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Preface

Livin’ la Vida Barroca

Who’s Gonna Tell the Kids

Liberal Boomers and Courage

Unequal Charges: When Balanced is Not Fair

Junk by Design

Georges Duhamel on the Writing of Literature (and Life?)

I’m in a Good Place

Netanyahu: the Intellectual Father of the “War on Terror

Necessary Melancholy?

Where We Are: America the Baroque

Dignity: An Idea Gone Missing in the Land

Not So Different After All?

Controversialization: A Key to the Right’s Continuing Domination of Public Debates

Language, “Promontory Views” and American Perceptions of the World

A Liberal Culture “Stuck to the Metaphor” of its Own Virtues

Seeing and Unseeing in Big Media

Sooner or Later Our Children Will Ask: “How Did This Happen?”

Quick! Look Over There!

On Bumper Stickers That Say “Coexist”

If Everyone Has a Price, Who Will Fight for Justice?

The Partisanship Canard

Tribalism is Dead, Long Live the Tribe

Ballots and Democracy: Big Media is Just Not that Into It

Learned Helplessness and the Imperial Condition

The Doctrine of “Reasonable Doubt”: Universal Principle or Perk of the Powerful?

Junk Food for the Mind

Preemptive Strikes of the (Pseudo) Progressive Kind

One Thing You Can’t Hide… Is the Authoritarian Inside

Uniformed Impunity: We’re Probably Closer to the Beginning than to the End

Anger and Angry People

“Keeping US Safe”: From the Task of Engaging and Managing our Own Anxieties

Orthodoxies and Adolescents

Technocrats

More Intellectual Dishonesty at the New York Times

A Better Question Might Be, “How Isn’t it Fascism?”

If the Cords of Culture are Cut, How Will We Access the Potential Sources of Our Renewal?

“Mistakes Were Made”: One-Time Object of Derision Now a Core Template of Our Social Behaviors

Customers or Citizens?

Being (or Not) in the “Place of the Soul”

No, It Has Not “Always Been This Way”

Recognizing the Importance of Goldwater, or Learning to Analyze and Practice Progressive Politics in their Historical Dimension

“Take Responsibility for My Vote and Its Policy Consequences?

Obama’s Dog Whistle Politics (Zelig at the Top of his Game)

The Truth or the Tribe?

Israel Has Been “Singled Out” in the US for a Very Long Time

The “Powell Memo” of 1971: The Foundation of the Right’s Current Domination of US Politics

The Victory of Obama or the Definitive Triumph of the Politics of Illusion and Moral Disengagement in the United States

Is the US of Today Really Spain?

Livin' la Vida Barroca

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