The Devil's Pleasure Palace (36 page)

Felix culpa
(Fortunate Fall),
35

Fence, Chesterton's parable of,
86–87
,
103
,
104–105
,
146

Ferguson, Missouri,
54

Fidelio
(Beethoven),
85

First Amendment,
69
,
111
,
134
,
165

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich,
29

Flying Dutchman
(Wagner),
10
,
12
,
85
,
103

Forbidden Planet
(film),
92

Foreman, Carl,
131

Four Last Songs
(Strauss),
21

Francis, pope,
1
,
183

Frankfurt School, generally,
1–2
,
16
,
18
; founders and philosophy of,
23
,
42–49
,
82
; promise versus reality of,
95–96

Freedom of speech,
7
,
19
; First Amendment,
69
,
111
,
134
,
165
; political correctness and,
68–69
; pornography and,
165–167

Free will,
27
,
138
,
160
,
170
; and fallen humans' superiority to angels,
19
,
22
; God's gift of,
6–7
; knowledge of Good and Evil and,
35

Freischütz, Der
(Weber),
11
,
12
,
53
,
103

Freudianism,
44
,
57
,
72
,
81
,
92
,
143

Fromm, Erich,
42
,
81–82
,
96

Function of the Orgasm, The
(Reich),
143–145

Fundamental transformation of U.S., as goal of Left,
4
,
32
,
58
,
60
,
62
,
155
,
190
,
192
,
205
; use of language and compromise,
175–181

Furet, François,
40

Gender, as Marxist tool,
193–194

General Will, of Rousseau,
135
,
139

Genesis, Book of,
7
,
17–30
,
91–92

Geyer, Ludwig,
124

Ginsberg, Allen,
77

Gladstone, William,
108
,
117
,
167–169

God: gift of free will,
6–7
; principles established by,
179–180
; qualities of,
157–158

Godfather
(film),
31–32
,
113

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,
11
,
53
.
See also
Faust
(Goethe)

Goethe University,
43
,
105

Goldberg Variations
(Bach),
127–128

Goldman, David,
125–126

Good-Bye to All That
(Graves),
201

Gopnik, Adam,
192

Gordon, George “Chinese,”
108
,
167–169
,
208

Gordon, Thomas,
68

Goya, Francisco,
53–54

Gramsci, Antonio,
16
,
23
,
61
,
70
,
88
,
106
,
165
,
184
,
189
,
206

Grass, Günther,
178

Graves, Robert von Ranke,
201
,
208

Gulf War,
177

Haeckel, Ernst,
13

Hamlet
(Shakespeare),
36

Hans Heiling
(Marschner),
12

Hanson, Victor Davis,
54

Hayek, Friedrich,
133

Hellman, Lillian,
180

Hemmings, David,
129–130

Henze, Hans Werner,
75

Heroism,
5–6
,
26
; America's need for,
190–195
; as concept outside of literature and entertainment,
178–179
; Good versus Evil and action required of hero,
31–37
; and lack of need for the state,
141–142
; light and darkness and,
104
; quests and,
14–16
; self-sacrifice and,
9–14
,
104
,
108
; versions of,
140–141

Hero with a Thousand Faces, The
(Campbell),
14–15
,
31
,
102–103
,
131

Heydrich, Reinhard,
124

High Noon
(film),
77
,
131
,
140
,
142
,
191

Hitchens, Christopher,
145

Hitler, Adolf,
43
,
54–56
,
71
,
124
,
189
.
See also
National Socialism

Hoffer, Eric,
44

Hoover, Herbert,
35

Horkheimer, Max,
42–43
,
88

How the Irish Became White
(Ignatiev),
154

Huxley, T.H.,
48

I Am Charlotte Simmons
(Wolfe),
86

Ignatiev, Noel,
154

Immigration,
87
,
95
,
153–155
,
199

Immigration and Nationality Act (1965),
87
,
154

Independence Day
(film),
50–51
,
191

Innovation, decline in American,
204–205

Institut für Sozialforschung
,
43
,
44

Intellectuals
(Johnson),
82–83
,
133–134

Iraq,
95
,
104
,
106
,
177

Islamic extremism,
37
,
47
,
94–96
,
103–104
,
109
,
113
,
169
,
175
,
177

“January 22nd, Missolonghi” (Byron),
55

Jensen, Robert,
153–154

Jesus Christ: crucifixion of,
107–108
; defeat of Satan,
127
; descent into Hell,
65–66
; as self-sacrificing hero,
5–6
; three-act structure of passion of,
15

Johnson, Paul,
82–83
,
133–134
,
135

Junge Lord, Der
(Henze),
75

Kafka, Franz,
140–141

Kampf
(fight or struggle): of Left,
2–4
,
17–30

Kennedy, Edward,
87
,
104–105
,
154
,
202–203
,
206

Kennedy, John F.,
107
,
154
,
171
,
199–200

Kennedy, Joseph P.,
154

Khartoum,
108–109
,
167–169

King, Martin Luther Jr.,
52

Kitchener, Horatio Herbert,
108–109
,
208

Korean War,
104
,
176

Kotzebue, August von,
9–10

Krupskaya, Nadezhda,
84

Kunstwerk der Zukunft, Das
(Wagner),
84

Ky
j
Incident (1945),
176

Language and vocabulary, used to deceive,
6
,
20–21
,
56–57
,
157–159
,
175–181
,
205
.
See also
Political correctness

Last of the Mohicans, The
(film),
159

Lenin, V.I.,
25
,
113
,
135
.
See also
Marxism-Leninism

Lessing, Doris,
101–102

Lessing, Gottfried,
101

Lewis, C.S.,
103
,
159

Lewis, Sinclair,
198

Lies.
See
Deception and lies

Lies, Passions, and Illusions
(Furet),
40

Light and darkness, struggle between,
91–110
; Enlightenment and,
96–99
; heroic spirit and,
103–104
; militant Islam and,
94–96
; nihilism's hold on human imagination,
91–110
; power of myth and legend,
102–103
;
rache
(revenge) and,
105–106
; Western guilt and lack of cultural confidence,
99–102
,
104–110

Lincoln, Abraham,
161
,
186

Lind, William S.,
165

Liszt, Franz,
63
,
85
,
118
,
165