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AN ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS

I

Why This?

In which the author explains why he’s bothering—once again—to examine why half of America doesn’t talk to the other half and why neither side changes its opinion about anything almost ever.

II

What the Least Great Generation Hath Wrought

Why the author’s generation, those born during and just before World War II, like John Lennon, Gloria Steinem, and imitators like Bill Clinton (not the boomers), are responsible for just about everything that has gone wrong with our culture and are the original, postwar “moral narcissists.”

III

Qu’est-ce Que C’est “Moral Narcissism”?

What exactly is this form of narcissism that is destroying—if it hasn’t already destroyed—our families, friendships, workplace atmosphere, and democratic republic?

IV

Who Was the King of All Moral Narcissists?

Jeopardy question: “bearded writers.” He wrote his most famous works in the library of the British Museum.

V

Good versus Bad Narcissism: Henrik Ibsen versus Jonathan Gruber

Which works better and will last longer—A Doll’s House or Obamacare?

VI

The Weather

Grandmother always said, “In polite society, when you don’t know people, just talk about something neutral, like the weather.” That was then, this is now.

VII

For the Birds

Rachel Carson and how “environmentalism” came to replace Christianity, Judaism, and even Hare Krishna (well, not so much) as our new religion.

VIII

Wonderful Copenhagen

What I discovered to be the true motivations behind the snowbound UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

IX

Nostalgia for Racism

How and why moral narcissism helped bring back racism and the disastrous racial violence across America at the very time it was starting to diminish.

X

Booker T. Washington Really Did Know Best

The great African American educator knew long ago that the Sharptons of the world were the real racists.

XI

Selfies from Raqqa

How moral narcissists fight the War on Terror to lose.

XII

Islam Denialism

If you think all religions are equal, you can skip this chapter.

XIII

The Moral Narcissist Sleep Room

Oh, les beaux jours when we were all at the barricades, pulling up the pavement in Paris!

XIV

Nostalgia for Marxism

“I want a revolution where everyone can drink cappuccino at the Café Royal.”—Daniel Cohn-Bendit of the Nanterre Six, during the Paris “events” of May 1968.

XV

Luxurious Leftism

The irresistible rise of the “red bourgeoisie.”

XVI

Anatomy of the American Nomemklatura

And why it’s stronger and more pervasive than even the Soviet original.

XVII

The Media Is the (Moral Narcissist’s) Message

Who is really raping whom?

XVIII

Nostalgia for Class Consciousness

Nostalgia for Marxism’s junior partner.

XIX

Bang! Bang! You’re Not Dead!

How I learned to love the Second Amendment by outliving my mother.

XX

Narcissus in the Time of Atheism

Our society has a gaping hole.

XXI

The Mother’s Milk of Moral Narcissism

Alternative title “The Soros and the Pity” (with apologies to Marcel Ophüls).

XXII

Unwinding—The Merry Month of May 2015

Moral narcissism reaches its height in that 2015 month . . . until the next one.

XXIII

Change

How do we get out of this? And can we?

XXIV

The Devil in Disguise

Seeing the devil in morally narcissistic clothes.

XXV

Envoi: Confessions of a Libertarian Neocon

Living an oxymoron.

Acknowledgments (actually a dedication in the back)

Notes

Index