From the Book - First Flatiron Books edition.
Flyover country. The view from flyover country --
Expensive cities are killing creativity --
The peril of hipster economics --
Mourn the fall of the mall --
The post-employment economy. Surviving the post-employment economy --
Survival is not an aspiration --
Zero-opportunity employers --
A government shutdown, a social breakdown --
The men who set themselves on fire --
Charity is not a substitute for justice --
The unaffordable Baby Boomer dream --
Mothers are not "opting out"--they are out of options --
Race and religion. The wrong kind of caucasian --
The fallacy of the phrase "the Muslim world" --
In the trial of Trayvon, the U.S. is guilty --
St. Louis's sons, taken too soon --
The freedom to criticize free speech --
Higher education. The closing of American academia --
Academic paywalls mean publish and perish --
Academia's indentured servants --
The political consequences of academic paywalls --
The immorality of college admissions --
College is a promise the economy does not keep --
Media. Managed expectations in the post-employment economy --
Who is a "journalist"? People who can afford to be --
Blame it on the internet --
When the mainstream media are the lunatic fringe --
Beyond flyover country. U.S. foreign policy's gender gap --
Snowden and the paranoid state --
Iraq and the reinvention of reality --
Where following the law is radical --
Water is a human right, but who is considered a human being? --
The telegenically dead --
Coda: in defense of complaining --
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