Front Cover -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Foundations -- Why Liberty Is Necessary for Morality -- Is Human Nature Good or Evil? -- What Free Will Is and Why It Matters -- What Is the Nature of Self-Interest? -- Freedom: Local and National -- Principles and Flexibility -- The Proper View of Government -- The Merits of the Slippery Slope -- The Right to Post One's Sign -- Follow-up to the American Revolution: Abolish Taxation -- 2. How To Think -- The Fashionableness of Thinking "Out of the Box" -- The Cult of Feeling: Reason versus Emotion -- The World from One's Own Point of View -- What Do You Mean, "We"? -- Calculating Bad Side Effects -- 3. The Independent Self -- Why Moral Virtue Is on the Wane -- Government and Business-Some Telling Differences -- Sports in America -- Celebrating Liberty, Not Conformity -- A Modest Look at Self-Importance -- How Would You Like Being Unfairly Disliked? -- 4. Sex and Politics in America -- The Crisis of Trust -- Liberty versus Democracy -- The Left's Strange Opposition to Preemptive War -- A Very Sad Perspective on Sexuality -- Clinton's Duplicity toward Women -- Live and Let Live-Everywhere -- Never Mind One's Cultural "Identity" -- Beat-Them-to-a-Pulp Fiction -- An Open Letter to My Children -- 5. Capitalism and Its Critics -- Liberation or Imperialism? -- On "Giving Back to the Community" -- Why Islamists Detest America -- Business Ethics Distortions -- Why I Am a Proud Market Fundamentalist -- Wells Fargo and the Press -- Why No Protest over NPR/PBS? -- The Cheerleaders of Envy -- 6. The Individual versus the State -- The Myth of the Public Interest -- Public Education Is a Bad Idea-for the 76354th Time! -- Where's the ACLU Now? -- Guilty before Being Proven So -- Forced Paid Leave Is Immoral -- Government Internet Infelicities.

Why Not Just Force Them to Play? -- At Long Last, Prevailing Wisdom Challenged -- 7. People and Encounters -- Lincoln, Secession, and Slavery -- Margaret Thatcher, a Voice to Be Heard -- A Medal of "Freedom" for John Kenneth Galbraith -- Al Gore, the Dixie Chicks, and Censorship -- Has Libertarianism Fallen? -- The Courage and Wisdom of Shelby Steele -- Time Is Not Just Money -- The Death of a Little-Known Friend of Mine -- 8. America under Attack -- Too Many 911 Calls? -- Hate Crimes and bin Laden's Gang -- Government, Liberty, and Security -- Anti-Americanism Isn't Unusual -- The Trap of Humanitarian Wars -- 9. Endings -- Berlin Wall Came Down -- Post-Communist Traumas East and West -- Bulgarian Malaise -- U.S. Congress v. the INS: In the Matter of Elian Gonzales -- An Old Moral Blindness Revisited -- Glasnost in Chile? -- Hungary 1990: A Visit to an Abandoned Homeland -- A Most Peculiar Nostalgia -- 10. Life Is Good -- A Fan of KLON-FM (Now KKJZ), 88.1 -- Sinatra's Pizzazz -- How I Learned to Love the Rich -- Now Beauty Is a Liability? -- Back to All That's Beautiful -- Entranced from the Start by "Here's Johnny" -- Meanings of Christmas -- Affirm the Joy of Living Right, Here on Earth -- Afterword: Last Reflections -- What I Have Done and Why -- Index.