Table of Contents Preface 1. A Shortage of Teachers 2. When a Thing of Beauty May Not Be a Joy 3. The Wizard of Oz: Who's Behind the Curtain? 4. A Meditation on Pronouns 5. Will Wonders Never Cease? 6. What's the Point of History? 7. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities 8.
Collectively Speaking, Americans Are Stark Raving Mad 9. Snowflake Culture 10. Sticks & Stones 11. King Kong & Fay Wray 12. Dan Ellsberg: A Personal Reflection 13. Let There Be Light 14. The Myth of the Spat-Upon Veteran 15. Mission: Impossible 16.
Tweedledum & Tweedledee? 17. Fiddling While Rome Burns 18. Happy Birthday, Henry the K 19. Phillis Wheatley: The Surprising African Poetess 20. Lifting the Lamp Beside the Golden Door 21. College Admissions: Foul & Fair 22. How Is This Possible? 23. Reaping the Whirlwind 24.
Of Poetry & Lawyers 25. I Really Hope I'm Wrong 26. No Spring Chickens in This Henhouse 27. Looking on the Bright Side 28. Is Peace Possible? 29. A Gordian Knot in the Middle East 30. Trusting Teachers to Teach 31. A Poet in Palestine 32.
I Pledge Allegiance. 33. Let's Get Real 34. Unsung & Oversung Heroes 35. More Unsung American Heroes 36. A New Strategy for Biden 37. When Self-Defense Becomes Self-Destructive 38. Why I'm Still Here 39.
What's Wrong with This Picture? 40. Goodbye to All That 41. Bombs Away! 42. Better Late Than Never 43. Protests Then & Now 44. Hollywood Realism 45. Blind Justice? 46. Techno-Assault & Battery 47.
H. Bruce Franklin: A Personal Farewell to an American Hero 48. Why Bother? 49. There Is Still Time--But Not Much 50. There Really Is Still Time 51. Once More Unto the Breach 52. Uncle Sam Wants You! 53. Hail to the Chief 54.
Will the Democrats Never Learn? 55. Why I Don't Watch Political Speeches 56. The Holy Land? 57. "They're Eating the Dogs!" 58. Taking the High Road to Hell 59. What Now? 60. The End of American Democracy? 61. The Greatest Show on Earth 62.
Grant Me the Serenity-- 63. "The Myth of American Idealism" 64. The Second Coming 65. King Arthur May Have Been Right, After All 66. Thank God for the Eagles Victory 67. "If a Tree Falls in the Forest" 68. Invasion of the Brain Snatchers 69. The Limits of Sympathy 70.
What Anti-Semitism Is Not 71. The Bloodbath That Wasn't 72. The Wrong People Learned the Wrong Lessons 73. "A Part of You Will Die with Us" 74. A Rose by Any Other Name 75. "First to Fight for Right and Freedom" 76. Can the Dumb-O-Crats Be Any Dumber? 77. Welcome to What's Possible 78.
The Most Critical Profession on the Planet 79. "They Don't Want to Be Shot At" 80. Waging Peace 81. Holding Back the Fire Military History of W.D. Ehrhart About the Author Index.