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Tables of Contents for Political Essays
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Preface
xii
Doug Puchowski
Introduction (1998)
1
6
A) POLITICAL POLITICS
Notes of a Sometime West Berliner Who Has Been Out of Town (1990)
7
5
How Duplicitous an Autobiographer Is Markus Wolf? (1998)
12
4
Privatizing the Delivery of the Daily Mail (1991)
16
2
Privatizing ``Intelligence'' (1990)
18
2
Welcome, Dear Reader, to the Principle of Contrary Effects (1997)
20
4
The Mafia's Black Hand (1959)
24
3
Who Benefits Economically from Abortion Repeal? (1992)
27
2
Why Not Teenage Voting? (1993)
29
1
Naivety about Professional ``Blacklisting'' (1997)
30
2
``Tailgate'' and the America-Haters (1998)
32
7
Reflections on Jury Duty (1998)
39
2
Miscellaneous Reflections (1990s)
41
8
B) CULTURAL POLITICS
Anarchism: General and Personal (1976)
49
3
The Dynamics of Literary Politicking (1974)
52
16
The Perils of Preaching to the Converted (1991)
68
3
The New Criterion: ``Highbrow'' People (1996)
71
4
The Forms and Functions of Literary Power (1974)
75
14
The New Stalinists in America (1990)
89
5
The Age of Grants (1987)
94
28
The Rule of Mediocrity at the Endowments of Arts and Humanities (1996)
122
3
How an NEA Fellowship to Me Was Reduced and Nearly Killed (1997)
125
9
Sabotaging America? (1987)
134
1
Signs of Academia: The Example of Paul de Man (1992)
135
5
Alger Hiss v. Whittaker Chambers a Half-Century Later (1998)
140
4
The Limitations of the Academic Personality (1993)
144
3
Dwight Macdonald (1995)
147
4
Audacious Comedy (1996)
151
2
Our Critic Bob Black (1995)
153
2
Anarchists' Lockstep (1995)
155
2
Anarchist Art (1995)
157
6
C) SOCIAL POLITICS
Me and AIDS Journalism (1990)
163
6
Magic Johnson's Deceit (1991)
169
1
Anarchist Sex (1993)
170
1
The Absurdity of Contemporary Culture (1961)
171
7
The Harlem I Knew (1967)
178
6
The Mike Tyson Farce (1993)
184
4
The Last Thomas Hearings: A Test for True Believers (1992)
188
7
Writing and Politics (1984)
195
2
Two Pauls' Cautionary Memoirs (1997)
197
3
Plus Ca Change, Quelque Meme Chose (1995)
200
2
Merrill Lynch: Just Imagine What Must It Must Be Doing to Windows and Orphans (1986)
202
7
Small Claims Memories (1992)
209
5
New York City as a Libertarian Heaven-on-Earth (1995)
214
7
D) PHILOSOPHICAL POLITICS
The Perils of Newspaper Literacy (1971)
221
4
Radical Thought for Our Times (1968)
225
19
Futurologists (1968)
244
3
The Politics of Speculation (1971)
247
9
Technoanarchism (1968)
256
9
Human Alternatives (1971)
265
12
The Born-Again Optimist (1998)
277
4
Index
281
9
About the Author
290