The Devil's Pleasure Palace (37 page)

Little Dorrit
(Dickens),
177

Long, Frank Belknap,
68

Lovecraft, H.P.,
68
,
92–93
,
138

Lucifer.
See
Satan

Lueger, Karl,
152

Lukács, Georg,
16
,
23
,
61
,
70–72
,
88
,
122
,
164–165
,
178
,
192
,
204
,
206

Luther, Martin,
150

Maddow, Ben,
77–78
,
131

Magic Flute, The
(Mozart),
12
,
97–101
,
118

Magic Mountain, The
(Mann),
46
,
62–63
,
164

Mahler, Gustave,
152

Mann, Thomas,
46
,
54
,
62–63
,
115
,
164

Mao Zedong,
68
,
88
,
135

Marcus Aurelius,
95
,
102
,
128

Marcuse, Herbert,
42
,
44–46
,
61
,
81
,
88
,
152
,
171
,
172

Marlowe, Christopher,
165
,
184

Marschner, Heinrich,
12

Marx, Karl,
25
,
43
,
57
,
58
,
118
,
135–136
,
194
,
206
; critique of religion,
39–40
,
47–48
; Johnson on,
82–83
.
See also
Marxism-Leninism

Marxism-Leninism,
23
,
108
,
143
,
176
,
190
; Christian allegory and,
83–84
; cultural Marxism,
2–3
,
7
,
48–49
,
70–71
; death toll of,
46–47
; Frankfort School and,
42–48
,
57
; as new religion,
24–25
; sexuality and,
143

Mascagni, Pietro,
112–113

Mauve Gloves and Madmen, Clutter and Vine
(Wolfe),
178

McAuliffe, Anthony,
207

McCarthy, Mary,
180

Meditations
(Marcus Aurelius),
95
,
102
,
128

Mefistofele
(Boito),
20
,
165

Meistersinger, Die
(Wagner),
125
,
128

Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare),
50

Metamorphosis, The
(Kafka),
140

Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler
(Viereck),
56

Metapolitics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind
(Viereck),
54
,
55

Mexico,
154
,
193

Meyerbeer, Giacomo,
10–11
,
12
,
85
,
105
,
124

Miles, Jack,
5

Miller's Crossing
(film),
141

Milton, John:
Areopagitica
,
7
,
9
; optimism of,
158–159
.
See also
Paradise Lost
(Milton)

Milton's God
(Empson),
27

Mimesis, Aristotle's doctrine of,
12–13

Mockery, Left's inability to tolerate,
149–161

“
Mol
n labe
,”
206–207

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact (1939),
188

Moore, Barrington Jr.,
44–45

Morozov, Pavlik,
33

Moyers, Bill,
102

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus,
12
,
97–101
,
112
,
114
,
118
,
127
,
153

Murray, Charles,
74–75

Music,
61–63
; context and subtext as message of,
111–119
; twelve-tone system,
57
,
62
,
113–119
.
See also specific works

“Music and Language: A Fragment” (Adorno),
114

National Socialism,
23
,
33
,
56
,
59
,
71
,
72
,
108
,
122
,
198
,
205

New Deal,
35
,
198

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
124–126

Nihilism,
1
,
6
,
50–51
,
77
,
129–130
,
209
; hold on darkness of human imagination,
93–96

1984
(Orwell),
52
,
95
,
119
,
141–142

Nivelle, Robert,
206

Nobel savage, Rousseau and cult of,
133–142

Nosferatu
(film),
100

Oedipus,
22
,
116

Oikophobia and xenophilia, of Left,
183–195

One-Dimensional Man
(Marcuse),
171

Op. 2
(Chopin),
114–115

Opera, primal conflicts and quests in,
9–16
.
See also specific works

Operation Barbarossa,
43
,
56
,
188

Orgone, Reich and,
143–145

Orwell, George,
52
,
119

Oswald, Lee Harvey,
107
,
199–200

Other Journal (blog),
48

Paglia, Camille,
166

Paradise Lost
(Milton),
7
,
17
,
24
,
26–29
,
32–35
,
67–68
,
79
,
89
,
97
,
128
,
137–138
,
164
,
170
,
183
,
203–204
,
209

Parker, Theodore,
52

Parsifal
(Wagner),
11
,
13–14
,
66
,
92
,
124
,
126

Pascal's wager,
51
,
157

Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,
29

Pelléas et Mélisande
(Debussy),
61
,
84

Philosophy of New Music
(Adorno),
115
,
118

Phylogeny recapitulates ontogeny,
13
,
37
,
200

Pierson, James,
107

Pink Floyd,
188–189

Poe, Edgar Allan,
59

Polarization, of American population,
155–157

Political correctness,
21–22
,
99–100
,
102
,
129
,
137
,
146
,
151
,
155
; public policy and,
65–72
,
163–174

Political Correctness: A Short History of an Ideology
(Lind),
165

Political systems: compromise and,
35–36
; moral crisis and,
29
; as outgrowth of culture,
20

Ponte, Lorenzo da,
112

Pornography, treated as free speech,
165–167

Prima la musica, e poi le parole
(Salieri),
128

Progressivism,
52
,
77
,
119
,
152
,
154
,
180
,
190
; as regressive,
81–82
,
184–185
; tenets of,
49
,
197–199

Puccini, Giacomo,
26
,
103

Queen of Spades, The
(Tchaikovsky),
200

“Question authority” slogan,
49

Quest myth,
14–16
,
24
,
52
,
123–124

Rache
.
See
Revenge

Raging Bull
(film),
113

Rape: linguistic transformation of term,
146
; rape culture on college campuses,
86
.
See also
Sexual relations

Reagan, Ronald,
177
,
200
,
203

Reason.
See
Romanticism, without reason

Reich, Wilhelm,
16
,
42
,
143–145
,
147–148
,
166

Religion: human character and,
101–102
; Left's criticisms of,
24–25
,
39–40
,
42
,
46–49
,
151
,
194
.
See also
Atheism
;
Christianity
;
Islamic extremism

Repressive tolerance, Marcuse's concept of,
44–46
,
61
,
109
,
151–152

Revenge: of Left,
52
,
107
,
138–139
,
183–195
; of Satan,
24
,
28
,
138
; struggle between light and darkness and,
105–106

Rienzi
(Wagner),
124

Ring of the Nibelung
cycle (Wagner),
12
,
29
,
66
,
84–85
,
105
,
112
,
122–127
,
128
,
203–204

Robert le diable
(Meyerbeer),
10–11
,
12
,
85

Rochefoucauld, duc de la,
136
,
140

Romanticism, without reason: culture and,
43–54
,
57–59
,
61–63
; politics and,
54–61

Roosevelt, Franklin, and administration of,
2
,
184–185
,
198

Rosemary's Baby
(film),
76

Rousseau, Jean Jacques, and cult of the noble savage,
133–142

Rules for Radicals
(Alinsky).
See
Alinsky, Saul

Salieri, Antonio,
127
,
128

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
84

Satan: as “father of lies,”
6–7
; as first radical,
163–164
; Pope Francis on,
1
; rebellion of,
17–30

“Savage Songs” (Marx),
83

Saving Private Ryan
(film),
36