CONTENTS

Introduction

I. THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

 1. Media Moments

 2. Liberal Media Yet to Be Found

 3. Methods of Media Manipulation

 4. Objectivity and the Dominant Paradigm

 5. Repression in Academia

II. STEALING OUR BIRTHRIGHT

 6. The Stolen Presidential Elections

 7. How the Free Market Killed New Orleans

 8. Conservative Judicial Activism

 9. Why the Corporate Rich Oppose Environmentalism

10. Autos and Atoms

11. What Is to Be Done?

III. LIFESTYLES AND OTHER PEOPLE

12. Racist Rule, Then and Now

13. Custom Against Women

14. Are Heterosexuals Worthy of Marriage?

15. That’s Italian? Another Ethnic Stereotype

IV. ROOTS

16. La Famiglia: An Ethno-Class Experience

17. Bread Story: The Blessings of Private Enterprise

18. My Strange Values

V. A GUIDE TO CONCEPTS AND ISMS

19. Technology and Money: The Myth of Neutrality

20. False Consciousness

21. Left, Right, and the “Extreme Moderates”

22. State vs. Government

23. Democracy vs. Capitalism

24. Socialism Today?

VI. MONEY, CLASS, AND CULTURE

25. Capital and Labor, an Old Story

26. Wealth, Addiction, and Poverty

27. Monopoly Culture and Social Legitimacy

28. The Flight from Class

VII. DOING THE WORLD

29. Imperialism for Beginners

30. The Free Market Paradise Liberates Communist Europe

31. The Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia

32. To Kill Iraq

33. Good Things Happening in Venezuela

34. A Word about Terrorists

VIII. THE REST IS HISTORY

35. Dominant History

36. Fascism, the Real Story

37. The Cold War is an Old War

38. The People as “Rabble” and “Mob”

Index