
I
 
I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist
(Geisler and Turek)
 
incest
 
Internet,
 
disseminating bomb-making instructions on
 
experience with provider of, like spousal abuse
 
interpersonal crime against strangers and
 
interstate highway system
 
Islamic Jihad
 
J
 
Jefferson Place
 
Jim in Bold
(film)
 
Johnson, Lyndon Baines
 
K
 
Kay, Kristen
 
Kelly, Megyn
 
Kennedy, John F.
 
Kennedy, Patrick
 
Kennedy v. Louisiana
 
Kent State University
 
Kiessling, Rebecca
 
“Kill the Poor” (song)
 
Kirk, Russell
 
Kramer, Rita
 

Other books

Between Darkness and Daylight by Gracie C. Mckeever
Being with Her by Amanda Lynn
Monster by Steve Jackson
Murder With Reservations by Elaine Viets
No Way Back: A Novel by Andrew Gross
Death Wave by Ben Bova