CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

1 THE POLITICS OF AUTHENTICITY

2 PURSUING HAPPINESS

3 THE CONSERVATIVE GENE

4 SPLENDID ISOLATION

5 CHOOSING FREEDOM OR CHAINS

6 THE GIRLS I KNEW AT YALE

7 A NONCONFORMING RECONSTRUCTION

8 THE CONSISTENCY OF GAY CONSERVATIVES

9 SEEING THE LIGHT IN SEVENTH GRADE

10 MAN UP

11 LIBERALS ARE DUMB: And Other Shared Texts

12 IMMERSION EXPERIENCE

13 CONFESSIONS OF A RADICAL REPUBLICAN

14 A “FRANK” EXCHANGE: The Tale of My Political Conversion

15 THE LEPTOGONIANS: Growing Up Conservative in a Disrupted Decade

16 THE SMOKER’S CODE

17 FREE TO SERVE

18 CONSERVATISM FOR PUNKS

19 WHY I’M GLAD LIBERALS ARE BULLIES

20 DUCKING THE COFFINS: How I Became an Edu-Con

21 PROSPERITY: The Choice of a New Generation

22 READING RAND: Discovering the Right to Fail

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