The Pity Party (43 page)

Tomasky, Michael, 158

totalitarianism

    
and government supplanting of markets, 197–98

    
as “remedy” for modernity, 17–18, 29

transportation, Watson on lack of need for, 172

Trilling, Lionel, 205–6

Twain, Mark, 33

United Kingdom, social welfare recipients in, 70–71

Up from Liberalism
(Buckley), 198

Uzbekistan, per capital GDP of, 36

“veil of ignorance,” standards of justice and, 11, 109

victimhood

    
of blacks, white guilt and, 100–111

    
development of culture of, 94–100

    
social and political aspects of, 122–37

victim impact statements, 130–31

Vidal, Gore, 47

Vital Center, The
(Schlesinger), 29

Waldman, Paul, 8–9, 24, 35, 37–38

Walters, Barbara, 137

Warren, Earl, 95

Watson, Paul, 170–72

Waugh, Evelyn, 240–41

Ways, Max, 32

Wealth of Nations, The
(Smith), 45–46

welfare state.
See
social welfare programs

“We Take Care of Our Own” (song), 76

wetlands.
See
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

What Eight Million Women Want
(Dorr), 89

Wheatcroft, Geoffrey, 223

White, Byron, 174

Wieseltier, Leon, 215

Williams, Corey, 113–15

“Wilson, Betsy” (fictional American), story of, 8–9, 35, 37–38

Wilson, Woodrow, 50

wind power, 167–68, 172

Winfrey, Oprah, 129–30, 146

Winship, Scott, 128

Wolfe, Alan, 141–42, 216–17

Wolfe, Tom, 213

Woodstock Ethic, 33

World Top Incomes Database, 127

Yglesias, Matthew, 58, 119–20

Zimmerman, George, 111–12

Zinn, Howard, 48–49

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