Accessory to war : the unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military

Unspoken alliance between astrophysics and the military

One nation under God : how corporate America invented Christian America

The counter-revolution of 1776 : slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America

The cadaver king and the country dentist : a true story of injustice in the American South

The declassification engine : what history reveals about America's top secrets

Democracy awakening : notes on the state of America

Undermining democracy. American conservatism -- The liberal consensus -- Bringing the Declaration of Independence to life -- Race and taxes -- Nixon and the southern strategy -- Positive polarization -- The Reagan revolution -- Skewing the system -- A new global project -- Illegitimate democracy -- The authoritarian experiment. A snapshot of America -- A shocking event -- Russia, Russia, Russia -- The streets of Charlottesville -- The first impeachment -- Destabilizing the government -- Embracing authoritarianism -- Rewriting American history -- January 6 -- The big lie -- Reclaiming America. What is America? -- Declaring independence -- The Constitution -- Expanding democracy -- Mudsills or men -- Of the people, by the people, for the people -- American renewed -- A progressive America -- The road to the New Deal -- Democracy awakening -- Reclaiming our country.

White lies : the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret

Double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret

Don't let it get you down : essays on race, gender, and the body

Do not let it get you down

Essays on race, gender, and the body

On dating white guys while me.

Dear white sister.

Bad education.

To wit, and also.

State.

Nearly, note quite.

On the sources of cultural identity.

Body endures.

Fat in ways white girls don't understand.

Little Satin bomber body.

On dating white guys while me -- White doll -- Dear white sister -- Bad education -- To wit, and also -- State -- Nearly, note quite -- On the sources of cultural identity -- Body endures -- Fat in ways white girls don't understand -- Little Satin bomber body.

The point of it all : a lifetime of great loves and endeavors

Works. Selections. 2018

Lifetime of great loves and endeavors

What a piece of work is man. Life well lived. Reveries of a newborn father -- Irving Kristol: a great good man -- Ronald Reagan: he could see for miles -- Thomas Jefferson: the sublime oxymoron -- Thank you, Isaiah Berlin -- John Paul II: the power of faith -- George Weidenfeld: Syrian Christians and the English Jew -- Meg Greenfield: my editor, my friend -- Customs and culture. -- Why I love Australia -- Rampway to heaven -- Junk rights -- Genius, insanity, innocence -- Two Cromwells: separate and independent realities -- Parenthesis to history -- The Cold War memorials -- Contests. -- Suffering a relapse, and loving it -- The tyranny of chess -- Revenge, American-style -- Man vs. computer: still a match -- The greatness gap -- Why do they even play the game? -- Jim Dickson's triumph -- Cosmos. -- In sorrow and glory we find our common humanity -- Front-page physics: why the news from beyond is beyond us -- What Sputnik launched -- Pluto and us -- Space: the visionaries take over -- Redeeming Columbia -- The doctor is in. -- A doctor's duty -- Why doctors quit -- Sick, tired and not taking it anymore -- The twilight of psychotherapy -- They die with their rights on -- Matters of life and death. -- Five lives vs. one principle -- Stem cells: mounting the slippery slope -- The abortion debate: just words -- The price of fetal parts -- What to do for little Charlie Gard -- Man and society. Look outward. Three pieces of sage advice -- Against the grain. -- Apocalypse, with and without God -- When modern medicine fails -- The myth of "settled science" -- Thought police on patrol -- The too-examined life. -- Suicide ad absurdum -- Holiday: living on a return ticket -- Shakespeare, ruined -- Illusions of self-love -- Out of many, one. -- Assimilation nation -- The tribalization of America -- Counting by race -- Redskins and reason -- Neither ennobling nor degrading -- On lowering the flag -- Church and state. -- Civil religion- and no religion -- Just leave Christmas alone -- Religion as taste -- Politics, foreign and domestic. -- The two last tribes of Israel. The miracle, at 60 -- The Holocaust and Jewish identity -- Demystifying Judaism -- How to fight academic bigotry -- Do we really mean "Never again"? -- Keeping the world at bay. -- How to deal with countries gone mad -- The Iranian "moderate" -- Middle East peace and the great Muslim civil war -- The Bush legacy -- Iraq, abandoned -- The climate pact swindle -- Russia rising -- To die for Estonia? -- Trump and the "Madman Theory" -- Democracy and its discontents. -- In defense of fanatics -- The death penalty and the Constitution -- Finally getting it right on affirmative action -- The right-to-work dilemma -- Brexit: sovereign kingdom or Little England? -- Trump derangement syndrome: you can't govern by id -- Revolt of the attorneys general -- American democracy: not so decadent after all -- On liberty. -- Constitutions, conservatism and the genius of the Founders -- The meaning of human rights -- Competing visions: America's role and the course of world history. Reluctant colossus. -- When to intervene -- The arrow of history -- Trump's foreign policy revolution -- The end of "the end of history". -- After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over -- The coming disillusionment of liberated Europe -- The authoritarian temptation -- Speaking in the first person. -- A life without regrets. -- An anniversary of sorts -- Choosing a life -- A statement of principle -- Beauty and soul -- A note to readers -- Eulogy