Table of Contents
Preface xi
1 The Political Impulse 1
2 The American Reality 8
3 Culture, School Shootings, the Audience, and the Elevator 11
4 Alcatraz 21
5 Lost Horizon 29
6 The Music Man 34
7 Choice 38
8 The Red Sea 50
9 Chicago 53
10 Milton Friedman Explained 58
11 What Is "Diversity"? 62
12 The Monty Hall Problem and the Contractor
13 Maxwell Street 71
14 R100 74
15 The Intelligent Person's Guide to Socialism and Anti-Semitism 80
16 The Victim 84
17 Puritans 88
18 The Noble Savage 91
19 Adventure Slumming 96
20 Cabinet Spiritualism and the Car Czar 100
21 Rumpelstiltskin 104
22 My Father, Al Sharpton, and the Designated Criminal 111
23 Greed 116
24 Arrested Development 123
25 Oakton Manor and Camp Kawaga 129
26 Feminism 134
27 The Ashkenazis 146
28 Some Personal History 156
29 The Family 164
30 Naturally Evolved Institutions 167
31 Breatharian 172
32 The Street Sweeper and the Surgeon, or Marxism Examined 177
33 Self-Evident Truth 190
34 Hope and Change 196
35 The Small Refrigerator 202
36 Bumper Stickers 206
37 Late Revelations 210
38 Who Does One Think He Is? 216
39 The Secret Knowledge 221
Acknowledgments 225
Bibliography 227
Index 233
