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Darwinism,
xxiv
,
48
,
168

Dean, James,
29

Democracy,
xxiv
,
xxxiii
,
45
,
46

    
Catholicism and,
52

    
individual fulfillment/
community responsibility
and,
57

    
religion of,
111

    
science and,
50

Democratic Party, gay rights and,
139

Dewey, John,
18
,
43
,
84
,
85

    
Niebuhr and,
116
,
117
,
118

Disciples of Christ,
98

Discipline,
xi
,
xxxvii
,
93
,
135

Discourse

    
conventions on,
xxvii–xxviii

    
mainstream,
160

    
public,
105
,
138
,
157
,
167
,
175

    
rational,
xxviii
,
75

    
religious,
174–175

Diversity,
xxv
,
45
,
127
,
152

    
religious,
106
,
151
,
158
,
159
,
160
,
161
,
162
,
164
,
171
,
177

Dobson, James,
135

Dogmatism,
58
,
59
,
124
,
153

Douthat, Ross,
xii

Dulles, John Foster,
8

Dunn, Alan: cartoon by,
55
(fig.)

Economic growth,
xxxviii
,
59
,
101

Economic man,
93

Economic system,
105
,
115

Education,
xxxii
,
xxxvi
,
17
,
22
,
35
,
81
,
130
,
150
,
152
,
157
,
158
,
176

    
Christendom and,
99

    
civility and,
47

Ehrenhalt, Alan,
x
,
xi

Eichmann, Adolf,
11

Einstein, Albert,
23

Eisenhower, Dwight D.,
xxxiii
,
108

    
on democracy,
111

    
Little Rock and,
63

    
on moral law,
103

Ellison, Ralph,
29

Ellul, Jacques,
105

Emerson, Ralph Waldo,
18
,
92

Empiricism,
32
,
57
,
153

Enlightenment,
xxii
,
xxiii
,
17
,
48
,
61
,
62
,
71
,
72
,
75
,
95
,
112
,
122
,
146
,
148
,
149
,
154

    
eighteenth–century,
xxvii

    
foundations,
60

    
heirs of,
121

    
as historical term,
xx–xxi

    
philosophy,
168

    
secular,
178

Entertainment,
ix–x
,
10
,
94
,
109

Episcopalians,
xxiv
,
98

Equal Rights Amendment,
137
,
139

Equality,
xxii
,
59
,
67
,
169

Essays in the Public Philosophy
(Lippmann),
44
,
45
,
52
,
53
,
56

Ethics,
34
,
81
,
117

Ethnicity,
13
,
62–63
,
125

Evangelical Protestants,
62
,
133
,
138
,
143
,
144

Evangelicalism,
140
,
172
,
176
,
177

Evangelicals,
129
,
139
,
140
,
146
,
147
,
149
,
151

    
Christian influences and,
138

    
conservative,
134

    
moderate,
176

Existentialism,
70–71
,
72
,
76
,
92

Faith,
18
,
106
,
110
,
123
,
166
,
167
,
168
,
169
,
171

    
inclusivist,
173

    
learning and,
177

    
understanding and,
165

Falwell, Jerry,
139
,
142

Family,
ix

    
definitions of,
137
,
139

Family Research Council,
135

Family values,
135
,
140

Fascism, Catholicism and,
52

Faulkner, William,
114

Feminine Mystique, The
(Friedan),
37–38

First Amendment,
99
,
136

First principles,
62
,
132

Focus on the Family,
135

Fortune,
xxxii
,
32
,
36
,
101
,
103

Franklin, Benjamin,
xxi
,
xxii
,
48

Free speech,
46
,
48
,
59
,
136

Freedom,
xxii
,
24
,
41
,
42
,
54
,
67
,
77
,
113

    
burden of,
25

    
Catholicism and,
52

    
civic,
149

    
consumerism and,
37

    
definitions of,
89

    
economic,
59
,
148

    
escape from,
45

    
individual,
55
,
59
,
70
,
82
,
91
,
95

    
loss of,
22
,
36
,
37

    
political,
22
,
148

    
science and,
23
,
70
,
77

    
sexual,
89
,
91

Freud, Sigmund,
24
,
86

Freudianism,
82
,
88

Friedan, Betty Goldstein,
37–38
,
39
,
40
,
41

Friedan, Carl,
39

Fromm, Erich,
23
,
26
,
40
,
45
,
141
,
145

    
American conversation and,
27–28

    
modern culture and,
24

Fundamentalism,
xxv
,
60
,
134
,
163
,
172

Fundamentalist evangelicals,
129
,
134
,
144–145

Fundamentalists,
62
,
108
,
128
,
138
,
140
,
142
,
144
,
146
,
147
,
151
,
152
,
156
,
159

    
consciousness raising among,
141

    
conservative,
148–149

Gardner, John,
xxxvi

Gay rights,
67
,
135
,
137
,
139

Gender,
xvii
,
125
,
137
,
159

Government,
45
,
81
,
130

    
justice and,
169

Graham, Billy,
xxxi
,
xxxviii
,
97
,
106
,
128

    
anti–intellectualism and,
19

    
national consensus and,
1

    
on nation's flaws,
xxxvii

Great Depression,
x
,
xxxiii
,
50

Gresham's Law,
8

Hall, Dwight,
101

Hall, Sidney: cartoon by,
91
(fig.)

Hartz, Louis,
61

“Have We Gone Soft?” (
New Republic
),
6
,
37

Hefner, Hugh,
89

Heidegger, Martin,
71

Herberg, Will,
110
,
112

Heritage,
1
,
17
,
18
,
157
,
162

    
American,
xxvi
,
138
,
146
,
163

    
Christian,
104
,
112
,
149

    
enlightenment,
148
,
149

    
evangelical,
134

    
Judeo–Christian,
25
,
133

    
national,
147

    
political,
66

    
Protestant,
xxiii
,
163

    
religious,
109
,
123
,
131

    
western,
5
,
16

Hitler, Adolf,
xiii
,
10
,
23
,
25
,
45

Hofstadter, Richard,
18–19

Holocaust,
xiii
,
xviii
,
11

Homosexuality,
137
,
139

Horney, Karen,
40

Human nature,
13
,
78
,
80
,
81
,
90

Humanism,
50
,
111

Huxley, Aldous,
78

Idealism,
66
,
165

Ideals,
xxi
,
xxv
,
17
,
25
,
29
,
32
,
131

Identity,
41
,
42
,
67
,
174

Ideology,
33
,
130
,
131
,
153

Immigration,
160
,
164
,
177

Independence,
22
,
24
,
111

Individualism,
xxxvii
,
9
,
52–53
,
54
,
92
,
93
,
95
,
112
,
118
,
131

Inner-directedness,
29
,
30
,
31
,
32

Intellectual life,
167
,
174

Intellectuals,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
,
139

    
mainstream,
xxiii

    
public,
xv
,
xviii
,
xxix
,
4
,
44
,
62
,
178

Islam, Christianity and,
173

Jackson, Andrew,
19

James, William,
48
,
57
,
76
,
117–118

    
Lippmann and,
49
,
50

Jefferson, Thomas,
xxi
,
xxiv
,
48
,
147
,
157

Jessup, John K.,
xxxiii
,
xxxiv

Jews,
xxvii
,
11
,
44
,
62
,
97
,
110
,
152
,
159
,
161
,
178

    
cultural conversation and,
xviii

Joplin, Janis,
42

Judeo-Christian tradition,
xii
,
25
,
133

Justice,
59
,
65
,
69
,
113
,
168
,
169

Kennan, George,
xxxviii

Kennedy, John F.,
xiv
,
17
,
59
,
107

Kierkegaard, Søren,
71
,
72

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
64
,
65
,
66–67
,
112

Kinsey, Alfred,
88
,
90

Kinsey Reports,
88
,
89

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