ABSTRACT

A volume of political essays and social commentary, providing an alternative to the slant of much political journalism. John Leo offers his views of what is going on in law, education, advertising, television, the news media, language and various liberation movements in the USA.

part 1|27 pages

Media

chapter |2 pages

This column almost matters

chapter |2 pages

Scotch the ads? absolut-ly

chapter |2 pages

Prime-time “gotcha” journalism

chapter |2 pages

Why ruin a good story?

chapter |2 pages

More guests who guess

chapter |2 pages

Boyz to (marlboro) men

chapter |3 pages

The selling of rebellion

chapter |2 pages

Nothing but the truth?

chapter |2 pages

The joys of covering press releases

chapter |2 pages

Media bites self

chapter |2 pages

A quiz for media mavens

chapter |2 pages

A lovely day for a haranguing

part 2|58 pages

Education

chapter |2 pages

True lies vs. total recall

chapter |2 pages

Don’t get hysterical

chapter |2 pages

Dumbing down teachers

chapter |2 pages

Let’s lower our self-esteem

chapter |3 pages

That so-called pythagoras

chapter |2 pages

Let’s attack merit!

chapter |2 pages

Don’t listen to miranda

chapter |2 pages

Good hair, bad cake

chapter |2 pages

Separate and unequal

chapter |2 pages

Killing off the liberals

chapter |2 pages

Hey, we’re no. 19!

chapter |2 pages

Shakespeare vs. spiderman

chapter |2 pages

Expel georgie porgie now!

chapter |2 pages

Empty college syndrome

chapter |2 pages

No takeovers. please

chapter |2 pages

The answer is 45 cents

chapter |2 pages

how the west was lost at yale

chapter |2 pages

Miss piggy was a smarter choice

chapter |2 pages

Cop-killer and commencement speaker

chapter |3 pages

Bold words for a new generation

chapter |2 pages

Mainstreaming deviance

chapter |2 pages

Affirmative action history

chapter |2 pages

No books, please; we’re students

chapter |2 pages

Let’s lower the bar

chapter |2 pages

Ready for betty the yeti?

chapter |2 pages

Tongue-tied by authority

part 3|23 pages

Family and Gender

chapter |2 pages

Mars to venus: back off

chapter |2 pages

Marriage bashing à la mode

chapter |2 pages

Boy, girl, boy

chapter |2 pages

Parenting without a care

chapter |2 pages

The joy of sexual values

chapter |2 pages

Promoting no-dad families

chapter |2 pages

Devaluing the family

chapter |2 pages

Things that go bump in the home

chapter |2 pages

Defending the indefensible

chapter |3 pages

Fairness? promises, promises

part 4|27 pages

Race and Minorities

chapter |2 pages

A dubious diversity report

chapter |2 pages

A waspish, niggardly slur

chapter |2 pages

Jelly bean: the sequel

chapter |2 pages

The oppression sweepstakes

chapter |2 pages

A sunny side on race

chapter |2 pages

Feel abused? get in line

chapter |2 pages

War against warriors

chapter |2 pages

A second look at lani guinier

chapter |2 pages

The junking of history

chapter |3 pages

Our addiction to bad news

chapter |1 pages

You are what you eat

chapter |3 pages

Let’s not call it a quota

part 5|37 pages

Politics and Law

chapter |2 pages

Avoid ‘climate” control

chapter |2 pages

When i was bill’s guy

chapter |2 pages

What rhymes with carter?

chapter |3 pages

The shrine at yorba linda

chapter |2 pages

a fable: “pro-choice” in 1860

chapter |2 pages

In the matter of the court vs. us

chapter |2 pages

It’s a tort world after all

chapter |2 pages

Steamrolled and bulldozed

chapter |2 pages

Changing the rules of a deadly game

chapter |2 pages

Playing any reindeer games?

chapter |2 pages

Are protesters racketeers?

chapter |2 pages

When judges feel romantic

chapter |2 pages

Judges 1, people 0

chapter |2 pages

Bust those candy cane felons

chapter |3 pages

Praying for sanity in schools

chapter |3 pages

A man’s got a right to rights

part 6|48 pages

Culture and Language

chapter |2 pages

Of famine and green beer

chapter |2 pages

The two sinatras

chapter |2 pages

The official column of champions

chapter |2 pages

Cheers, circa 1968

chapter |2 pages

Gunning for hollywood

chapter |2 pages

Hold the chocolate

chapter |2 pages

A tower of pomobabble

chapter |3 pages

how to be a rich genius

chapter |2 pages

Nobel prize for fiction?

chapter |2 pages

How ‘bout those clichés?

chapter |2 pages

Repackaging the perps

chapter |2 pages

Opinions were expressed

chapter |2 pages

Language in the dumps

chapter |2 pages

Close the envelope, please

chapter |2 pages

Our kinder, gentler army

chapter |2 pages

In the key of f

chapter |2 pages

Oh, no, canada!

chapter |2 pages

This column is mostly true

chapter |2 pages

The leading cultural polluter

chapter |2 pages

The private parts of don imus

chapter |2 pages

Selling the child-woman

chapter |3 pages

Decadence, the corporate way

part 7|31 pages

Society and Social Behavior

chapter |2 pages

Thank you for not smoking

chapter |2 pages

Doing the disorder rag

chapter |2 pages

May the feel be with you

chapter |2 pages

My sobbing valentine

chapter |2 pages

Life among the cyberfolk

chapter |2 pages

Damn, i’m good!

chapter |2 pages

We’re all number 1

chapter |2 pages

Mainstreaming’s “jimmy problem”

chapter |2 pages

The “new primitives”

chapter |2 pages

Chortle while you work

chapter |2 pages

Thou shalt not command

chapter |2 pages

The unmaking of civic culture

chapter |2 pages

When stability was all the rage

chapter |3 pages

The price is wrong