“Power Suits” (April 2006), 105–13
Vatican
collection of, 241
and Hitler, 309
papal infallibility, 307
Vidal, Gore, 116, 150, 201
Dark Green, Bright Red, 8
The Judgment of Paris, 180
Vietnam War, 15, 40, 42, 111, 117, 199, 201, 258, 287
Villein, Dominique de, 258
Virgil, 165
von Braun, Wernher, 117
W. (film), 225–26
Wałęsa, Lech, 133
Walker, Martin, The President We Deserve, 54
Wallace, Chris, 137
Wallace, George, 73
Wallace, Henry, 27, 28, 116, 117, 118, 120
Wallace, Mike, 136
Wall Street Journal:
“The True Spirit of Christmas” (December 24, 2011), 283–89
“The Turkey Has Landed” (November 23, 2005), 83–85
Walmart, 89
Walt, Stephen, 125
Walters, Barbara, 137, 244
Warner, Mark, 75
war on drugs, 42
War on Terror, 112
warrantless surveillance, 106–8, 109–11
Warsaw Pact, 12, 144
Washington, George, 44, 78, 88
Washington and Lee University, 78
Wasp, Where Is Thy Sting? (King), 73
Waugh, Evelyn, 81, 95, 136, 149, 167, 307–8
Brideshead Revisited, 168, 308
The Loved One, 168
waxing technique, 181–83
Way in the World, A (Naipaul), 223
Wells, H. G., 160
White, Pippa, 46
White, Theodore, 198
White Rose resistance circle, 150
“Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?” (Wilson), 167
Who Paid the Piper? (Saunders), 26
“Why I Am a Catholic” (Chesterton), 306
“Why I Write” (Orwell), 311
Wilkerson, Larry, 253
Willey, Kathleen, 213
Williams, Hank, Jr., 74
Williams, Marjorie, 138
Wilson, A. N., After the Victorians: The Decline of Britain in the World, 91–96
Wilson, A. T., 156
Wilson, Edmund
“The Dream of H. C. Earwicker,” 164
“A Guide to Finnegans Wake,” 165
Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1920s and Literary Essays and Reviews of the 1930s, 163–68
To the Finland Station, 165
“Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?,” 167
The Wound and the Bow, 164
Wilson, Sir Henry, 93
Wilson, Woodrow, 34, 156
Wilson Quarterly, The, “Bring on the Mud” (Autumn 2004), 39–44
Winters, Jonathan, 45
Wintringham, Tom, 315
Wolfowitz, Paul, 255
Wolfson, Howard, 216
Woodward, Bob, 257
Bush at War, 255
Plan of Attack, 253, 255
Woolf, Leonard, 94
Woollcott, Alexander, 163–64
World Is What It Is, The: The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul (French), 217–24
World Trade Center, 1993 attack on, 68
World War I, 154
World War II, 95, 318–19
Pearl Harbor in, 150
Wound and the Bow, The (Wilson), 164
Wren, Christopher, 95
Wright, Ann, transl., The Motorcycle Diaries: A Journey around South America (Guevara), 1n
Wright, Rev. Jeremiah, 231, 233
Wurm, Mathilde, 276
Wycherley, R. E., The Stones of Athens, 237
Xanthias of Thrace, 236
Yanovsky, Stepan Dimitriyevich, 291–92
Year of Magical Thinking, The (Didion), 281
Yeats, William Butler, 149
yoga stretching, 173
Young, Michael, 313
You Only Live Twice (Fleming), 98, 101
Yugoslavia, former, 258
Zaire, 3
Zeitlin, Maurice, 11, 13
Zetkin, Kostya, 277
Ziegler, Philip, 93
Zilliacus, Konni, 26
Zionist movement, 156, 157, 308, 318n
Zionist Organization of America, 123
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