Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: TRANSCENDENCE -- The Sixties Up from Radicalism -- INTRODUCTION -- Up from Radicalism: A Feminist Journal (US Magazine, 1969) -- Dylan (Cheetah, 1967) -- The Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning (The New Yorker, September 1969) -- Women and the Myth of Consumerism (Ramparts, 1970) -- Talk of the Town: Hearing (The New Yorker, February 1969) -- The Seventies Exile on Main Street -- INTRODUCTION -- Beginning to See the Light (Village Voice, 1977) -- Janis Joplin (The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll, 1980) -- Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life (Village Voice, May 1979) -- Memoirs of a Non-Prom Queen (Rolling Stone, August 1976) -- The Trial of Arline Hunt (Rolling Stone, 1975) -- Abortion: Is a Woman a Person? (Village Voice, March and April 1979) -- Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography (Village Voice, October and November 1979) -- The Family: Love It or Leave It (Village Voice, September 1979) -- Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism (Village Voice, 1977) -- The Velvet Underground (Stranded by Greil Marcus, 1979) -- Next Year in Jerusalem (Rolling Stone, April 1977) -- The Eighties Coming Down Again -- INTRODUCTION -- Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution (Social Text, Fall 1982) -- Lust Horizons: Is the Women's Movement Pro-Sex? (Village Voice, June 1981) -- The Last Unmarried Person in America (Village Voice, July 1981) -- Teenage Sex: A Modesty Proposal (Village Voice, October 1986) -- Sisters under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex (Village Voice Literary Supplement, June 1982) -- Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism (Social Text, Summer 1984) -- Escape from New York (Village Voice, July 1981) -- Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess (Village Voice, January 1989) -- The Drug War: From Vision to Vice (Village Voice, April 1986).

The Drug War: Hell No, I Won't Go (Village Voice, September 1989) -- The Diaper Manifesto: We Need a Child-Rearing Movement (Village Voice, July 1986) -- To Emma, with Love (Village Voice, December 1989) -- The Nineties Decade of Denial -- INTRODUCTION -- Selections from "Decade of Denial" (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) -- Ending Poor People As We Know Them (Village Voice, December 1994) -- What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about The Bell Curve (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) -- Rodney King's Revenge (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) -- Million Man Mirage (Village Voice, November 1995) -- Monica and Barbara and Primal Concerns (New York Times, March 1999) -- Villains and Victims (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) -- 'Tis Pity He's a Whore (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) -- Is Motherhood Moonlighting? (Newsday, March 1991) -- Say It Loud: Out of Wedlock and Proud (Newsday, February 1994) -- Bring in the Noise (The Nation, April 1996) -- Intellectual Work in the Culture of Austerity (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000) -- The Aughts Our Politics, Ourselves -- INTRODUCTION SPENCER ACKERMAN -- Why I'm Not for Peace (Radical Society, April 2002) -- Confronting the Contradictions (Dissent, Summer 2003) -- The Mass Psychology of Terrorism (Implicating Empire, edited by Stanley Aronowitz et al., 2003) -- Dreaming of War (The Nation, September 2001) -- Freedom from Religion (The Nation, February 2001) -- Our Mobsters, Ourselves (The Nation, March 2001) -- Is There Still a Jewish Question? Why I'm an Anti-Anti-Zionist (Wrestling with Zion, edited by Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, 2003) -- Ghosts, Fantasies, and Hope (Dissent, Fall 2005) -- Escape from Freedom: What's the Matter with Tom Frank (and the Lefties Who Love Him)? (Situations, 2006) -- Three Elegies for Susan Sontag (New Politics, Summer 2005).

Coda: Selections from "The Cultural Unconscious in American Politics: Why We Need a Freudian Left" -- INTRODUCTION -- The Cultural Unconscious in American Politics: Why We Need a Freudian Left.