Contents
Expensive Cities Are Killing Creativity
The Peril of Hipster Economics
PART II: THE POST-EMPLOYMENT ECONOMY
Surviving the Post-Employment Economy
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
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
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
Managed Expectations in the Post-Employment Economy
Who Is a “Journalist”? People Who Can Afford to Be
When the Mainstream Media Are the Lunatic Fringe
PART VI: 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?