Controversial Essays.

Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Economic Issues -- Drugs and Politics -- The Real Revolutionaries -- India Unbound -- Capital Gains and "Trickle Down" -- No Sense of Proportion -- Headline News -- Warrior in a 200-Year War -- The Role of the Rich -- Perennial Economic Fallacies -- Sweatshops at Home and Abroad -- Sanity in San Francisco -- The End of Montgomery Ward -- "Saving" Social Security -- Social Security vs. Privatization -- Minimum Journalism -- Merit and Money -- Part II: Racial Issues -- Routine Cruelty -- Losing the Race -- Reparations for Slavery? -- The Lessons of Indonesia -- Blacks and Bootstraps -- "Racism" in Word and Deed -- Sweeping Success Under the Rug -- Sorting By Race -- The Magic Word -- Race and the New Century -- "Access" to Responsibility -- Part III: Political Issues -- Poverty and the Left -- "Useful Idiots" -- Facts versus Dogma on Guns -- Global Hot Air -- "Campaign Finance Reform" Follies -- Ugliness in Yosemite -- State Stealing -- Loving Enemies -- Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform -- Lying Statistics -- Are We Still Americans? -- Pacifism and War -- Intended Consequences -- Islam and the West -- Pandering to the Anointed -- Green Bigots versus Human Beings -- Another Outrage -- The Best of the Century -- Part IV: Educational Issues -- The Wrong Filter -- Too Many Ph.D.s? -- "No Excuses" -- Back Door Quotas -- We Are All "Dropouts" -- School to School? -- The War Against Boys -- "Research" Marches On -- Let's Hear It for Unfairness! -- Does It Add Up? -- Diversity versus "Diversity" -- Choosing A College -- A Painful History -- "Forced to Volunteer" -- Drugging Children -- Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin? -- Success Concealing Failure -- The Old Neighborhood -- Wasting Minds -- The "Non-Profit" Halo -- Do Facts Matter? -- Do Facts Matter? Part II -- Part V: Legal Issues.

Property Rites -- Love Those Killers! -- Microsoft and Anti-Trust "Law" -- Lessons Not Learned -- Law on Trial -- Aborted Knowledge -- Murder is Murder -- McVeigh and the Death Penalty -- Part VI: Social Issues -- Boomers and Boomerangs -- Deep Trouble from Shallow People -- Thanksgiving and "Fairness" -- Was the Ball Juiced? -- The Dangers of "Equality" -- Is the Family Becoming Extinct? -- Life at the Bottom -- Gay Marriage -- The Einstein Syndrome -- Loose Lips -- "The Duty to Die" -- Shocked by the Obvious -- Families and Dictators -- The "Autism" Dragnet -- Racial Profiling of Authors -- Chandra Levy Clues -- Barry and the Babe -- Media Fraud -- The Insulation of the Left -- W. Glenn Campbell (1924-2001) -- Part VII: Random Thoughts -- Random Thoughts.

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