The Silencing (45 page)

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Authors: Kirsten Powers

Tags: #Best 2015 Nonfiction, #Censorship, #History, #Nonfiction, #Political Science, #Retail

Abrams, Floyd,
15–16

Abramson, Jill,
139

academia,
7
,
9
,
18–19
,
87
,
145
,
200
.
See also
individual institutions

Achebe, Chinua,
85

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The
,
1–2

affirmative action,
28
,
32

“affirmative consent,”
196–97

Affleck, Ben,
10
,
61

Affordable Care Act,
5
,
35
,
57
,
151
.
See also
Obamacare

African Americans,
2–3
,
18
,
26–30
,
33–37
,
52
,
73
,
77–78
,
97
,
126
,
150
,
190–91

Age of Un-Enlightenment,
17–20

Agness, Karin,
159

agnostics,
xiv
,
33
,
197

Ailes, Roger,
45
,
125

Alaska,
xi
,
157–59
,
173

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi,
62–65
,
96
,
98
,
105
,
172

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
(a.k.a.
Alice in Wonderland
),
98
,
179

Allen, Mike,
133

Alliance for Quality Education,
22

“All Lives Matter,”
78

Allure
,
122

Alvaré, Helen,
152

Ambrosino, Brandon,
143

American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ),
201

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
1
,
38
,
65

American College of Surgeons (ACS),
174–75

American experiment, the,
93

American Federation of Teachers,
22

American Journal of Public Health
,
176

American Movie Classics (AMC),
128

American Prospect,
39
,
44
,
143

American Psycho
,
190

Anahita, Sine,
173

Anderson, Kurt,
191

anti-abortion rights, anti-abortion protestors,
5–6
,
69–72
,
74
,
76
,
105
,
160
,
163
,
165
,
169–71
,
196

anti-Christian attitudes,
61
,
104
,
202

anti-Communist,
10

anti-discrimination policies,
6
,
59
,
104

anti-gay,
50
,
54

April Fools’ Day joke,
173

Arana, Maria,
141

archaeology, archaeologists,
xi

Arizona State University,
99
,
180–81

Arriaga, Kristina,
151

Associated Press,
46–47
,
86
,
113
,
135
,
138
,
140
,
161
,
182

Association of Women Surgeons,
174

atheists,
61
,
64
,
98–100
,
150
,
200

Atlantic
,
41
,
78
,
166
,
172

Attkisson, Sharyl,
42–44
,
127
,
144–45

Australian
,
167

authoritarianism,
4
,
6
,
8
,
13–14
,
25
,
40
,
53
,
87
,
161
,
165
,
190

Axelrod, David,
110–11
,
127

B

“Baby Palins,”
32
,
159

Bachmann, Michele,
31
,
155
,
158
,
160
,
165

Bacile, Sam,
79

Baker, Houston,
191

Baker, Jim,
132

Baker, Mitchell,
11

Baldwin, Alec,
29

Baldwin, Tammy,
146
,
154
,
184

Ball, Krystal,
61

Baltimore Sun
,
27
,
129–30
,
170

Barber, William,
29

Barnard College,
191

Barrow, John,
34

Bartholet, Elizabeth,
194

Bass, Barbara Lee,
175

Batiste, Stephanie,
73

Becker, John,
59

Becket Fund,
151

Bell, Alice,
172

Bellantoni, Christina,
113

Benghazi, September 11 attack on,
42
,
44
,
114
,
130
,
145

Bennett, Bill,
36

Bennett, Siobhan,
31

Bennett College,
192

Beredjick, Camille,
54

Berry, Mary Frances,
8

Bethany Christian Services,
60
,
134

Beverly LaHaye Institute,
152

Beyerstein, Lindsay,
54

bigotry,
5
,
49
,
52
,
59
,
61
,
64–65
,
143
,
152

Birgeneau, Robert J.,
93

Blacquiere, William J.,
60

Blecher, Marc,
85

Blitzer, Wolf,
130

blondes, discrimination against conservative blondes,
121–22

Bloomberg,
133

Bloomberg, Michael,
92–93
,
96

Blumenthal, Richard,
146
,
184

Bob Jones University,
103

Boehlert, Eric,
46

Boies, David,
22–23

Boiling Mad
,
37

Bolton, John,
137

Borelli, Deneen,
27

Boston College,
90

Bowdoin College,
100

Boyer, Peter,
44–46

Brand, Russell,
158

Brandeis, Louis D.,
14

Brandeis University,
80
,
95
,
105

Brawley, Tawana,
192

Brazile, Donna,
12

Breast Cancer Prevention Institute,
152

Brennan, William, Jr.,
15

Brewer, Jan,
57

Breyer, Stephen G.,
151

Brock, David,
7
,
112
,
123

Brockes, Emma,
63–64

Brodsky, Alexandra,
181
,
184
,
186

Brookings Institution,
129

Brooks, David,
133
,
190

Broward Community College,
91

Brown, Campbell,
21–24
,
33
,
42–44

Brown, Jerry,
196

Brownback, Sam,
163

Brown University,
96
,
99

Buckley, William F., Jr.,
128

Burch, Rebecca L.,
175

Bureau of Justice Statistics,
176

Burleigh, Nina,
32
,
157
,
159–60

Burton, Dan,
34

Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.,
149

Bush, George H. W.,
xiii
,
22
,
26
,
43
,
65
,
96
,
123
,
131–32
,
155

Bush, George W.,
132

Bush v. Gore
,
22

C

California State University (CSU), a.k.a. Cal State,
97–100

Cameron, Carl,
119

Campus Sexual Assault Study,
183

capitalism,
7
,
63

Capital New York,
120

Caplan-Bricker, Nora,
166

Carlin, George,
77

Carlson, Gretchen,
122

Carmon, Irin,
120

Carney, Jay,
133

Carroll, Kathleen,
47

Carter, Jimmy,
xi–xii
,
33

Carusone, Angelo,
128

Casey, Robert,
146
,
184

Catholic Charities,
59

Catholicism, Catholics,
xii
,
54
,
56
,
59
,
61
,
64–65
,
101
,
150
,
163

Catholics for Obama,
59

Cathy, Dan,
49
,
51

Cavalier Daily
,
188

CBS,
42–44
,
110–13
,
118–19
,
122
,
127
,
129
,
133
,
144–45

CBS Evening News
,
111
,
113

censorship, censoring,
2–3
,
6
,
77–80
,
136
,
165
,
168
,
171
,
201

Center for American Progress,
54
,
177

Center for Bio-Ethical Reform,
171

Chait, Jonathan,
122–22
,
165–67

“Challenging the Ideological Echo Chamber,”
1

Change.org
,
62
,
87
,
91

character assassination,
4
,
9
,
18
,
21
,
24
,
33
,
63
,
154
,
156

Charlotte Lozier Institute,
152

Chavis, Lakeidra,
173

Cheney, Dick,
26

Chicago Manual of Style,
83

Chicago Reader
,
146

Chick-fil-A,
49–51
,
201

China,
140

Christian Church, the,
53

Christianity, Christians,
xiii
,
6
,
19
,
28
,
38
,
50–53
,
59
,
60–61
,
64–65
,
97–105
,
158
,
163
,
199
,
201–2

    
evangelical Christians,
65
,
99
,
199

    
orthodox Christians,
xiii
,
6
,
19
,
52
,
60
,
65
,
97
,
100–1
,
104

Christianity Today
,
59
,
101

Christian Science Monitor
,
38

Christie, Ron,
26

CIA,
114

Cinco de Mayo,
126

“cisgendered,”
5

Clemente, Michael,
114

Clinton, Bill,
xii
,
8
,
33–36
,
45
,
53–54
,
132
,
134
,
149

Clinton, Hillary,
46
,
53
,
112
,
135

Clinton administration, the,
xii
,
45
,
115

Closed Minds
,
200

Clyburn, James,
29

CNN,
10
,
21
,
31
,
42
,
108–12
,
114
,
117
,
119
,
121
,
127–29
,
133

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