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Keith, Toby

Kennedy, Randall; Nigger (book)

Kennedy, Robert

Kennedy, Ted

Kerry, John

Kierkegaard, Søren: The Concept of Irony

Kilpatrick, James J.

King, Martin Luther, Jr.; “I Have a Dream” (speech)

Knox College, and Stephen Colbert’s Honorary D.F.A.

Köhler, Wolfgang: Gestalt Psychology

Krugman, Paul

Kunstler, James

Lakoff, George: Don’t Think of an Elephant (book)

language games

Larouche, Lyndon

Lee, Spike

Levin, Janna

liberals

libertarianism

Limbaugh, Rush

Lincoln, Abraham

Lincolnish

linguistic license

Locke, John; Essay Concerning Human Understanding

London School of Economics

Luntz, Frank: Words that Work (book)

Luther, Martin

Lutherans

Lycan, William

MacIntyre, Alasdair: Dependent Rational Animals (book)

Maimonides

Mankiw, Greg

Mansfield, Harvey, Manliness

Marcuse, Herbert, One Dimensional Man

marketplace of ideas

Matrix (film)

McCain, John

McDonalds, and Hamburger U

McGovern, George

meaning; literal versus non-literal

media; consumption, theories of; corporate consolidation of; as excluding parrhesiastic speech; framing in the; as “liberal,”; as presenting itself as truthful

Meet the Press (TV show)

megamerican

mercantilism

Metallica

metaphysics

Methodism

Microsoft

Miers, Harriet

Mill, J.S.

Milton, John

Modern skepticism

Mondale, Walter

Monk, Ray: Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius (book)

Montaigne, Michel de

Moore, Michael

moral doubt; versus moral absolutism

moral obligations produced by special relationships

moral rightness

moral versus epistemic rights

Moralityites (the ancient foes of the Sodomites)

Mormonism

Morris, Gouverneur

Moses

Mugabe, Robert

Muslims, cartoons offensive to, in Jyllands-Posten (Danish newspaper)

n-word, the; Eradicationism; Regulationism; Intentionalism

Nagarjuna

NASA

National Portrait Gallery

Neal, Anne

Nehamas, Alexander; The Art of Living (book)

neologisms

New York Times

News Corp

Nietzsche, Friedrich; On the Genealogy of Morals Thus Spake Zarathustra

9/11

Noddings, Nel

Northwestern University

Norton, Eleanor Holmes

Nugent, Ted

O’Donnell, Rosie

O’Reilly, Bill, “Papa Bear,”; on Inside Edition

The O’Reilly Factor (TV show)

Obama, Barack

objectivity

Olberman, Keith

Old Testament prophets

OPEC

opinion versus commitment to truth

Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Orwellian language

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism (movie)

Palin, Sarah

Panama Canal

paradoxes

Parks, Rosa

parrhesia (fearless speech); Colbert as a promoter of; as critical; the external conditions of; as involving the duty to tell the truth

Paulson, Hank

Pelosi, Nancy

Penn and Teller: Bullshit! (tv show)

PHEAA (Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency)

Phillips, Stone

philosophers

philosophy: as father of all disciplines; versus science

Pilgrims, the

Plame, Valerie

Plato; and “the allegory of the cave”; Apology; his concept of man as a “divine plaything,” ; Euthyphro; Gorgias; history of philosophy as a series of footnotes to; Laws; and metaphysics; Phaedo; Protagoras; Republic; Symposium; theory of Ideas

Political skepticism

politics of cynicism

politics of fear

politics of language; Colbert’s use of

Poniewozik, James

Pope Benedict XVI

Pope John Paul II

post-modernity

Presbyterianism

Preston, James, President of PHEAA

Princeton University

prisoner’s dilemma

privatization; of higher education in America; Socrates against

Prodicus

Protestantism

Pryor, Richard; Pryor Convictions (book)

Psycho

Pulp Fiction

Puritans

Puritans

Pyrrho

Pyrrhonian skepticism

Quakers

R.E.M. (band); Accelerate (album)

race-blindness, see colorblindness

race, tension in Stephen’s attitude toward

Randall, Lisa

Ratzinger, Joseph Alois, see Pope Benedict XVI

Rawls, John

Reagan, Ronald

Red Cross

red herring