| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Overture | p. 7 |
| To the "Gallant Girls" (Just Kidding) of National Cathedral School | p. 9 |
| Chicks with Sticks | p. 13 |
| Marines, Rough and Polished | p. 15 |
| A Summons to Gratitude | p. 17 |
| In Praise of Fierce Patriotism | p. 19 |
| The Unabomber and American Squeamishness | p. 21 |
| The Unabomber's Sanity | p. 23 |
| The Black-Lung Disease of the Intelligentsia | p. 24 |
| Minibars and Family Values in Vegas | p. 27 |
| The Anthropology of Latte Towns | p. 28 |
| Et Tu, Brooks Brothers? | p. 30 |
| Secrecy and the Mother of Stupidity | p. 32 |
| The Triumph of "Perceptions" | p. 34 |
| Rodney King Revisited | p. 36 |
| Victimhood as an Equal Opportunity Condition | p. 39 |
| The Census and Tiger Woods | p. 40 |
| Making Uniforms into Billboards | p. 42 |
| Oh, Swell. New York Wins Again | p. 44 |
| Nykesha Sales Misses the Point | p. 46 |
| 1951 Diminished | p. 48 |
| Fifty-one Two-Bit Solutions | p. 50 |
| Santa and His 214,200 Reindeer | p. 52 |
| NASA and the Meaning, if Any, of Life | p. 54 |
| 1997: Year of Living Dangerously | p. 56 |
| 1998: Not in Good Taste | p. 58 |
| 1999: Satisfactory, Sort Of | p. 60 |
| 2000: The Most Interesting Year of the Millennium, So Far | p. 62 |
| 2001: Ring the Bells Backward | p. 64 |
| The World | p. 67 |
| War Beyond the World of Westphalia | p. 69 |
| The Relevance of General Sherman | p. 71 |
| The Healthy Aspect of War | p. 73 |
| Next, Weapons of Mass Disruption? | p. 74 |
| Scary Scenarios from a Decorous Cassandra | p. 77 |
| Arms Control by F-16 | p. 79 |
| The End of Human Nature, Not History | p. 81 |
| New Consequences for Old Ideas | p. 83 |
| Disintegration | p. 85 |
| Language and the Logic of Events | p. 87 |
| Kosovo and America's Identity | p. 88 |
| Russia's Long Crawl Up from Communism | p. 90 |
| Italy's Fifty-ninth Postwar Try | p. 92 |
| Cheddar Man and the Abolition of Britain | p. 94 |
| The European Union's Lawlessness | p. 96 |
| Denmark and Goliath | p. 98 |
| The Currency of Cultural Blandness | p. 100 |
| The Rape of Nanking Remembered | p. 102 |
| Arafat, Castro, and the Liberal Mind | p. 104 |
| The Hijacking of the Holocaust | p. 106 |
| Germany: Unending Self-Examination | p. 108 |
| July 10, 1941, in Jedwabne | p. 110 |
| Israel at Fifty | p. 112 |
| Justice and Injustice | p. 115 |
| "Do Not Iron Clothes on Body" | p. 117 |
| Microgovernment and the Law of Litigation | p. 119 |
| Hate Crimes: The Criminal Law as Moral Pork Barrel | p. 121 |
| Punishing States of Mind | p. 123 |
| "Bigotry" and the Boy Scouts | p. 124 |
| Privacy and the Boy Scouts | p. 126 |
| The Privacy of the Unencumbered Self | p. 128 |
| Prison, Procreation, and FedEx | p. 130 |
| Stem Cells and Human Flourishing | p. 132 |
| Peter Singer Comes to Princeton | p. 134 |
| The Right to a Dead Baby | p. 138 |
| Infanticide: Ho-Hum | p. 140 |
| A Sacrament in the Church of "Choice" | p. 142 |
| Fetuses and Carolinians | p. 144 |
| Protecting Viewers from Something "A Little Too Vivid" | p. 146 |
| Solemnity at Texas High School Football Games | p. 148 |
| Coping with the--Well, Some of the--Ten Commandments | p. 150 |
| Censoring Zachary | p. 152 |
| Good News for Zachary | p. 154 |
| School Choice and the "Hecklers' Veto" | p. 156 |
| The Supreme Court and the "Essence" of Golf | p. 158 |
| Reasonable Doubts | p. 161 |
| Worrying Rationally | p. 163 |
| Increasing Speed--and Safety: A Cautionary Tale | p. 164 |
| What Did We Know, and When Did We Know It, About Smoking? | p. 166 |
| Supersized Americans | p. 168 |
| Boys Will Be Boys. So Drug Them | p. 170 |
| The Mask of Masculinity | p. 172 |
| Rethinking Puberty, and High School | p. 174 |
| The Death of School Discipline | p. 176 |
| Disorder on Campus | p. 178 |
| Education and the 9/91 Factor | p. 180 |
| Multiplying Knowledge at Monterey Bay | p. 182 |
| "Barkis Is Willin'": An Address at Princeton's Sesquicentennial | p. 184 |
| Virtues Versus Values: Commencement Address at Lafayette College | p. 194 |
| Rule by Microrules: Commencement Address at Washington University in Saint Louis | p. 197 |
| "Recognition" in San Francisco | p. 202 |
| Sustainable San Francisco | p. 204 |
| Making America Safe--and Profitable--for Eminem | p. 206 |
| Walker Percy, Richard Petty, Whatever | p. 208 |
| Karen Finley's Major Tragedy | p. 210 |
| Contingencies Large and Small | p. 213 |
| History and Contingency | p. 215 |
| ... The Iceberg Too | p. 216 |
| Neurologically Wired to Wall Street | p. 218 |
| What Began with Jim Clark's Boat | p. 220 |
| Capitalism Is a Government Project | p. 222 |
| America's Long-Term Leveling | p. 224 |
| The "Strip Mall Socialism" of Government | p. 226 |
| Hillary Clinton's Insouciant Insincerity | p. 228 |
| Friendship | p. 229 |
| The Silence of the Law and "the Silent Artillery of Time" | p. 231 |
| Closing the Lewinsky Parenthesis | p. 233 |
| Sorry About That | p. 235 |
| Clinton's Legacy: An Adjective | p. 237 |
| A College Education | p. 239 |
| 435 May Be 565 Too Few | p. 241 |
| What the Remorseless Improvers Have Wrought | p. 242 |
| A Free-Love Nominating System | p. 244 |
| FDR Pays His Taxes | p. 246 |
| A Democrat Learns to Love Trickle-Down Economics | p. 248 |
| Conservatism: Freedom Plus | p. 250 |
| Relearning the Lessons of "the Most Important Law" | p. 252 |
| A GI Bill for Mothers | p. 254 |
| In Need of Another Moses | p. 256 |
| Congress's "Nuremberg Defense" | p. 258 |
| The Appendix of the Body Politic | p. 260 |
| The Politics of Pathos | p. 262 |
| Listening to Politics with a Third Ear | p. 264 |
| "Let Us ..." No, Let's Not | p. 266 |
| Missing Coolidge | p. 269 |
| Al Sharpton's Parricide | p. 271 |
| Regulating Campaigning: The Many Misadventures of Reform | p. 273 |
| The "Latin Americanization" of Campaign Finance Law | p. 275 |
| One-Third of the Senate Versus the First Amendment | p. 277 |
| The McCarthyism of the "Progressives" | p. 279 |
| A 100 Percent Tax on Political Speech? | p. 281 |
| Congress and the "Misuse" of Political Speech | p. 283 |
| A (Speech) Policeman's Lot Is Not Easy | p. 285 |
| The Speech Police Find "Offending Passages" | p. 287 |
| Minnesota Takes Exception to the First Amendment | p. 289 |
| The Scandal the Media Are Missing | p. 291 |
| Surprise! | p. 292 |
| Virtue at Last! (In Ten Months) | p. 294 |
| The Next Mess Reformers Will Make of the Last Mess They Have Made | p. 297 |
| People | p. 299 |
| The Forfeiture of Princess Noor | p. 301 |
| Princess Diana and the Law of Inverse Ratio Rhetoric | p. 302 |
| Princess Diana, Conjurer | p. 305 |
| Magic in Broad Daylight | p. 306 |
| Hitler and Epistemological Optimism | p. 308 |
| The "Ah!" of Avery Dulles | p. 310 |
| Francis Cardinal George, Unenthralled | p. 312 |
| C. S. Lewis's Cult of the Ordinary | p. 314 |
| P.D. James, in Earnest | p. 315 |
| Rough Rider in Green Bay | p. 317 |
| Joe DiMaggio's Seamless Life | p. 319 |
| Gentlemen in Spikes | p. 321 |
| Don Zimmer: The Face of Baseball | p. 323 |
| John Adams, Popular at Last | p. 328 |
| James Madison, the Subtlest Founder | p. 330 |
| Barry Goldwater, Cheerful Malcontent | p. 332 |
| Robert Kennedy, Conservative? | p. 334 |
| The Nutritiousness of Pat Moynihan | p. 337 |
| Patrick O'Brian's Sense and Sensibility | p. 339 |
| Holden Caulfield Turns Fifty | p. 341 |
| Sara Jane Olson and Terrorism Chic | p. 343 |
| Daniel Johnson, Without Regrets | p. 345 |
| Meg Greenfield's Potent Measuredness | p. 347 |
| The Columnist at Sixty | p. 351 |
| Frederick L. Will's Angle of Repose | p. 352 |
| Index | p. 355 |
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