The View from Flyover Country by Kendzior, Sarah -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Introduction Part I: Flyover Country

The View from Flyover Country Expensive Cities Are Killing Creativity The Peril of Hipster Economics Mourn the Fall of the Mall

Part II: The Post-Employment Economy

Surviving the Post-Employment Economy Meritocracy for Sale Survival Is Not an Aspiration Zero-Opportunity Employers 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 The Millennial Parent Mothers Are Not “Opting Out”—They Are Out of Options

Part III: Race and Religion

The Wrong Kind of Caucasian 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

Part IV: Higher Education

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

Part V: Media

Managed Expectations in the Post-Employment Economy Who Is a “Journalist”? People Who Can Afford to Be Blame It on the Internet 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? The Telegenically Dead

Coda

In Defense of Complaining

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