Controversial Essays

Preface ix PART I: ECONOMIC ISSUES Drugs and Politics 3(3) The Real Revolutionaries 6(3) India Unbound 9(3) Capital Gains and ``Trickle Down'' 12(3) No Sense of Proportion 15(3) Headline News 18(3) Warrior in a 200-Year War 21(3) The Role of the Rich 24(3) Perennial Economic Fallacies 27(3) Sweatshops at Home and Abroad 30(3) Sanity in San Francisco 33(3) The End of Montgomery Ward 36(3) ``Saving'' Social Security 39(3) Social Security vs. Privatization 42(3) Minimum Journalism 45(3) Merit and Money 48(5) PART II: RACIAL ISSUES Routine Cruelty 53(3) Losing the Race 56(3) Reparations for Slavery? 59(3) The Lessons of Indonesia 62(3) Blacks and Bootstraps 65(3) ``Racism'' in Word and Deed 68(3) Sweeping Success Under the Rug 71(3) Sorting By Race 74(3) The Magic Word 77(3) Race and the New Century 80(3) ``Access'' to Responsibility 83(6) PART III: POLITICAL ISSUES Poverty and the Left 89(3) ``Useful Idiots'' 92(3) Facts versus Dogma on Guns 95(3) Global Hot Air 98(3) ``Campaign Finance Reform'' Follies 101(3) Ugliness in Yosemite 104(3) State Stealing 107(3) Loving Enemies 110(3) Microsoft and Campaign Finance Reform 113(3) Lying Statistics 116(3) Are We Still Americans? 119(3) Pacifism and War 122(3) Intended Consequences 125(3) Islam and the West 128(3) Pandering to the Anointed 131(3) Green Bigots versus Human Beings 134(3) Another Outrage 137(3) The Best of the Century 140(5) PART IV: EDUCATIONAL ISSUES The Wrong Filter 145(3) Too Many Ph.D.s? 148(3) ``No Excuses'' 151(3) Back Door Quotas 154(3) We Are All ``Dropouts'' 157(3) School to School? 160(3) The War Against Boys 163(3) ``Research'' Marches On 166(3) Let's Hear It for Unfairness! 169(3) Does It Add Up? 172(3) Diversity versus ``Diversity'' 175(3) Choosing A College 178(3) A Painful History 181(3) ``Forced to Volunteer'' 184(3) Drugging Children 187(3) Goodbye to Sara and Benjamin? 190(3) Success Concealing Failure 193(3) The Old Neighborhood 196(3) Wasting Minds 199(3) The ``Non-Profit'' Halo 202(3) Do Facts Matter? 205(3) Do Facts Matter? Part II 208(5) PART V: LEGAL ISSUES Property Rites 213(3) Love Those Killers! 216(3) Microsoft and Anti-Trust ``Law'' 219(3) Lessons Not Learned 222(3) Law on Trial 225(3) Aborted Knowledge 228(3) Murder is Murder 231(3) McVeigh and the Death Penalty 234(5) PART VI: SOCIAL ISSUES Boomers and Boomerangs 239(3) Deep Trouble from Shallow People 242(3) Thanksgiving and ``Fairness'' 245(3) Was the Ball Juiced? 248(3) The Dangers of ``Equality'' 251(3) Is the Family Becoming Extinct? 254(3) Life at the Bottom 257(3) Gay Marriage 260(3) The Einstein Syndrome 263(3) Loose Lips 266(3) ``The Duty to Die'' 269(3) Shocked by the Obvious 272(3) Families and Dictators 275(3) The ``Autism'' Dragnet 278(3) Racial Profiling of Authors 281(3) Chandra Levy Clues 284(3) Barry and the Babe 287(3) Media Fraud 290(3) The Insulation of the Left 293(3) W. Glenn Campbell (1924--2001) 296(3) PART VII: RANDOM THOUGHTS Random Thoughts 299