Tell a Good Lie, Not a Stupid Lie," _New York Times_ , August 6, 2012. . Michael Hiltzik, "An Inconvenient Truth," _Los Angeles Times_ , August 28, 2005. . Cited in Cemal Pulak, _Post-Secularism: Relocating God in an Age of Skepticism_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), p. 40. . See, for example, William T. Cavanaugh, _Dying for God: The Portrayal of the Christian Calling in Contemporary Film_ (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2009). . For examples of the "gospel of wealth" in the United States, see Ravi Batra, _In Defense of Greed_ (New York: Public Affairs, 2007), and Dirk Johnson, _The Gospel of Consumerism: Understanding and Responding to Market Culture_ (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2004). . On the growth of the military-entertainment complex, see Peter Hartcher, "America's New Warlord Elite: The Rise of the Mercenary," _Sydney Morning Herald_ , January 7, 2009. . See, for example, John Stuart Mill, _On Liberty_ (London: Penguin, 2008), chap. 5. . See "The State Is the Taker of Life and the Giver of Death: Reflections on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi in a Time of Revolution," available at www.thirdworldtraveler.com/In-Exile/Dr_King_Gandhi_and_revolution.html. . John Paul Jones, "To the American People," _The American Heritage Magazine_ , September/October 2004, vol. 5, no. 5, available at www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-american-heritage-magazine-2004-09-10. . Ronald Reagan, "Inaugural Address, January 20, 1981," available at www.firstgov.gov/documents/anationdivided/208415.html. . Paul Krugman, "The Great Inversion," _New York Times_ , September 16, 2012. . See, for example, Benjamin R. Barber, _The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton Administration_ (New York: Twentieth Century Fund, 2001), and Peter L. Berger, _The Capitalist Revolution: Fifty Propositions about Prosperity, Equality, and Liberty_ (San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1985). . Benjamin R. Barber, _The Truth of Power_ , p. 17. . Giorgio Agamben, "The King and the Cross," _Albanian Studies_ 37 (2004): 3–16. . See, for example, Richard Heinberg, _The Party's Over: Oil, War, and the Fate of Industrial Societies_ (Gabriola Island, British Columbia: New Society Publishers, 2003), and Joel Kovel, _The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?_ (London: Zed Books, 2007). . Edward Luce, _Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent_ (London: Atlantic, 2007), pp. 8–9. . See, for example, David McNally, _Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance_ (Oakland: PM Press, 2010), and Chris Williams, _Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: The Global Food Economy in the Era of Expanding Food Imports_ (London: Earthscan, 2010). . David Bacon, "The Global Fight for Land and Life," _Truthout_ , June 1, 2012. . See, for example, David Rieff, "In Praise of Imperial Lies," _Los Angeles Times_ , February 5, 2005. . Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, "The Discourse on Language," in Noam Chomsky, _Selected Writings_ (New York: The New Press, 2011), p. 28. . See, for example, Noam Chomsky, _Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy_ (New York: New Press, 2006). . "In Praise of Imperial Lies," _Los Angeles Times_ , February 5, 2005. . See "Nepal Earthquake: Aid Workers Face 'Triage' as Aid Evaporates," _Guardian_ , October 22, 2015. . Robert Fisk, "Is There an Islamic Revolution in This World?" _The Independent_ , April 7, 2001. . Thomas L. Friedman, _Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11_ (New York: Vintage, 2001). . See, for example, Mark Danner, _The Massacre at El Mozote: A Parable of the Cold War_ (New York: Vintage, 1994). . _Charlie Rose with Bill Moyers_ , November 24, 2009. . John Pilger, "The Great Shame: Why the West Must Occupy Iraq," _New Statesman_ , April 19, 2006. . Thomas Frank, "The Falling Rate of Learning," _Salon_ , February 8, 2015. . "In Praise of Imperial Lies," _Los Angeles Times_ , February 5, 2005. . Thomas Frank, _The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism_ (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), p. 31. . For examples of this process, see the following works by Barbara Ehrenreich: _Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America_ (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2001), and _Living with a Wild God: An Ecopragmatist Explores the Tensions Between Christianity and Environmentalism_ (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011). . Thomas L. Friedman, _The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century_ (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), p. 53. . Cited in Noam Chomsky, "Cognitive Manifestations of Decisions in the Political Environment," _Noam Chomsky Speaking_ (Berkeley, Calif.: Odonian, 2011). . Thomas L. Friedman, _The World Is Flat_ , p. 62. . Paul D. Ronan, "The Dark Heart of the American Dream: American Exceptionalism, U.S. Foreign Policy and the War on Terror," _Survival_ 49 (2007): 3–27. . Michael Parenti, "A Conspiracy of Dunces: Thomas L. Friedman, Paul Krugman, and the New Clueless Imperium of Washington's Consensus," _Truthout_ , January 25, 2015. . For one example of this point, see A. S. Milward, "The American Empire: What It Was and What It Isn't," _New York Review of Books_ , July 6, 1979. . As Thomas Friedman has noted in a more recent work: "The United States did a lot of that in the 20th century. From 1919 until 1939, the U.S. used its unprecedented global power to create a set of institutions: the League of Nations, the World Court, and a set of rules and regulations that included the Geneva Convention and the Kellogg-Briand pact that outlawed wars, genocide, slavery, and torture." See Thomas L. Friedman, "The Next Act," _New York Times_ , November 11, 2007. . See Jeremy Rifkin, _The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis_ (London: Penguin, 2009). . Thomas Friedman, "Dreaming the Economy: The Birth of an Anti-Capitalist Imagination," _New York Times_ , October 14, 2014. . Ibid. . See, for example, Robert Reich, _Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few_ (New York: Knopf, 2014). . Walter Lippmann, _Essential Writings of the Modern Age_ (New York: Library of America, 2004). . Peter Beinart, "The Liberals' Last Stand," _New York Review of Books_ , January 17, 2012. . Ibid. . Thomas Friedman, "The Dreamers," _New York Times Magazine_ , July 11, 2005. . Thomas L. Friedman, _The World Is Flat_ , p. 54. . Tom Daschle, "Democratic Dreams," _New York Times Magazine_ , October 31, 2003. . See C. S. Lewis, "The World's Last Night: Aslan's Lecture to an Oxford University Society," in _Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories_ (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959), pp. 3–25. . Erich Fromm, _The Sane Society_ (New York: Rinehart & Co., 1955). . Thomas L.