Death of the Liberal Class - Chris Hedges [133]
Lasswell, Harold
Lawson, John Howard
Le Bon, Gustave
League of Nations
Leary, Timothy
Lebanon
Lee, Ching Kwan
Left wing
Berrigan on
and identity politics and multiculturalism
ideological vacuum on
insignificance of
and radical current in theater
See also Communists; Marxists; New Left; Radicals; Socialism and socialists
Lenin
Leno, Jay
Lewis, Anthony, 1565
Lewis, Sinclair
Liberal class
abandonment, purging, and death of
and anger and sense of betrayal of people
and anticommunism
and capitalism
and children and education
and Chomsky
as conscience of nation
and corporate power
and decline of religious institutions
and Democratic Party
and economic mobility and careerism
and environment
and expelling apostates from liberal institutions
and fear
and globalization
and hollow political theater
and hypermasculinity
and imperialism
and indifference to economic despair
and inverted totalitarianism
and Iraq and Afghanistan wars
and Islamic militancy
and King
and mass propaganda
and material comfort
moral bankruptcy of
and mythic narrative of America
and Nader
and New Deal
and Nixon’s illegalities
and objectivity
and permanent war
and power and the state
and progress and utopia
and racial difference and racism
and radicals
and reform and law
and resistance, revolt, and rebels
and self-expression and paganism
and sound bites and popular appeal
and Vietnam War
and war’s brutal reality
and World War I,
See also Arts and artists; Church; Liberals; Mass culture; Media; Power elite; Unions, labor; Universities
Liberal institutions
See also specific institutions
Liberalism
bankrupt
classical
collapse of
and communism
discarding principle tenets of
and hypermasculinity
and Israel
modern
myth of democratic
and World War I’s aftermath
Liberals
betrayal of liberal principles by
and economic despair
muzzling of
policing their own
retreat and lack of protest by
See also Liberal class
Limbaugh, Rush
Lippmann, Walter
Lipton, Lawrence
Locke, John
Loeb, Philip
Loehr, Davidson
London, Jack
Macdonald, Dwight
and entertainment
and 1960s,
and permanent war
and sound bites and easily digested ideas
and urban centers
and World War I,
MacLeish, Archibald
Magee, Alan
Magical thinking
Malcolm X,
Malina, Judith
Malpede, Karen
Manhattan Institute
Manufacturing
Mao Zedong
Mark, Ruben
Marlowe, Christopher
Marx, Karl
Marxists
Mass culture
and arts
and Chomsky
consumer and commercial
and journalism
and left
and liberal class
rise of
and World War I,
Mass propaganda
and Bernays
and corporations
and critics
and defiance
and emotion
and fear
first modern machine for
following World War I,
and Iraq
and liberal class
and psychology and Freud
and radical current in theater
and Russia
tying communists to German war machine
and World War I,
Maurin, Peter
McCain, John
McCarthy, Eugene
McCarthy, Joseph
McGill, Doug
McGovern, George
McKibben, Bill
Meany, George
Media
alternative and underground
and art
and Catholic Worker
and Chomsky
and concentration and commercialization
and corporations
and financial system
and good journalism
impact of radicals and alternative publications on
and impartiality and objectivity
and Iraq
and liberal class
and moral outrage and passion
and music
and Nader
in 1960s and 1970s,
and permanent war
and public’s conformity, aspirations, and idealized identities
and sound bites
talk radio, reality television, and trash-talk programs
and truth versus news
and World War I,
See also Journalism and journalists; specific publications
Merton, Thomas
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Middle East
Militarization
Military spending, U.S.
Mill, John