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| Introduction | |
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| Personal | |
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| The Good and the Great | |
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| Marcel, My Brother | |
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| Winston Churchill: The Indispensable Man | |
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| Paul Erdos: Sweet Genius | |
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| Rick Ankiel: Return of the Natural | |
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| Christopher Columbus: Dead White Male | |
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| Hermann Lisco: Man for All Seasons | |
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| Manners | |
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| No Dancing in the End Zone | |
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| "Women and Children." Still? | |
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| Don't Touch My Junk | |
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| Accents and Affectations | |
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| The Appeal of Ordeal | |
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| Pride and Prejudices | |
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| The Pariah Chess Club | |
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| Of Dogs and Men | |
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| In Defense of the F-Word | |
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| The Central Axiom of Partisan Politics | |
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| Krauthammer's First Law | |
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| Follies | |
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| Save the Border Collie | |
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| Bush Derangement Syndrome | |
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| Life by Manual | |
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| From People Power to Polenta | |
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| Annals of "Art" | |
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| "Natural" Childbirth | |
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| The Inner Man? Who Cares | |
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| The Mirror-Image Fallacy | |
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| Passions and Pastimes | |
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| The Joy of Losing | |
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| Beauty, Truth and Hitchcock | |
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| Fermat Solved | |
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| Be Afraid | |
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| The Best Show in Town | |
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| Heaven and Earth | |
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| Your Only Halley's | |
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| Humbled by the Hayden | |
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| Lit Up for Liftoff? | |
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| Farewell, the New Frontier | |
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| Are We Alone in the Universe? | |
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| Political | |
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| Citizen and State | |
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| Reflections on the Revolution in France | |
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| Did the State Make You Great? | |
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| Constitutionalism | |
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| Myth of the Angry White Male | |
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| Going Negative | |
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| The Tirana Index | |
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| Conundrums | |
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| Without the Noose, Without the Gag | |
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| Motherhood Missed | |
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| Ambiguity and Affirmative Action | |
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| Massacre at Newtown | |
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| Pandora and Polygamy | |
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| Empathy or Right? | |
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| First a Wall--Then Amnesty | |
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| In Plain English-Let's Make It Official | |
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| Of Course It's a Ponzi Scheme | |
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| The Church of Global Warming | |
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| Body and Soul | |
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| The Dutch Example | |
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| Stem Cells and Fairy Tales | |
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| The Truth About End-of-Life Counseling | |
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| Mass Murder, Medicalized | |
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| The Double Tragedy of a Stolen Death | |
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| Essay: On the Ethics of Embryonic Research | |
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| Man and God | |
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| The Real Message of Creationism | |
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| God vs. Caesar | |
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| Body Worship | |
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| Chernenko and the Case Against Atheism | |
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| Memory and Monuments | |
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| Sweet Land of Liberty | |
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| Holocaust Museum | |
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| Sacrilege at Ground Zero | |
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| FDR: The Dignity of Denial | |
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| Martin Luther King in Word and Stone | |
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| Collective Guilt, Collective Responsibility | |
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| Historical | |
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| The Jewish Question, Again | |
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| Those Troublesome Jews | |
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| Land Without Peace | |
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| Borat the Fearful | |
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| Judging Israel | |
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| Essay: Zionism and the Fate of the Jews | |
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| The Golden Age | |
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| The '80s: Revival | |
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| The '90s: Serenity | |
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| Cold War Nostalgia | |
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| The Age of Holy Terror | |
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| September 11, 2001 | |
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| When Imagination Fails | |
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| "The Borders of Islam Are Bloody" | |
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| To War or Not to War? | |
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| The Surge, Denied | |
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| Who Lost Iraq? | |
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| From Freedom Agenda to Freedom Doctrine | |
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| Language and Leadership | |
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| The Age to Come | |
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| Hyperproliferation: Can We Survive It? | |
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| Death by Drone | |
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| No Hiding from History | |
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| Global | |
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| Three Essays on America and the World | |
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| The Unipolar Moment (1990) | |
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| Democratic Realism (2004) | |
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| Decline Is a Choice (2009) | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index | |