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by Christopher Hitchens

“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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