Table of Contents
Preface xiii
Part 1 Signposts Along the Way
Letter 1 No, Zachary, Glenn Beck Isn't Charles Manson 1
Letter 2 How Being for Equality Makes You Better than Other People 5
Letter 3 "The Trees" 13
Letter 4 Social Security and Racism 17
Letter 5 Roger Bannister and the Twenty-Five-Year Mile 23
Letter 6 The Unholy Trinity of Diversity 29
Letter 7 Explaining Unexplained Variance 37
Letter 8 How to Slay Goliath with Just One Stone 45
Letter 9 Trading Live Babies for Government Programs 57
Letter 10 Blood Money 63
Letter 11 Punishing Abortion 73
Letter 12 The Law of Outliers 79
Letter 13 Liberals N the Hood 85
Letter 14 How LBJ Abandoned Kitty Genovese 97
Letter 15 Camelot 103
Letter 16 The Case for Transistor Control Legislation 109
Letter 17 Government Subsidies and Spousal Abuse 117
Letter 18 We Don't Need No School of Education 123
Letter 19 I Earned My B.S. in Victimology 127
Letter 20 The Fear of Ideas 131
Letter 21 Tolerance Presupposes a Moral Judgment 141
Letter 22 Fox and Foes 147
Letter 23 Rester in Peace 153
Letter 24 The F-Bomb 157
Letter 25 Of Mice and Mensa 163
Letter 26 Profiles in Anonymity 169
Part 2 The Heart of the Matter
Letter 27 The Constitution Is Dead (Because God Isn't) 177
Letter 28 Like a Good Neighbor 183
Letter 29 Mickey's Last at Bat 191
Letter 30 The Silent Scream 197
Letter 31 Killing Till 203
Letter 32 Men without Spines 211
Letter 33 How to Answer a False Accusation of Homophobia 221
Letter 34 Matthew 23 225
Letter 35 How Great Mao Art 231
Acknowledgments 237
Index 241