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77 Tom Wolfe, “Sorry, but your soul just died,” The Independent, February 2, 1997; available online at http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/sorry-butyour-soul-just-died-1276509.html.
78 Carl Haub, “Birth Rate Trends in Low-Fertility Countries,” Population Reference Bureau, March 2011; available online at http://www.prb.org/Articles/2011/low-fertility-countries-tfr.aspx.
Epilogue
1 Remarks during address to joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, February 24, 2009; available online at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/.
2 John Derbyshire, “February Diary,” National Review Online, March 4, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227002/februarydiary/john-derbyshire.
3 Dillon County Economic Development Partnership, “Demographics,” 2011; available online at http://www.dilloncounty.org/site_consultant/demographics/.
4 Michael Muskal, “‘I am not king’: Obama tells Latino voters he can’t conjure immigration reform alone,” Los Angeles Times, October 25, 2010; available online at http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/25/news/la-pn-obama-immigrationreform-20101026.
5 FOX News, “Goodbye to Bake Sales? Nutrition Bill Subjects School Fundraisers to New Regs,” December 8, 2010; available online at http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/08/goodbye-bake-sales-nutrition-subjects-school-fundraisersnew-regs/.
6 Andrew G. Biggs, “Entitlement Apocalypse,” National Review, March 22, 2010; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/229431/entitlementapocalypse/andrew-g-biggs.
7 N. Gordon and B. Knight, “Spatial Merger Estimator with an Application to School District Consolidation,” Journal of Public Economics, 2009; facts available online at http://www.mpa.unc.edu/students/documents/KevinBryant.pdf.
8 Executive order, 1987; facts available online at http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-5.pdf.
9 Paul Krugman, “Runaway health care costs—we’re #1!,” New York Times, March 28, 2008; available online at http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/runaway-health-care-costs-were-1/.
10 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “Education at a Glance 2009: OECD Indicators,” Indicator B1, 2009; available online at http://www.oecd.org/document/24/0,3343,en_2649_39263238_43586328_1_1_1_37455,00.html.
11 Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses (University of Chicago Press, 2011).
12 Paul A. Rahe, Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press, 2010).
13 Kathryn Jean Lopez, “That Other Hollywood: Cheers!” National Review Online, January 17, 2009; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/192973/other-hollywood-cheers/kathryn-jean-lopez.
14 Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation, “A Word from John Ratzenberger”; available online at http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/word-from-john.cfm.
15 John Derbyshire, “Tinker, Tailor, Bureaucrat, Diversity Consultant,” National Review Online, May 13, 2008; available online at http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/163046/tinker-tailor-bureaucrat-diversity-consultant/john-derbyshire.
16 J. R. McNeill an Paul Kennedy, Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001).
17 Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Foundation, “A Word from John Ratzenberger”; available online at http://www.nutsandboltsfoundation.org/word-from-john.cfm.
18 Elisabeth Rosenthal, “Biggest Obstacle to Global Climate Deal May Be How to Pay for It,” New York Times, October 14, 2009; available online at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15climate.html.
INDEX
A
ABC
Abdulla, King
abortion
Acheson, Dean
Acres
Adams, Sam
addiction
Addonizio, Kim
Adkins, Lucy
adolescence
“adultescence” phenomenon
“affirmative action,”
Affleck, Ben
“after man,”
“age of chivalry,”
“age of empathy,”
Agodon, Kelli Russell
agricultural labor
Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud