The Twilight of the American Enlightenment (26 page)

Kirk, Russell,
xviii

Koop, C. Everett,
141

Krutch, Joseph Wood,
51

Kuhn, Thomas,
154

Kuyper, Abraham,
169

    
American Protestantism and,
167

    
enlightenment ideal and,
168

    
outlook of,
163
,
164–166
,
170–171

LaHaye, Tim,
135
,
142

Lasch, Christopher,
92
,
93
,
94

Lawrence, D. H.,
89

Leadership,
xxv
,
11

    
cultural,
xviii
,
xxii–xxiii
,
98
,
120
,
127
,
130

    
intellectual,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18

“Letter from the Birmingham Jail” (King),
66

Levittown,
34

Lewis, C. S.: chronological snobbery,
155

Liberal Protestants,
xxiv
,
xxv
,
129
,
156

Liberalism,
xviii–xix
,
xxvi
,
63
,
118
,
130
,
149

    
enlightenment-based,
164

    
mainstream,
59
,
64
,
157

    
pragmatic,
145

    
prejudice and,
64

Liebman, Joshua Loth,
97

Life,
xxxiii
,
xxxv
,
2
,
6
,
8
,
101

    
National Purpose and,
xxxi–xxxii
,
1

Lippmann, Walter,
xxxi
,
44
,
45–46
,
54
,
58
,
60
,
76

    
disagreement with,
62

    
enlightenment and,
48

    
James and,
49
,
50

    
moral law and,
52

    
moral standards and,
46
,
50

    
natural law and,
47
,
53
,
57
,
131
,
153

    
New Deal and,
51–52

    
public philosophy and,
103

    
radical skepticism and,
51

    
Schlesinger and,
56
,
153

    
on science/democracy,
50

    
self-fulfillment and,
56

Locke, John,
xxxiv

Logical positivism,
73
,
74
,
75

London, Laurie,
109

Lonely Crowd, The
(Riesman),
28
,
31
,
32
,
153

Luce, Henry,
8
,
102
,
106

    
Christianity and,
103
,
123

    
influence of,
100–101

    
National Purpose and,
xxxi–xxxii

    
theological modernism of,
104

Lutherans,
xxiv
,
98
,
152

Macdonald, Dwight,
7
,
8
,
9
,
11
,
14

MacLeish, Archibald,
xxxi
,
xxxvi
,
55
,
56

    
critique of Lippmann,
53–54

Madison, James,
xxi
,
48

Marty, Martin,
110
,
111
,
112

Marx, Karl,
26

Marxists,
xix
,
15
,
18

Maslow, Abraham,
40
,
41

Mass man,
19
,
21
,
32

Mass society,
9
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
19

Materialism,
xxxvii
,
xxxviii
,
102
,
115
,
120

May, Rollo,
40

McCarthy, Joseph,
xxxiii
,
54

McCarthyism,
xvii
,
17
,
19
,
53
,
54
,
59
,
115

Mead, Margaret,
88

Media,
xxxvi
,
13
,
15
,
30
,
93
,
130
,
131
,
139
,
152
,
153
,
178

    
anxiety over,
21

    
television and,
7

Metalious, Grace,
89

Miller, Arthur,
28

Model, Frank: cartoon by,
xix
(fig.)

Modern man,
21
,
23
,
24
,
28
,
37
,
38

Modernity,
xiii
,
xvi
,
xxv
,
3
,
11
,
29
,
100
,
140
,
173

    
achievement of,
23

    
critics of,
19
,
42

    
postwar,
45

Monroe, Marilyn,
89

Moore, G. E.,
74

Moral conservatism,
88–89

Moral laws,
xxi
,
xxxiv
,
46
,
52
,
65
,
66
,
103

Moral Majority,
133–134
,
139
,
142

Moral order,
47
,
65
,
67

Moral sensibility,
6
,
65
,
168

Morality,
xii
,
xiii
,
65
,
67
,
86
,
130
,
132

    
extremism in,
59

    
Judeo-Christian,
27

    
modern,
50
,
90

    
pluralism and,
47

    
public standards of,
87–88

    
sexual,
136

    
social,
52

    
traditional,
51
,
92

Mormons,
159
,
161

Motion Picture Production Code,
xii

Mouw, Richard,
170

Movies,
12
,
89
,
109

Murray, John Courtney,
107

Muslims,
80
,
159

Nabokov, Vladimir,
89

Narcissism,
92
,
93
,
94
,
95

Nation, The:
on Lippmann,
53

National Association of Evangelicals,
128

National conversation,
1
,
20
,
99
,
107

National Council of Churches,
107–108
,
111

National Purpose,
xxxi–xxxiii
,
xxxviii
,
6

“National Purpose, The” (
Life
),
xxxi–xxxii

National Review, The:
founding of,
53

Natural law,
xxi
,
52
,
53
,
66
,
69
,
138
,
148

    
pragmatism versus,
62

    
recovery of,
47

Natural science,
xxiv
,
xxv
,
52
,
83
,
86
,
118
,
155
,
165
,
168

Naturalism,
51
,
165
,
167
,
172
,
175–176

Nelson, Thomas,
147

New Deal,
51–52
,
57
,
58
,
59

New Republic, The,
6
,
44
,
53

New Yorker,
cartoon from,
xix
(fig.),
xxxiv
(fig.),
3
(fig.),
38
(fig.),
55
(fig.),
121
(fig.)

Newton, Isaac,
33

Niebuhr, Reinhold,
xxv–xxvi
,
6
,
57
,
64
,
97
,
107
,
110
,
112–113
,
168

    
Christian nation and,
123

    
Dewey and,
116
,
117
,
118

    
divine intervention and,
119

    
human limitations and,
119–120

    
justice and,
113

    
liberal culture and,
120

    
on Lippmann,
53

    
realism and,
113
,
114

    
religious revivals and,
122

    
secularity and,
121

    
social sciences and,
116

Nietzsche, Friedrich,
71

Objectivity,
83
,
95
,
175

O'Connor, Flannery,
114

Organization Man, The
(Whyte),
32
,
35–36

Other-directedness,
29
,
30
,
32
,
93

Outlooks,
xx
,
xxi
,
175

    
consensus,
172

    
religious,
171
,
174

    
scientific,
152

Packard, Vance,
36
,
37

Patriotism,
xxvi
,
xxxvii
,
61
,
127
,
131
,
134
,
140
,
145

Peale, Norman Vincent,
97
,
111
,
114

Pentecostals,
108
,
152
,
156
,
159

Peyton Place
(Metalious),
36
,
89

Philosophy,
47
,
49
,
70
,
71
,
154

    
analytic,
75
,
76

    
existentialist,
70–71
,
72
,
76
,
92

    
professional,
72
,
73
,
75

    
public,
48
,
56
,
103
,
131
,
132

Pluralism,
xiv
,
32
,
57
,
62
,
104
,
137
,
146
,
152
,
155
,
159
,
175
,
177
,
178

    
conception of,
124
,
170
,
171

    
confessional,
166
,
169

    
inclusive,
124
,
153
,
156

    
Kuyperian,
167
,
170

    
modern,
46
,
56

    
morality and,
47

    
principled,
166
,
170

    
radical,
154

    
religious,
xxvi
,
125
,
162
,
174

    
science and,
50

Poitier, Sidney,
12

Polarization,
171
,
172
,
176

Political issues,
62
,
117
,
128
,
145

Political rights,
136
,
146

Politics,
59
,
129
,
133
,
136
,
150
,
153
,
157
,
158
,
173

Popular culture,
xvii
,
xxii
,
xxxiii
,
5
,
9
,
41
,
150
,
171

    
commercialism and,
xxv

    
religion and,
109–110

Populist movement,
17
,
170
,
176

Power,
64
,
83

    
intellect and,
19

Pragmatism,
xxiv
,
xxxix
,
51
,
52
,
61
,
130–131